OT: Queen Elizabeth's Health (UPDATE: Queen Elizabeth II Has Died At 96)

I hate to tell you this dude, but humans have been brutalizing each other for land since time immemorial. What the British did is no different from what any other empire did.

The wealth of the monarchy begins to form during the Norman Conquest. To engage in colonialism requires a level of wealth.  England acquired that in wars in Northwestern Europe, British Isles, and Ireland.

Reckoning with the reality that humans as a species are sons of bitches interferes with people’s need to feel morally superior to others.

Y'know--I don't feel hostility toward the old dear. But I do kinda marvel at the way people goober on royalty. I mean, we fought a revolution to get rid of that stuff. And British royalty--wealth built on slavery and quite a lot of killing, consequences that will echo right to the end--has become a huge money-making system that's also a huge suck on the economy. My English friends all dislike these people and my American friends tend to slobber; it's perplexing. I chalk some of it up to a mass media that sells sappy soap with it, but. . . while hating on these people is a waste of time, I'm perplexed that we can't bring a little more. . . awareness to the table sometimes. There may now be a serious movement to get out from under this king and queen business once and for all in England, and that could be a very healthy thing.

Yes really. Why should we worship (or admire....)people who exploit regular folks to make a buck? 

This country has been ruined by greed. We're witnessing the collapse of the United States because people like Zuckerberg or Bezos or Gates or name any other goddamn billionaire have spent decades buying politicians allowing them to exploit people so they can buy a 4th yacht.

So yeah eat the motherfuckers. Every last one of them.

Of these, I would think Musk is the best eating (probably well marbled).