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Sick speedrun strat

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I was happy for a second and then remembered that karma is a bad take and that he will be getting the absolute best available healthcare and even if he does die, he will be doing so having gotten to old age, in extreme luxury and in more comfort than any of us will ever experience.

I worry that if he does die soon it will only embolden royalist sentiment in this country as the grieving masses will cling on to the “young king” which the media will spin as “progressive” or whatever, and we’ll just keep getting further and further away from abolishing this disgusting establishment.

We seriously need a King Ralph type thing to happen, only the people take over, instead of a stereotypical American. Turn Buckingham palace in to a community centre with a kitchen and a shelter and childcare and a free mental health clinic, and put those gardens to actual use…

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14 points

Karma is a lie white people tell themselves so they can continue to believe there’s justice in this world.

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13 points

The same as religion, it all irritates me.

We MAKE justice happen, there is no universal cop.

Which is good because acab.

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9 points

i dont think that one comes from white people

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6 points

Karma is historically used and very insidious tool to keep the poor people poor and rich people rich.

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10 points

We seriously need a King Ralph type thing to happen

More like King Louis XVI type thing to happen

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8 points

I can understand you wanting to abolish the royal family (I do too), but I can’t understand your hatred of him personally, to actually be happy he has cancer. He doesn’t seem like a bad/evil person to me

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You don’t exterminate mosquitoes because they are evil, you get rid of them because they are parasites, unable to exist without feeding on you and your loved ones. They are disease vectors, it’s us or them.

The royal family feeds into hierarchical structures. They benefit from our subjugation. They knowingly and intentionally contribute to death and misery worldwide for their own benefit. If Charles was a decent man he’d abdicate.

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14 points

Jesus man mosquitos are just trying to live, that’s not a fair comparison for them

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So petition for the monarchy to be dismantled. Write to your MP. If there’s enough support for it maybe we can get a referendum for it. Though unfortunately I don’t think there’s yet a significant majority of the public that do want that.

I just don’t get being happy at him having cancer. That doesn’t even bring us any closer to dismantling the monarchy. But I guess you must have reasons for having more hatred for him that I’ve not been exposed to

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If sitting on a gold throne, in a gold room, riding around in your gold carriage, covered in jewels, none of which were (or ever could be) “earned”, but rather pillaged, without even knowing what a days work feels like, while the people you’re parading your “god given right” to lord over, and whose wealth you hoard privately overseas, are having to choose between heating and eating as they work 3 zero hour jobs just to survive - isn’t considered evil in your mind, it is your moral compass that is the problem, not me feeling momentary joy when a cancer gets cancer.

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He cheated on his wife, very publicly for years. Idk about your views but maintaining a mistress immediately excludes you from being a good person. Charles was a prick for a long time before he started committing to charity, conservation, social outreach programs, etc

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9 points

No disagreements about about him being a prick, but wishing cancer and even death on another person seems pretty wild to me.

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But he was only happy for a second and since they believe in karma, now they aren’t happy. Nobody said no take backs so they’re probably good.

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1 point

Fair enough!

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4 points

It’s costs too much to heat. You can build a modern structure with less money.

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Here is an alternative Piped link(s):

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King Ralph.

Now there’s a name I’ve not heard in a long time.

A long time.

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What exactly do you hate about him? Is it his stance on climate change or the Prince Trust maybe? The Royal family are an important source of culture, tourism, and soft power when the UK’s overseas influence is waning. What good to you think will come of getting rid of them?

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The Royal family are an important source of culture, tourism, and soft power

The Royal family isnt an important source of tourism.

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Palaces like Versailles and Sanssouci get millions of visitors every year without a group of racists and pedophiles around and actively in power to give it some greater meaning.

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What good to you think will come of getting rid of them?

We’d become a proper modern country where the person who represents the nation is chosen by the nation? We’d move on from a system where who’s up front simply depends on who their mum or dad were? We’d rid ourselves of a system trained with centuries of imperial exploitation, racism and subjugation? We’d open up new tourism opportunities, with the palaces and castles being available for anyone to visit, a la Versailles?

