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Queen Elizabeth II has died

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2827 points xd | 2 comments | 08 Sep 22 17:33 UTC | HN request time: 0.593s | 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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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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1. 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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2. disgruntledphd2 ◴[11 Sep 22 11:18 UTC] No.32798679[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.