So when are the sanctimonious anti-royalty threads stopping?

[AZSkiffyGeek]

It’s Derby Day, we need to start posting sanctimonious anti-horse racing threads.

[Srkdqltr]

1. How fun, a twofer today. Should be a busy day

🤣🤣🤣🤣🎉🎉🎉

[yardwork]

17. Actually a threefer today. It was decided to attack southern states.

The sanctimone is strong in some today.

[AZSkiffyGeek]

41. Really seems to have brought out the sanctimony today...

[yardwork]

44. Well. I'm laughing along with twitter and enjoying the southern sunshine.

[AZSkiffyGeek]

55. And apparently I support animal cruelty now nt

[yardwork]

56. Watched the Derby, did you?

I hope you enjoyed a mint julep or drink of choice.

[niyad]

2. Considering all the dead horses. . . .

[marble falls]

14. Racing and rodeos got to go. Used to love them, now I hate 'em, hate 'em hate 'em. Same with cicuses

[niyad]

19. Always hated all of them. And zoos.

[marble falls]

27. And don't forget cubicled quiet offices.

[GoCubsGo]

31. And, live ones that wind up in horse rescues, if they're lucky.

Or, slaughterhouses, if they're not so lucky. Where I live, breeding and training race horses and show horses is a big thing. I used to love watching the racing. The more I have learned about it over the years, the less enthralled I have gotten about it. I will no longer watch it.

[VGNonly]

33. The crown and animal abuse

[prodigitalson]

60. brought this thread together nicely

[Cobalt Violet]

3. When the colonizers atone!

In other words never.

[Beastly Boy]

13. Colonizers and royals are not exactly synonymous.

Royals are just bobbing heads on the gaudy expensive dolls mounted on the dashboard of the pimped-out Cadillac of colonization.

They may be the most conspicuous and flashy feature of the car, but they certainly don't drive it.

[Earth-shine]

4. I'm still hate watching the coronation, waiting for the news to come back on.

[Ocelot II]

5. Well, golly, we have to be sanctimonious about *something*!

I mean, why doesn't the rest of the world do things they way we do, with our totally free and unrestricted elections, and our rational two-party system in which all of our elected officials on both sides are smart and sane, and our safe schools and our incorruptible Supreme Court and...

oh, wait...

[Javaman]

6. They have alreadyy started and I agree with them

Lauding the useless rich is also a pastime in this nation as well

The royals are nothing but a financial drain on British society.

[Ocelot II]

7. You do know that the monarchy could be abolished by an act of Parliament.

Why haven't they done it?

[orthoclad]

8. House Of LORDS

Aristocracy rules.

[Ocelot II]

12. The power of the modern House of Lords is very restricted.

They no longer have the power to block revenue bills, and their ability to reject other types of bills supported by a majority of the House of Commons is limited and rarely occurs. If a significant majority of Commons supported abolishing the monarchy it's doubtful that Lords could or would prevent it. I think over time the monarchy will not be completely abolished, but will be diminished and become more like the monarchies of the Scandinavian countries - involving completely ceremonial duties and living relatively normal and less public lives.

[Javaman]

11. Because tourists are money

To quote the Sex Pistols

[Firestorm49]

9. Watching this, which I'm not, is about as exciting as watching gray paint dry.

[mactire]

10. I'm all in with the Celtic fans(... shove.. coronation up...)

This quote by Denis Diderot works for me- “ Man will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest”.

[Srkdqltr]

15. 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[boston bean]

16. Whenever people stop posting them.

Geez if it bother you, just trash the threads.

[eShirl]

18. When the last king is yadda yadda yadda, probably.

[CivicGrief]

20. When you say so,

or not.

[Effete Snob]

21. Good point

…unless someone is going to use the whip on Camilla in the home stretch.

[Kaleva]

22. I often talk about approaching catastrophic climate change

Others talk about what's important to them

This is a discussion board and as soon as this shiny object loses its luster, people will move on to the next big thing .

[CivicGrief]

43. And they're off...

And it's High Horse on the outer rail.

[Kaleva]

51. For many, climate change isn't important

[Chautauquas]

23. When I am king

There will be no posting of sanctimonious anti-royalty threads.

