1679: piracy is on the rise, King Charles is deeply unpopular

2024: piracy is on the rise, King Charles is deeply unpopular

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@Dio9sys ITV still doesn't mind spending 90 minutes just telling us he has cancer
@experiencer At the risk of sounding insensitive, I would be more shocked if a 70 year old man from an inbred family DIDN'T eventually get cancer
@Dio9sys and followed by an even less liked billy (ok jimmy had a shot too) both times.
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God is about to bring him 'home'. Don't worry.

@Dio9sys King Charles is slightly more popular now, out of sympathy for his medical issues. Also, as far as national leaders in the UK go, King Charles has more support than anyone at the moment...

(No, I'm not stanning the King: just pointing out how especially bad our politicians are right now).

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The 1679 Charles saw the rise of the Tory party.

Let's hope 2024 sees the end of the monarchy and its political party.

@Dio9sys Some things never change, even when everything has changed
@Dio9sys both internet and real life piracy like in Somalia or Jemen. Now Empires need to protect their shipments with their own militaries. Let's wait for privateers.
@Dio9sys King Charles II was not “deeply unpopular” at all in 1679
@Arcana He literally dissolved parliament multiple times out of a fear that he would be ousted when they realized his successor was catholic
@Dio9sys He dissolved a religiously intolerant parliament who were consistently undermining things

Next you’ll be telling me that Cromwell was good actually and referring to the relatively prosperous personal rule of Charles I as “the Eleven Years Tyranny”
@Dio9sys Dissolving parliament was good and the fact he was able to do readily do it and transition to a period of personal rule shows how popular he was with the people were weren’t the backroom scheming Protestant supremacists in parliament
@Arcana @Dio9sys No offense but you seem to be conflating "deeply unpopular" with "bad"?
@november @Dio9sys he wasn’t deeply unpopular at all though, parliament isn’t representative of what people find popular now, and it certainly wasn’t representative then either
@november @Dio9sys Also the OP definitely seems to be considering unpopular here as bad
@Arcana @Dio9sys all OP did was make a shitpost that a lot of people took weirdly personal
@Dio9sys the difference is that in 2024 the rich r are the ones doing the piracy
@Dio9sys still disappointed that they didn’t take the opportunity to make the beloved Queen the last monarch with a role in the government

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Charles is no more unpopular than the outdated institution of class and aristocracy.

Doing away with monarchy is at best a good lesson on democracy, great, but would affect little else. The real subversions of democracy are capture of government by corporations and control of the economy by monopolies.

Parliament already took the monarchy's power, it is their obedience to corporate wealth that harms us.

@Dio9sys deeply different scales of unpopularity
King Charles III popularity 2023 | Statista

In August 2023, approximately 60 percent of people in Great Britain had a positive opinion of King Charles III, compared with 32 percent who had a negative opinion.

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@Dio9sys didn't they chop his top off?