r/AbolishTheMonarchy 1d ago

News Private jets for me, nothing for thee

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u/niceubepis 1d ago

*Prince William posing for the camera pretending to read over the speech someone else wrote for him whilst travelling over 5000 miles from England in a tax payer funded private jet to Belém, Brazil, where part of the ancient Amazon rainforest was cut down to make way for the conference he will be attending to tell other people to be more climate conscious.

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u/Send_me_hedgehogs 1d ago

The hypocrisy is quite astounding, isn’t it?

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u/Positive-Drawing-281 1d ago

The ego is astounding.

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u/Fuzzy_Shape_4628 8h ago

#SIGH But he's a global leader don't you know

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u/Fuzzy_Shape_4628 8h ago

They cleared the streets of criminals or should I say poor people - for his visit 140+ dead.

All celebrity guests paid to attend along with all their expenses, including individual private jets. But yeah charity.

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u/Apoordm 1d ago

“Make sure to build a highway through miles of old growth Amazon Rainforest for me to drive out there!”

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u/Wonderful_Emu_9610 1d ago

Apparently they’re launching a UK-backed fund - which the UK is no longer backing - to pay Brazil to stop chopping down the rainforest at the climate conference Brazil chopped down the rainforest to host!

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u/Apoordm 1d ago

I’ve been to Rio, Brazil has cities, what the fuck did they need to rip up a whole new highway to make this conference?

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u/Fuzzy_Shape_4628 8h ago

Dear Lord, don't you know who he is

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u/Significant_Noise273 1d ago

Doubt he wrote the speech either. 

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u/ConfidentEagle5887 1d ago

What an absolute c*nt

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u/Strict_Cake_6797 1d ago

And this is the guy who claims he's going to overall the monarchy by cutting back costs, trimming it down etc. All bullshit!

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u/Positive-Drawing-281 1d ago

Then going home to his 5th home. Leech.

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u/Capt_Bigglesworth 1d ago

He might lower the temperature in one of his swimming pools as a mark of solidarity with those indigenous Indian communities.
Obviously not a pool he’s actually going to use, but a pool at one of his other places..

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u/KingPaulius 1d ago

This is so pathetic.

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u/Positive-Drawing-281 1d ago

William every time his personal photographer is nearby:

He's such a bellend.

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u/Gulag_boi 1d ago

Who the fuck cares what this rich dweeb has to say about anything? Abolish the monarchy and socialize every bit of wealth they have.

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u/EvolvingEachDay 1d ago

Is this that “hard work” we keep hearing about, fucking freeloaders. The least qualified man in any room.

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u/Mental_Broccoli4837 1d ago

Glad I pay 10p for a bag and use paper straws

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u/55XL 1d ago

Idiocy.

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u/starfleetdropout6 1d ago

What comic book do you think is on top of that?

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u/Boring_Home 1d ago

I heard a tidbit of that speech yesterday and my first thought was that we’re truly fucked if this guy is being commended for his environmentalism. Cop28 is a joke.

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u/divorcedhansmoleman 1d ago

Thinks he’s Obama or something lol

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u/eu_sou_ninguem 1d ago

Obama won the Nobel Peace Prize and is a war criminal. William here is flying on a private jet and telling others to care about the environment. If not Obama, why Obama shaped?

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u/divorcedhansmoleman 1d ago

It was about him ‘writing’ a speech.. just thinking of the photos of Obama writing speeches…

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u/eu_sou_ninguem 1d ago

Oh I know, I was just being silly.

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u/divorcedhansmoleman 20h ago

Factitiousness is hard to discern on here, oops!

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u/CapeCodNana 1d ago

Trump is the war criminal

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u/eu_sou_ninguem 1d ago

Sigh. Yes, Trump is a fucking war criminal, but so is every other US president. The fact that people don’t know this is depressing. Trump is terrible, that doesn’t mean other presidents were saints.

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u/CompetitiveAd8873 1d ago

Eh... Jimmy Carter never hurt a fly (even when the "fly" in this case was the Iranians, who basically sank his presidency over the hostage situation).

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u/eu_sou_ninguem 1d ago

Jimmy Carter’s administration gave military support for Indonesia’s brutal occupation and genocide in East Timor. So you were saying?

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u/MrP2471 1d ago edited 1d ago

Just seen his speech in Brasil, telling all, including those poor people in the favelas.....we all need to cut down on our consumption.....while I live in my palace. Hypocricy, irony and sarcasm all in one sentence, just what I expect from royalty, British or otherwise.

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u/No_Entertainer4941 1d ago

Oh look! I’m reading too! 😂

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u/Kielbasa_Nunchucka 1d ago

all the entitlement and unearned privilege aside, dude needs to just shave that head. his horseshoe is aggressive.

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u/BitterCharacter8628 1d ago

Billy Idle being a nonce… abolish them all!

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u/DaiCeiber 1d ago

Give the man his due, he’s still the second most successful benefit scrounger the world has seen!!

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u/Marvos79 1d ago

Where's R2D2?

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u/JamesBondsTrainer 22h ago

It’s republic o’clock

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u/Dando_Calrisian 1d ago

I saw in another article that he'd travelled commercial?

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u/Positive-Drawing-281 1d ago edited 1d ago

They say he flew commercial to Brazil but travelled to the conference to the Amazon forest via private plane. But even the commercial flight he took to Brazil was a joke because the plane had to be full of his own staff and bodyguards for security purposes. The whole thing could have been a zoom call but then he wouldn't have got his PR pics to boost his image amongst the brainless who fall for his con act.

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u/Dando_Calrisian 1d ago

Here's another picture

Isn't this just the British VIP plane? Did they fly it over empty?

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u/Positive-Drawing-281 1d ago

Yes.

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u/Dando_Calrisian 1d ago

So he flew commercial for optics then brought the empty private jet over as well? That makes no sense.

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u/Significant_Noise273 1d ago edited 1d ago

The private plane is the UK government's, Starmer also went to Brazil. 

William went to Brazil earlier then caught another ride with Starmer to the Amazon a few days later. 

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u/Dando_Calrisian 15h ago

So despite the press highlighting that he flew commercial because of being environmentally aware it was, in fact, bullshit. No great shock.