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[–] PP_BOY_@lemmy.world 56 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

The regime:

nah, I’mma do a war with Iran now as an attempt at distraction

[–] hilljack26301@feddit.org 1 points 5 hours ago

Looks like the kind of fear and loathing that comes from 40cc of adrenochrome.

[–] CowsLookLikeMaps@sh.itjust.works 51 points 12 hours ago (1 children)
[–] Midnight1938@reddthat.com 16 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago) (1 children)

This from the files?

Edit: had never seen the man

[–] ramenshaman@lemmy.world 4 points 7 hours ago (2 children)

Neither have I. So, is it?

[–] BaroqueBobby@lemmy.world 3 points 6 hours ago

Yeah from the DOJ dump

Yeah. I’ve seen him at pizza express once.

[–] dogslayeggs@lemmy.world 10 points 9 hours ago

Keep going. I'm almost there.

Sure, it took public release of documents they've known about for a decade to do anything about it. But at least THEY are doing something to someone in power.

[–] Grumpyleb@lemmus.org 35 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

Accountability, I wonder if the Americans know about it.

[–] cRazi_man@europe.pub 34 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

They didn't care about the rapes. They let that shit slide. This is for passing official documents to Epstein. Too bad Virginia Guiffre didn't get to see him arrested.

[–] Grumpyleb@lemmus.org 17 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

I'm hoping that it will escalate and he will end up charged for Virginia's abuse as well as any others he raped.

[–] cecilkorik@piefed.ca 2 points 7 hours ago

I just hope Virginia realized, at some point in her life, how many people believed her. There is no justice that will undo what was done, but we will get some measure of justice for her and all the other victims if we have to turn the whole world upside to do it (and it looks like we probably will)

[–] D_C@sh.itjust.works 2 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago)

The ~~Artist~~Paedo Formerly Known As Prince..Andrew. Arrested? Nice.

Time will tell if anything comes of it but, HAHA, his legacy and memory is ruined completely and forever. All because he wanted to fuck kiddies, what a total twat.

[–] BigMacHole@sopuli.xyz 10 points 11 hours ago (2 children)

PLEASE Andrew! As a Republican trying to Protect the Children I URGE you to Flee to the US so you can live PEACEFULLY! We DONT Care if you Raped Children on Child Raping Island with Mr Child Raping Leader! We ONLY Care about ~~Protecting~~ ~~Children!~~

[–] Blade9732@lemmy.world 11 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

I mean, HAVE YOU SEEN THE DOW? IT IS OVER 50,000 dollars.

[–] frongt@lemmy.zip 5 points 9 hours ago

It's not any more lol

[–] RIotingPacifist@lemmy.world 2 points 8 hours ago

As a Republican (UK/ Spain) I agree, morning could sour the public on risks quicker than them avoiding consequences Ao

[–] Augustiner@lemmy.world 12 points 12 hours ago

Happy birthday haha

[–] StarvingMartist@sh.itjust.works -4 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

I feel like it's best form to include the full name of a suspect in the title of an article. I'm currently working with a dude named Andrew and this was just bizarre

[–] frongt@lemmy.zip 5 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

Until he was no longer prince, that was his full name. Royals never adopted surnames.

[–] StarvingMartist@sh.itjust.works 1 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago) (2 children)

What a weird system, rich people man. Also the article says "mountbatten -windsor" that's a surname isn't it?

[–] frongt@lemmy.zip 6 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago) (1 children)

It's historical. Surnames in Europe weren't a uniform thing until the early 1800s under Napoleon.

An epithet like "of the house of Windsor" is approximately the same thing, and sure enough if they leave the royalty they usually take that as their surname (see also Harry, Prince of Wales, going as Harry Wales when he was in the military).

The point of a surname is to disambiguate between people (e.g. Mark, Jacob's son, or John, the smith). For a prince, if you say Harry you already know which one they're talking about, so they never needed to truly adopt surnames.

[–] Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works 2 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago)

Tell that to Hatshepsut and the whole string of goddamn Thutmoses she had to put up with. (Yeah they had numbers but when you yell "Thutmose!" you don't really want all of them.)

And applying that to royals in general, if they're so unique they should be more creative with the names, dontcha think? So many Henrys and Louis

[–] nickhammes@lemmy.world 3 points 8 hours ago

Yeah that's the surname used by members of their family who don't get the Prince/Princess title, since princesses and princes don't need surnames for some reason.