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teep_
10/22/21 1:52:26 PM
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https://edition.cnn.com/2021/10/22/americas/barbados-elects-first-president-intl-hnk/index.html

Barbados has elected its first-ever president to replace Britain's Queen Elizabeth as head of state, in a decisive step toward shedding the Caribbean island's colonial past.

Sandra Mason was elected late on Wednesday by a two-thirds vote of a joint session of the country's House of Assembly and Senate. In a statement, the government called her appointment a milestone on its "road to republic."

A former British colony that gained independence in 1966, the nation of just under 300,000 had long maintained ties with the United Kingdom's monarchy.

But many Barbadians have long agitated to remove the Queen's status -- and with it, the lingering symbolic presence of imperialism over its governance. Multiple leaders this century have proposed that the country become a republic.

That will finally happen on November 30, the country's 55th anniversary of independence from Britain, when Mason will be sworn in.

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Questionmarktarius
10/22/21 1:53:31 PM
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Nice.
Monarchies are obsolete, assuming they ever did have a useful purpose.
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CyricZ
10/22/21 1:53:32 PM
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Hey that's great!

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ZevLoveDOOM
10/22/21 1:53:47 PM
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good, fuck that king and queen shit! the medieval ages have been dead for... ages! lol
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TheMikh
10/22/21 1:54:51 PM
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i wonder if they'll nominate rihanna as their new queen

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Tyranthraxus
10/22/21 1:54:56 PM
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Ehehe

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Doom_Art
10/22/21 1:55:15 PM
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Very good. I only hope Canada follows the same path some day.

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Itachi157
10/22/21 1:56:11 PM
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Pretty based.
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Criminalt
10/22/21 1:56:50 PM
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I'm a Brit, but it's the grown-up thing for a country to do. Even if the move's almost purely symbolic and makes no difference whatsoever to who governs it or how.

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Master_Bass
10/22/21 1:57:24 PM
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Questionmarktarius posted...
Nice.
Monarchies are obsolete, assuming they ever did have a useful purpose.


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