ilx ranks the royals

in a just society, they'd all feel the steely kiss of the guillotine on their napes, but voting for textbook failson prince andrew for exemplifying everything that's wrong with monarchy (idiocy, incompetence, friendship with jeffrey epstein etc)

Megan Markle 🇺🇸

Not voting due to the lack of a 'Maximilien François Marie Isidore de Robespierre' option.

fucksake treesh her name is 'meghan' show some respect

Definitely Camilla.

Though Philip did kill Diana, and that's obviously a plus point.

who are these mutants that can tell beatrice and eugenie apart, let alone rank one of them above the other

Prince Harry only won because people mixed him up with King Krule.

Also Nazis are popular right now.

an appreciation for national socialism is a proud familt tradition iirc

I once saw Beatrice absolutely off her face on an East London rooftop after an early morning Ricardo Villalobos set so she's above Eugenie for me.

Meghan seems like a generally decent person. Certainly none of the ones who were born into it.

surely the ones who have married into it are more culpable

Exterminate the brutes

You’d want to be a princess too

And marry a balding ginger Nazi? No thanks.

Technically Harry's got no blood connection to the Windsors so

lol i was gonna say

violent and bloodthirsty regicide: underrated or absolutely fucking great!

Must admit in my mellow old age I'm more of a move them into a council house and give them minimum wage jobs kinda guy

Loving the fact that, by the time he becomes King, William will be an 70 year old crank and crackpot hated by everyone, just like his Dad.

When you become a Canadian citizen, you're required to swear fealty to the Queen of England. I was thankfully underage when it happened, so I was exempted from this unspeakable act, which is all the more abominable when it occurs in Quebec.

So you've got Charles lasting until the age of, what, 110?

Why not, the bastards seem to be lasting longer and longer.

Long-lived family, never worked a day in his life, seems plausible

don't forget Phillip is planning to move his immortal soul into one of the ugly fucking bairns, via some occult blood ritual, so he'll be 220 when he dies next.

Hoping for a long and exhausting Charles reign to help move the needle towards republicanism in Canada.

kinda hoping charles ascends to the throne then dies the next day

y’know, for the lulz

also, two closely-spaced royal deaths would be Extremely Good imo

have these people done anything bad enough to warrant wishing death on them? i know lenin killed royals but not everything he did is to be emulated.

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just need a couple of these fuckers to get in the same helicopter more often.

lol @ emulating Lenin!

https://c1.staticflickr.com/4/3809/8964959055_714ed4b3a6.jpg

I'm not sure we can give Lenin all the credit for that one tbf.

he certainly didn't invent the game!

who is the steely dan of royals?

who ordered louis xvi executed? it was before robespierre

Princess Anne - but only because she seems to have a misplaced affinity for us Scots and is a good patron of the national rugby team.

The rest of the mob only conjure treasonous thoughts for me. Charles def the worst.

steely Anne - makes sense

Votin'for the American interloper on principle.

I think people wish death on them because monarchs tend not to go away if you just ask them nicely Treesh

who ordered louis xvi executed? it was before Robespierre

No, it wasn't. Robespierre was the one who said, "Louis must die so France can live" - or something like that - though he was jumping on Saint-Just's bandwagon to some extent. Also Robespierre made sure he let everyone know that he'd opposed the death penalty when everyone else was for it, he was in favour of it for Louis but not some poor wretch who'd stolen a chicken or whatever.

It was before the Committee of Public Safety and all that, but Robespierre was definitely instrumental in offing Louis Capet.

alright so this is appropriate then

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DchfNh_WkAEPMBF.jpg

have these people done anything bad enough to warrant wishing death on them?

I think people wish death on them because monarchs tend not to go away if you just ask them nicely

this is a good answer imo

yeah, what noodle said

aren't they just like kardashians now basically? they don't have any power. i know taxes support the monarchy but they also support amazon.

I'm not, by birth, a subject of the Kardashians and their offspring. Not yet anyway.

I mean we should also murder amazon xp

fair

the kardashians weren’t appointed by divine right either fwiw

have these people done anything bad enough to warrant wishing death on them? i know lenin killed royals but not everything he did is to be emulated.

