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    9. TheCornjuring on

      >”I swear, you will beg for hell long before I grant it”

      >Immediately goes for the killshot

      What did Thor mean by this? Was he just having a little flirty fun with the Doomster?

    14. UmbreonFanatic on

      every 1000 dts there should be a tournament where the best of them is chosen

      maybe conducted via strawpoll but like cooler somehow?

    16. WisdomCookie23 on

      Even if new RTS games may have substantial artistic merit on their own, societally they serve the same purpose as live action Disney remakes

    19. ScumfrickZillionaire on

      if anyone was ever mean to umbreonfanatic or __versus I think I would attack them with brutal force

    20. Adminisnotadmin on

      “A billion entrepreneurs”

      “actually most people want a stable source of income.”

      again, I have thoughts for the upcoming book club meeting

    30. Adminisnotadmin on

      being here, i finally understand what it must’ve been like to be on Davy Jones ship.

      part of the crew, part of the ship

    31. BATIRONSHARK on

      here’s my effort post on Queen Elizabeth II and the powers of the British Monarchy

      The first thing is people would commonly write to her with goverment issues and she would forward this to the goverment and get things done.

      This is how she helped get a Gurkha get health treatment the goverment was denying .

      [https://www.google.com/books/edition/A_Year_with_the_Queen/u00YnCFWjzkC?q=&gbpv=1&bsq=Bluey#f=false](https://www.google.com/books/edition/A_Year_with_the_Queen/u00YnCFWjzkC?q=&gbpv=1&bsq=Bluey#f=false)

      and helped my man Snoop Dog into the UK

      [https://www.billboard.com/music/music-news/snoop-dogg-queen-elizabeth-stopped-uk-kick-out-1235036271/](https://www.billboard.com/music/music-news/snoop-dogg-queen-elizabeth-stopped-uk-kick-out-1235036271/)

      of a similar note is how she helped an MP be allowed to run for his party’s nomination.Said Mp would be defense minister during the Ukraine War so even non tories should be glad he got in.

      [https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/theroyalfamily/9134749/Conservative-MP-How-the-Queen-secured-my-selection-for-the-party.html](https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/theroyalfamily/9134749/Conservative-MP-How-the-Queen-secured-my-selection-for-the-party.html)

      Another Thing is she had weekly meeting with her British Prime Ministers and contact with the rest .She would get goverment briefings and secrets and the first draft of intelligence.

      [https://press.georgetown.edu/Book/Crown-Cloak-and-Dagger](https://press.georgetown.edu/Book/Crown-Cloak-and-Dagger)

      John Major noted she give good advice

      ””She knows a great deal about it and her questions are often very, very pertinent. It was always extremely useful, because it was a completely external view from someone who knew politics.”‘

      [https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-61672316](https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-61672316)

      As did Justin Trudeau who said of this contact ”I made the instant decision that I could trust her entirely and talk to her about the things that were on my mind in a way that would be unbelievably helpful to me and invariably, she is: in her thoughtfulness, in her wisdom, in her perspective”

      D. Michael Jackson, and Christopher McCreery. A Resilient Crown : Canada’s Monarchy at the Platinum Jubilee. Dundurn Press, 2022.

      A lot of PM have said so.I am using these two as a general example .one brit one realm of different political ideologies

      It is in this role that she lobbied against a helicopter system that wasn’t doing well in Iraq

      [https://www.google.com/books/edition/A_Year_with_the_Queen/u00YnCFWjzkC?hl=en&gbpv=1&bsq=her%20choppers](https://www.google.com/books/edition/A_Year_with_the_Queen/u00YnCFWjzkC?hl=en&gbpv=1&bsq=her%20choppers)

      She also helped write the Australian Constitution .To be clear the wording regarding the powers of the states were written in deference to her wishes.She wanted more changes but the goverment told her this was all they could do. Im not arguing she was absolute…but still HELPED WRITE THE AUSTRALIAN CONSTITUTION

