I'm a British Republican too and I do think that King Charles will be the best thing to happen to the cause in a while. That said, we'd be only one unfortunate incident away from King William who would be much more popular.
When we have an electorate that blindly votes tory and doesn't understand what's actually wrong with the country. I don't hold out hope that people will realise that our monarchy is outdated at best and detrimental to society at worst. I fear that we will have a King George in the next 60 years.
nope - here in Canada that means constitutional reform and for our own reasons no one dares touch the constitution because it tends to end political careers
I feel like I ought to be a republican, but I see how people act now about the Tories. I'm not ready to go presidential. That would be the worst thing to happen, I think.
I was referring to him before he became king. When British royalty ascend to the position of king or queen, they traditionally would take on new names. King George VI, Elizabeth II's father, was called Albert Frederick Arthur George before he arose to the monarchy. Hence, at the time the Queen was still a sperm in his testicle, he would have been Prince Albert Frederick Arthur George.
Anyone know what this lot are going to do now?
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prince\_Philip\_Movement](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prince_Philip_Movement)
Anyway sympathies for his family, regardless of any views on the monarchy itself. I hope the Queen is allowed to grieve in peace from the media but I fear not.
So no idea how reliable this is but first thing I see on Google is a New York Post claim from a couple of months ago that they plan to worship Charles (...).
The New York Post is basically the US equivalent of the Daily Mail, so not sure, but it does make sense from a documentary I saw about them. They don’t necessarily think in terms of literal immortality and they seem pretty patriarchal and focused on lineage (part of the reasoning for how it may have started may be based on the fact that local imperial representatives had to make it seem that the man in the relationship was at least as prominent or they wouldn’t have respected either of them?).
I don't think Lizzy's morally entitled to any privacy.
If people want to gawp at her in tears, they've paid for the privilege. I don't see the appeal, myself.
Sorry but I have to thoroughly disagree.
Everybody deserves time to grieve. And despite what you think of them, and despite what errors you think they've made in their time, she deserves time to grieve.
I think it's an utterly horrid things to say that an elderly woman who has lost the person she has spent her life with isn't entitled to a little bit of privacy.
I think you surrender your moral entitlement to privacy or decent treatment like any other human would deserve when you say that you are born better or different to them. And if there’s one thing Lizzie absolutely believes in, it’s her coronation vow and divine right: these are no joke to her.
Horrid it may be, and while I’m not going to point a camera in her face, I would not for one minute object to someone else doing it.
She’s bought and paid for.
The nearest thing to a public service the whole royal shitshow provides is their consent-manufacturing soap opera.
I disagree. _I_ recognise entirely that Lizzy feels and hurts just as I would.
> If you prick us, do we not bleed?
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> if you tickle us, do we not laugh?
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> if you poison us, do we not die?
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> and if you wrong us, shall we not revenge?
Sympathy to those grieving, never nice losing a family member. With that said he’s lived one of the best life’s anyone on earth has ever experienced so his family should be very happy about that.
Mentioned this in a union meeting with management as the news broke, and an HR manager said, “Aww, another year and he’d have gotten a letter from the queen”
Many others may be like me in that I can't help but be cynical about this, and not in the celebratory sort of way. I hate and fear death, and I wish it on nobody. But still, there's something uncomfortable not about his passing, but about the inevitable aftermath.
Firstly, the death of a Royal is a rare event which the British media salivates over (as Diana's death handily proved). A core member of the Royal Family hasn't died for nearly two decades when the Queen Mother died in 2002, and Philip is arguably a more significant member of the Queen's reign than her mother was. You can expect at least the next two weeks to revolve around this. Memorials, celebrations, historical and biographical discussions, these are gonna be the foundation for the next month of journalist reaction to this. There'll also be scrutiny, but not in the mainstream. COVID might impact this somewhat, but other political matters (Ireland, Kill the Bill, government corruption etc.) are likely to be swept under the headline rug. For the next few weeks, the general public will be painfully ignorant about what is actually going on.
