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minus-squarebrucethemoose@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·17 days agoFormerly, 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 :/
minus-squareEq0@literature.cafelinkfedilinkarrow-up0·17 days agoScale 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…
minus-squarePolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up1·edit-216 days ago 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
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…
What shake? UK didn’t even had a small succession crisis, not even a tiny civil war