Been 3 years and I still think about this from time to time. Sooooo many boohoos over a monarchist 🙄
Also it was made de facto illegal to protest the coronation iirc
During the state mandated mourning, a man was arrested for carrying a piece of blank paper because the police thought he might write a protest slogan on it later.
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.
For anybody like me who, for some reason, can't watch it without being signing into YouTube, its archived and watchable on archive.org
https://web.archive.org/web/20220920131510/https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=aNBqjKFS1_c
Elizabeth's funeral took place over one day. If you're counting the lying-in-state, you should also count it for Kim
Tbf it’s not boohoos over a monarchist, it’s boohoos over a monarch. Still fucking stupid I agree.
you dont think the monarch of the monarchy might have been a monarchist?
I suppose she was probably a monarchist herself, even if that's not why her death got so much ridiculous fuss
Meanwhile in America: Oh hey, a former president died. Anyway, time to get to work.
But Queen Elizabeth was not “former” queen. What would happen if a President would die (of natural causes) on the job?
The current one? Parties in the streets!
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 :/
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…
when their political system gets a good shake…
What shake? UK didn't even had a small succession crisis, not even a tiny civil war
I support the death of who ever is the president of America
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...
That's the dream baby.
>4 other countries declare her death as a public holiday
Based based based based
I love how NK is being directly compared to a literal monarchy here, accidental self-aware moment
Brits insist they're a democracy, don't they? They're included in the "Democratic west vs authoritarian east" rhetoric. Weird how the goalpost shifts when your side is transparently coming out worse.
Both are definitely bad.
Eternal glory to the DPRK and the Juche party in its struggle against western imperialism
Nah the british monarchy is definitely worse.
when did monarchys become a liberal thing? And why are the Kims not also monarchy? They dont pass that shit in the family?
They got co-opted by capitalists and neutered. So all the "good and nice" euro countries got to keep them (UK, Sweden, Netherlands, Luxemburg, Belgium, Liechtenstein, Monaco, Andorra, Spain, Norway and Denmark).
Kim's arent a monarchy, they arent the true "leaders" of NK -the Premier is - at worst its just rampant nepotism.
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.
Did the crowd also sang "Ill is in the box!"? >.<