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I assume this is Northern Ireland, so obviously this isn’t so much a ‘we love the King’ mural as a ‘this is a unionist area’ mural.
This is probably better than a picture of a man in a mask and a UDA flag.
Growing up in the 80s and knowing the context, this doesn’t seem like the worst possible time line for Northern Ireland.
Maybe we should all move to NI. Although, that’s kind of how the problems started.
Prescriptions are free, we have no water bills either. The crime rates aren’t really that high, the violence stuff basically only happens if you get involved. This may seem a weird thing to say but paramilitaries are generally not as bad as smaller gangs in some parts of the world, and they’re easily avoidable if you don’t mess with them (Although if you’re English you are better living in a Unionist area, Irish people would be better in the Nationalist areas). It’s actually not a bad place to live!
There are still active paramilitary groups in NI?
Varying levels of ‘active’. Planting roadside bombs and shooting at police is very rare nowadays and makes big headlines.
Low level violence (generally aimed between groups, not at the public) is semi-common, increasingly around religious holidays and marching season.
It’s dramatically better than the 80s and 90s, but taken a few steps back after Brexit & sovereignty issues compared to the 2000s/2010s
They’re basically drug gangs and/or like to police their own communities nowadays
It literally has a quote on it about Northern Ireland. Although it would serve as both a “we love the King” mural as well, people here are pretty patriotic (which is a normal pattern in anywhere in the world where national identity gets threatened, like mainland UK in WWII or cold war era America)
Who’s body did they stick his head on?
I think it’s more of a thing that someone realised they accidentally time traveled or had a coma. Charles III was basically inevitable.
Not necessarily - if the Queen had hung on long enough…
She has, she does, she just couldn’t stay in the view of the public anymore but we know
Ah yes, I’d forgotten that The Transmutation would make public appearances difficult for her.
Unless they’re from the timeline where Ireland invaded and occupied Britain in the 90s.
Charles III takes the Irish throne and then invades Great Britain and usurps it from his mother? Sounds quite interesting
Northern Ireland and it is people.
I love how every comment, and the post, is from a different instance.
One of the best things about geocentric instances on the fediverse, imho.
People from all over can chat about it, with the host instance having a little bit of local knowledge.
“Except the fucking Catholics, obviously. She wished them nothing short of leprosy.”
Eh. Old Lizzie did alright toward the end. Her ancestors and governments were quite monstrous (especially that weapon Thatcher). However, she breached protocol during her state visit to Ireland in 2011, to start her speech in a formal Irish language introduction. Further, she came the closest that any monarch that I’m familiar with to offering an actual apology to a former colony for the way that her country had treated them over the centuries.
This is DEFINITELY Belfast
Larne, apparently. (Also, lol they corrected the “it’s”)
My bad. I went to larne once and it actually made me depressed.
Could be worse, could’ve been carickfergus.
I’m not much into the British politics, so what’s the problem here? The dude was the heir, everyone knew he would be king, that’s what “heir” means. As far as I know he didn’t do much as king to ruin the timeline, because he thankfully just couldn’t. So basically nothing really happened, one rich dude inherited some money from the other rich dudess, that’s all, what’s the fuss?
I’m assuming this is some guy plastering his house with the King’s picture - the sort of thing you’d expect in a monarchy rule, not democracy.
Man literally has cancer
I think this is the side of a house, not a gravestone.
I think this is the side of a house, not a gravestone.
Yet
Are you advocating they bury him under the house? I think that might devalue the property having a dead body under it
I think it might actually increase the value. Not everyone can say the have a modern monarch interred under the sofa!