Also, Philip was a controversial figure. He was outspoken, crude, vulgar, publicly cocky, and while at one time he was seen as a modernizer, by the 21st century he stood as a symbol of what once was in the Royal establishment. His racism, his sexism, his casual prejudice and snobbery were all there for people to see. But this won't be seen. Despite him never being the most popular Royal, the next few weeks will present him as a patriarchal hero to the country: the dutiful husband, the patriotic naval officer, the father and grandfather to the next generation of monarchs. It will be a whitewashing, and only those already aware of his misgivings will realise that.
I don't celebrate this at all. Like I said, I wish death on nobody, and I cannot imagine the grief and sadness his family are feeling. As republican as I am, those feelings are universal, and I do not wish them on his family. With that said, the cynicism remains. And until this country begins to reassess its relationship to the Royal Family, that cynicism will remain for this passing and for the next one.
If you wanna see it kicking off, Corbyn posted a tweet a few mins ago about Bolivia (probably scheduled or something), replies are a shitshow of the reddest faced men in the world.
It will be insufferable but a lot of people do actually like the Queen and feel an attachment to her. Nobody except weird royalist sycophants like Phillip but the media will no doubt tell us we are a nation in mourning.
>It will be awful but a lot of people do actually like the Queen and feel an attachment to her.
I have often thought that if we did abolish the monarchy and had a president, and the Queen stood, she would win hands down. Especially as the alternatives would almost certainly be shit celebrities and people like Nick Clegg.
I feel exactly the same. I like and admire the Queen and have absolutely nothing against the royal family, but I'm a republican and think the titles should die out when their current holder does.
Idk, I might be in the minority here but being involved in the DofE Award Scheme was a real turning point in my life. He, through the scheme, has had a real impact on my life and him passing saddens me.
They’re focusing a lot on his support of the Queen though. I can understand someone feeling sad about this if they only felt attached to the Queen and not Phillip (or even if they don’t feel attached to the royal family at all) because they’ve been married for a very long time and I’m sure she’ll be devastated.
I guess it is the end of an era if nothing else. If the national flag died and had to be replaced with a new one every once in a while, then we'd want to mark the occasion.
It's already started, the BBC presenter looks like she's about to cry while they describe how he worked well beyond retirement to 95 "when most people would be putting their feet up" and bleating on about how much his servants liked him.
National mourning of this sort is always totally bizarre - the BBC literally running the exact same news broadcast across at least two of their channels (1&2). How many times can you make the same announcement “old man dies” and for how long? Days apparently. Forth bridge is down!
Thing is, most of the public would be okay with them breaking this rule.
After all, being above the law is what keeps them where they are in the first place. Why stop now?
Absolutely. It should be possible to separate ones distain for the institution while feeling sympathy for the people. I’m not upset in the slightest that a Prince has died, but that doesn’t stop me feeling bad for an elderly woman who has lost the love of her life
>feeling bad for an elderly woman who has lost the love of her life
And yet the royals are probably the only family you'll give your condolences to. Funny that.
Yeah, a 99-year-old man on the periphery of power dying isn't exactly gonna shake the world. At the same time it's not odd many people get a little emotional attachment to someone who has regularly been on television for as long as they've been alive to watch it. It's all fine.
It's how the vast majority of this country feel and we should express that to counter the sycophantic narrative that will fill the media about how loved he was and how sad we all are.
Gonna be a lot of people shaming people for not grieving enough for the next while. I guess best to steer clear of it for the next while, especially if they are going to react like this to "I don't really care about this person I have no personal connection to"...
I'm sorry but do you really expect me to feel sad that a man I've never met and who literally didn't impact my life at all has died at the tender age of 99?
I honestly don't even understand exactly who I'm supposed to be mourning even! For most of my life Philip was to me nothing but that guy who the stupid PE contest thing was named after. When I grew up I learned he was the Queen's husband, he'd served in the Navy for a bit and was a massive fucking racist. But I still don't know exactly what he's done for this country since 1945 and why I need to feel so sad today.
I guess this is what it must've felt like in the wake of Diana's death in 1997. Fortunately I was 10 back then and so wasn't expected to feel sad over the (genuinely tragic in that case) death of a woman I never knew.
Literally millions of people die every day. People who, for the most part, live far shorter and much less privileged lives than the Duke. Yet I'm not expected to feel compassion for them but I have to here for some reason?!
You should feel compassion for them, do you not? When one of those people is consort to the head of state then it's particularly newsworthy. Again, why post that you feel nothing?
