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King Charles III diagnosed with cancer, Buckingham Palace says (www.bbc.co.uk)

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[-] InformalTrifle@lemmy.world 11 points 8 months ago

I can understand you wanting to abolish the royal family (I do too), but I can’t understand your hatred of him personally, to actually be happy he has cancer. He doesn’t seem like a bad/evil person to me

[-] atomicorange@lemmy.world 47 points 8 months ago

You don’t exterminate mosquitoes because they are evil, you get rid of them because they are parasites, unable to exist without feeding on you and your loved ones. They are disease vectors, it’s us or them.

The royal family feeds into hierarchical structures. They benefit from our subjugation. They knowingly and intentionally contribute to death and misery worldwide for their own benefit. If Charles was a decent man he’d abdicate.

[-] K0W4LSK1@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 points 8 months ago

Jesus man mosquitos are just trying to live, that's not a fair comparison for them

[-] InformalTrifle@lemmy.world -4 points 8 months ago

So petition for the monarchy to be dismantled. Write to your MP. If there’s enough support for it maybe we can get a referendum for it. Though unfortunately I don’t think there’s yet a significant majority of the public that do want that.

I just don’t get being happy at him having cancer. That doesn’t even bring us any closer to dismantling the monarchy. But I guess you must have reasons for having more hatred for him that I’ve not been exposed to

[-] abracaDavid@lemmy.world 12 points 8 months ago

When have you ever seen a petition change a single thing? You really think that signing names on a piece of paper would be sufficient to take down the Monarchy?

You realize how naive that is at best, right?

[-] InformalTrifle@lemmy.world 1 points 8 months ago

Fair point, but it needs action, not just laughing at someone getting cancer

[-] atomicorange@lemmy.world 7 points 8 months ago

Can I do both?

[-] ShaggySnacks@lemmy.myserv.one 5 points 7 months ago

Write to your MP. If there’s enough support for it maybe we can get a referendum for it.

Why write to them when you can start an official petition and get the House to debate abolishing the monarchy. Only need 10,000 signatures to force the issue to be debated.

[-] DessertStorms@kbin.social 32 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

If sitting on a gold throne, in a gold room, riding around in your gold carriage, covered in jewels, none of which were (or ever could be) "earned", but rather pillaged, without even knowing what a days work feels like, while the people you're parading your "god given right" to lord over, and whose wealth you hoard privately overseas, are having to choose between heating and eating as they work 3 zero hour jobs just to survive - isn't considered evil in your mind, it is your moral compass that is the problem, not me feeling momentary joy when a cancer gets cancer.

[-] Milk_Sheikh@lemm.ee 22 points 8 months ago

He cheated on his wife, very publicly for years. Idk about your views but maintaining a mistress immediately excludes you from being a good person. Charles was a prick for a long time before he started committing to charity, conservation, social outreach programs, etc

[-] Swuden@lemmy.world 11 points 8 months ago

No disagreements about about him being a prick, but wishing cancer and even death on another person seems pretty wild to me.

[-] DessertStorms@kbin.social 7 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Please point to where anyone wished cancer on anyone?*

Also, the fact that people don't feel sorry for the filthy rich old man getting what is almost certainly an age related disease (because it's not like he was exposed to the levels of shit food and air and stress that gives the rest of us cancer), is wild to you, but the existence of a "god appointed" ruler that leeches off of his people while they struggle to survive isn't, says a lot more about you than me not giving much of a shit does about me..

*E: you know what? Even if I had, wishing death on a person whose entire existence depends on the oppression (and death) of others on a mass, almost unimaginable scale, is still less morally repugnant than defending them. ¯\(ツ)/¯
Eat the fucking rich - they've brought it on themselves.