• Laura@lemmy.ml
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    11 months ago

    oh no anyway

    but in all seriousness I hope he dies that guy is a piece of shit

    • Xer0@lemmy.ml
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      11 months ago

      When I signed up here, I genuinely thought this place was going to be better than Reddit. Seeing the difference in comments here and on Reddit for this exact same piece of news, just made me realise that this place is a piece of shit with absolutely zero empathy for anyone.

      • Thordros [he/him, comrade/them]
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        11 months ago

        "Could it be that the zero empathy is because the man is reviled globally for good reasons?"

        "No, it's the colonized who are wrong."

      • FALGSConaut [comrade/them]
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        11 months ago

        Imagine pearl clutching for some ancient inbred royal dipshit. Literal medieval peasant brain. "Oh no won't someone think of the million year old pervert who lived a long life full of luxury one can barely begin to comprehend" Fuck him, fuck his whole family, I hope every single royal gets aggressive untreatable cancer, that's better than they deserve.

        TL,DR: dennis I didn't vote for him!

          • FALGSConaut [comrade/them]
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            11 months ago

            Mainly confused and surprised someone would support a monarch in the 21st century. You don't even have the excuse that the queen has been in charge for your whole life so you feel obligated to support her out of a misplaced sense of loyalty or something. Some ancient failson gets to sit in a golden chair and you can't lick his boots fast enough. It's pathetic, you aren't even worshiping someone who can claim they got to where they are on personal merit, he just had to wait for his mom to die and he almost couldn't even do that! Monarchy is such a farce, I'd be embarrassed to support that shit

      • aaaaaaadjsf [he/him, comrade/them]
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        11 months ago

        The redditors got it right for once?

        Why would you have empathy for monarchs? It's the ultimate form of nepotism, believing that they can rule an entire country because of their bloodline. If they don't abdicate the throne and dissolve the institution, they don't deserve respect.

        • Xer0@lemmy.ml
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          11 months ago

          The redditors didn't agree with wishing death upon the man, no. It was the exact opposite from what I saw.

          • ShimmeringKoi [comrade/them]
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            11 months ago

            Redditors habitually wish death upon homeless people and porch pirates, of course they bootlick monarchs too.

          • TheLepidopterists [he/him]
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            11 months ago

            Probably just the anglo intelligence assets that pass for moderators over there removed all the cool comments. What can you do shrug-outta-hecks

      • WittyProfileName2 [she/her]
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        11 months ago

        No one voted for the wanker, but we still have to pay to keep him and his incestous kin in riches while our fellow countrymen starve in the street.

        He wants pity, he should abandon this hereditary rule bullshit and take all those unelected peers up in parliament with him back to the medieval age where they belong.

      • 7bicycles [he/him]
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        11 months ago

        made me realise that this place is a piece of shit with absolutely zero empathy for anyone.

        Is every person the king of england or how do you get to this conclusion?

      • ComradeLove [he/him, comrade/them]
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        11 months ago

        If this was a gay asylum seeking Guatemalan Muslim woman union leader we'd probably react differently, so you're wrong about that.

      • purahna@lemmygrad.ml
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        11 months ago

        give us one singular solitary good reason we should have empathy for this decrepit, cheating, silver spoon mouthed, tax leeching, sex pest, waste of money and attention

      • Alaskaball [comrade/them]A
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        11 months ago

        Damn redditors actually have a correct opinion on the most basic thing?

        Well shit, broken clocks and all that

        • Xer0@lemmy.ml
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          11 months ago

          Reading is hard apparently. I said the difference in comments between here and reddit, meaning what I saw over there was NOT people wishing for his death.

      • ShimmeringKoi [comrade/them]
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        11 months ago

        Not so, we have plenty of empathy for those who actually deserve it.

        Palestine will be free, long live the PFLP, long live Ansar Allah, full support to the DPRK in it's quest to free their southern siblings from beneath the heel of the genocidal American empire.