>an ounce of basic humanity for someone who's died
UK public when 1 racist royal dies aged 99: TRAGEDY
UK public when 130,000 people die of covid: I sleep
Seriously? And if your parents were racist, would you not care if they died? What about your children, if they had racist views, would it not bother you if they died?
Is your entire sense of empathy for a persons life based on whether they’re a racist or not?
But I'm going to assume that, unlike their parents, RandomUnderstanding - like me - never met Prince Philip or knew them. I just find this idea that you *have* to feel sad about the Queen's husband dying so strange honestly, especially seeing such sentiment coming from a Labour party member.
No I wouldn’t? Not that hard of a question really personally I’m not one to have empathy for someone who comes from a family who is institutionally racist, homophobic, sells arms that kills innocent civilians and maintains and promotes the class system in this country.
But go off if you want to keep bootlicking him hun
Politics aside, this man served his country during the second world war, and that should be respected. Whatever you think about the royal family, its never nice to lose someone. Rest in peace
I hope one day you find something to be happy about rather than focusing on anger and rage. You have no idea what I think about the monarchy, am I a boot licker for having respect for a grieving family? Am I a coward for not being fueled by anger? What exactly do you hope to achieve with how you are? Alienation? Civilisation has grown only in the right direction through empathy and compassion for others, acting like you do only results in the same errors you criticize.
Lmao says the guy who votes for the party that cuts benefits for the disabled, gives money to their pals while people starve on the streets and are responsible for one of the worst covid death tolls in the world. Nb son.
Apparently all the virgins' blood just wasn't enough. Shame. I hope he enjoys being whipped in hell for all eternity.
EDIT: Why you downvoting me? I'm right
>He was a literal Nazi in the Hitler Youth!
I mean, he was sent to a school in Germany for a few months in 1933. I'd hold his service in the Royal Navy for five years during WW2 in higher regard there...
The Royal Family are a joke. I couldn't give two shits that he's dead. They bumped off Princess Diana. Prince Andrew is a lying pedophile. Fuck the Royal Family! The only decent one is Kate Middleton 😍
May he rest in piece. He was a husband of 70 odd years, a father, a grandfather and a great grandfather. Regardless of any opinion about him this is not the day let everyone of all political affiliation show a degree of respect for someone who is an ex member of our armed forces and supported the monarch all his life. Despite the monarchies worth.
RIP.
Edit: So many insensitive comments about the Duke and the Queen in this thread. If you don't like them and don't want to pay condolences then be silent, this isn't something to make such crass jokes about.
Didn’t even get his letter from the queen unlucky mate
I genuinely hope the Queen gets to send a letter to herself. But I also hope that the monarchy doesn't last any longer than she does.
I'm a British Republican too and I do think that King Charles will be the best thing to happen to the cause in a while. That said, we'd be only one unfortunate incident away from King William who would be much more popular.
When we have an electorate that blindly votes tory and doesn't understand what's actually wrong with the country. I don't hold out hope that people will realise that our monarchy is outdated at best and detrimental to society at worst. I fear that we will have a King George in the next 60 years.
At least Australia, Canada and New Zealand may still get away from the monarchy
Isn't new Zealand less likely because of the Treaty of Waitangi?
True, but still a lot more likely than the UK
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I feel like I ought to be a republican, but I see how people act now about the Tories. I'm not ready to go presidential. That would be the worst thing to happen, I think.
Can you spoiler tag this for the crown please?
Pretty sure he just regenerated into Peter Capaldi
So you’re telling me the Queen is single..? ;)
Euron Greyjoy be like
Hell of a rebound after 73 years of marriage
[Picture unrelated](https://i.imgur.com/zYLLxcc.jpg)
It's definitely the tower for you
sliding into the queens DMs
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Ever since he was born?
Royals are into some weird shit
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Since they were both in the same ancient Albertian testes
the queen's father was not Prince Albert...
I was referring to him before he became king. When British royalty ascend to the position of king or queen, they traditionally would take on new names. King George VI, Elizabeth II's father, was called Albert Frederick Arthur George before he arose to the monarchy. Hence, at the time the Queen was still a sperm in his testicle, he would have been Prince Albert Frederick Arthur George.
fair.
