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Imagine being a monarchist and this is Your Guy (hexbear.net)

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[-] came_apart_at_Kmart@hexbear.net 37 points 2 months ago

i don't think the monarchy is gonna make it. queen elizabeth lived so damn long from ww2 to now-ish. i can imagine a certain amount of inertia for legitimacy when the monarch is some ancient little old lady in pastel colors with corgis.

but suddenly, the new monarch is this fuckin' inbred guy who has been a public doofus since always. that has got to move the needle to where more people are like, "wait, how much is wasted on this asshole?"

[-] red_giant@hexbear.net 15 points 2 months ago

but suddenly, the new monarch is this fuckin' inbred guy

guy who is completely unfamiliar with monarchy

[-] porous_grey_matter@lemmy.ml 7 points 2 months ago

For anyone alive it is sudden, yeah you can know about history but Elizabeth was queen for the entire lifetime of almost everyone alive

[-] red_giant@hexbear.net 5 points 2 months ago

I mean more, like, it’s not a new thing that they’re inbred

[-] porous_grey_matter@lemmy.ml 5 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

yea i know, i just meant that it wasn't as... obvious... with elizabeth as with charles

[-] came_apart_at_Kmart@hexbear.net 5 points 2 months ago

agree. a lot of Elizabeth's whatever-was-going-on-there was masked by being small and elderly.

king chuck has got it all, proudly, on front street, and his whole vibe is a reminder of the queens non-verbal cousins that were hidden and locked away.