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Let’s Celebrate that the Queen is Dead
Long Die the Systemic King!
Look, I don’t have anything against the person who just died, Elizabeth. She never did anything to me. Why should I care? But I have everything against the restrained praise against her position. The headlines will all say she was a symbol of Grace and Dignity in Times of Turbulence, and a woman, a mother, grandmother, and a great grandmother who kicked her great grand black baby out the country.
Now they will remember not just the woman or empty figurehead but the systemic power she represented, imbuing her with its golden radiance.
In fact, she was most likely the world’s largest recipient of mass taxpayer funds, which she got for simply existing. That is real power. Talk about a welfare queen. To have that much reverence the government can take money from the working class and spend it on her means she was not merely an empty crown, a vestige of the past who is propped up to bring in tourist dollars as was said during her Jubilee.
She thus represented a type of living dictator who had real power, who formed the Commonwealth of nations, and as some radio host just said, “famously intervened to make sure made the heads of government stayed at the table.” This week we saw her true power before her last breath, a power that made Prime Ministers form a government only under…