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I just meant that if people post things like "RIP" or "That's sad", it's void of information and therefore unsubstantive, but doesn't contribute to destroying the site. I just meant to repeat the point pg was making 15 years ago about "empty comments", and I'm sure the queen was the last thing he had in mind (https://news.ycombinator.com/newswelcome.html).

I was not making a case for royalism! just a case against tedious internet battles, and boy is monarchism one of those. (I mean, "Good riddance. The world is rid of a horrible person who has done horrible things" - ? Good grief. At least give us something amusing.) (that was a random example I just ran across)

More at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32771818 if anyone cares.

>>dang+(OP)
This thread is full of people who are ignorant of the crimes against humanity committed by this individual, and the war crimes and war criminals she protected during her reign.

Is it not substantive to point this out?

>>dang+(OP)
That's still implicitly making a pro-royalist community, at the cost of making a less flame-baitey community.

Pro-status-quo comments are inherently going to be less divisive because they don't challenge people, and seeing this thread full up of folks commenting on how personally meaningful the queen was to them without ever really being involved in their lives is a testament to that.

That said, I think it may also just go to show that's why royalism discussions shouldn't be the bread and butter of this community.

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Thanks for the response by the way. I disagree with some things here but I also talk with a number of people from wildly different viewpoints. A true testament to y'alls work.