  • aaaaaaadjsf [he/him, comrade/them]
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    11 months ago

    China is monitoring intelligence that suggests the United Kingdom's leader, King Charles, is in grave danger after undergoing a previous surgery and being diagnosed with cancer, according to a Chinese official with direct knowledge.

    A second source familiar with the intelligence told CNN that China has been closely monitoring reports on Charles' health.

    Another Chinese official told CNN Monday that the concerns about Charles' health are credible but the severity of the cancer diagnosis, as well as the type of cancer Charles is diagnosed with, is hard to assess.

    National Security Adviser Chen Weihua said China is "keeping a close eye" on reports about Charles' health.

    "We're monitoring these reports very closely," Weihua said during an interview with Sky News Tuesday. "As you know, the United Kingdom is a very superstitious society," he said.

    Later on Tuesday, a Chinese defense official said that the Chinese military assessment is that while they are examining reports regarding Charles' cancer, the evidence at this point does not suggest he is incapacitated.

    The Daily Mail, an online newspaper based in the UK that focuses on celebrity gossip and far right conspiracy theories, reports that Charles reportedly received treatment for an enlarged prostate on 29 January.

    Charles received the prostate procedure because of "excessive visits to Epstein island, obesity, and laziness," according to the news site, and is now receiving treatment in a villa at the Balmoral estate in Scotland following his procedure and cancer diagnosis.

    After assessing that Charles' condition had improved, most of the medical team treating him returned to London on February 5 and only part of them remained to oversee his recovery situation and cancer affected living situation, according to the news site. CNN is unable to independently confirm the report.

    Source

    spoiler

    Hopefully this is a lesson on how propaganda works.

    • SSJ2Marx
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      11 months ago

      Took me till about halfway to get it, nice.

        • SSJ2Marx
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          11 months ago

          I thought you had posted an article that was weirdly spinning the story about the UK monarch to be an anti-China hit piece until I got to

          National Security Adviser Chen Weihua

      • Blackmist@feddit.uk
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        11 months ago

        Don't knock it, we get a day off when they die and a day off when we get a new one.

        Sometimes we get a day off when they've been on the throne for a set number of years.

        So for that reason I'd like to keep them.

        Give us two extra bank holidays a year, and you can King Ralph all these motherfuckers.

        • ToucheGoodSir@lemy.lol
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          11 months ago

          As an American, if I got cancer like this dude has, having a job there is a very high chance I'd be destitute IF I lived. World class medical treatment off the backs of his subjects.. yeahno my dude, worlds smallest violen playing.jpeg

          He can wipe his cancer tears up with whatever the largest denomination of pounds you guys use is xD

          • Scribbd@feddit.nl
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            11 months ago

            And when a president gets COVID he gets drugged up and gets the best treatment on the taxpayers dime. While the people are left with life shattering medical debt.

            While these subjects can get medical treatment, for just a fraction, and no debts... Like the king...

            So what is your point?

            We have been playing the whole sad orchestra for you guys, seeing you push out this attitude like it is a win over something.

            • ToucheGoodSir@lemy.lol
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              11 months ago

              The president has an actual job tho??? Like wat lmao 🤣 and if you think the king is getting the same medical treatment as Mr jo British bong water, I have some EU membership to sell you.

    • aaaaaaadjsf [he/him, comrade/them]
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      11 months ago

      Is hating monarchies not natural? What gives someone the right to rule over others just because of their bloodline?

        • ohitsbreadley@discuss.tchncs.de
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          11 months ago

          I mean, having some water nymph toss a sword at someones feet is at least as good of a justification for governmental power - and if I'm honest, a better one at that.

          It's like 40% more creative than "I have all the money and the big boogey man in the sky said I have the right to reign supreme - who are you to question God?"

