Ancestors

Written by blakestacey@awful.systems on 2025-01-27 at 04:22

Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 2nd February 2025

https://awful.systems/post/3382551

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Written by YourNetworkIsHaunted@awful.systems on 2025-01-27 at 06:33

In the process of looking for ways to link up with homeschool parents that aren’t doing it for culty reasons, I accidentally discovered the existence of a small but active subreddit for “progressive monarchists”. It’s titled r/progressivemonarchists, because their imagination in naming conventions only slightly outatrips their imagination for forms of government. Given how our usual sneer fodder overlaps with nrx I figured there are others here who I can inflict this headache on.

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Written by bitofhope@awful.systems on 2025-01-27 at 10:14

Quality shitpost, I could imagine some thirteen year old actually believing this.

Yea, no fascism whatsoever took place in the Netherlands, Denmark, Norway, Luxembourg, or Belgium during WW2, in which they were all very successfully avoiding being occupied by fascists.

Extra points to Spain who already avoided succumbing to their own homegrown brand of fascism before the Nazi German invasion of Poland, and where they avoided having fascists in power all the way until the 1970s. There’s a book I quite like about the war where that happened called Homage to Catalonia. I wonder if Orwell ever read it.

Missing from the list is Italy, which is no longer a constitutional monarchy, but used to be until 1946, which is why they were so good at avoiding fascism they even named it.

This might take the cake for the dumbest take I’ve seen from George Orwell and not for a lack of competition.

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Toot

Written by gerikson@awful.systems on 2025-01-27 at 13:19

is it a real quote from Orwell or just something someone made up?

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Descendants

Written by skillissuer@discuss.tchncs.de on 2025-01-27 at 13:26

seems to be a real quote en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monarchism#Liberty

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Written by gerikson@awful.systems on 2025-01-27 at 14:18

Yeah then it is a shitty take.

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