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"Vulgar" seemed to always be a favorite adjective of the British nobility. It was vulgar to associate with the working classes or even with the bourgeoisie, unless they were your barristers or physicians. Cockney accents were assuredly vulgar as were tweed workmen's caps, folks with darker skins, and other images offensive to that upper crust, which ultimately had those "standards" reflected in the economic elites of other western societies, including the US. But the blatant vulgarity of colonialism, of the theft of resources and impoverishment of indigenous peoples never seemed to enter their vocabulary of vulgarity. To continue, in this century, to sustain any level of adulation of this group of manufactured gods seems extremely vulgar to me, in the sense that pursuing delusions of noblesse oblige in the face of all evidence to the contrary represents the ultimate vulgarity of serfdom.

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I don't really understand the Anglophone fascination with the British royal family. Certainly the British state has acted about as badly as the others, but after George III went irretrievably bonkers, it doesn't seem to me that they had much influence on Great Britain or the world. It is true a lot of them were Nazi sympathizers, but so were a lot of people back in the day, which later was carefully covered up. The actual rulers of Britain sidelined them. Subsequently they became the staples of the American supermarket press along with other vacuous celebrities and rich people, largely harmless prolefeed. Let them go.

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I can remember years ago that the Canadian $1.00 bill with the head shot of the queen

caused quite an issue. If you looked closely at the side profile of her hairdue you

could could visualize a face of the devil. Needless to say that was corrected in the

next printing. It was a good example of " the devil is in the details" :)

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I saw a nUkrainian flag, I wanted to tear it down and shred it and burn it

But it was on private property as was I and I was in fear of losing my shitty job that destroys my soul

So I had to leave the nUKraine flag there, next to the two American flags

Russia and America have the same colors in their flags

Is Russian democracy the better?

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Of course the world was cruel, unfair and arbitrary for thousands of years, so now it’s imperative to point out the obvious while ignoring the progress humanity has achieved. It must be nice to be so righteous and smug in the condemnation of lingering unfairness with the unquestioned solutions of powerful elites encouraging an idealistic band of useful idiots to help them force perfection on a deeply flawed species. What could go wrong?

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German Nobility Ruling England, What could go wrong?

Nobility Ruling the World, What could go wrong?

Once upon a Time, long long ago...... We Knew.

"............but when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism,............."

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The late queen was almost obsessively conscious of "duty" and "responsibility", which translated into support for the institution of British monarchy, which in the past was a symbol of and fetish for colonialism - until that was no longer supportable. The monarchy represents privilege and superiority, and transmits these qualities to the herd by association: it is a primitive instinct: the vicarious celebration of ourselves in a representative, in this case by heredity - however that is decided. Some find that elevating. Some find it slavish. It is certainly anachronistic.

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Brilliant. Spot on. I am sure that Chuck Der Dritte will be a huge improvement.

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Thanks again Caitlin.

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Wow, love this.

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Lebensunwertes Leben has a long history in that family. https://aish.com/queen-elizabeths-nazi-salute/

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to the point

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to the point

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I'd had enough of Lizzie's face before the recent schlockfest broke out. Here in England we'd only just got over the Platinum Jubilee OD.

Shortly before Jubilee day I met my bro and sis at a country hotel we frequent, a rambling old manor house, and as I approached the toilet (I'd had a couple of pints) a life size cardboard cut out of Her Maj confronted me. It was too much, I couldn't even go for a waz without her stalking me.

Looking furtively around to make sure nobody else was in that corner of the old pile, I took out a marker pen,, drew a speech bubble on the background and wrote: "One's just had a jolly good shit, best in years."

I just couldn't stop myself.

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Visceral and accurate

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This king needs a lot of support and there are lots of lackeys ready and willing. But I doubt it's the great majority.

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