[LakeArenal]

24. So many important things to judge and pan.

[bigtree]

25. who doesn't like a parade?

...I mean, c'mon.

This is a toothless monarchy which gives Britain an air of pomp and circumstance. Who doesn't like to watch a spectacle?

I like the former prince's land trust a lot, though.

[Polly Hennessey]

26. Soon, I hope. Tirades against the monarchy have become

annoying and boring. Horse racing? Well, be quick Kentucky Derby is almost over.

[H2O Man]

28. I like horses.

[DavidDvorkin]

29. I think they'll fade away quickly, only to come back to life with the next big royal event or news.

[Fullduplexxx]

30. When the ridiculous amount of coverage stops ... that would be my guess

[GoCubsGo]

32. Probably when the self-righteous pooh-poohing over the sanctimonious anti-royalty threads stops.

[betsuni]

34. It's Hate-bragging.

Hating something or someone so much they're compelled to tell everyone how they wouldn't pay attention to it even if stranded on a desert island for two hundred years and that was the only thing on TV.

[Hekate]

35. Look what you started

[AZSkiffyGeek]

36. Didn't realize so many people were so invested in complaining about something

That has zero impact on them, and don't know how to use a TV remote control.
Guess there's still a few more hours until the horserace hating starts.

[ornotna]

37. "so invested in complaining about something"

I'm confused. Were you complaining about something or were you complaining about somebody complaining about something?

[AZSkiffyGeek]

38. Where did I complain?

I asked when others would stop complaining.

[ornotna]

39. Have you seen this?

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100217887979

[AZSkiffyGeek]

40. Hey, yeah, I wrote that!

Did you actually read it? Perhaps you can point to where I complained about people making sanctimounious posts.
I asked when people would switch to complaining about horseracing.

But you seem to be taking that awfully personal for not even understanding what was written.

[CivicGrief]

42. I don't know Skiffy,

looks like you're complaining to me.

[AZSkiffyGeek]

45. Then you need to work on your reading comprehension

[CivicGrief]

47. Don't think so.

[BeerBarrelPolka]

49. I

I don't think you were complaining. Today of all days there seems to be a lot of posts complaining about something however

[Sky Jewels]

46. Well, horse racing is cruel and barbaric

and scores of horses are put to death every year due to injuries, so the criticism of this form of animal abuse is definitely warranted.

[Niagara]

48. I placed all the toxic and negative threads in trash today.

Could you imagine how miserable a person has to be to post this garbage?


Definitely not anyone I would want to converse with. Life is to short for that nonsense.

[BeerBarrelPolka]

50. +1000

[iemanja]

52. When the fanboy/girl royalty threads stop

One begets the other.

[Sky Jewels]

53. Does this bother you? At all? A little bit? Maybe a glimmer of compassion? ...

https://democraticunderground.com/100217888946

[AZSkiffyGeek]

54. Did I say it didn't?

So I guess it is sanctimonious attacks on people who didn’t say anything about horses dying now.
Got it. Keep that outrage directed at people who have nothing to do with it.

[MerryBlooms]

62. You made a bad correlation, probably just should

Have let it go. The horses have been dying all week, 7 now in total so far. The rest of the Crown races should be postponed until a full investigation has been done.

In my honest opinion, horse racing should be ended entirely.

[Mossfern]

57. What a fun thread!

n/t

[Scrivener7]

58. So when are the sanctimonious anti-anti-royalty threads stopping?

They're annoyingly sanctimonious.

[DemocraticPatriot]

59. Many horses were euthanized today, it seems...

I do not follow the horse-race sport very closely,
but it seems like they killed a lot of race-horses very quickly...

I read some articles about it, but I did not understand the "terms" they used...

I understand euthanizing a horse with a "broken leg",
but not shooting one that had a "bruise"...

wtf

[Celerity]

61. As a UK/Swedish citizen, I reserve the right to post my support of republicanism any time I please.

I also do not care (in fact I am glad to see such sentiment) if US- only citizens also post against all monarchies, the UK included, as the US was founded via fighting a war to get out from under the yoke of the British Crown.