Not really a meme, I know, but I thought this was amazing and worth sharing and I didn’t know where else to share it on Lemmy.

Ursula LeGuin was an incredible person and, although she did live a long life, her death was still a huge loss.

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    2 months ago

    Monarchies still exist on every continent

    Sorry, but where are the monarch in the American Continent? And I mean from the north of Canada to the South Of Chile.

    Where are they?

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      2 months ago

      The US president reminds me of the kings of old - more so than anybody actually called a king. The kind of fawning exaltation their current and former leaders receive is way, way over the top. ‘Presidents Day’ like there’s a pantheon that needs worshipping: pathetic. The fear/respect people close-to treat them with reminds me of the servile peons under some all-powerful autocrat, and not for no reason. The power these people have is way, way, way over the top, power that - rather than helping disillusion an entire population brainwashed by the lie of superiority - wages revenge wars and swings dicks.

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            2 months ago

            Inertia.

            Also while a wealthy family enterprise, they neither

            • a) rule over any nation(s)
            • b) receive any authority through divine appointment

            It’s actually a huge step down from the kind of power royalty used to enjoy.