RIP. As a Canadian I've always liked that we technically had the Queen as our head of state. I wonder how attitudes will change now that her 70 year reign.
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#62When she was born there were less than 2 billion people on Earth. Now there are almost 8 billion of us.
And something like 90% of the world population was born during her reign.
You make it sound like 90% of people were under her reign while in fact 90% were thankfuly not her subjects
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#63Sad on a human level, but she spent her years as the figurehead of an inherently fascist, racist institution — royalty. "Whoever had created humanity had left in a major design flaw. It was its tendency to bend at the knees.”
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#64Sad on a human level, but she spent her years as the figurehead of an inherently fascist, racist institution — royalty. "Whoever had created humanity had left in a major design flaw. It was its tendency to bend at the knees.”
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#65RIP. An end of an era for the UK.
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#66Rip. May she rest in peace. And the timing was impeccably terrible... Charles doesn't have the skills, charisma, connections or political capital to help his nation in the upcoming hard times.
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#68As a Brit who's never really "followed" the Royals - I gotta say this makes me sad. The Queen stood for so much, in such a dignified way. May she rest in peace
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#69And Josip Manolić still lives. [0]
(For context, this politician's ability to keep outliving his peers is a local running joke.)