Royal Fuckup

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• Gradually_Adjusting@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I’ve literally never heard any human being praise or admire royalty, aside from Diana.

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  • lime@feddit.nu ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    what about the knig of sweden?

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    • meekah@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Knigge was German

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• skullgiver@popplesburger.hilciferous.nl ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I don’t think most Europeans would think their royals are classy at all. Even if we stripped them of their power now they’d just be rich people living in large houses their family could already afford anyway. They’re basically government pawns we keep around for tradition and to make deals with vain foreign leaders. China does something similar, but they used pandas. If you’re a good little friend of the totalitarians, you get to have a panda in your zoo.

  You think the leaders of shit holes are going to be interested in presidents? Nah, they meet presidents every day. If you want to placate them, you take our the big guns. You go “Who’s a big boy president? That’s right, it’s you! You can have a sleepover in a real palace just like in the Disney movies! Everyone thinks you’re such an important big boy!” These leaders aren’t rational-thinking, they’re coming from (sub)cultures where displays of wealth and status mean something, and I bet nothing makes a vain guy happier than to say they made a king entertain them. They feel like they’re such big shits pushing around our stage puppets.

  You’d think those foreign leaders would feel belittled but sending royalty to shitholes works great, politically. The national news broadcaster has this trick where they’re officially “royal Dutch news” (because of weird laws, you don’t need to be related to royalty in any way to be granted that title as a company) and yelling “royal Dutch news” instead of “Dutch news” when trying to ask questions actually works. Even in countries with presidents. It’s extremely stupid but it’s been proven to work.

  I don’t think the royals are anything special but I also don’t think the political circus around electing a president and the endless drama that follows will be any cheaper (or better, for that matter). With the way things are going in this country, I’ll take King Wimlex over President Wilders, thank you very much.

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  • SkunkWorkz@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

    Also Trump was super delighted that he could sleep in a Dutch palace. The charm offensive on him worked since he wasn’t as belligerent at the NATO summit as he normally is.

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• SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Americans: Our system is the best because we don’t have royalty, we have a President instead!

  American President: Plating his palace with gold and being completely above the law.

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  • amorangi@lemmy.nz ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    The American king is far more absolute than any European king.

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• lime@feddit.nu ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  honorable mention: princess märtha louise of norway is a clairvoyant married to an american conspiracy theorist.

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  • Almonds@mander.xyz ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Well, his Wikipedia article is horrifying

    He asserts that casual sex attracts subterranean spirits that make an impression on the inside of women’s vaginas and offers exercises to “clean out” said vaginas; he writes that children get cancer because they want it;

    I hope her first husband kept their daughters away from him

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    • BillyCrystalMeth@slrpnk.net ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      First husband took his own life, so there’s that

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    • Jax@sh.itjust.works ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      There’s a whole lot of words there that I do not like

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  • anachronist@midwest.social ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Reading about this family just reminds me of this:

    Image

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• neidu3@sh.itjust.works ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Just for the record: He’s not royalty

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  • _AutumnMoon_@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    If I somehow get control of any kingdom in Europe, he will be.

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• atlien51@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Bro is about to shoot his own coffee mug

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• Nalivai@lemmy.world ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Nobody’s saying that our royals are classy, except themselves, their paid weirdos, and, weirdly enough, americans.

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  • thisbenzingring@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    idiot americans worship money and think being royalty means being loaded

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• Dogiedog64@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  What a fucken dork lmfao

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• AstralPath@lemmy.ca ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Who is this?

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  • lime@feddit.nu ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    the son of the crown princess of norway. she had him before she was married to the crown prince so he’s not an official part of the royal family, but he’s a major pain in their ass anyway.

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  • anachronist@midwest.social ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Son of the Norwegian crown prince. You’ll be unsuprised to learn that he stands accused of many sexual assaults.

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    • lime@feddit.nu ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      crown princess*. he’s the “bonus prince” because she had him before she married the prince.

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    • cosmicrookie@lemmy.world ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      He is not royal. His mother married a royal

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• WoodScientist@sh.itjust.works ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Being a royal of any kind is a crime against humanity. The French and the Bolsheviks knew the right way to treat monarchs. Every last one of them deserves to have their head rolled into a basket.

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  • CXORA@aussie.zone ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Sure, but they’re on the way out. Get rid of the billionaires a d the most problematic royals will be caught up in that as well.

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  • cosmicrookie@lemmy.world ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Chill… Royals aren’t what they used to be. They are more like well paid circus clowns than power tripping maniacs now.

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    • 5714@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      royalist nonsense

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    • WoodScientist@sh.itjust.works ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Constitutional monarchs are even worse. They’re slimy, mincing predators, scavengers sitting on the sidelines.

      Modern royals remember the power their ancestors have, and they yearn for that power back. They play pretend that they’re happy being ceremonial monarchs. But really, they’re just biding their time. Monarchies are used to thinking in centuries. So they sit there, waiting on the sidelines, waiting for some crisis of democracy, something that causes people to lose faith in the system. Then they’ll step in and reclaim real power. They’re a bunch of mincing pedophiles just waiting for someone to lose sight of their kid.

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• edgemaster72@lemmy.world ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Thought the gun was a squirt gun connected to the (wine? champagne? w/e) bottle, now that would’ve been classy

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• enthusiasticamoeba@lemmy.ml ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  It looks like he wanted a big chest piece but chickened out after the lining and never went back to get it finished.

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• solsangraal@lemmy.zip ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  is that really a “mom” tattoo? i guess might as well if you’re going the sick ass panther route

  also is that an airsoft gun? and is he drinking champagne in a coffee cup?

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  • _AutumnMoon_@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    It’s a royal thing, clearly us peasants won’t get it

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  • vala@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Literally every tattoo he has is generic as hell lmao.

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• dastanktal@lemmy.ml ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Terrible Trigger Discipline but that looks like it’s a BB gun…

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  • shalafi@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Pretty sure my .22s have a larger bore, and I have a shitload.

    Funny story:

    Black dude runs up in the local redneck bar and starts waving a BB pistol around. “You’re money and your jewelry!”, kinda talk. People were like, whatever dude, that’s a BB gun. “I’m fucking serious!” One the guys playing pool walked up behind him and clocked him over the skull with the blunt end of a pool stick. Fin.

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• SatansMaggotyCumFart@lemmy.world ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I hear he has lots of sex.

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• motor_spirit@lemmy.world ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Helen Keller would produce better quality tats but at least he leans into his trash identity enough to identify from a distance

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