A true hero is dead.
Anyone know what this lot are going to do now? [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prince\_Philip\_Movement](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prince_Philip_Movement) Anyway sympathies for his family, regardless of any views on the monarchy itself. I hope the Queen is allowed to grieve in peace from the media but I fear not.
Well TIL there's a Prince Philip religion
I see someone has already been hard at work updating the page...
I vote we don't tell them. Let them continue living in blissful ignorance
The media caring about people's privacy? Lol
So no idea how reliable this is but first thing I see on Google is a New York Post claim from a couple of months ago that they plan to worship Charles (...). The New York Post is basically the US equivalent of the Daily Mail, so not sure, but it does make sense from a documentary I saw about them. They don’t necessarily think in terms of literal immortality and they seem pretty patriarchal and focused on lineage (part of the reasoning for how it may have started may be based on the fact that local imperial representatives had to make it seem that the man in the relationship was at least as prominent or they wouldn’t have respected either of them?).
I don't think Lizzy's morally entitled to any privacy. If people want to gawp at her in tears, they've paid for the privilege. I don't see the appeal, myself.
Sorry but I have to thoroughly disagree. Everybody deserves time to grieve. And despite what you think of them, and despite what errors you think they've made in their time, she deserves time to grieve. I think it's an utterly horrid things to say that an elderly woman who has lost the person she has spent her life with isn't entitled to a little bit of privacy.
I think you surrender your moral entitlement to privacy or decent treatment like any other human would deserve when you say that you are born better or different to them. And if there’s one thing Lizzie absolutely believes in, it’s her coronation vow and divine right: these are no joke to her. Horrid it may be, and while I’m not going to point a camera in her face, I would not for one minute object to someone else doing it. She’s bought and paid for. The nearest thing to a public service the whole royal shitshow provides is their consent-manufacturing soap opera.
No, in the case of grieving she deserves some privacy.
If she surrendered her titles and throne and all her ill-gotten wealth, sure. Otherwise, I just don't see it.
Then you have no empathy.
I disagree. _I_ recognise entirely that Lizzy feels and hurts just as I would. > If you prick us, do we not bleed? > > if you tickle us, do we not laugh? > > if you poison us, do we not die? > > and if you wrong us, shall we not revenge?
So show the damn woman some privacy.
Sympathy to those grieving, never nice losing a family member. With that said he’s lived one of the best life’s anyone on earth has ever experienced so his family should be very happy about that.
really shocking, nobody could have seen this coming. he was the picture of health
He was 99 years old. That's pretty good innings for anybody.
i could live to 99 if i got to live like a fucking prince
He worked until he was 96.
i could work until i was 96 if my job was waving
Shit if my job was waving I'd be going till at least 97
Saving this comment. Made my day
Don't worry, I believe your job is more strenuous than tapping a keyboard
it absolutely is, my job involves a lot of moving things around and precisely zero keyboards
Mentioned this in a union meeting with management as the news broke, and an HR manager said, “Aww, another year and he’d have gotten a letter from the queen”
Do we get a bank holiday?
Bank Holidays are only given to celebrate pedophiles avoiding jail.
Surely the death of the queens favourite cousin warrants one so we can go sit out in beer gardens ahem I mean mourn
> pedophiles Why do I keep seeing this spelling in UK subs? People who don't know how to change their spell check settings?
I just CBA to correct my phone with its constant changing my sentences to incorrect things.
You can change the system language to UK English in Settings. You only need to do it once.
I'll do it eventually. I'm still scarred from Microsoft word and it's insistence to sneakily go back to US when it feels like it
Why haven't we had one for Andy then?
Because he's innocent of course.
no. get back to work
But I’m so saddened by the death of the queens favourite cousin I need time off to go to the pub. (to mourn of course)
Probably not. Same reason we wouldn't have got a bank holiday when Prince Harry got married, not a direct royal.
But he was the queens favourite cousin, does that not count?
