• @kandoh@reddthat.com
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    591 year ago

    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 *

      • 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

        • @sunbeam60@lemmy.one
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          01 year ago

          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.

          • He literally chooses every single day to actively ignore the plight of the people he claims to rule. He does nothing

            Every single day he actively chooses to ignore suffering, probably even cracks jokes about it, while actively working to preserve his enormous privilege and protect his kin from facing consequences for their heinous actions. He stands at the head of an institution of violence, racism, cruelty, and exploitation and every single moment of his life he chooses to side with that over any earnest attempt to redeem their reputation.

            The entire justification for their privilege is so insane it makes phrenology look respectable.

            He is horrible, he could help so many people with a few words and the equivalent of pocket change but he chooses not to for fear of starting a process that ends with him living as one of the ordinary citizens he claims to protect. It’s fucking bananas that you think there is some moral reasons to extend civility to such a monsterous person.

              • It’s not brave or noble to police expressions of anger at oppressors it’s just foolish. It won’t make society better, civility is just a tool the powerful use to enforce the status quo.

                He chooses to let someone starve over feeding them, this is fine a civil behavior. I call him a fucking cunt for doing that and wish death upon him and this is uncivil behaviour and I lack compassion? nonsense, it is compassion that fills me with rage.

    • Pyr
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      71 year ago

      And least he got to be king first :P

      I haven’t seen any new coins yet with his face on it. It may be the shortest run of coins with a new face. I’ve had the same face on my coins for my entire life, these will be the first with a new one.

      • Flax
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        21 year ago

        Shortest run was probably Edward VIII. My dad found a coin with Charles’s face on it. I also bought a few commemoratives. I think it’ll probably start appearing on £1 coins soon as they are the newest

      • Flax
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        31 year ago

        I mean, it did bring more money into the economy than it took out of it, same with Queen Elizabeth II’s funeral, so we could profit off of this

      • @Blackmist@feddit.uk
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        51 year ago

        Don’t knock it, we get a day off when they die and a day off when we get a new one.

        Sometimes we get a day off when they’ve been on the throne for a set number of years.

        So for that reason I’d like to keep them.

        Give us two extra bank holidays a year, and you can King Ralph all these motherfuckers.

  • @nbailey@lemmy.ca
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    171 year ago

    I just got my first Chucky Buck this weekend, we can’t switch to a new currency this quickly! Our economy is in shambles!

    • @BeardedGingerWonder@feddit.uk
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      See mate, the mint make a profit on money, do you think it costs £50 to run off one of them little plastic things.

      Edit: just realised you were one of our dear Canadian brethren. See hoser, the Canadian mint make a profit on money, you think it costs a loonie to strike of them little metal things?

  • Laura
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    401 year ago

    oh no anyway

    but in all seriousness I hope he dies that guy is a piece of shit

    • @Xer0@lemmy.ml
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      -101 year ago

      When I signed up here, I genuinely thought this place was going to be better than Reddit. Seeing the difference in comments here and on Reddit for this exact same piece of news, just made me realise that this place is a piece of shit with absolutely zero empathy for anyone.

      • FALGSConaut [comrade/them]
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        241 year ago

        Imagine pearl clutching for some ancient inbred royal dipshit. Literal medieval peasant brain. “Oh no won’t someone think of the million year old pervert who lived a long life full of luxury one can barely begin to comprehend” Fuck him, fuck his whole family, I hope every single royal gets aggressive untreatable cancer, that’s better than they deserve.

        TL,DR: dennis I didn’t vote for him!

          • FALGSConaut [comrade/them]
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            71 year ago

            Mainly confused and surprised someone would support a monarch in the 21st century. You don’t even have the excuse that the queen has been in charge for your whole life so you feel obligated to support her out of a misplaced sense of loyalty or something. Some ancient failson gets to sit in a golden chair and you can’t lick his boots fast enough. It’s pathetic, you aren’t even worshiping someone who can claim they got to where they are on personal merit, he just had to wait for his mom to die and he almost couldn’t even do that! Monarchy is such a farce, I’d be embarrassed to support that shit

      • T (they/she)
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        01 year ago

        I understand your frustration but I fail to understand why the need of empathy for a monarch of all people

      • 7bicycles [he/him]
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        191 year ago

        made me realise that this place is a piece of shit with absolutely zero empathy for anyone.

        Is every person the king of england or how do you get to this conclusion?

      • @LaLuzDelSol@lemmy.world
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        Nah its just a leftist echo chamber. They have sympathy for the working class, but are very prejudiced against the wealthy. Personally, I would guess Charles is a decent human being, like most people. Im sure hes done some shitty things over the course of a long and extremely public life, but pretty much everyone has. I disagree with the concept of royalty but that doesn’t mean I want all monarchs to drop dead. Not a lot of nuance on Lemmy.