And that’s just off the top of my head.

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The UK truly is in shambles if their tourism industry and culture depend on a cabal of ghouls siphoning vast amounts of wealth from the people purely for show.

Personally, I like to think the people of the UK have a lot more to them than their vestigial rulers.

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19 points

You think no tourist will go to see the palace if the inbreeds don’t exist anymore?

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16 points

i actively want the UKs overseas influence to wane

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I’ve got a very good news for you then! Heard of Brexit?

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Feel free to educate yourself bootlicker, I’ll even start you off, but I don’t have the energy this evening to invest in someone with their head that deep up the ass of the establishment stomping an all our necks…

https://www.republic.org.uk/tourism

https://giving-evidence.com/2020/07/16/royal-findings/

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It doesn’t explain why you have so much venom. I see the royal family as British heritage. I don’t see how having a monarchy with no real power has any effect on the day to day lives of British people. Certainly not enough to explain the hate.

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66 points

Who cares about this random man having cancer?

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When he dies the UK will spend around $300 milion on his funeral and a party for his kid.

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83 points

Fuck the monarchy. Fucking parasites.

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29 points

Unelected sponges, as Bill Bailey once put it

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6 points

Will it also become a Holiday or is he not that cool?

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20 points

So brave and controversial of you to pretend he’s just a random man

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But he literally is an ordinary guy. The most consequential thing he has ever done with his life is to be born into an arbitrarily special family where he lived in luxury and prominence for no other reason than he continued existing. He is nothing more than an ordinary guy with extraordinary luck.

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Luck or not he is the king, so he’s not just a random guy. Pretending to not undeerstand that fact just to make a point adds nothing to the discussion

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So brave and controversial for you to be eating downvotes for not being in the hivemind

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3 points

Hmm…

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1 point

I care, I don’t like him and like the chance to cheer for the cancer

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It will be so funny if he takrs a sharp turn downhill and dies. Dude was famous for never getting a chance to be king and then to go out so quickly would be * chef’s kiss *

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Oh his death bed “but mummy I want to be king!”

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It is nevertheless another human you are talking about.

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Do you think they have any compassion for the random proles like us? Like they could divest themselves of wealth to help people, and just live luxurious lives instead of gold flakes in food lives.

I think any human being with enough compassion to deserve treatment as anything more than a hostile enemy would do that

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I think they’d have compassion enough to not laugh at somebody’s cancer diagnosis, yes.

I’m all for disliking the institution. Doesn’t mean I think he deserves to have cancer or it would be funny if he died.

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4 points

Barely.

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Nah.

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Imagine anyone saying that about one of your family members.

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12 points

It’s okay to wish bad things happen to a monarch billionaire landlord, actually. It’s good and rad.

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If I ever have a golden piano while someone on the planet goes cold and hungry at night you can draw and quarter me.

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I’m rich! See ya later suckers, I’m subscribing to Lemmy Deluxe Edition!

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it’s okay if my family members die shortly after becoming king of england

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I love the people in here standing up for him lol. An absolute fuckton of people die every day. Basically every moment has human death in it. No one defending him cares a single wit about them, but they’ll get wound up over this old man dying of something many many people die of daily.

Considering everything that’s come out about the royal family, I can’t find a single care in me for him. I feel more for the countless faceless strangers dying worse deaths. This old pampered fuck will die well in comparison. He doesn’t need any sympathy from me.

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you don’t have to be a royalist to feel empathy for someone with cancer…

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I’ll save my empathy for cancer patients who don’t have his history.

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Saved for the people who’s losing the NHS while the royal family have doctors 24/7, paid by tge taxpayers, ready for them.

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Again, empathy isn’t a limited supply

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12 points

Damn straight. Eat the rich and royalty.

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Sympathy can be found between shit and syphilis in the dictionary

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He’s got a cool hat. He doesn’t wear it much, but he has it. That’s what matters.

Nothing is cool about this fucking family

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