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UK: Support for the monarchy falls below 50 per cent for the first time, new poll says (www.thenational.scot)

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[-] davel@lemmy.ml 41 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

What kind of bootlicking brainworms do limeys have that it’s been >50% ’till now?

[-] ChicoSuave@lemmy.world 19 points 1 year ago

Britain is very politically authoritarian and having a single hierarchy has been their preference for a thousand years. They also have a surveillance state to rival any other authoritarian government and a press that is strongly discouraged from rocking the boat. Those poor Islanders are used to thinking like sheep because it's how they were raised.

[-] BananaTrifleViolin@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago

Interesting. What's the US's excuse for Trump?

[-] TotallynotJessica@lemmy.world 30 points 1 year ago

The most foundational concept to America is economic exploitation and cut throat entrepreneurship. Selfishness is more foundational to American conservatives than the church or the state. Trump was openly a selfish asshole. One would think that open disregard for others would disqualify someone from the highest elected office, but the right thought otherwise. Being a bully meant that Trump was strong. A lack of empathy isn't a vice, but a virtue.

[-] Omega_Haxors@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

As trite as it is to point out, that he was going up against an infamous neoliberal. Repuglicans don't win elections, their opponents lose.

[-] davel@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

On a cold winter’s eve at Piccadilly Circus I got felt up & shook down by bobbies on the most ridiculous pretext. I don’t know if they had a drug bust quota to meet or were simply bored.