The summary of some texts between me and a family member
"OMG Are you watching the Platinum Jubilee it had Paddington Bear!!!11!! :so-true: "
“Nah, not a fan of Royalty”
“OMG WHY DO YOU HATE FUN SO MUCH?! IT’S A NICE CELEBRATION!”
Am I being the dick here for finding the whole Jubilee thing kind of gross to celebrate an empire built on slavery and conquest?
Am I being the dick here
Considering Lizzy was the queen while the British military was torturing Kenyans in detention camps, I don’t think so
Literally none of the teachers in my school are pro jubilee, except the management. We’re all being roped into shit, and just doing the bare minimum. The kids 100% couldn’t give a fuck. From where I’m standing, you seem like the norm, not the exception.
Just making sure, you live somewhere under the crown, right? Cause it’s weird enough either way but if you lived in the states that would drive me insane.
Royalists don’t even like the queen they just want to be the sort of person that likes the queen.
Royalists like the fairy tale version of the queen. They want to believe the hagiographies of the official propaganda, they don’t want to engage with the reality of the royal family being a bigoted bunch of oligarchs, leeching off the hard work of proletarians. They don’t want to hear about how non-whites couldn’t hold non-manual jobs at Buckingham palace, how the royals have intervened politically to prevent their huge unearned wealth from being taxed or about the crimes of the sweatless creep Andrew, prince of nonces.
They also don’t like to think about the class structure of the monarchy, how all the people invited to the fancy dinners comes from the upper echelons of society, while common people only get to wave and cheer as the royals do their act.
the thing is just to look at the queen is to get some sense that she’s a nasty and surprisingly bitter woman.
she’s such a difficult person to like that the attempt to like her on a personal level requires self deception
Does British royalists also have this thing where they demand that you admire the royals, even though you are against the monarchy as an institution? Like “But you have to admit that the queen is doing it really, really well” said in a tone so insistently that it almost becomes menacing?
cant wait for scotland and sinn fein to cut that country in fuckin half
