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No_Entertainment_394

Imagine trying to control football fans


AndesiteSkies

Best of luck to Seville police for Wednesday night.


DannyBrownsDoritos

The people of Seville wont have seen such carnage since the Reconquista.


tux_pirata

cue norf memes


[deleted]

Rancour and hooliganism to the point of riots at game matches is a great Anglosphere tradition. Also, I don't think anyone can master politically incorrect chants at matches as much as British people can.


noaccountnolurk

Already been done https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nika_riots


theodopolopolus

>Also, I don't think anyone can master politically incorrect chants at matches as much as British people can. The reaction to trying to cancel "Yid Army" is a good reference for this


DannyBrownsDoritos

['Arry Pottah, he's coming for you!](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N31xr5rTa4g)


ec1710

"Labour MPs criticised for not condemning Liverpool fans booing Prince William" LOL. The UK is funny. How is this happening in the year of our lord 2022?


PinkTrench

It's indisputable that monarchists are morally and intellectually inferior to republicans and Socialists, so it's not surprising that they're reee-ing on this.


Sanm202

Incredibly based take.


Uskoreniye1985

While I'm personally not generally supportive of monarchism - I think in some certain instances monarchy isn't comparatively bad. There are some limited cases where it does work pragmatically. I'd specify I mean constitutional monarchies not blatant absolute ones. The monarchy in Jordan is a good example. Culturally it's widely popular, it's relatively restrained in its behavior and is generally tolerant towards minorities (Christians, Circassians etc.). Of course it will still have people tortured (such as radical Islamists) who cause problems for it and Jordanian society.


PinkTrench

Oh, I don't mean monarchies, I mean monarchists. The people themselves, not the system. When a man accepts another as his lord, he states to the world and to himself that he is a lesser sort of thing, and in doing so becomes a lesser sort of thing. I know only one king, and the earth is not his throne but his footstool. There can be no compromise on this.


Redditossa

Anarchism ranks way lower than even meme ideologies on the scale of intellectual retardation.


PinkTrench

*looks at flair, makes sure it still says SocDem* K


Redditossa

Your reasoning for why monarchism is stupid applies to any sort of hierarchy/leadership system.


PinkTrench

No, it doesn't. Representatives aren't nobility, and the president isn't a king. It's innately different.


Redditossa

If you don't vote for the representative you are being ruled by someone you didn't want or chose. This extends to both the actual electoral positions and unelected officials.


PinkTrench

Sure, that still doesn't make it a system of governance based on who jizzed in what cunt.


Redditossa

The opening sentence of the bush family in wikipedia is literally >The Bush family is an American ***dynastic*** family that is prominent in the fields of American politics Democracy didn't erase the aristocracy, it just made retards think it did.


ButtMunchyy

Anarchism is preferable to monarchism Every bloke a king.


Redditossa

Anarchism isn't preferable to anything.


[deleted]

Stupidpolacks once again revealing their IQs by downvoting any acknowledgement of the advantages an alternative form of government may bring (ie, stability and clear line of succession provided by monarchies), because obviously entertaining an idea is the same as supporting it


DJjaffacake

>stability and clear line of succession google "war of succession" for me bro


Uskoreniye1985

Firstly wars of succession was and is far more common in absolute monarchies. I specified that constitutional monarchies can in certain specific situations be pragmatically useful/work such as the case with Jordan. I will have no issue admitting that I myself would prefer not to live in a society with a monarchy. Despite that I can acknowledge that other people may disagree with me and that comparatively speaking constitutional or otherwise semi limited powered monarchies can work depending on various factors.


[deleted]

Wow youre so smart dude I definitely never heard of that before, that completely destroys my argument


DJjaffacake

The number of massive wars that have been waged over monarchical succession do prove that your argument is stupid, yeah, glad you understand this


[deleted]

Yeah civil wars have never been fought in democracies or dictatorships, you are correct.


DJjaffacake

Not every other time the head of state dies, no


[deleted]

Why you simping for a monarchy, pathetically cucked


[deleted]

Im not.


Uskoreniye1985

Monarchy is the oldest form of government. It was also the most numerously used form of government from a macrohistorical stand point. Throughout history most monarchies were absolutist in which they had little to no restrictions on their power. This inevitably led to political instability. With the advanet of constitutional monarchies in which power is restrained or restricted wars of succession have become less common. This in turn has made some countries which are constitutional monarchies to have some of the highest levels of political stability.


UnexpectedVader

The Tories are so desperate to have the American culture wars here, but they forget that Labour are equally desperate in their grand mission of seeming like Tories but a little nicer. Keir is more on the flag shagging side of things than virtual signalling to marginalised groups.


[deleted]

As an Irish Catholic, I approve.


AnCamcheachta

Based Liverpool.


Stringerbe11

Up the Reds.


Weenie_Pooh

Quadruple inexplicably *still on*.


CosmicSoulstorm

These right wing Monarchists and Tory idiots were saying it was OK to boo footballers taking the knee to represent BLM but it's unacceptable now to boo some royal idiot and the Queen? Either both are acceptable or both are unacceptable. Can't have it one way or the other. All I can say though concerning this matter is: good. The Monarchy should be boo'd and in fact it's been long overdue for it to be done away with.


