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Sad on a human level, but she spent her years as the figurehead of an inherently fascist, racist institution — royalty. "Whoever had created humanity had left
by jackfruitpeel 4y ago
Sad on a human level, but she spent her years as the figurehead of an inherently fascist, racist institution — royalty.
"Whoever had created humanity had left in a major design flaw. It was its tendency to bend at the knees.”
- ztgasdf 4y ago
- bogantech 4y ago[flagged]
- balentio 4y ago[flagged]
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- jackfruitpeel 4y agoThere were admirable things about her as a person, but the concept of monarchy is a stain on humanity. I can't respect anyone who supports the idea of superiority by virtue of bloodline.
- mariusor 4y agoExcuse my cynicism, but current European monarchies are just diplomatic services that are bred instead of hired. They represent a "superior bloodline" only if you have a chip on your shoulder.
- 6d6b73 4y ago[flagged]
- dang 4y agoPlease don't respond to a bad comment by breaking the site guidelines yourself. That only makes everything worse. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- howmayiannoyyou 4y agoLook at Liz Truss' cabinet and the overall upward mobility of minorities in the UK and explain how there's any credible argument of fascist/racist leadership that pervades (as opposed to harasses) UK society? No doubt your assessment standard will be perfection from which you will cherry pick counter examples, but the reality is no country in the world has integrated more successfully - overall - than the UK.
- jackfruitpeel 4y agoIt's the concept of monarchy I have a problem with. Not the UK in particular ( though your actions in Northern Ireland remain shameful).
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- dang 4y agoPlease don't take HN threads into political flamewar or on tedious generic tangents. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- jackfruitpeel 4y agoApologies. In retrospect a comment that didn't add much.