queen elizabeth II

also comrade alph iirc

😭😭😭

on my morning walk noticed one lone house in the neighborhood flying the union jack and loled grimly to myself

spare a thought for that saddo pom

was it half mast tho

I’m not gonna sit here and apologize for most any of this nonsense but I’d like to say a simple “actually that’s kind of sweet” offering to the Twitter thing upthread about the bees, which is an ancient and basically mythological English tradition https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telling_the_bees

nope, full mast… hmm… maybe they were celebrating? tip o the hat if so

ok telling the bees is hilarious i love it

it's a pan-european tradition!!

and for maximum chaos: "Bees could also be invited to the funeral.[5][6]"

it’s downright dotty

meanwhile the bees are like WE DONT CARE WE’RE BLOODY BEES

they like to feel informed

what a time to get killfiled :(

meanwhile the bees are like WE DONT CARE WE’RE BLOODY BEES

Nah, that's too waspish for bees.

Patter not chronic enough

🤨

I was taking a dump during the announcement. It felt wrong and disrespectful to continue it, so as a mark of respect, I stopped. I will resume after my ten days of mourning.

thread for KING CHARLES III (regnal name george vii)

out of respect

Johnny Cash meets the Queen in his dreams, writes "The Man Comes Around" afterward pic.twitter.com/sJrwyMfPzP

— Bowiesongs (@bowiesongs) September 8, 2022

Limmy's favourite memory of our Queen pic.twitter.com/sNoKmbHzCT

— LimmyTwitchClipsPlus (@LTCPLUS) September 10, 2022

one of our managers came into the shop today and told me to remove Tom Bowers book 'Revenge'( his Harry + Meghan vs the rest of the monarchy biography) from display because it was disrespectful at the current time and was likely to cause offence!! surprised I wasn't instructed to burn it tbh. bit of a cheek considering we currently display Rushdie's ' The Satanic Verses' on the same shop floor which I would guess offends far more people( ie more than zero)than some hack biography. still guess it offends people who aren't as important. lol cancel culture actually exists for once.

of course 30 mins later some women came in and asked if we had it, so I sold her a copy.

Nice.

Astonishing figure @BBCNews just cited - that a third of the UK might have met the Queen, given all her efforts to meet the public

— Bronwen Maddox (@bronwenmaddox) September 10, 2022

And every person she met started a band.

lmao

meeting the queen should be a euphemism for jerking off or taking a dump or something for if it’s not already

Meet the queen
Feed the tree

I've a good friend who is a hardcore oldschool punk, very left wing, who declared on twitter they'd be following the 10 day mourning period seriously. I have to say I was really surprised. I dont think theyre a monarchist, just feeling very English? (hving been born in the UK).

I'm apathetically anti-monarchist as any decent Australian should be imnsho, but I decided not to have Opinions online bcs my mother will prob be offended. She's of that era who crammed the streets to glimpse at queenie waving as she went by and all that crap.

Other than being a monarch, protecting the monarchy, and thus perpetuating the monarchy and all its pathologies, I'm not aware of any particularly egregious sins that can be laid directly at her feet. Sure, had she chosen she could have been a forceful advocate for the well being of her subjects, but she chose instead to be a harmless figurehead feigning a kind of maternal benevolence. I'm not sure that merits hatred of her, so much as mild mockery or complete indifference.

She paid 12 million pounds to make credible allegations of her son's sexual assault of a minor go away.
She never apologised for atrocities committed in her name in colonial Africa (from where the Crown Jewels were stolen, incidently).
She interfered in the legislative process several times to get laws changed to favour her or her estates.

I agree the first of the actions you cited absolutely merits anyone's loathing, contempt and anger. It's enough to cite it alone.

But as for the second and third? They are common as dirt among the wealthy and powerful. Hell, most of them never apologize for crimes they personally committed or directly authorized, let alone those committed "in their name".

So we should give her a pass? Fuck that. Fuck anyone who does it.

Yes. We should not give her a pass. Great idea. I am now revoking her pass even as I write this.

It's possible for world leaders to apologise for the wrongs done by their state. Chirac apologised for France's role in the rounding up of Jews in the Second World War. The Australian PM apologised to Aboriginal people who had been forcibly removed from their families. But nary a peep out of Queen Liz about the atrocities of the Mau Mau uprising, about slavery, about anything.

never buying a motherboard from amazon uk ever again what is this shit pic.twitter.com/zeiNP9rxTK

— stickfab (@stckfb) September 10, 2022

NEW: Antigua & Barbuda PM, Gaston Browne, has said following the Queen’s death he will call for a referendum on the country becoming a republic within three years.https://t.co/gzb7k9jK1c pic.twitter.com/MPrb71LPgV

— Nads White (@Nadine_Writes) September 11, 2022

Love this, please never stop.

BBC News just read out a card from a 12 year old to the dead queen saying "I find the fact that you were working in your final days so great." 🫠

— lol (@MediocreDave) September 12, 2022

Other than being a monarch, protecting the monarchy, and thus perpetuating the monarchy and all its pathologies, I'm not aware of any particularly egregious sins that can be laid directly at her feet. Sure, had she chosen she could have been a forceful advocate for the well being of her subjects, but she chose instead to be a harmless figurehead feigning a kind of maternal benevolence. I'm not sure that merits hatred of her, so much as mild mockery or complete indifference.

