King Willem-Alexander calls slavery a "horror" and says sorry for his family's failure to act.
    • toothpaste_sandwich@feddit.nlEnglish
      91·
      1 year ago

      Heh, nice, subtle juxtaposition there.

      Reminds me of this little something I saw on a traffic light in Utrecht the other day:

      (In Dutch, sorry.)

        • nevalem@programming.devEnglish
          7·
          1 year ago

          Google lens gives:

          hello i am the king and you are a subject and i have money like water and you are the tap and you have big worries and I have another million and I’m going to tell you that we do it together

        • Drint@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
          5·
          1 year ago

          hello I am the king and you are a subject and I have money like water and you are the tap

          and you have big worries and I have another million and I’m going to tell you that we are in this together

        • Fnt@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
          4·
          1 year ago

          Roughly:

          I am the king
          You are below
          I got money as water
          You are the water tap

          You got big worries
          I got another million
          I am gonna tell you
          How we are gonna do it together

  • Wander@kbin.social
    21·
    1 year ago

    And at the same time, in 2023 this pointless family recieved a larger amount of tax payers money than before

  • sadreality@kbin.social
    11·
    1 year ago

    Ahh yes apologies… How about slavers, owners and their beneficiaries give up ill gotten gains…

    In US, we have talks of reparations but the momenent someone suggests that slave owners and their estates and crotch fruit pay for it… Not the wage slave taxpayers, conversations is quickly stopped.

    dAtS coMInism, pLz don’t SaY it, my family dindu nuffing mayne, and if they did, slaves deserved it. Why do you hate private property?!

    • InverseParallax@lemmy.world
      1·
      1 year ago

      Agreed, they deserve reparations, but the slavers also deserve to be punished.

      If they’d behaved after the civil war it would be one thing, but they were monsters with Jim crow and the kkk and they never once properly apologized.

      Unless you want to count thousands of statues of Nathan Bedford Forrest and everybody flying the confederate flag to be an apology, which I don’t.