from RandAlThor@lemmy.ca to world@lemmy.world on 17 Sep 16:18
https://lemmy.ca/post/51784124
The United Kingdom shamelessly prostrated itself at the feet of Donald Trump on Wednesday, throwing a lavish welcoming party for his state visit to Windsor that resembled less diplomacy and more fealty.
In doing so, the U.K. has revealed something deeply unflattering about itself—in the scramble to keep America close, it will debase itself and its values completely.
It will silence dissent, empty out its traditions, and rent out its monarch like a sex worker, deployed to flatter the ego of a man who has spent much of his political life suggesting he should be treated like one, a monarch, not a sex worker, that is.
As stage props go, the monarchy is unbeatable. But if this is what the “special relationship” between the U.S and the U.K. now means, it looks to many in Britain less like a partnership and more like groveling, feudal servitude.
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Disgusting…
Labour “Vote for us cause we’re not the Conservatives.” Proceeds to do everything like a conservative
Starmer is a conservative/neoliberal from 10 years ago. There is no “left” party in mainstream UK politics anymore. There is only a fascist party, and a conservative party.
Same with Australia, Canada, and most of 14 eyes. Weird… Almost like we said this Overton shift towards fascism was occurring the entire god damn time.
Yeah our “Liberal” PM was asked by the conservative government 13 years ago to be the finance minister. The Overton window is completely fucked up, we have neofascism on one side and the opposite side is neoliberals who are okay with neofacism as long as it keeps the progressives away from taxing the rich and regulating multinationals. Any suggestion that the systemic problems destroying society should be addressed with structural solutions, or even that genocide and ethnic cleansing are bad, has now become tantamount to terrorism.
cbc.ca/…/mark-carney-stephen-harper-1.7460897
Wait, you think green party isn’t left leaning? They gained seats last election with their 2 million votes. who’s to say they are not a mainstream political party
They gained seats, yes, but 4 seats isn’t exactly a landslide. They’re a force in local politics, but at the national level, they’re just really not a major player - at least not yet
better vote for a non-party or not vote at all to help your authoritarian chums, the real fascists, to get elected
like they did in the US
The royal family and child rapists name a more iconic duo
Is it a duo when they’re the same thing?
More like a team.
Trump will feel very much at home with the Royal Family, particularly with Prince Nonce to swap fireside stories.
If ghosts were real, Guy Fawkes would’ve come back to haunt these guys by now.
I for one am hoping for the ghost of John Brown.
I don’t know – is this really a “UK bending” thing?
I think this is just how NATO officials have realized how to play the game with him – fluff up his ego a bit and then get to the business talks – you play the game of politics with the hand you’re given.
I guess it might be the greatest public showing so far by a NATO Country(?)
By far, although to be fair, most of the rest of us don’t have a royal family.
You can have ours mate.
We technically already have him, but not really.
I’m just back from your country and brought back a $2 coin with his face on it, just found it funny.
Honestly, as acts of appeasement go, a fancy dress party seems about the least humiliating thing a country can agree to. Play king for a day, like Make-A-Wish for senile fascists. If that settles the tariff negotiations, then well done.
What about the other capitulations to fascism, and equating anti-genocide with terrorism?
Melania really trying to be Carmen Sandiego huh
Melania knows these pics are going in the history books and has been doing her best to cover her face whenever possible.
Fuck melania. first woman of the american reich.
To be fair, by being rented out, the monarch finally gets to earn his keep.
They’re some of the world’s biggest landlords. This is just aristocrats rubbing elbows.
Wait till the Brits find out its all made up and the nobility doesn’t matter.
The problem is if they decide that William the conqueror didn’t actually have allodial rights to the land, then all property rights in the UK are made up too and that’s a bridge too far.
We all know it’s the rightful territory of the Senatus Populusque Romanus. It’s just a matter of time.
Italian Unification but it’s everything from Hadrian’s Wall to Istanbul.
Why stop there? Ctesiphon or bust.
