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Queen Elizabeth II has died

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2827 points xd | 3 comments | 08 Sep 22 17:33 UTC | HN request time: 0.506s | source
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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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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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1. 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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2. 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.

3. 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.