― Trϵϵship, Wednesday, November 14, 2018 5:32 PM (thirty-four minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

most of the current british royals seem like exceptionally spoiled and shitty ppl, to the point where i don't think i could really find someone to vote for in this poll. whereas when i read about the last romanov family, i always find myself feeling quite sympathetic for them. at any rate even if you think the tsar deserved a trial and execution i can't imagine anyone but the most lunatic tankie would cheer on the brutal massacre of young alexei and anastasia, etc., not to mention their servants and their *dogs* for fuck's sake.

And their elephant iirc.

Tbf they shouldn't have cowered behind it

The crossover in trajectories of Andrew and Mark Thatcher is quite interesting - squalid, grasping, scruple-free arms hawkers perpetually in awe of other more openly corrupt princlings and scions.

no one can reign innocently

OK so that was Saint-Just, that's the speech that got Robespierre all a-flutter.

I certainly agree that given the extremely limited amount of power the UK royals currently wields, indiscriminate murder hardly seems like a proportional response.

it’d be very discriminate murder imo

Yeah, we could just wing Harry and the in-laws

Pippa Middleton goes for a run in West London and distracts other runners with her bum

she's not even a royal though. surely she will be spared ilx's cruel revolution.

George Brett
Saberhagen
Bo Jackson
Quizenberry
Eric Hosmer

along with all other royal-adjacent figures, pippa will be given the opportunity to answer a thorough multiple-choice questionnaire to determine her ideological purity after the revolution occurs

no respect for steve balboni

i'm pardoning her

and meghan markle because she is american

no respect for steve balboni

Balboni's pathetic HR record standing for 30 freakin years is one of the most embarrassing things for any major league team

Why does this poll assume I have a "favorite royal" or that such a thing is even possible?

doesn't matter. voting is mandatory.

write in vote for King Edward Potatoes, which the original grower labeled the variety "Fellside Hero". Which sounds even worse tbh.
xxxp
Yeah I think this thread is as good as any to dis American Indie Rock royalty and Stephen Balbini's Shellac are a reet pile of rub imo!

american indie rock royalty vs. the british royal family

I voted for the big bottomed blood sausage

another prince andrew voter eh

lol

the royals aren't even that good at being the royal family - Diana was proof you can do it with more agility and charisma and populism.

that said, my grandmother's MBE for her work with adults with learning difficulties is her proudest achievement, and I kinda like that the source of that recognition isn't tied to a political party and the baggage that would entail. The royals are obviously not "politically neutral" but they have no real power, if they tried anything they know it would be game over for them.

Diana was awful.

no princess michael, no credibility

Diana was awful in the same way the royals are awful but she was better at doing what the royals do

afaict the Hanoverians have never been popular, apart from George VI, who was a late sub anyway.

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31 lickspittles

There was no option for "Kill 'em all and let God sort 'em out."

LOL no votes for the future King and his consort.

... I mean, the one after Charles the Chump.

Meghan was always going to win this, surprised at how close it was.
Well done you two weirdos voting for Andrew.

I like how Liz's three sons have grown up to exemplify three distinct strands of overpriviledged dickholery - pompous windbag, sleazy moron and clueless imbecile.

that there was no option for: 'drag this lot into a dingy cellar for summary execution by machine gun fire' was the major failing of this poll.

i didn't vote but charles seems less bad than lots of the others idk

the worst one is zara phillips for winning SPOTY that one time

so you missed that charming interaction where Charles answered "I don't think so" when an Asian woman from Manchester replied that she was from Manchester. Heydrich was probably less bad than Himmler because he was part-Jewish and could play the violin etc...

After being introduced to the prince, she says he asked where she was from. When she replied "Manchester", he reportedly quipped "Well, you don't look like it", before laughing and walking away.

that was it.

his shortbread is quite tasty though

that's not what his servant called it.

Charles is one of the worst tbh.

the black spider memos, homeopathy, carbumcles, poundbury... charles is a grade 'a' listed twat.

have these people done anything bad enough to warrant wishing death on them?

they are royals

they don't have any power.

tell that to Gough Whitlam and please never post in any politics thread again

I do find something kind of admirable about Princess Anne's palpable contempt for the general public, and her disinclination to make any attempt to disguise this.

