I feel like there's a fundamental psychological difference between people who've killed something at least as large as a fish, and people who have either only killed bugs, or nothing whatsoever. I know that I changed when I kept my first fish when I went fishing. Learned a hard lesson that day. If you're killing something because you have to, with no emotional reason behind it, you have an obligation to kill it painlessly... and the best way to do that is with one hard, merciless blow. Only such a merciless attack can be properly merciful for such a task. Otherwise, its pain is prolonged.
Can't believe Charles was Di's husband. He looks like he's Elizabeth's husband, not her son
On Monday night in South London, armed police trapped a black man named Chris Kaba inside a car and executed him through the windshield. He was 24 years old. Today, a protest march demanding justice for his murder was broadcast on Sky News, who reframed it as a moving tribute to the queen by thousands of grieving subjects.
Some of the lowest, most despicable shit I've ever seen from the British media and believe me when I say I've some depraved stuff in the past.
“They’re not cancelling chemo appointments for the queens funeral, they’re just rearranging them for another date”
Ah yes, cancer, the disease that’s famously known for not being highly time sensitive
I want to make a post about the situation in Sweden so that people know what's going on. I know everyone is talking about the queen dying and how that will destroy the UK financially and the like, and it was 9/11, but.
The election here was yesterday and the preliminary results indicate that our second biggest party, SverigeDemokraterna, one rooted in nazism and fascism, will have a lot of influence over the country the next 4 years. They're one of Europe's biggest extreme right parties and the biggest in the world to be nazis through and through.
Things are going to be hell for racial minorities, immigrants, refugees, disabled folks, Muslims, Jews, the LGBTQ+ (especially trans), women and people/families with low income.
I'm not going to lie, I'm terrified. I'm exhausted. I've stayed up well past midnight on weekdays trying to get people to vote left and to make as much noise and make it known what the conservatives are doing to us and to get more engaged politically.
But I'm working against the grain here, what with our newstations and general media gave SverigeDemokraterna so much attention (positive and negative). Plus, the other traditionally conservative parties also rallied HARD for them, to the point that they got bigger than them.
This won't mean I'll give up and cower, I can't afford that. But it means that things are terrifying for those of us who are especially racial minorities. Because the nazis will get inspired by the results to get more active out there and cause so much damage.
Sweden has excellent PR. You wouldn't know these things because they make sure to seem like a small and peaceful country that is the posterchild for equality. But it's far from it. And It's only going downhill from here. I could list all of the truly heinous things that have been going on here the past few years but we would be here forever.
What I want to say though, is that Sweden has a truly revolting racism problem. Maybe not to the extent of the US, but it's not good. We were the forefathers of race biology after all. And that has ultimately paved the road for this election result.
If you see this, please reblog and share. More people deserve to know the truth about the state of this country.
i think it's so insulting that an entire country shuts down for the death of the queen and the royal family gets time to mourn and do all of these traditional rituals meanwhile for normal people we have to live in a society where death and life is something that isn't valued, and none of us get time to greive or mourn in our own lives or process things the way we were intended to, surrounded and supported by a community who cares about us. but people are supposed to go through the motions so that these ghouls get to grieve in a way that no normal person in the UK or anywhere else for that matter will never be able to have
Scotland should declare independence real quick, while they’re not looking
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Bastard of the world (affectionate)
What’s wild to me is how completely all European media are committed to pretending that everybody loved the fucking queen. Every colonized country has some variation of a ‘fuck yeah the bitch is dead’ hashtag trending on social media, a whole stadium in Dublin gleefully chanted ‘Lizzy’s in a box’, there are clearly a massive amount of people celebrating…. and it seems like not a single media outlet seems to think that’s an interesting thing to write about. Not even in a shitty moralizing way. They usually looove generating outrage clicks but now? They just collectively decide it doesn’t exist and shouldn’t be acknowledged in any way. I found one article in an Irish newspaper, nothing anywhere else.
6 days in and today a Dutch media outlet finally broke the mold! Nu.nl, which is one of the largest free online news platforms in the Netherlands (and isn’t known for being particularly progressive or critical) published this:
Elizabeth II was onlosmakelijk verbonden met Britse koloniale misdaden. https://www.nu.nl/buitenland/6223718/elizabeth-ii-was-onlosmakelijk-verbonden-met-britse-koloniale-misdaden.html
Here’s the whole piece in English for you. Not because it’s the best, but because I am so amazed to see this in the mainstream media after all the obligatory mourning bullshit:
Elizabeth II was inextricably linked to British colonial crimes
The death of Elizabeth II has rekindled the discussion in many countries about the British colonial past. During the Queen’s 70 years on the throne, some 20 British colonies gained independence. But critics say the British monarch has never actively cooperated in the freedom of those oppressed countries.
“We do not mourn the death of Elizabeth.” is how the South African opposition party EFF reacted to the death of the British Queen. “She never admitted during her reign that the United Kingdom committed colonial atrocities.”
“The Queen has been instrumental in covering up the bloody history of British decolonization.” So said historian and Harvard professor Maya Jasanoff in The New York Times. “How big that history is, we have yet to discover.”
During Elizabeth’s years on the throne, the British brutally crushed an uprising by the Kenyan anti-colonial Mau Mau movement. Some 11,000 insurgents were killed in the former British colony between 1952 and 1960. Some were brutally tortured. In 2013, about five thousand Kenyan claimants received compensation totaling more than 20 million euros.
33 Cypriot victims also received compensation from the British in 2019. Between 1955 and 1959 they were tortured on the Mediterranean island, which became independent in 1960.
British destroyed documents about colonial crimes. We may never know all the crimes the British committed in 37 colonies in Africa, Asia and the Caribbean. The former colonizers destroyed thousands of documents reporting slavery, racism, executions without trial and torture. This was done to cover up the misdeeds and protect the reputation of the government and the Queen, The Guardian revealed in 2012.
What Elizabeth discussed weekly with the British Prime Minister about foreign policy is also not public. What is certain is that the British monarch has never clearly spoken out against colonialism in public. She didn’t get much further than “we can’t turn back the past”.
For many, Elizabeth II was a symbol of colonial oppression Elizabeth II stood symbolically at the head of the Commonwealth until her death. This is a voluntary partnership of 54 mainly former British colonies, including Canada, Australia, India, Nigeria, Pakistan and New Zealand.
In reality, the British founded the Commonwealth to retain as much influence as possible over the former colonies. They would still need guidance from the ‘more developed’ United Kingdom.
The British queen had no real political power. “But she did embody her country’s colonial policies on all her travels,” said journalist and former foreign correspondent Howard W. French. “She never criticized that.”
Mixed feelings among Commonwealth residents Many Commonwealth residents have mixed feelings in response to the death of Britain’s longest-serving monarch in history. “Bad things happened here because of the queen,” a resident of the former colony of Jamaica told the Jeugdjournaal.
“She never said sorry,” a compatriot chimed in about the former British colonizer. “And I don’t think it will get any better with Elizabeth’s son and successor Charles.”
can’t believe I’m only now finding out that hiro suzuhira redrew her anime goth girl in 2020 after finding out how iconic she is in the west
