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    Queen Elizabeth II has died

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    2827 points xd | 12 comments | 08 Sep 22 17:33 UTC | HN request time: 0.419s | source | bottom
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    saberience ◴[08 Sep 22 17:52 UTC] No.32769157[source]▶
    It's weird, I've never considered myself a "royalist" but this news has affected me quite strongly. I just burst into tears unexpectedly on hearing this news and I don't quite understand why I feel so very sad. I guess I have grown up and lived my whole life (as a Brit) seeing and hearing the Queen, singing "God save the Queen" etc, and this news made me suddenly feel very old, very nostalgic, with the sense that all things pass in time, which makes my heart ache deeply.
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    1. NoraCodes ◴[08 Sep 22 18:24 UTC] No.32769757[source]▶
    meanwhile, Irish Twitter and TikTok have been absolutely ablaze with celebration...
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    2. sph ◴[08 Sep 22 19:12 UTC] No.32770551[source]▶
    Twitter is an echo chamber of edginess and not indicative of the average person in the real world.

    It's like wondering what 4chan thinks of this.

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    3. JAlexoid ◴[08 Sep 22 19:37 UTC] No.32770910[source]▶
    Average person don't care...

    All kinds of republicans(anti-monarchists, not American republicans) are content.

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    5. dang ◴[08 Sep 22 20:39 UTC] No.32771772[source]▶
    We've banned this account for posting flamewar comments. That's not allowed here, and you've been doing it repeatedly (e.g. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32110385).

    If you don't want to be banned, you're welcome to email hn@ycombinator.com and give us reason to believe that you'll follow the rules in the future. They're here: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.

    6. BitwiseFool ◴[08 Sep 22 20:54 UTC] No.32771958[source]▶
    >" Twitter is an echo chamber of edginess and not indicative of the average person in the real world."

    For now, at least. I think we are all underestimating just how much Twitter impacts public perception. Not just on topics, but how people feel, act, and interact with others. Twitter seems to have a cancerous negativity it inflicts on its users.

    7. talideon ◴[08 Sep 22 22:51 UTC] No.32773103[source]▶
    That's more a matter of what circles you're in. Most people I've encountered have been much more moderate, separating the human being, who deserves to be mourned, from the institution.
    8. hackerlight ◴[09 Sep 22 04:35 UTC] No.32775335[source]▶
    The hashtag #IrishTwitter that artificially gets pumped up by Twitter's recommendation algorithm does not equal Irish Twitter, and it certainly does not equal Ireland.
    9. disgruntledphd2 ◴[09 Sep 22 08:31 UTC] No.32776802[source]▶
    Speaking as an Irish person who hates inherited titles, those people are effing assholes. What part of don't speak I'll of the dead did they miss out on?
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    10. hackerlight ◴[09 Sep 22 12:09 UTC] No.32778146[source]▶
    They're probably not Irish people.

    https://twitter.com/NaomiOhReally/status/1568157931538989056

    Either your typical bottom-up social media fake news, or the usual MO of certain intelligence agencies to sow division in the anglosphere.

    11. NoraCodes ◴[09 Sep 22 12:39 UTC] No.32778393[source]▶
    I've always gone by the motto that if the dead didn't want us to speak ill of them, they shouldn't have been bad people during their lives.
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    12. disgruntledphd2 ◴[11 Sep 22 11:18 UTC] No.32798679{3}[source]▶
    Totally fair and I don't entirely disagree but the whole don't speak I'll of the dead thing is very much ingrained in Irish culture.

    Also, Liz 2 was presumably a reasonably decent person, and can't really be blamed for the actions of the British government.