I think it is Anne I met. She came to my university library and spoke to the student sitting next to me. The conversation, verbatim, was :

Anne: “ So why do you come here”
Student: “this is where the books are”
Anne: “Jolly good”

...and wandered off.

She has the common touch!

I might have voted for Lizzy? I've gone soft in my old age. Also she looks like my Nan a bit these days.
Anne was pretty fab and Meghan seems ok.

sidebar: who are the 3 sociopaths that voted for Philip tho, jfc

Accelarationists.

want to change my vote to princess margaret

Dead scroungers don't count.

bbbbbbbbbbbut the only good royal....

monarchs tend not to go away if you just ask them nicely Treesh

turns out this doesn't work on posters either

Unchill, sic.

Woman at this coffee shop (in america) has this stylish, slouchy kind of bag that has an all over print of a photo of a young elizabeth ii.

not sure i like this new jacob wohl style of posting you're trying out treesh

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I’m not spreading conspiracies or defaming anyone

it was more the classic j-wohl 'i was at the hipster coffee shop' kickoff that i was referring to there

Me going to coffee shops certainly isn’t new.

treesh, two-part question:

1) given the reforms previously enacted, and eg Dunstan in place as SA Premier, do you think the referendum non-binding postal survey of a year ago would have been required, had the dismissal not taken place?

2) do you think that first-hand accounts of community members committing suicide during the referendum survey campaign, unable to handle the rhetoric in media and from family members after lifetimes of ostracism, abuse, and legislated social downgrading, were false flags?

i think i was misinformed about the british monarchy. i thought their position was largely ceremonial in 2018. i have no positive feelings toward them, i just don't like ppl cheering death on anyone. you'll find this is consistent across my ilx posts cf. this year's dead pool thread.

i am never afraid to admit when i don't know something. i think we have a difference of opinion on what ilx is for. i learn things here and get involved in conversations on topics that i might not be an expert in. when i asked if the royals had done anything recently to warrant people wishing death on them that was actually just a question.

i doesn't bother me that you don't like me. please use the killfile feature if you are not interested in what i have to say. i would consider it a favor to me if you would do that.

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"i just don't like ppl cheering death on anyone"

for goodness sake, don't you bloodless petite bourgeoisie brats get angry about anything these days?

I'm a dual British/Australian citizen, and fairly up on Aus politics, but I'm not sure I understand sic's questions or the relevance of the monarchy to the marriage equality postal survey.

That said, I find it bizarre that Australia's head of state is a foreign queen. But I think the royalty actually does more damage to the UK than it does to Australia.

Lol calzino

Is she not simultaneously the Queen of Australia, Canada, the UK, etc., and thus never foreign in any of her dominions?

Something like that.

I'm not sure that it was meant in a legal sense. I think what people mean in describing her as a foreign monarch is that there's clearly some important sense in which she's a British in a way that she isn't a Canadian or Australian.

Yeah, probably the fact that she was born there and resides there. I do enjoy imagining Lizzy simultaneously hovering over all these countries, presiding wisely, defending the faith.

How long’s it gonna take for Chuckie III there to try to flex some sovereign muscle after he takes over? He seems like he’d be champing at the bit

he won't be much flexing in class enemies death pit no. 4786778 when us hateful tankies take over the shop!

How much does this show the crown have to do with American simpletons being all yass queen princess these days

I know it’s always been a thing but I feel like a week since these inbred fucks were mainly being talked about for covering up sex crimes suddenly all these people being HERE FOR Anne being mildly rude to a different sex criminal must be linked to that, yes?

orange man bad, royal lady throwing epic shade good

Yeah but was she wearing some coded jewellery the royals lifted off some country they colonise? These 👏🏻things👏🏻matter

Is Edward still alive, I feel like I haven't seen or heard about him in decades. I actually had a conversation with someone recently who (claimed)
not only had never heard of him but didn't believe he existed - a British person I hasten to add.

