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      Thus suffers from the same problem “Adolescence” did; the writing and role is believable enough and the actor looks like they could be as despicable… but then you somehow don’t believe the actor to be that big of a cunt.

      Joffrey doesn’t suffer from that, Jack Gleeson is such a brilliant actor I never doubted he could be such a massive cunt. But I know he isn’t. But he made me believe it.

      Like Eddie and the kid in Adolescence both have too much humanity showing through.

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      Immediately thought this, but there’s something worse about him (which makes sense, since Eddie is a character played by an actor who, I’m guessing, isn’t actually a vile and pathetic person).

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      Keep in mind he is literally a child of the unprivileged commoners, so poking at his origins or genetics is not “punching up”. His mom is from a lower class family with drug and alcohol abuse problems, and she had him before meeting the prince.

      Just poke at his personality or actions. There’s plenty there.

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    What an absolute piece of shit, I hope his “rank” doesn’t stop him from going to jail…

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    It’s so freaking weird that in 2025 we still have these inbred families we’re supposed to believe are better than all of us and we should worship them because, reasons. And even worse, there are a bunch of people who like having a family of useless people to worship and will continue to defend monarchy

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      To be faaaaaaaair, he’s not inbred, he’s a result of a prior relationship before his mom married the prince.

      More like elevated white trash, really.

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    I know nothing about this guy aside from this headline but that checks out.

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    People are surprised monarchs are rapists. Centuries of inbreeding do not produce healthy minds.

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      Just FYI, he is the crown princess’s son, from before she was married to the crown prince. He isn’t part of the royal family or their blood line. He’s just a pos stain that won’t take responsibility for his actions or life. He’s a sad sad person.

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          … No? That is not how a bastard works. She married into the royal family but had a kid before. A bastard would be her having an affair and giving birth to a kid while married into the family already. Or the prince fathering a kid with someone else other than the wife. This is just “a kid from a previous marriage / relationship”.

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            That is not how a bastard works. To be clear, all of this is archaic, I’m not actually calling anybody a bastard, but the definition of bastard is “a child born to parents who are not married to each other.” He matches that definition because his parents were never married.

            Affairs don’t come into it, it’s just some old bullshit cultural and religious ideals about which types of relationships (just the one: heterosexual marriages) children are “supposed” to be born into.

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              Were his parents not married? The statement above doesn’t say that, just that she had him prior to her current marriage. People can be married multiple times.

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                Yeah, he was reportedly conceived in a casual encounter. His parents weren’t in an ongoing relationship and the father didn’t remain very involved in either of their lives.

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      Generational wealth and power, does not produce healthy minds.

      The inbreeding was a side effect of an already broken system.

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      I don’t think he’s anywhere in the line of succession regardless. He’s the son of the Crown Princess (by marriage) but not of the Crown Prince. i.e. His mother had him as a result of a prior relationship, then married the Crown Prince, making him the stepson of the man who will one day be king, but not really anything on his own account. Besides a rapist.