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   Paul Cantrell (inthehands@hachyderm.io)'s status on Sunday, 07-May-2023 03:00:22 JST Paul Cantrell

   People in the US sure are bizarrely obsessed with royalty given how this whole nation-state’s founding premise was “monarchies are bad, actually.”

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     malena (seachanger@mastodon.online)'s status on Sunday, 07-May-2023 03:02:10 JST malena

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     @inthehands oh we LOVE glitzy hierarchy, we just have influencers and pop stars

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     Jami Gibbs :heart_cyber: (jamigibbs@hachyderm.io)'s status on Sunday, 07-May-2023 03:06:05 JST Jami Gibbs :heart_cyber:

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     @inthehands I don't get it either. It's like people that are REALLY into Disney; they wear Mickey Mouse earrings and pay $100 to see a cartoon dog. I just don't get it.

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     Paul Cantrell (inthehands@hachyderm.io)'s status on Sunday, 07-May-2023 03:06:33 JST Paul Cantrell

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     @seachanger Yes, I definitely think all that stuff is scratching some deep-seated human itch. And — upping the ante even further — the destructiveness of it, the way people delight in showering riches on public figures while destroying their interior lives and stripping them of their humanity, the way people get obsessed with reality TV whose central features are humiliation and cruelty…all of that is not quite as far from ritual human sacrifice as we’d like to think.

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     Paul Cantrell (inthehands@hachyderm.io)'s status on Sunday, 07-May-2023 03:07:42 JST Paul Cantrell

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     @jamigibbs The cartoon dog…I can get, I guess? The Disney obsession with royalty, its elevation of royalty, the fundamental assumption that royalty is benign underlying so many Disney plots…that I do not get.

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     Paul_IPv6 (paul_ipv6@infosec.exchange)'s status on Sunday, 07-May-2023 04:12:10 JST Paul_IPv6

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     i figure it's kind of like the zoo. as long as the monarchs are confined and can't get into the US, we love looking, poking things through the bars, and generally annoying them.