I only know about Edward v vaguely cause my granny used to go on about how he was a closet case. Couldn’t pick him out of a lineup tho, same goes for most of these and I’m p sure that’s not unusual

Literally the only thing I remember about Edward is the reference to him in Priscilla, Queen of the Desert. Can’t picture his face (if he even has one or exists)

he has the same face that all of them do

lol yeah it’s a shallow pool tbf. Do they attempt to replicate that, uh, distinctive royal look on Netflix

i think the technical term is 'the innmouth look'

innsmouth dammit

Edward is like the Palace equivalent of Addams Family's The Thing - but without any fingers. Just some diaphanous shape with no features or presence that even his mum can't remember birthing.

my important critical claims for this show are all on the corgis thread, i can't be bothered to port em over (also i haven't watched any of s3 yet)

tl;dr it's abt "duty vs the ones who fuck" -- the latter are relatable (or they were in the 50s, less so now obv) and so the former destroy them, except the former also cause them

Prince andrew “relatable” claims ilxor mark s

epstein did nothing wrong and the mayan calendar proves it

I think some Americans are fascinated by British royalty because our own have proven to be so lackluster. I mean even the buzz generated by the late addition of Kanye has kinda fizzled out at this point.

absolutely fucking dismal

The future King of England flipped off Donald J. Trump today. pic.twitter.com/Odakp3trpN

— Mrs. Betty Bowers (@BettyBowers) December 4, 2019

gaaaaahhhhhhhhhhh

Speaking of Cadet Bone Spurs.....................this..... pic.twitter.com/mVHQYZDkig

— WhatWorldDoYouWant? (@troublingtome) December 4, 2019

Who were the two people who voted for andrew?

in a just society, they'd all feel the steely kiss of the guillotine on their napes, but voting for textbook failson prince andrew for exemplifying everything that's wrong with monarchy (idiocy, incompetence, friendship with jeffrey epstein etc)

― the Stanley Kubrick of testicular torsion (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 14 November 2018 15:41 (one year ago) bookmarkflaglink

AND I'D DO IT AGAIN IN A HEARTBEAT

Wait also do these people have last names? On wikipedia i just learned their last names aren’t windsor. It’s just strings of first names.

philip is a schleswig-holstein-sonderburg-glücksburg

Oh weird. That’s my last name too.

family is saxe-coburg und gotha but the namechange was i believe legal and official (as well as timely and urgent) so they actually ARE windsors now

another day, another royal link to child rapists

Friendship with Prince Charles made paedophile bishop Peter Ball 'impregnable' https://t.co/uJe3hY8xuH

— Guardian news (@guardiannews) January 14, 2020

He can certainly pick 'em. Bishop Peter Ball, that is.

not cool imo

What the actual fuck pic.twitter.com/5epTUdWgMW

— Rivkah Brown (@RivkahBrown) January 26, 2020

It's just symbolic, eh.

ffs! it's no wonder they want independence

Wait till you hear what happens to a house once the owner has been disappeared.

shit just got real

RIP. Heaven needed a human tampon.

brb gonna start manufacturing 'diana and charles: reunited in heaven' commemorative plates

I reckon the lizards have deliberately infected Charles, removing him from the succession at last.

the virus jumped from bat to man, and from man to lizard, and from lizard to bat again; but already it was impossible to say which was which
— george orwell, zoonotic farm

Chaz's tooth-brusher valet in self-isolation, emergency brush-training underway for the man who will be king

ffs no "looks like charles is getting coronated after all" jokes yet?

not even a special strain just for him

i keep reading this thread title in the Michael Palin in Life of Brian voice

theory: Prince Charles is a similar personality to Tony Benn in a lot of ways - in the later diaries Benn is forever coming up with plans and reports for how various problems could be solved, various institutions reformed and trying to press them into the hands of influential people in a way that reminds me of Charles and the black spider memos - this impression of frustration that they can't run things themselves, but coupled with untiring enthusiasm for their particular causes. I can imagine Charles looked on Benn's success in renouncing his peerage with envy - this impression that if only he wasn't cursed by being their heir to the throne then he'd be free to advocate for all his brilliant ideas without restraint. There's a bit in the diaries of Benn's personal friend and one-time political ally Chris Mullin where Mullin meets Charles and goes on at length about what a great guy he is, a serious thinker who is unfairly maligned, which seems a bit odd at first, but I think Charles reminds him of Benn. Maybe someone could write a novel set in an alternate timeline version of the 1980s where Charles becomes king and Benn becomes PM.