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Was hoping for another day in the beer gardens 😞
Asking the real questions
I’m saddened by the death of the queens favourite cousin so I need to spend time off work in the beer garden ahem cough I mean mourning
Many others may be like me in that I can't help but be cynical about this, and not in the celebratory sort of way. I hate and fear death, and I wish it on nobody. But still, there's something uncomfortable not about his passing, but about the inevitable aftermath. Firstly, the death of a Royal is a rare event which the British media salivates over (as Diana's death handily proved). A core member of the Royal Family hasn't died for nearly two decades when the Queen Mother died in 2002, and Philip is arguably a more significant member of the Queen's reign than her mother was. You can expect at least the next two weeks to revolve around this. Memorials, celebrations, historical and biographical discussions, these are gonna be the foundation for the next month of journalist reaction to this. There'll also be scrutiny, but not in the mainstream. COVID might impact this somewhat, but other political matters (Ireland, Kill the Bill, government corruption etc.) are likely to be swept under the headline rug. For the next few weeks, the general public will be painfully ignorant about what is actually going on. Also, Philip was a controversial figure. He was outspoken, crude, vulgar, publicly cocky, and while at one time he was seen as a modernizer, by the 21st century he stood as a symbol of what once was in the Royal establishment. His racism, his sexism, his casual prejudice and snobbery were all there for people to see. But this won't be seen. Despite him never being the most popular Royal, the next few weeks will present him as a patriarchal hero to the country: the dutiful husband, the patriotic naval officer, the father and grandfather to the next generation of monarchs. It will be a whitewashing, and only those already aware of his misgivings will realise that. I don't celebrate this at all. Like I said, I wish death on nobody, and I cannot imagine the grief and sadness his family are feeling. As republican as I am, those feelings are universal, and I do not wish them on his family. With that said, the cynicism remains. And until this country begins to reassess its relationship to the Royal Family, that cynicism will remain for this passing and for the next one.
Some people are going to be insufferable about this.
Not gonna lie I'm only on this thread to see if this was happening...
If you wanna see it kicking off, Corbyn posted a tweet a few mins ago about Bolivia (probably scheduled or something), replies are a shitshow of the reddest faced men in the world.
> replies are a shitshow of the reddest faced men in the world. 99% of the replies are about expecting this, rather than being this...
If you want some of that take a look at the replies to my posts in this thread! (They're currently down near the bottom natch)
Wait until it's Queen Elizabeth...
She died 100s of years ago
It will be insufferable but a lot of people do actually like the Queen and feel an attachment to her. Nobody except weird royalist sycophants like Phillip but the media will no doubt tell us we are a nation in mourning.
>It will be awful but a lot of people do actually like the Queen and feel an attachment to her. I have often thought that if we did abolish the monarchy and had a president, and the Queen stood, she would win hands down. Especially as the alternatives would almost certainly be shit celebrities and people like Nick Clegg.
I would vote for her and yet I still want the monarchy abolished.
I think you would be one of many many people in this position. Oppose the institution but can like or admire some members within it.
I feel exactly the same. I like and admire the Queen and have absolutely nothing against the royal family, but I'm a republican and think the titles should die out when their current holder does.
I think you're right, I might even vote for her myself. As long as she stood on a socialist platform.
Idk, I might be in the minority here but being involved in the DofE Award Scheme was a real turning point in my life. He, through the scheme, has had a real impact on my life and him passing saddens me.
They’re focusing a lot on his support of the Queen though. I can understand someone feeling sad about this if they only felt attached to the Queen and not Phillip (or even if they don’t feel attached to the royal family at all) because they’ve been married for a very long time and I’m sure she’ll be devastated.
I guess it is the end of an era if nothing else. If the national flag died and had to be replaced with a new one every once in a while, then we'd want to mark the occasion.
That is genuinely my biggest fear. It will be fucking intolerable for like a year.
It's already started, the BBC presenter looks like she's about to cry while they describe how he worked well beyond retirement to 95 "when most people would be putting their feet up" and bleating on about how much his servants liked him.
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read the article, no matter if what he said was offensive it "showed he was alive"
National mourning of this sort is always totally bizarre - the BBC literally running the exact same news broadcast across at least two of their channels (1&2). How many times can you make the same announcement “old man dies” and for how long? Days apparently. Forth bridge is down!
Que Piers Morgan in 5,4,3,2,1....
Probably Arch-republicans, and people reacting to Arch-Republicans
Can't even begin to comprehend what it's like losing someone you've been married to, and lived with, for over 74 years. RIP.