I mean, all property rights are made up though, in any country.
Tbf, the whole thing WOULD be much funnier (and less embarrassing) with Colin Mochrie and Ryan Stiles playing the parts of the two doddering billionaire idiots and Aisha Tyler moderating 🤷
Weird take. Britain is simply taking advantage of Trump’s ego.
No shit. Been saying for years that he’s as easily manipulated as a toddler, and I mean that literally, not even as an insult. Best part? He’s too dumb to ever know when he’s getting played.
Even if he is “getting played”, does he care? He gets what he wants without having to act against his personal interests. If anyone buttering him up wants him to do something bad, Trump himself wouldn’t suffer for it.
Yeah, they may be playing his ego, but they’re also not helping by inflating it further.
LOL, he’s too dumb to understand he’s being played. I was shocked when he spoke against Putin playing him! Someone must have whispered in his ear.
Giving legitimacy to a fascist just empowers them domestically and internationally. It’s not a shell game where you’re giving nothing. Legitimacy is directly how governments operate, it’s the real currency of the world. Legitimacy is frankly the bedrock of currency itself.
Disgusted as I am, and wishing the international community would make us Americans pariahs, that just doesn’t play. More than ever, we’re economically dependent on each other. A foreign government can’t simply tell the largest economic engine on Earth to fuck off.
Once our eventual fall from economic grace gets bad enough, alliances realign, then they can tell us to fuck off, not before then. It’s just history man!
I don’t know if they’ve been paying attention, but their monarch is too old for our President Pedophile. They’d have to offer up Princess Charlotte to interest him.
They should ask Prince Andrew. He knows.
Won't lie. That second paragraph has me more hot for british folk than ever before.
For balance and clarity that the UK isn’t wholly behind this embarrassment.
In my books kowtowing counts.
Britain is sucking the root big time.
From opening up china by force to sucking orange dick. What a fall.
still, the people in power clearly are. and so I won’t be travelling to the UK either.
Charles fucked kids with his brother Andrew, and was friends with Epstein.
Britain is a pathetic redneck country of EU. Remember they sent their worst people over to the America’s. Absolute garbage ass country and extremely racist.
Hey, Britain sucks ass for sure compared to parts of the EU but it’s still lightyears ahead of America so maybe sort your own shit out. People in glass houses and that
I’m fully aware America is a dingleberry that came from the shit pile of Britain
That was hundreds of years ago. All the shit over there is your own doing now, nothing to do with us.
What do you mean nothing to do? You’re fully committed and supportive of the genocide and pervious genocides criminal wars too, you might not be funding as much as America, but you’re fully complicit.
Queen Elizabeth was the devil, that racist cunt and her underlings have destroyed most of the global south for their benefit, the world hasn’t recovered from the destruction your expansionist empire caused.
Just because Trump is literally worse than Charles today doesn’t mean you’re good. You pay taxes to a monarch who follows a line of monsters who are directly responsible for most of today’s political landscape, and instead of overthrowing the monarchy when the evil witch died, you allowed an old fart to take over ruling you.
And now your monarch is treating Trump like a monarch, which sure looks like a pledge of fealty, so the only thing left to figure out is what motivated that? What does Trump have on Charles, or is Charles simply celebrating that Epstein is gone?
You’re knee deep in this shit, bud.
This is for King Chuck
youtu.be/nbHI7mSHVw8
wow… what a weak “kingdom”
Why quotes?
not sure… seemed more derogatory that way and I was in a bad mood
If there’s one thing the UK is good at, it’s making rich people feel important. It’s how all those Russian oligarchs feel so comfortable in London, comfortable enough to spill their secrets. Nobody suspects the butler, nobody suspects that behind the pomp and ceremony there’s a knife waiting for you.
Trump likes to be flattered, so flatter him, and then get as much cash out of the US as possible! $150bn investment so far as a result of this little bit of pageantry, since all those tech companies are now dancing to Trump’s tune.
Ya buncha cunts