you have no idea how much i would love my mom to stop watching, rewinding, and rewatching this footage but she does, as you said, treat this as some adorable little spectacle
LMFAO THE SECOND I GOT YOUR REPLY she said "OH SHIT I MISSED THE KISS *rewinds" i can't even i mean i'm over here and this stuff doesn't affect me directly so my agitation is only that i can't watch what i want until 3pm which is peanuts but i will empathize with your rage because it is all very...silly and a bit too much esp since this kind of stuff is taken out of your tax dollars isn't it???
well, tax pounds sterling, since we do not have dollars here, but more or less apparently the ~happy couple~'s families are like PAYING FOR THIS THEMSELVES YOU GUYS but the entire reason the prince's family HAS so much money to begin with is that they receive money from taxes and have been doing so for years soooo
I mean like, okay, I'm an American and thus feel like it isn't really my business to have an opinion on what is or is not appropriate for your country and whatever but I feel totally entitled to have an opinion about all my fellow country-things flailing around about it.
It makes me clutch my head and go hey hey heyhey remember how we didn't want a monarchy remember how we thought that was a bad plan remember that remember REMEMBER
I mean i CAN fathom it because its like ohhh princes and princesses fairy tale palace crowns aren't corgis adorable FUCK YOU but I don't understand how anyone can like actually think about it for five seconds and not see that what the hell, MONARCHY IS BAD
Weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeell. Corgis are pretty adorable. BUT THEY WOULD BE ADORABLE REGARDLESS OF WHETHER THEY CAME WITH A QUEEN OR NOT SO I THINK I'LL JUST TAKE THE DOGS THANKS.
I saw all that WTFery go down on Shakesville and now I'm seriously thinking about stopping my regular donation because, seriously, since when did punching down at someone else's country's problems become acceptable around there?
I gave up on Shakesville a long time ago for exactly this reason. Liss is unwilling to engage in anyone pointing out her own blindspots and privileges, and has surrounded herself with people who will back her up in that without ever stopping to consider the fact that she is wrong. See also: Shakesville's obit for Mary Daly and this post.
I'd heard about the Mary Daly fuckery but the latter one was news to me and kind of reassuring to read, because, I mean, by now I'm just like GRRRR about the whole thing but yesterday I was really like shit, what, did I do something really wrong, and I couldn't work out what @_@
This. So very much this. It's like those damn Celebutaunts, only government funded! *pulls out hair*
You know what would amuse the living hell out of me? Have them live on the same kind of wages and benefits anyone else without an actual job would, or the wages whatever jobs they have normally give.
Admittedly, as an American I have a nice big layer of Ocean and Culture between me and all this nonsense.
(apologies for any incoherency, I just got off work and am about to go to bed)
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why the fuck would you even
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I GOT YOUR REPLY
she said "OH SHIT I MISSED THE KISS *rewinds"
i can't even
i mean i'm over here and this stuff doesn't affect me directly so my agitation is only that i can't watch what i want until 3pm which is peanuts but i will empathize with your rage because it is all very...silly and a bit too much
esp since this kind of stuff is taken out of your tax dollars isn't it???
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well, tax pounds sterling, since we do not have dollars here, but more or less
apparently the ~happy couple~'s families are like PAYING FOR THIS THEMSELVES YOU GUYS but the entire reason the prince's family HAS so much money to begin with is that they receive money from taxes and have been doing so for years
soooo
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It makes me clutch my head and go
hey
hey
heyhey
remember how we didn't want a monarchy
remember how we thought that was a bad plan
remember that
remember
REMEMBER
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I mean i CAN fathom it because its like ohhh princes and princesses fairy tale palace crowns aren't corgis adorable FUCK YOU but I don't understand how anyone can like actually think about it for five seconds and not see that what the hell, MONARCHY IS BAD
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Just. Ugh.
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I saw all that WTFery go down on Shakesville and now I'm seriously thinking about stopping my regular donation because, seriously, since when did punching down at someone else's country's problems become acceptable around there?
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I am so pissed off at Shakesville rn >:T
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bleaaahhhh
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You know what would amuse the living hell out of me? Have them live on the same kind of wages and benefits anyone else without an actual job would, or the wages whatever jobs they have normally give.
Admittedly, as an American I have a nice big layer of Ocean and Culture between me and all this nonsense.
(apologies for any incoherency, I just got off work and am about to go to bed)
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