First sentence is enough, the rest is garbage. In fact three words are enough, "being a monarch". I don't hate her and didn't hate her personally - after all, she's not Thatcher - but she was a monarch, so she's worse than Thatcher

Painful to watch Aimless use his brain.

Harmless little old lady, protecting her paedophile son.

lovely sweet old lady

https://i.postimg.cc/MKkvc0fZ/Screenshot-20220912-094458.jpg

she wasn't a human being they kept telling me she was a figurehead i think we should guillotine figureheads

It's possible for world leaders to apologise for the wrongs done by their state. Chirac apologised for France's role in the rounding up of Jews in the Second World War. The Australian PM apologised to Aboriginal people who had been forcibly removed from their families. But nary a peep out of Queen Liz about the atrocities of the Mau Mau uprising, about slavery, about anything.

― Zelda Zonk, Monday, 12 September 2022 bookmarkflaglink

All well and good though the best thing Charles could do is machine gun his family, like that Prince in Nepal

I’m not making the case for her being some great and unique evil but saying that the monarchy is and was powerless is a lie used to perpetuate its existence.

Benign

Police have been barred from searching the Queen’s private estates for stolen or looted artefacts after ministers granted her a personal exemption from a law that protects the world’s cultural property, the Guardian can reveal.

Buckingham Palace and the government are refusing to say why it was deemed necessary in 2017 to give the Queen an exemption that prevents police from searching Balmoral and Sandringham.

A spokesperson for the Queen dismissed any suggestion that stolen or looted artefacts were being held on the monarch’s private estates.

His £1bn Duchy of Cornwall estate was later given special exemptions in the acts that denied residents the legal right to buy their own homes outright.

Under the opaque procedure, the Queen and Prince of Wales were allowed to vet the contents of the bills by government ministers and approve them before they were passed by parliament.

The exemptions have left residents living in homes that have diminishing or no financial value. The residents say they cannot borrow against their homes to pay, for example, for social care fees for themselves and loved ones.

Jane Giddins, who lives in one of the prince’s houses in a Somerset village, said a “feudal and anachronistic” system had unfairly favoured Charles, to her family’s detriment. “When we die, our kids will be left with a property that is very difficult to sell,” she said.

The exemptions enable the prince to preserve the financial value of his estate and brings in income as the tenants have to pay rent to him each year. The residents say they have been unable to find out why and how the heir to the throne was able to secure preferential treatment from the government.

The prince declined to comment when asked whether he or his family had lobbied the government for the exemptions in the three acts.

However, the Guardian has established that Prince Charles and his mother were allowed to approve the contents of the three acts under an arcane parliamentary process known as Queen’s consent.

The Queen successfully lobbied the government to change a draft law in order to conceal her “embarrassing” private wealth from the public, according to documents discovered by the Guardian.

A series of government memos unearthed in the National Archives reveal that Elizabeth Windsor’s private lawyer put pressure on ministers to alter proposed legislation to prevent her shareholdings from being disclosed to the public.

Following the Queen’s intervention, the government inserted a clause into the law granting itself the power to exempt companies used by “heads of state” from new transparency measures.

The arrangement, which was concocted in the 1970s, was used in effect to create a state-backed shell corporation which is understood to have placed a veil of secrecy over the Queen’s private shareholdings and investments until at least 2011.

The true scale of her wealth has never been disclosed, though it has been estimated to run into the hundreds of millions of pounds.

How others are getting treated for regulation criticism.

https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/uju-anya-s-tweet-shouldn-t-have-been-condemned-carnegie-n1298818

lol at Bezos pearl-clutching at that - another busy day for Jeff. But then of course she's a union ally.

fwiw sheltering failsons from the consequences of their crimes sexual and otherwise is also "common as dirt amongst the wealthy and powerful", if we're gonna be consistent about this.

I also don't care about the wealthy and powerful maintaining their position.

hang on WHAT?? pic.twitter.com/GX2QmBxzYE

— Russell Warfield (@russellwarfield) September 11, 2022

How others are getting treated for regulation criticism.

https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/uju-anya-s-tweet-shouldn-t-have-been-condemned-carnegie-n1298818🕸

Utterly draconian - two people were arrested on the weekend under the Police, Crime, Sentencing & Courts Act 2022 for expressing their opposition to the monarchy.

When this law was still a bill, many raised concerns that it would be used to silence free speech. They were right. pic.twitter.com/sm7EPnnSkF

— Fatima Said (@fatimazsaid) September 12, 2022

Red Nation Native American roundtable talking about the monarchy/commonwealth etc in a negative light and what has been done in its name over teh years. So why seeing so many people seeing this negative figurehead as someone to mourn so heavily is depressing
https://open.spotify.com/episode/5VqWZZn5ymYNgYYR9NLYx1?si=5c9dcaec6a184e38