• Kalkaline @lemmy.zipEnglish
    1451·
    10 months ago

    You can’t expect to wield supreme executive power just because some watery tart threw a sword at you

    • zcd@lemmy.caEnglish
      85·
      10 months ago

      Strange women laying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government

      • PapaStevesy@midwest.socialEnglish
        57·
        10 months ago

        If I went around, claiming I was an emperor, cuz some moistened bint lobbed a scimitar at me, they’d put me away!

          • NielsBohron@lemmy.worldEnglish
            26·
            10 months ago

            Oooh, now we see the violence inherent in the system!

            edit: I thought this line and this exchange was funny back when I was a religious, white, male teenager in a conservative part of the US. Now that I’ve grown up and seen enough injustice and evidence to become an anti-theist socialist living in a different (but still conservative) part of the US, it hits a little too close to home to be truly funny.

        • NielsBohron@lemmy.worldEnglish
          3·
          10 months ago

          “[I]t has been said that democracy is the worst form of Government except for all those other forms that have been tried from time to time”

    • DessertStorms@kbin.socialOP
      63·
      10 months ago

      Right?
      Watching it “live” yesterday my jaw just dropped, the kid before did the expected “yeah, I love the royals” and Harry Hill made a joke about maybe not wanting to go on holiday with some of them which I thought was already quite risque for a kids show, but then Ilhām comes out with that and it absolutely made my day. I have a feeling (and hope!) that’s not the last we hear of her…

  • Flying Squid@lemmy.worldEnglish
    42·
    10 months ago

    For as in absolute governments the King is law, so in free countries the law ought to be king; and there ought to be no other. But lest any ill use should afterwards arise, let the Crown at the conclusion of the ceremony be demolished, and scattered among the people whose right it is.

    – Thomas Paine

  • Evil_ShrubberyEnglish
    39·
    10 months ago

    “You wouldn’t want a revolution” spoken like the rich are sacrificing themselves in every indulgence so we don’t have to.

    Now Lemmy lemme eat cake! … or whatever it is you are preparing.

  • Brekky@lemmy.worldEnglish
    12·
    10 months ago

    Isn’t this on channel 4 now? Not really surprising considering they do the alter atuve Christmas message and have done since like the 90s.

    • DessertStorms@kbin.socialOP
      191·
      10 months ago

      Ch4 like to pretend to be progressive, and they absolutely do push boundaries more than the other channels, but under the thin veil they’re just another neoliberal mouthpiece. So yeah, while it’s not that surprising that of all the channels it’s on 4, even for them, it’s bolder than they would normally allow.

  • Ashyr@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    2517·
    10 months ago

    That guy’s condescending mugging with every reasonable statement she makes is infuriating.

    • DessertStorms@kbin.socialOP
      49·
      10 months ago

      As I’ve mentioned in other comments, the guy is openly ant-monarchy, his facial expressions aren’t of derision, this is filler on a kids show, not a political interview. If he’d agreed with her the whole thing would have never made it to air.

      This is about her, why can’t we keep it that way?

      • deweydecibel@lemmy.worldEnglish
        17·
        10 months ago

        And frankly, even without knowing he was anti-monarchy, those reactions didn’t come off as condescending to me. Read it as surprise, and perhaps a little nervous she’d say something more that’d have to be cut, but not condescending. He’s clearly smiling.

    • Obinice@lemmy.worldEnglish
      32·
      10 months ago

      That’s just the character he plays for his comedy, he’s not actually disagreeing with her here. You could consider his facial expression to mean “That’s a controversial opinion to air on a baking show”, but only because if he didn’t ape that response they’d probably not have sent it to air haha.