coeliacmccarthy [he/him]@hexbear.net to chapotraphouse@hexbear.netEnglish · edit-211 months agocontinually discovering new reasons why the UK is the worst country in the worldhexbear.netimagemessage-square47fedilinkarrow-up1176arrow-down10file-text
arrow-up1176arrow-down1imagecontinually discovering new reasons why the UK is the worst country in the worldhexbear.netcoeliacmccarthy [he/him]@hexbear.net to chapotraphouse@hexbear.netEnglish · edit-211 months agomessage-square47fedilinkfile-text
minus-squareUlyssesT [he/him]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up57·11 months agoWhy does the UK have a special caste of born special people that have special government protections simply because they were born special? 👑
minus-squaresupafuzz [comrade/them]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up50·11 months agoCromwell’s failure to plan appropriately for succession and a general disappointing lack of follow-through
minus-squareUlyssesT [he/him]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up46·11 months agoAs a naive liberal decades ago I used to wonder why the Romanovs were targeted all the way up and down the family tree. It seemed excessive.
minus-squaresupafuzz [comrade/them]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up44·11 months agowhen you’re pulling weeds you have to get the whole root
minus-squareTeekeeus [comrade/them]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9·edit-211 months agoOr give them the puyi treatment
minus-squareFrank [he/him, he/him]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·11 months agoActually Cromwell was a genocidal fucking psychopath, and fuck him and his entire movement.
minus-squaresupafuzz [comrade/them]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·11 months agothe question wasn’t “was Cromwell a good guy” it was “why does the UK still have a monarchy”
minus-squareFrank [he/him, he/him]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·11 months agoFair enough. I misread the initial question.
Why does the UK have a special caste of born special people that have special government protections simply because they were born special? 👑
Cromwell’s failure to plan appropriately for succession and a general disappointing lack of follow-through
As a naive liberal decades ago I used to wonder why the Romanovs were targeted all the way up and down the family tree. It seemed excessive.
when you’re pulling weeds you have to get the whole root
Or give them the puyi treatment
Actually Cromwell was a genocidal fucking psychopath, and fuck him and his entire movement.
the question wasn’t “was Cromwell a good guy” it was “why does the UK still have a monarchy”
Fair enough. I misread the initial question.