Been 3 years and I still think about this from time to time. Sooooo many boohoos over a monarchist 🙄

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[–] 1 point 1 year ago

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=P2EaD9evShY

Watched this film today, it’s pretty good.

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  • [–] 38 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    There's a fun short video of the BBC's coverage of the royal funeral that someone dubbed over with the audio of the BBC's coverage of the Kim funeral.

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  • [–] 10 points 1 year ago*

    >4 other countries declare her death as a public holiday

    Based based based based

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  • [–] 32 points 1 year ago

    Elizabeth's funeral took place over one day. If you're counting the lying-in-state, you should also count it for Kim

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  • [–] 16 points 1 year ago (8 children)

    Meanwhile in America: Oh hey, a former president died. Anyway, time to get to work.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    The president is more equivalent to the prime minister than the queen. I think the American equivalent of the queen dying would be more like if a significant portion of the ruling class died... So like if: Jeff Bezos, Mark Zuckerberg, Bill Gates, Warren Buffet etc. all died at the same time...

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    But Queen Elizabeth was not “former” queen. What would happen if a President would die (of natural causes) on the job?

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Formerly, there’d be an outpouring like JFK if it was dramatic enough, but no pomp and circumstance on the scale of the Queen.

    Now? It would be a shitshow divided by party affiliation :/

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Scale it considering that a president is appointed for 4 years, a monarch for life. Overall, I don’t find it weird that people need time to mourn when their political system gets a good shake…

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  • [+] -15 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    don't think the post is arguing otherwise

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Given OPs history, yes it does.

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  • [–] -5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Didn't know there's a legion of tankies on lemmy lol

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  • [–] 13 points 1 year ago

    I love how NK is being directly compared to a literal monarchy here, accidental self-aware moment

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  • [–] 13 points 1 year ago

    when did monarchys become a liberal thing? And why are the Kims not also monarchy? They dont pass that shit in the family?

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  • Idgaf about the queen in particular. But, I dont get the countries marking her death as a holiday. She was the face of the UK, sure. Her entire queenhood was symbolic, though. She didn't set any international policy or have any real role in their governments. I get annoyance, disdain, even indirect anger at the monarchy for being the symbol of the UK government. But this feels more hateful and targetted. It's fine if that's how they feel. I just don't understand why.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    Did the crowd also sang "Ill is in the box!"? >.<

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