RPGnet's decay (TBP madness)

[Stephen Tannhauser]

I think the more Americans ignore the British royal family the better off we are, but the gravedancing over the death of a relatively benign figurehead is kind of bizarre.

There has always been an impulse deep in the human breast to spit on what someone else reveres, simply because they revere it and we don't. Civilization consists of recognizing the self-destructive perversity of this impulse and bridling it.

[Ghostmaker]

Plus, for all of their talk of 'we wuv strong wimmenz!', they... really don't.

EDIT: Man, that thread... reading that made me feel a little dirty. There are some really contemptible people on TBP.

[Crawford Tillinghast]

There are some really contemptible people on TBP.

Other than the moderators?

Victoria was the last English monarch to have any real effect on national policy.  Since then, the Royal family has been a romantic comedy/soap opera.  Hating on Beth II is like hating on Miss Elly from Dallas.

[3catcircus]

I think that this is the reaction to be expected by those who have been taught that anything other than Marxism is awful. It's right out of the playbook: denigrating the leader = denigrating the institution.

I think we can all agree that empire, in any form, often leads to leadership at the far ends of the realm that get carried away, straying from the norms the ruler expects.  That is - a governor in a backwater outpost (possibly not happy to be there) might take it out on the locals, but the leader him or herself wouldn't. 

Oftentimes, the lines of communication or interference by scheming functionaries led to bad shit. Do we, for example, know that the US wouldn't still be part of the Commonwealth if the King had had a cellphone and could have talked to the colonial governors directly to find out what was pissing people off rather than waiting months for a letter to make it's way back, and filtered through members of his privy council who would be providing biased advice?

I think that many in the US have an admiration for QE2 (but not her offspring) because she walked the walk of duty first. Yes, several of her offspring are degenerates. But she herself at least always maintained outward appearances of calmness and self-control, dignity and grace.

The reason that these woke leftists tried to shit all over her legacy is because that's what they been told to by Marxist indoctrination.  There is no self-awareness amongst that crowd that the Brits left several of their holdings far better off than when they colonized them and that places that did not take full advantage of the infrastructure and culture that were left behind when they gained independence are 3rd world shitholes.

[oggsmash]

I guess the more they shit on the queen the less they have to ponder why a woman running in a city gets kidnapped and murdered by a dude who should have never gotten out of prison.  Dont know much past she was brutally murdered...white supremacy in action again I suspect.

[Visitor Q]

In many ways all the chuntering about colonisation by her self avowed enemies is a wierdly fitting tribute. Afterall didn't Conan say that what is best in life is to "Crush your enemies, See them driven before you. And hear the lamentation of their women..."?Essentially that's what they are admitting (and doing).

[Elfdart]

The crimes of the British Empire are so vast that two hundred years ago, Ernest Jones replied to the slogan that the Empire is one on which the sun never sets with "and on which the blood never dries".*

So gloating when the head of state drops dead, while in poor taste, is understandable -like when Nixon croaked and people started singing "Ding-dong, Nixon's dead!".

One thing the world should thank the British Empire for is dry British humor:



* or as George Galloway said "because even God can't trust the British in the dark".

[Visitor Q]

Well, one man's crimes are another man's progress.

[Ratman_tf]

The distaste for Nixon usually revolved around specific things he did during his presidency.

The comments I've seen about QE2 typically focus on that she was a queen of a colonial power, not anything she specifically did.
Which is a fine enough topic to discuss, but they don't want to discuss that topic. They want to vent their spleens.

[GeekyBugle]

The distaste for Nixon usually revolved around specific things he did during his presidency.

The comments I've seen about QE2 typically focus on that she was a queen of a colonial power, not anything she specifically did.
Which is a fine enough topic to discuss, but they don't want to discuss that topic. They want to vent their spleens.

Queen Elizabeth II RIP presided over the DECOLONIZATION handing back the government of their former colonies to the natives.

Before her the "Evul Empire" spent blood and treasure to end slavery the world over. And just this century IIRC finished paying opff the debt they incurred to do so.

Maybe the twat in the tweet would like to go live in some of the African nations where there's slavery CURRENTLY?

[rytrasmi]

These people only care about identity. Action and history (past action) are outside their reasoning.

[Elfdart]

The distaste for Nixon usually revolved around specific things he did during his presidency.

The comments I've seen about QE2 typically focus on that she was a queen of a colonial power, not anything she specifically did.
Which is a fine enough topic to discuss, but they don't want to discuss that topic. They want to vent their spleens.

Dude, it's Twitter. Complex thoughts and detailed arguments are as out of place there as Baby Shark on the playlist of a strip club.

[oggsmash]

 I guess the insecurity from being conquered NEVER goes away and that fuels the hate for the Brits.  The lesson I guess is stop getting conquered if you do not want to be butthurt for literally 500 years.

[Ratman_tf]

The distaste for Nixon usually revolved around specific things he did during his presidency.

The comments I've seen about QE2 typically focus on that she was a queen of a colonial power, not anything she specifically did.
Which is a fine enough topic to discuss, but they don't want to discuss that topic. They want to vent their spleens.

Dude, it's Twitter. Complex thoughts and detailed arguments are as out of place there as Baby Shark on the playlist of a strip club.

Kind of like message boards?

[3catcircus]

The distaste for Nixon usually revolved around specific things he did during his presidency.

The comments I've seen about QE2 typically focus on that she was a queen of a colonial power, not anything she specifically did.
Which is a fine enough topic to discuss, but they don't want to discuss that topic. They want to vent their spleens.

Dude, it's Twitter. Complex thoughts and detailed arguments are as out of place there as Baby Shark on the playlist of a strip club.

Kind of like message boards?

I dunno - I'm sure there are some degenerates who would want to hear baby shark at a strip club. I don't think the venn diagram for them intersects with those on rpg messageboards, but I could be wrong.