My parents always said, if you don’t have anything nice to say, don’t say anything at all. So, the queen of England died. At her best, she was inspiration to children that they too could be royalty (false), and at her worst she silently presided over a campaign of colonization and imperialism that shapes the world as we know it.
In more relevant news, Biden’s secretary of state Anthony Blinken made a surprise visit to Kyiv yesterday, pledging an additional $2.8 billion in military assistance. This comes at a fragile time in the conflict, as Ukrainian forces have pushed their counteroffensive back into territory that Russia had occupied. It also comes at a fragile time in the US, where more than 100,000 residents of a capital city are without access to clean drinking water.
The choice to prioritize funding foreign wars over your own citizens having clean water to drink and bathe in is…telling. Similar to removing funds from education departments and instead investing more heavily in law enforcement and police. Casual societal collapse.
Side Items
The premier league has decided to postpone all matches this weekend in observance of their national tragedy (queen dead). If there’s one good thing to come out of this royal death (and believe me, there are a few), it’s that I don’t have to worry about watching Liverpool lose this weekend
My beloved Chicago Sky sadly bowed out of the WNBA playoffs yesterday, losing to the Connecticut Sun in an all-the-marbles game five and crushing my dreams of becoming back-to-back champs. Looks like all my favorite queens took an L yesterday (and the lady in England died too)
Articles like this one, glorifying the former queen (who’s dead by the way, have you heard?) and conveniently removing her name from the long list of colonizing English royals are part of the reason our coverage runs in the opposite direction. When there are so many apologists and admirers, I feel perfectly comfortable shouting my insults from outside the club.