• axx@slrpnk.net
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    1 day ago

    French president holding to shred of relevancy and noteworthiness tries to coopt national success he had nothing to do with. Now to our main story tonight, is the weather getting colder?

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      8 hours ago

      Well, in UK the queen was used to make lords people that had great merit for the nation: Sir Sinclair for the quite popular zx spectrum and Sir Terry Prachett for amazing narrative, on turtle, universe he crafted.

      I don’t remember there was any requirements on political side (queen or parliament) to acknowledge people’s merit to the nation.