[dofm]

> so maybe you shouldn't criticize them lest the coppers show up at your doorstep.

Not sure what you imagine the UK is like but we literally don't have lèse majesté laws, so there is no legal basis for that to happen. It does not happen. (And no, merely saying it online isn't a basis either).

Apart from stupid comedy overreactions at the coronation protests that exasperated us all and saw significant pushback (our police lean so firmly against use of force at protests that they sometimes do silly things in the name of stopping "disruption"), we have a rich, varied, centuries-long tradition of being able to soundly criticise our monarchy.

Indeed we did so with such efficiency recently that our king actually listened and took his own brother's title, powers and roles away.

Meanwhile there are people in the USA fighting lawsuits over being falsely imprisoned for saying true things about Charlie Kirk.

[codeduck]

You're arguing with people who don't understand the word Parliament in the term "Parliamentary Democracy". Just nod, tut, and move on, it will be better for your mental health.

[dofm]

Funnily enough I am OK about this stuff, these days.

It would be absurd to pretend that we don't have problems; we obviously have problems. And things are extremely bad right now, especially with our former transatlantic friends actively agitating the situation.

But internationally it has got a lot easier to see our problems with clarity in the last year and a half, and a lot easier to argue that every significant country has its difficulties.

[SanjayMehta]

They keep saying Trump has been impeached twice but he's still around. Does impeach mean something else in American English?

I don't understand why he's labelled as "impeached" when the final outcome was acquitted.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_impeachment_of_Donald_T...