      • @purahna@lemmygrad.ml
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        161 year ago

        give us one singular solitary good reason we should have empathy for this decrepit, cheating, silver spoon mouthed, tax leeching, sex pest, waste of money and attention

        • @Xer0@lemmy.ml
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          11 year ago

          Reading is hard apparently. I said the difference in comments between here and reddit, meaning what I saw over there was NOT people wishing for his death.

      • aaaaaaadjsf [he/him, comrade/them]
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        251 year ago

        The redditors got it right for once?

        Why would you have empathy for monarchs? It’s the ultimate form of nepotism, believing that they can rule an entire country because of their bloodline. If they don’t abdicate the throne and dissolve the institution, they don’t deserve respect.

        • @Xer0@lemmy.ml
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          31 year ago

          The redditors didn’t agree with wishing death upon the man, no. It was the exact opposite from what I saw.

      • WittyProfileName2 [she/her]
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        181 year ago

        No one voted for the wanker, but we still have to pay to keep him and his incestous kin in riches while our fellow countrymen starve in the street.

        He wants pity, he should abandon this hereditary rule bullshit and take all those unelected peers up in parliament with him back to the medieval age where they belong.

      • Thordros [he/him, comrade/them]
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        “Could it be that the zero empathy is because the man is reviled globally for good reasons?”

        “No, it’s the colonized who are wrong.”

      • ShimmeringKoi [comrade/them]
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        111 year ago

        Not so, we have plenty of empathy for those who actually deserve it.

        Palestine will be free, long live the PFLP, long live Ansar Allah, full support to the DPRK in it’s quest to free their southern siblings from beneath the heel of the genocidal American empire.

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    So, Harry is next in line, right?

    /s

    I’m just fucking.

  • @AeonFelis@lemmy.world
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    121 year ago

    Could this new development mean that it is possible that his reign may not be a bit shorter than his mother’s?

    • @systemguy_64@lemmy.world
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      31 year ago

      I dunno if we want to see a 142 year old Charles. We saw how decrepit Phillip looked by the 2000s, and then in 2021. Imagine what another 40 years will do on top of that.

  • @Phegan@lemmy.world
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    141 year ago

    It’s a bummer that his reign may not last long enough for the British to decide that maybe a king is a bad idea.

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        Maybe you should go wash your mouth after all the bootlicking.

        The guy was born into an anachronistic system where he has had absolute privilege and his family indulged in political interference (a lot to their own benefit) despite claiming to just be impartial figureheads.

        Last summer a football player had to campaign to keep free school meals going through the summer so millions of kids in poverty could fucking eat.

        So what if some privilege cunt has arse cancer?

        • @Xer0@lemmy.ml
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          11 year ago

          born into Key piece of info here. Not like he had a choice, was there?

        • @HandBreadedTools@lemmy.world
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          11 year ago

          Lmfao apparently it’s “bootlicking” to point out a criminally online take. I, for one, don’t think people should be judged based on circumstances out of their control, like where or when they were born. There are plenty of reasons to dislike the dude, like no really there are so god damn many, but him being born into it is not one of them.

          I’m not even saying you shouldn’t be pleased to see his death, just that making jokes about the suffering that occurs from cancer is a take so distant from reality of course you’ll only see it online. If you are genuinely pleased by hearing about someone’s cancer diagnosis, you should really do some self evaluation.

          If you think him dying from that will purge the UK of the monarchy, I have a bridge to sell you. There are actual things you could do to help end it, the original comment I replied to isn’t one.

    • I have… I have also bribed the cancer, and I have also started to write the chant. I am thinking of doing a remix of the catchy Lizzie’s in a box with a Charley’s in a box but leaving the rest the same. I also think once he is gone the guy who got banned from having eggs in public in the UK should be allowed to have eggs agian.

        • To summarize, a man Patrik Thelwell threw an egg in the general direction of Charley, the court ordered a 500 m restraining order (I will agree perfectly reasonable) from Charles and his wife, and the other is he is banned from publicly possessing eggs. That was late 2022, early 2023 he was arrested on suspicion carrying eggs. They also alegedly have counter terrorism following them.

          I understand that all in all this is quaint considering what the US would do if for example eggs where thrown in the direction of Joe Biden, Offically the sentence was a year of community service (along with the no eggs and restraining order) but it still seems beyond rediculous. and I would say what the US would do is incredably extreme. The restraining order and Community service would have been sufficent

  • LanternEverywhere
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    Prostate cancer is very common, very survivable, and very easily treatable. It’s a serious health problem, but he’s almost definitely gonna be fine

    Me fail reading comprehension. The article says it’s NOT prostate cancer