https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/video/2022/jun/05/queen-elizabeth-appears-as-hologram-inside-260-year-old-golden-carriage-video
Imagine having a hologram Queen Elizabeth II and not making her do Fortnite dances smh
theres a scene in the gangster granny film where the queen starts rapping but I can't find the video anywhere
She appeared on the balcony though, looked like actual death
Yeah I think it’s pretty clear she’s at death’s door and this whole thing is basically a sendoff for her. I wouldn’t be surprised if she’s dead in the next couple of months.
At which point, the fall of the UK and the Commonwealth will begin! A unified Ireland, indie Scotland and then eventually, a Tropical Independent Wales. The Caribbean is already shifting towards becoming Republics. Imagine :aus-delenda-est: or :kkkanada: having a referendum on the monarchy and delivering a “yes” to keeping King Charles III and Queen Camilla as their heads of State.
It’s gonna be a decade that breaks brains and deeply crushes the poor, as England flails towards becoming a middle income country.
If anything it would be some weird superstructural thing. No one would dismiss the ability of liberals in the United States to do crazy shit as their civil religion breaks down, but a loss of a monarch can be a similarly disruptive ordeal on top of worsening material conditions in the UK
:100-com: this, thanks for stating it better than I could. A breakdown of civil religion is the right way of phrasing it.
In practical terms, not at all. Note that I’m stating correlation, not causation here! (Although I do anticipate that it will speed up commonwealth states getting rid of the the monarchy).
She does however maintain for a lot of people the dying idea of the UK as a great power, and is perhaps the last well known institutional tie to the British empire. As the UK disintegrates (which is happening regardless of the Queen existing), the comfort blanket that she represents for so many will be yanked away. The UK is undeniably on a downward trajectory materially, and a change in the monarch for the first time in 70 years is going to make that feel more real for a certain section of society. Sadly I don’t think it will result in positive reflection and realisation that a better world is possible, but more sentimentalism and petty Little Englander shit.
As the UK disintegrates (which is happening regardless of the Queen existing), the comfort blanket that she represents for so many will be yanked away.
I've watched a lot of Call The Widwife. I didn't realize British boomers had as much weepy-eyed nostalgia for the "national greatness" in the 50s and 60s as their American counterparts do.
I’d say it’s possibly even greater nostalgia. The Queen was crowned in the same year that Eisenhower was elected (if I remember correctly) - Kissinger was still doing his PhD then. Imagine the psychic damage of having the same head of state since then, through imperial decline and the media endlessly saying what a nice old lady she is. Truly a unique set of :brainworms:
but more sentimentalism and petty Little Englander shit
I hate the term little Englander because it lets London off the hook. London is the power that shakes Africa until all the shiny things fall out the rest of the UK is essentially just being taken along for the ride and benefits from the UK's finance imperialism only in a comparable way to the rust belt does Americas
She's a cultural anchor that, among other things, justifies and upholds the existence of hereditary nobility, increases the prestige and perceived legitimacy of the UK on the world stage, and is a focal point for the whole "united" part of United Kingdom.
canada can't do it by referrendum, it would require a consititutional ammendment. But a constitutional ammendment probably has an equal chance of getting rid of the monarchy and dissolving the country entirely
getting rid of the monarchy and dissolving the country entirely
We can hope 🙏
We on hell island (Australia) just swore in an Assistant Minister for the Republic, which hasn't been done before as far as I know.
Referendum is LOOMING
Even ignoring the fact that monarchies are incredibly cringe by definition regardless of how healthy the monarch is, I don't see how her insisting on trying to hide the fact that she's on the verge of death is more dignified than her abdicating years ago and living out her last days in peace (or at least privacy) - Most other monarchies give an off ramp for when the king/queen starts looking like a walking corpse but for some reason she thinks it's massively uncouth, fucking baffling.
her dad(?) got offed by his doctor with a fucking speedball lmao
thought the king's death being reported by the evening papers was "undignified" so just fucking killed him lmao
I think it's just purely ego, Japan's emperor abdicated for like the first time in history a couple years ago and though belief in the deity status of the emperor has clearly waned over the years, he's still technically viewed as divine while the queen at the very best is viewed as having a divine mandate, it's just pure ego.
Most other monarchies give an off ramp for when the king/queen starts looking like a walking corpse
Do they? I think the traditional solution is to let heir apparent take over representative duties, maybe even appoint him as prince-regent.
I could be wrong but I'm fairly sure Dutch, Spanish and Japanese monarchs have abdicated due to old age/health issues before, or at least stepped out of the public eye and allowed a regent to take over all of the various ribbon cutting duties.
Japan's did, but it was considered a little scandalous and breaking with tradition
Yeah I think you're right. There are some monarchies that are too conservative to do that though, like the British and the Danish are good examples. Britain also have the problem of the replacement being prince Charles, who would hardly be more popular than a walking corpse.
Reminds me how in China, we used to have to kowtow to a scroll that embodies the emperor.
Of course, by “used to” I mean more than a century ago.
The lathe comes with great responsibilities. Learn your lesson next time.
One cannot avoid touching the lathe, one can only respect its power
we can only avoid Lathing as well as a dwarf can avoid strange moods.
So why are they keeping up appearances even now? The working theory before was that they were trying to announce the death at a less economically stressful time, right? How long do you think this is going to keep up?
A Queen Robot is riding around in a literal golden carriage while people can't afford food, can't afford the gas to cook their food, and certainly won't be able to afford to heat their houses this winter.
🎵Who wants to live forever
Who wants to live foreverrr🎵
Wasn’t this an episode of Black Mirror? A hologram figment politician?
A cartoon animation who's movements were directed by motion capture and dialogue was from a comedian. I think?
It becomes a third party rallying point and "joke candidate" that winds up winning the election after the original dude controlling the animated bear gets replaced by intelligence agencies. Then a fascism happens.
wot if your fascist strongman was Grandpa Rick? wot if he turned ‘imself into a pickle?
My lathe powers are UNSTOPPABLE, I posted this yesterday.
The queen is not appearing at the events because she is dead.
Oh, she appeared at the light show? Yeah, well it was an hologram, it was part of the light show
this is such a funny thing to see. as an american, the impulse to do this is at once baffling and yet somewhat familiar. the same sort of brainworms we have here but slightly different symptoms
Honestly, having holograms of a presidential candidate doing a speech in real time might be a way to campaign in smaller districts you wouldn't otherwise visit. You could put the whole podium and light show and shit up, people could actually look at the life sized hologram, the speaker could open with "We're very proud to have this new technology that lets me speak directly to parts of America that are often overlooked and forgotten blah blah blah"
uncritical support for Grand Architect, Ultra-Imperator, Sovereign of all Nations Hatsune Miku's impending million year reign over the scattered remnants of mankind that She forbids to die
She is alive. She just had a stoke and is probably mostly on life support. Something like clinical braindeath but she might be crying and shitting all the time.
She however will never die, kept alive on a golden throne with life support systems installed
