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Re:Queen Elizabeth II has died by NoraCodes on Thursday September 08, 2022 @02:24PM (#32769757)
meanwhile, Irish Twitter and TikTok have been absolutely ablaze with celebration...
Re:Queen Elizabeth II has died by sph on Thursday September 08, 2022 @03:12PM (#32770551)
Twitter is an echo chamber of edginess and not indicative of the average person in the real world.

It's like wondering what 4chan thinks of this.

Re:Queen Elizabeth II has died by BitwiseFool on Thursday September 08, 2022 @04:54PM (#32771958)
>" Twitter is an echo chamber of edginess and not indicative of the average person in the real world."

For now, at least. I think we are all underestimating just how much Twitter impacts public perception. Not just on topics, but how people feel, act, and interact with others. Twitter seems to have a cancerous negativity it inflicts on its users.

Re:Queen Elizabeth II has died by JAlexoid on Thursday September 08, 2022 @03:37PM (#32770910)
Average person don't care...

All kinds of republicans(anti-monarchists, not American republicans) are content.

Re:Queen Elizabeth II has died by hackerlight on Friday September 09, 2022 @12:35AM (#32775335)
The hashtag #IrishTwitter that artificially gets pumped up by Twitter's recommendation algorithm does not equal Irish Twitter, and it certainly does not equal Ireland.
Re:Queen Elizabeth II has died by disgruntledphd2 on Friday September 09, 2022 @04:31AM (#32776802)
Speaking as an Irish person who hates inherited titles, those people are effing assholes. What part of don't speak I'll of the dead did they miss out on?
Re:Queen Elizabeth II has died by NoraCodes on Friday September 09, 2022 @08:39AM (#32778393)
I've always gone by the motto that if the dead didn't want us to speak ill of them, they shouldn't have been bad people during their lives.
Re:Queen Elizabeth II has died by disgruntledphd2 on Sunday September 11, 2022 @07:18AM (#32798679)
Totally fair and I don't entirely disagree but the whole don't speak I'll of the dead thing is very much ingrained in Irish culture.

Also, Liz 2 was presumably a reasonably decent person, and can't really be blamed for the actions of the British government.

Re:Queen Elizabeth II has died by hackerlight on Friday September 09, 2022 @08:09AM (#32778146)
They're probably not Irish people.

https://twitter.com/NaomiOhReally/status/1568157931538989056

Either your typical bottom-up social media fake news, or the usual MO of certain intelligence agencies to sow division in the anglosphere.

Re:Queen Elizabeth II has died by talideon on Thursday September 08, 2022 @06:51PM (#32773103)
That's more a matter of what circles you're in. Most people I've encountered have been much more moderate, separating the human being, who deserves to be mourned, from the institution.
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Re:Queen Elizabeth II has died by dang on Thursday September 08, 2022 @04:39PM (#32771772)
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