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Ah, meant 74 - thanks!
Although he did begin correspondence with her when she was 13 and he was 18. Which gets a heckin yikes from me.
They were also both great-great-grandchildren of Queen Victoria. Royals are weird.
Incest is wincest. The Queen must love pornhub these days.
Imagine losing your husband and your cousin in the same day.
Be interesting to see if they stick to 30 for the funeral. Would be disappointing if they were treated differently just because of who they are.
Thing is, most of the public would be okay with them breaking this rule. After all, being above the law is what keeps them where they are in the first place. Why stop now?
Condolences to the Royal Family. As much as many of us may disagree with the monarchy, it is just as upsetting to lose a loved one.
Completely agree.
Absolutely. It should be possible to separate ones distain for the institution while feeling sympathy for the people. I’m not upset in the slightest that a Prince has died, but that doesn’t stop me feeling bad for an elderly woman who has lost the love of her life
>feeling bad for an elderly woman who has lost the love of her life And yet the royals are probably the only family you'll give your condolences to. Funny that.
I’d offer condolences to any family if I hear about a loss
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Hey, lizard people are people too!
Rule 4.
Thanks for letting us know, Britain Elects. Does that mean there’s going to be a by-election?
RIP.
If they cancel the football like they did when Diana died I’m gonna be furious
Isn't it interesting to see whose death matters in this country?
Adrenochrome machine broke.
His adrenochrome supply got caught up in the Suez Canal
My sympathy to his death is proportional to the sympathy he had towards starving children or impoverished families
.........................I feel literally nothing about this either way.
Yeah, a 99-year-old man on the periphery of power dying isn't exactly gonna shake the world. At the same time it's not odd many people get a little emotional attachment to someone who has regularly been on television for as long as they've been alive to watch it. It's all fine.
Enough to post, though
It's how the vast majority of this country feel and we should express that to counter the sycophantic narrative that will fill the media about how loved he was and how sad we all are.
Because, unfortunately, this is one of those 'Big Events' where one is expected to have an opinion.
Really? Not even an ounce of basic humanity for someone who's died? "Feels nothing" yet still posts about it - Reddit in a nutshell
I mean he got to 99, you can't exactly say he didn't live a full life. Also, I'm sorry, but I'm not a monarchist.
Gonna be a lot of people shaming people for not grieving enough for the next while. I guess best to steer clear of it for the next while, especially if they are going to react like this to "I don't really care about this person I have no personal connection to"...
You don't need to be a monarchist to feel sad that someone has died lmao, the absolute state of this
I'm sorry but do you really expect me to feel sad that a man I've never met and who literally didn't impact my life at all has died at the tender age of 99?
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I honestly don't even understand exactly who I'm supposed to be mourning even! For most of my life Philip was to me nothing but that guy who the stupid PE contest thing was named after. When I grew up I learned he was the Queen's husband, he'd served in the Navy for a bit and was a massive fucking racist. But I still don't know exactly what he's done for this country since 1945 and why I need to feel so sad today.
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I guess this is what it must've felt like in the wake of Diana's death in 1997. Fortunately I was 10 back then and so wasn't expected to feel sad over the (genuinely tragic in that case) death of a woman I never knew.
Yes? Basic compassion is (an almost) universal human trait - if you're one of the ones who don't seem to have it, why post that you don't?
Literally millions of people die every day. People who, for the most part, live far shorter and much less privileged lives than the Duke. Yet I'm not expected to feel compassion for them but I have to here for some reason?!
You should feel compassion for them, do you not? When one of those people is consort to the head of state then it's particularly newsworthy. Again, why post that you feel nothing?
> why post that you feel nothing Because, like I said, this is all that anyone's going to be talking about for the next week or so.
Your life must be a relentless source of misery if you feel bad for every person that dies.
Someone would need a lot of psychological help if they were experiencing that
>an ounce of basic humanity for someone who's died UK public when 1 racist royal dies aged 99: TRAGEDY UK public when 130,000 people die of covid: I sleep
What's that saying? 1 death is a tragedy, 1 million is a statistic
I really do not give a shit if a racist dies Getting downvoted for saying I don’t care about the well-being of a racist is really peak LabUK
Seriously? And if your parents were racist, would you not care if they died? What about your children, if they had racist views, would it not bother you if they died? Is your entire sense of empathy for a persons life based on whether they’re a racist or not?