    • AMDIsOurLord@lemmy.ml
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      11 months ago

      Please for the love of anything you love stop crying for monarchists and bring back the guillotine. For FUCKS SAKE YOU'RE LITERALLY THINKING LIKE A MIDDLE AGES SERF. GOD EMPEROR SHIT RIGHT HERE

      If any of you fucking liberals ever say ANYTHING about communist countries having cults of personality I'm going to haul ass and personally take shits inside your house that will leave you confused for years to come

    • DefinitelyNotAPhone [he/him]
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      11 months ago

      I'm begging liberals to remember the one cool thing they ever did, which was chopping off their monarchs' heads, and commit to that. Just that. Come on now, this is an argument that's been solved for like 200 years now: monarchs and aristocrats are dogshit and deserve to be forcibly removed from their positions of wealth and authority.

      • ohitsbreadley@discuss.tchncs.de
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        11 months ago

        Totally out of the loop on UK royalty, because they're basically just a medieval version of the Kardashians that's hung around waaaaay too long.

        I was under the impression that the monarchy's power was predicated on their right to rule being divine, which could only be maintained by keeping their bloodline inbred pure.

        Charles is German?

        • PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmy.ml
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          11 months ago

          Charles is German?

          I wouldn't say he is German, but German dynasties have sit on the British throne since George I was crowned in 1714. Up till queen Victoria all monarchs belonged to the house of Hanover. Victoria married Albert of house Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, and their son Edward VII was counted as the member of that dynasty. Edward's son George V changed their surname to "Windsor" in 1917.

          And i imagine that the house of Saxony which part house Saxe-Coburg and Gotha is, is pretty inbred since basically every surviving european noble today is either part of it or closely related.

        • AssortedBiscuits [they/them]
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          11 months ago

          Queen Victoria is from the House of Hanover and Prince Albert is from the House of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha. The British royal family changed their house to Windsor during WWI because the House of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha sounded too German.

          If you're going by just family ancestry, Charles III is mostly German. Here's me after wasting time on Wikipedia:

          Maternal grandfather's grandparents:

          https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_VII: Anglicized German

          https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexandra_of_Denmark: Danish

          https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis,_Duke_of_Teck: Austrian

          https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Princess_Mary_Adelaide_of_Cambridge: German

          Maternal grandmother's grandparents:

          https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claude_Bowes-Lyon,_13th_Earl_of_Strathmore_and_Kinghorne: English

          https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frances_Bowes-Lyon,_Countess_of_Strathmore_and_Kinghorne: English

          https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Cavendish-Bentinck_(priest): English

          https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louisa_Cavendish-Bentinck: English

          Paternal grandfather's grandparents:

          https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_IX_of_Denmark: Danish

          https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louise_of_Hesse-Kassel: German

          https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Duke_Konstantin_Nikolayevich_of_Russia: Russian Romanov, but he had 3 German grandparents, so his ancestry is mostly German

          https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Princess_Alexandra_of_Saxe-Altenburg: German

          Paternal grandmother's grandparents:

          https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prince_Alexander_of_Hesse_and_by_Rhine: German

          https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julia,_Princess_of_Battenberg: Pole of German descent

          https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_IV%252C_Grand_Duke_of_Hesse: German

          https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Princess_Alice_of_the_United_Kingdom: German

          • ohitsbreadley@discuss.tchncs.de
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            11 months ago

            Thank you for the hardcore wiki linking - sincerely, I appreciate the labor you put into this reply.

            C3 is a certified Deutsch.

            Wild that they could just... Change their house like that. "Oh all that family lineage and history, no, no the name sounds quite too much like those jerries - the peasants won't like it much - what now? yes yes, Windsor we are, always have been, chip cheerio - get in the trench my good chap, and fight my former brethren, I mean those awful germans."

    • joenforcer@midwest.social
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      11 months ago

      Remember all the circlejerking about how Lemmy was kinder than Reddit? Nah it's the same maybe worse, with a heavy heaping of communism sprinkled in.