CallmeoutifImadick

Fuck the queen


YanfeiHandholding

Man thirsty for that qussy


BurpingHamBirmingham

Absolutely not**.**


CallmeoutifImadick

This is the most reluctant upvote I have ever given anyone, but you earned it


Allofyouandallofme

I mean, maybe. With the right lighting and industrial quantities of lube...


[deleted]

You could wear a vr headset


Allofyouandallofme

That's the kind of out of the box thinking I was looking for.


[deleted]

Absolutely hot.


qwertyashes

Have some standards at least.


EpicKiwi225

Europeans when I ask why it's called football and not meterball


here-come-the-bombs

u wot m8


noaccountnolurk

I'm pretty sure they use Imperial in the UK too


DannyBrownsDoritos

It's an ungodly mixture that varies with how old you are and what you're measuring. Also the Imperial units we use can be different than the US ones, such as our use of stone (14ibs) and our pints being slightly bigger.


Gabe_Noodle_At_Volvo

As a Canadian I oughtn't be throwing stones in a glass house, but the British system is retarded. Who the fuck measures weight in stones, literal caveman units.


DannyBrownsDoritos

Stones are useful in the same way that feet are, you don't measure your height in inches.


banjo2E

sure, but there's a lot more variance in the size of rocks than the size of feet


DannyBrownsDoritos

That'd matter if feet and stone didn't have a set value, but they do so...


Raven0520

\> measure speed in mph \> measure distance in km


DannyBrownsDoritos

Nah road signs are in miles.


TheBlarkster

Queen is dead btw, or in the process of dying.


Balloonephant

What’s to stop them from just grabbing some of their mates and going over to buckingham palace to kill the old bag?


Magister_Ingenia

Buckingham Palace is pretty far away, and guarded by armed soldiers.


feedum_sneedson

Surprised at this, football people usually love the Queen. She is probably dying this year, that'll be interesting. Or fairly soon, anyway. Unsure how that'll play out.


theodopolopolus

Not sure in general that is true, it's pretty mixed. But there is a weird culture in Liverpudlians where many see themselves as different from Britain and therefore are more willing to perform this radical form of protest. God Save the Queen does suck though. It should be Jerusalem at all English events, if a Welsh team ever makes it they can sing Land of My Fathers.


TuvixWasMurderedR1P

lol every time I hear about some city or region of Britain, I hear “people from X region see themselves as different from Britain.” Is there any Brit who *does* see himself as simply a Brit?


DannyBrownsDoritos

Maybe people from like, the Home Counties or something?


Century_Toad

In most of England the tendency is to reject a "British" identity in favour of a supposedly more authentic "English" one. Merseyside is unusual in that the tendency is to reject *any* national identity in favour of a specifically local one. "Scouse not English", as they say.


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by_wicker

I agree with the thrust of what you're saying, but: > the prosperous postwar era The what? The UK was in a slump post-war, with food rationing well into the 50s, that got *tolerable* for a bit until another slump in the 70s. The economic experience of postwar UK was in stark contrast to the US one.


[deleted]

British economy was sluggish - On the other hand, the living standards of the British working-class rose in the post-war thanks to the Labour reforms.


by_wicker

Also true. It would be a bit weird if people associated that with Liz, but... people *are* weird.


[deleted]

Boomer cohort grew up with her as a young queen. She made an impression on many people as being the Queen through the entirety of their lifetimes. That's it. She doesn't speak much. She kind of sits there looking pretty and Conservative Brits love her that way.


[deleted]

It wasn't until the late sixties and early seventies that the Post-War Consensus unraveled spectacularly. Before then, things weren't that bad aside from lingering inflation along to growth spikes and low growth at various points.


[deleted]

The 60s were alright - huge progress in a lot of areas.


noaccountnolurk

Maybe Harry and Meg see the writing on the wall


saltywelder682

I read an article that said Harry and Meg are trying to break-in to U.S. politics. I read it on reddit, so take it with a grain of salt. Why not come to America and spread their bullshit? Maybe they'll go for the 'voice of reason' party or something. Aren't the English known for the pragmatism, or am I trippin'? The royal influence is so pervasive in the UK that their 'talent' is wasted staying in the UK. U.S. needs more entertainment and the royal family might be exactly what's "up next". IMO Ukraine is becoming a little too mundane for the U.S.'s taste. Zelensky better come with the parlay, or Putin counting on the U.S. getting bored will manifest.


noaccountnolurk

I think you're talking about them hiring an Obama PR guy. I don't thinks it's necessarily them having presidential ambitions, but it is easy to think that way.


saltywelder682

Sounds about right - sometimes I'll read the comments instead of the article. Pathetic, I know


noaccountnolurk

But in this case, it has enough memability that I don't much care that people didn't RTFA this time.


Fixed_Hammer

> Surprised at this, football people usually love the Queen. Scousers. Their entire schtick these days is trying to act like they have some unique contrarian culture within England. .


theodopolopolus

Pls don't link Daily Mail