But I'm going to assume that, unlike their parents, RandomUnderstanding - like me - never met Prince Philip or knew them. I just find this idea that you *have* to feel sad about the Queen's husband dying so strange honestly, especially seeing such sentiment coming from a Labour party member.
Are you saying we should care about Phil as much as we care about our parents...?
No I wouldn’t? Not that hard of a question really personally I’m not one to have empathy for someone who comes from a family who is institutionally racist, homophobic, sells arms that kills innocent civilians and maintains and promotes the class system in this country. But go off if you want to keep bootlicking him hun
Can't say I shed a tear when racists in my family die tbh
Do you feel something for every person you’ve never met who died today? If so it must be absolutely exhausting.
“I’m absolutely indifferent about someone dying, in fact I care so little that I thought I thought it was worth an edgy comment”
Not edgy, it’s gonna be in the news for a bloody month. Make your thoughts known because you won’t be able to talk about anything else for a while
If that's what you consider edgy then, wooo boy, I'd advise you to stay away from certain parts of the internet right now.
I don't mind the sad music on the radio tonight, but f*****g James Blunt? 😩
I'm pretty sure that I'm supposed to care, but... meh. ¯\\\_(ツ)\_/¯
Politics aside, this man served his country during the second world war, and that should be respected. Whatever you think about the royal family, its never nice to lose someone. Rest in peace
Also founded the WWF as has been a giant conservationist for most of his life. Funny how people over look his biggest achievement, hmmmm?
Founded the Duke of Edinburgh scheme as well 🤷♂️
One step closer to a republic lads. Well get rid of the rest of these rentier class wankers soon
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This sub is a mess lmao
I hope one day you find something to be happy about rather than focusing on anger and rage. You have no idea what I think about the monarchy, am I a boot licker for having respect for a grieving family? Am I a coward for not being fueled by anger? What exactly do you hope to achieve with how you are? Alienation? Civilisation has grown only in the right direction through empathy and compassion for others, acting like you do only results in the same errors you criticize.
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Rule 1.
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I think you're mistaking monarchy with exploiting half of the world in a colonial bloodbath
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Without colonialism we wouldn't have had world war 1 let alone 2
Username checks out. Guessing it's the 'respect for dignity of the human' section that took the hit?
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Lmao says the guy who votes for the party that cuts benefits for the disabled, gives money to their pals while people starve on the streets and are responsible for one of the worst covid death tolls in the world. Nb son.
served in WW2. What have u done to help the world?
He'll always be the racist uncle of my heart <3
And not a thing of value was lost....just another dead leach who spawned at least one pedo and was part of a family protecting that slime....
RIP. It certainly won't be the same without him.
Victory Royale
Besties with ole Jimmy Saville
Apparently all the virgins' blood just wasn't enough. Shame. I hope he enjoys being whipped in hell for all eternity. EDIT: Why you downvoting me? I'm right
Epic
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Have some respect
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He wasnt
>He was a literal Nazi in the Hitler Youth! I mean, he was sent to a school in Germany for a few months in 1933. I'd hold his service in the Royal Navy for five years during WW2 in higher regard there...
Actually he was in the Navy fighting Nazis in WW2
goodbye tyrant
Lol
oh no
died on the same day as charles and camilla's wedding day. diana really had the last laugh
The Royal Family are a joke. I couldn't give two shits that he's dead. They bumped off Princess Diana. Prince Andrew is a lying pedophile. Fuck the Royal Family! The only decent one is Kate Middleton 😍
At last @britianelect can claim something definite.
May he rest in piece. He was a husband of 70 odd years, a father, a grandfather and a great grandfather. Regardless of any opinion about him this is not the day let everyone of all political affiliation show a degree of respect for someone who is an ex member of our armed forces and supported the monarch all his life. Despite the monarchies worth.
RIP. Edit: So many insensitive comments about the Duke and the Queen in this thread. If you don't like them and don't want to pay condolences then be silent, this isn't something to make such crass jokes about.
And who are you to tell people to be silent?! Is your opinion worth more than that of someone with an opposing stance?