Been 3 years and I still think about this from time to time. Sooooo many boohoos over a monarchist 🙄
>4 other countries declare her death as a public holiday
Based based based based
Meanwhile in America: Oh hey, a former president died. Anyway, time to get to work.
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…
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
Both are definitely bad.
don’t think the post is arguing otherwise
Given OPs history, yes it does.
Didn’t know there’s a legion of tankies on lemmy lol
Lemmy’s primary devs are Marxists, as are a ton of its users.
I’m generally very left and anti cap, that doesn’t mean I support Russia or the USSR…
I said Marxists, not just leftists in general, though among anticapitalists the USSR is very popular. The overwhelming majority of Marxists support the Soviet Union.
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.
Tbf it’s not boohoos over a monarchist, it’s boohoos over a monarch. Still fucking stupid I agree.
I love how NK is being directly compared to a literal monarchy here, accidental self-aware moment
