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Sympthsical

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10. People learned nothing after Diana
Tue Mar 19, 2024, 03:26 PM
Mar 19

Last edited Fri Mar 22, 2024, 04:27 PM - Edit history (1)

No amount of Very Serious Internet Commentary makes it any more care-worthy - that's just people self-justifying why they wasted so much time on this. Because they, being Very Serious People, would never be so stupidly frivolous about gossip.

But I'm reminded of Diana. Before she died, the tabloids were rotten to her. The readers loved it the more rotten they got. The public was totally awful. And then she died. And it was instant canonization by the press. People wept in the streets. "She was our living angel!*sob*" Oh, was she? Was that before or after you eagerly devoured three articles slut-shaming her over your morning tomato beans? And so they all decided this was somehow Queen Elizabeth's fault. For . . . reasons? Because they had to deflect their own shittiness somewhere.

Kate had serious surgery. She noted when she'd be recovered. The end.

But people had to do what they do. Good thing it wasn't more serious. Imagine if Kate was in a bad way and died? It would instantly be William's fault everyone was being so shitty and weird about it. Obviously.

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