26th September 2022, 5:19 AM
(19th September 2022, 9:18 PM)A Black Falcon Wrote: It's sad for her family, but the British queen's death is not something the American media should be spending a significant amount of time on. It is not internationally important in any way, it's only "important" to celebrity gossip magazines and such who want to try to convince people that Americans should actually care about the British royal family, which we shouldn't. Getting rid of a monarchy is one of the best things the Founders did.
So yeah, it's really unfortunate to see how much focus the American media is giving the whole thing. Come ON, we are not England!
Quote:(Oh yes, I do remember where I was when I first found out about the attacks on 9/11. I was right here reading about it in Tendo City and thought it was part of Tendo's "old news reported as new" running gag we had going back then, and a reference to the older attach on the world trade center. Whoops....)
I learned about the 9/11 attacks from Tendo City as well, because most of the big news websites were down that morning and this was of course the next place I went...
I mean, it IS important in that the Queen may have been a figurehead, but that was her choice and there's no telling if the new King will take the same "hands off" approach. Fact is, he COULD actually decide to use the power of the crown, which is still maintained by it. Heck technically the authority and power of law in England stems FROM the monarchy itself, and as a result of that legal distinction, the King or Queen doesn't need a passport to enter foreign countries, period, because a passport's authority stems from their position in the first place. Point is, it is important in a global political sense, but absolutely NOT in a "revere the crown, this is a sad day and the tears of the kingdom shall fill an ocean of woes, oooooh if only we had a monarch to revere as they do!" sort of way.
It's not reporting on it, as it's newsworthy and important, it's the utter reverential obsession our media has that sickens me. And yes, really all that need be said is, "She's dead, this man's taking over the roll" and perhaps a few opinion pieces on what kind of ruler the new King is going to be.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)