• Leon_Grotsky [comrade/them]
        ·
        2 years ago

        I had to scream abort and close the tab when I saw the "Socialist, but constitutional monarchist" guy wading into it

        • culpritus [any]
          ·
          2 years ago

          Better to have a monarch without power to bow and make polite, meaningless noises to, rather than a President who can build a cult of personality and act like an autocrat.

          :side-eye-1:

          I get where you’re coming from. 70 years of duty and service and not once did she overstep her bounds as Head of State.

          Always apolitical. Always charitable. Always working.

          Didn’t appreciate it until now, but she was as reliable as a statue.

          as reliable as a statue

          :side-eye-2:

          • jackmarxist [any]
            ·
            2 years ago

            These are the same fuckers who call Zelensky daddy while being mad about Stalins supposed cult of personality.

      • TrashGoblin [he/him, they/them]
        ·
        2 years ago

        It was also posted to /r/interestingasfuck, and has been downvoted but not removed: https://libreddit.exp.farm/r/interestingasfuck/comments/x9ll6g/the_irish_reaction_to_queen_elizabeth_iis_passing/inp4don/

        Content warnings applying to the original obviously apply here.

      • ssjmarx [he/him]
        ·
        2 years ago

        (obvious major content warning)

        I should have listened.