The Brits also refused large scale food aid from the US (some religious groups still got some going on, but not nearly as effectively as a large agrarian country giving large amounts of food).

And the suppression of the Mau Mau rebellion.

I somewhat understand people who say “C’mon, she had nothing to do with the potato famine”...But Bloody Sunday...she owns it!

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I would assume that, with however many of her children and grandchildren were able to make it, plus staff, very close friends, whoever else, there would be quite a lot of people wanting to say goodbye to this 96-year-old woman. Maybe they just wanted to keep the number low, and Meghan and Kate stayed away for the…

Honestly, it’s more like screaming in glee when Barron Trump’s great-great-grandchild dies in 2135.

But hey, the professor got attention!

QEII was not Queen Victoria. She did not preside over the “British Empire” that Anya decries, but rather over the decolonization that followed it’s decline into the modern commonwealth.

As a turncoat, Meg should’ve flown to the Queen’s side.

Well, so long as the whole, “Let’s try to get the offender fired/shamed” routine is out there, you can’t really blame all sides for using it.

Free speech means others get to speak too. And sometimes, those others are more valuable to your bosses or friends than you are.

Wishing a 96-year-old woman a painful death does…

Also, the number of Americans bitching about colonialism while conveniently forgetting their own history of genocide, war, and oppression. 

Not really.

We declared independence, we didn’t overthrow the monarchy. Sheesh.

Hundreds of engagements a year until recently.

It’s generally noteworthy when the head of state of a nuclear armed US ally with the world’s 5th largest economy dies, who also is the head of state of a another US ally that shares our largest land border. Who is also the head of state of 13 other countries.

“Elizabeth became a Girl Guide, a British corollary to Girl Scouts (without the cookies).”

I actually liked Queen Elizabeth! Part of the British island ritual was to hold her in great esteem, with God Save The Queen being drilled into our heads. Of course the Royal family has an ugly & brutal & wicked history, especially as it relates to my ancestors, but Queen Elizabeth seemed decent enough. RIP

while agree on the sentiment (Fuck The Queen!), no monarch was ever going to even try to fix the wrongs of their own empire, that simply isn’t among their concerns

I will, and I hope you take a vacation from your customary curmudgeonry. Already you have made a positive start.

I’m just here to see the edgiest takes.

“Wishing her a swift recovery” What? From being fucking ancient?