I think the Brits are the only people who would mourn for their head of state.

She became monarch the year I was born. I saw her when i was a very small child. I have great respect for her.


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When Justin Trudeau dies I will throw myself on his funeral pyre.

I dissent:

When JFK was killed, Americans of all parties mourned. Television stations stopped broadcasting their regular programming for weeks afterwards, and all we saw were news and tributes regarding Kennedy and the assassination. Sure, there were plenty of people who disagreed with him politically, but his death shocked all of us and we felt united in grief.

Nowadays, we are so divided, and we demonize the opposition so much, that it is hard for me to imagine that kind of reaction ever happening again.

At least they won't commit suicide in mourning lol when a famous Egyptian singer died in the 70s a few women committed suicide in mourning some jumped off balconies and stuff.

I mean, not all of us.

I sent this to groupchats before she died
https://vm.tiktok.com/ZMNKtpBcV/
because I wasn't expecting her to die but then she actually died 20 minutes later and the reactions were split

I am sad because I was napping when all this went down.

I lost it at the part about the North Koreans. 🤣

It's just so surreal to see anyone in the 21st century still advocating monarchy

Especially if they've watched The Crown or The Windsors on Netflix

That's some strong Kool-Aid

You can't convince me that this mourning isn't (for the lack of a better term) hypocrisy at its finest. As if she was a relative to all of Britain or something... If you're a simple citizen it's normal to feel similar to when a known actor dies. Anything more than that I would consider alarming :)

I wouldn't really party over anyone's death but it wouldn't upset me either. That being said our politicians aren't exactly in the same category as the queen was. They're perhaps the closest match though.

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I don't like the Monarchy and what it represents as we have class issues here. But she was basically a nice old lady and I was like aww when she died.

Idk

In Thailand they are hugely patriotic, they play the national anthem at the cinema before a film screening.

The queen is loved. She reigned for such a long time most if us dint know any different. And we are in such awful tines with a crisis in the economy, a country without sound leadership, and every institution laden with corruption to lose the queen at such a time is very sad.

*was.
Was loved 😥

She was many nations' sugar mommy

I think it's because she had been there for so long and was a good monarch.

Also, the British aren't the only people who would be upset...I lived in Spain and they care about their monarchy too.

Anyway, my boyfriend is literally crying about it right now 😐

{@hannibalaremeout] 🤫could be us brits are more reserved have respect for our ruling monarch

Union strike action had to be cancelled because a feudal monarch died. Sadly, that says a lot.

People seem to love the monarchies. In the US JFK was deeply mourned at the time.

Have respect for the monarchy!

This is because our monarchy doesn't get directly involved with politics.

I like our current president. She actually seems one of few sane people up there.

She was not head of state, just a figure

They have a version of this with Putin and Kim Jong Un but can't find it rn lol [media=https://youtu.be/BQ5A56BdRYQ]

*hark Norway hark*

We do too over here in the US, at least formally. The funeral gets televised, although the average person might not really care all that much, especially if they didn't like the president. I remember seeing Reagan's funeral on TV as a big event at the time. It's been a while since we've had something like that I think.

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Make a decision. Was she the Head of State or just a ceremonial figure head? Which was England?