      [https://www.researchgate.net/publication/357123191_The_Exercise_of_Soft_Power_by_Female_Monarchs_in_the_United_Kingdom](https://www.researchgate.net/publication/357123191_The_Exercise_of_Soft_Power_by_Female_Monarchs_in_the_United_Kingdom) [Page 43]

      A lot of modern criticism of the queen is her silence on racial matters well…

      she Hired the first ever Black person to work at the palace

      [https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/44023293](https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/44023293)

      ok so?

      she lobbied against apartheid and Rhodesia and bullied the commonwealth into staying together against these two

      [https://www.commonwealthroundtable.co.uk/commonwealth/opinion-the-queen-and-her-stand-against-racism-in-the-commonwealth/](https://www.commonwealthroundtable.co.uk/commonwealth/opinion-the-queen-and-her-stand-against-racism-in-the-commonwealth/) and

      Hardman, R. (2020). Queen of the world. Pegasus Books. why i didn’t link a page? because thats the whole first half of the book

      As well when New Zealand’s goverment was questioning maori land rights in the south island the Queen through her GG stated that the treaty applied to the south island as well which caused a back down from the government which is after all ”Her Majesty’s Government”

      [https://www.odt.co.nz/opinion/queen-and-maori-relationship-based-mutual-respect](https://www.odt.co.nz/opinion/queen-and-maori-relationship-based-mutual-respect)

      When there was a coup against the crown in fiji the GG worked out a deal with there Monarchy would remain if the Queen agreed to add supremacist policies to the Constitution. She decided to single handley abolish the Monarchy in Fiji rather then preserve it by racially discriminatory measures

      Twomey, A. (2012, November 14). The Unrecognised Reserve Powers [Lecture]. High Court of Australia. Retrieved from [https://www.hcourt.gov.au/assets/publications/speeches/lecture-series/Twomey_lecture.pdf](https://www.hcourt.gov.au/assets/publications/speeches/lecture-series/Twomey_lecture.pdf) [Page 9]

      You might have noticed a lot of those are about the Constitution.Well in Parliamentary systems it is the Monarch’s role to defend and preserve the constitution to cite a famous non monarchical system .In this capacity She

      Warned boris not to call a dissolution during the vote of no confidence in him [https://archive.is/2026.04.09-075406/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/books/non-fiction/hugo-vickers-robert-hardman-review-queen-biographies/](https://archive.is/2026.04.09-075406/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/books/non-fiction/hugo-vickers-robert-hardman-review-queen-biographies/)

      and was ready to fire him if necessary

      [https://inews.co.uk/news/uk/queen-sought-advice-sacking-prime-minister-344801](https://inews.co.uk/news/uk/queen-sought-advice-sacking-prime-minister-344801)

      She refused to remove a GG during a constitutional crisis in tuvalu which allowed the gg to remove the PM and install the democratic elected successors ​.

      [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuvaluan_constitutional_crisis](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuvaluan_constitutional_crisis)

      And If the prime minister orders a questionable nuclear strike the Military would check with the Monarch

      news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/7758314.stm

      Even her Ceremonial duties mattered according to the Charities Aid Foundation in 2012, Queen Elizabeth helped raise more than US$1.66 billion (S$2.32 billion) for charities she was a patron of.

      [https://www.nptuk.org/philanthropic-resources/giving-perspectives/the-philanthropic-legacy-of-queen-elizabeth-ii/#:~:text=Through%20attending%20engagements%20and%20in,provide%20legal%20or%20tax%20advice](https://www.nptuk.org/philanthropic-resources/giving-perspectives/the-philanthropic-legacy-of-queen-elizabeth-ii/#:~:text=Through%20attending%20engagements%20and%20in,provide%20legal%20or%20tax%20advice).

      on a final a very small note did no grant the title ”Royal” to a music competition not considered worthy … and kept her head on the stamps

    34. tripletruble on

      Jetlag + Heatwave + Two small children – AC = 7 hours of sleep totalled over 3 nights

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