As news of the Queen’s failing health emerged on Thursday hours before her death was announced, Anya tweeted her response. “I heard the chief monarch of a thieving raping genocidal empire is finally dying,” Anya said in the now-removed tweet. “May her pain be excruciating.”

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Others came to Anya’s defense, and specifically called out Jeff Bezos for picking out her tweet. One user found a post of Anya with Chris Smalls, one of the core organizers and founders of the Amazon Labor Union. “I have been wondering, why Prof Anya was selected by Jeff Bezos,” they wrote. “This is why.” Some pointed out that Carnegie Mellon had previously accepted a $2 million donation from Amazon.

:sicko-yes:

“I already got my tweets lined up for you when you go,” one told Jeff Bezos. The tweet ratioed Bezos’s.

:lets-fucking-go:

Meanwhile, Anya doubled down on her stance. “If anyone expects me to express anything but disdain for the monarch who supervised a government that sponsored the genocide that massacred and displaced half my family and the consequences of which those alive today are still trying to overcome, you can keep wishing upon a star,” said Anya in the remaining visible tweet.

Braver then the troops :rat-salute: