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THE KING OF NORWAY JUST KICKED THE BUCKET, CAN WE GET SOME ULULATIONS IN THE CHAT?! CAN WE GET SOME GRITOS?! SOME YEEHAWS?! SOME CRAB RAVES?! SOME SICKOS?! A "HELL YEAH" OR TWO?! (hexbear.net)
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It's gonna be a tough few days watching people I know mourn the death of a man born into wealth, born to serve as the head of a fundamentally unjust system, even in the midst of a family scandal over its ties to Jeffrey Epstein; but at least in this moment I can express some joy. Every king died is another straw on the camel's back to get people asking "why do we even DO this?!" — there are people I know who actually agree with me that the monarchy is unjust, but they're just attached to Harald's personality cult nevertheless. Godspeed to every republican agitator in Norway! The old king is dead, the new king yet lives, death to monarchism!

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[–] BuhbyeLittleGumshoe@hexbear.net 35 points 1 week ago (3 children)

I can’t find it because search engines are useless now but. There was an amusing article for a few years back that talked about Norway the way western chauvinist media talks about global south countries.

Think: The Norwegian regime, rich in oil but harboring a civil society that worries international observers, is dominated by an octogenarian king.

[–] TommyCatkins@hexbear.net 26 points 1 week ago

I always get a kick out of describing Norway as "everyone's favorite oil monarchy" and watching Liberals hem and haw about how that's an unfair comparison

[–] Lemmygradwontallowme@hexbear.net 3 points 1 week ago

Closest thing I think was SoyViking following such format