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    36 minutes ago

    he has a very punchable face. look at that smug pampered asshole.

  • @[email protected]
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    347 hours ago

    Frankly, I wish we just abolished the damn monarchy already. I hate that we still have kings and queens in a democratic country even if they are just ceremonial. They don’t deserve all this media attention just because they got a lucky birth

    Treat all of them as one would any other citizen and be done with it. Unfortunately, the monarchy still faces popular support towards existing, though I hope it changes sooner or later

    • @[email protected]
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      94 hours ago

      The birth doesn’t even have any relevance to be part of a royal family. I might remember this wrong, but last time I was in Stockholm I went to the armoury museum or whatever its called. There was a small tidbit almost hidden in some big paragraph about a Swedish royal who had no kids and therefore no heir. He went ahead and just adopted a random French general (I think) who then by extension became a real royal person.

      I actually just looked it up now, it was a Swedish king who had no children, adopted this French guy, who then became Swedish king himself: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_XIV_John

      So from then on the Swedish royal family wasn’t technically Swedish anymore? I didn’t check who he married and had kids with though.

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    10712 hours ago

    As a Norwegian of some age, this entire case was one of the most jarring news stories I’ve encountered.

    Imagine following the news in the early 2000s. Our crown prince found love among the (extremely) common people, and got married to a woman who had a small child. Royalist tightbutts are pissing themselves at the breach of tradition but the rest of the country is charmed by the heartwarming love affair.

    News plastered for months and months of of a couple in love, and Marius the cuutest tiny blonde litte boy barely out of diapers and being adorable everywhere. And it fades out.

    20-something years pass, and news are going on about something “Marius Høiby…”

    Omg! I remember him! He was the cutes- WHAT THE FUCK

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      I hate that our media has started dishing out any and all details including heresay for months when some court case or investigation of notoriety is going on. If it is a missing billionaires wife, a raping gynocologist, resurfacing of the same 30 year old murdered kids every 3 years or whatnot it is at the top of the newspapers for months. I don’t want to read about that shit.

      I don’t want assholes to get famous after doing illegal shenanigans. I would much rather read news about a farmer saving his horse. Or even shaving his horse which auto correct wanted me to type for that matter.

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    1610 hours ago

    this is shitty but it seems like a moment to see how Norway’s corrective model for justice will work in an extreme case. I hope Norway can follow through with what they’ve been trying to do here

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      12 hours ago

      his face has something uncanny about him

      some kind of birth defect or just extreme drug abuse for years?

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      139 hours ago

      I was thinking he looks almost too much like what some bad movie would cast as a eurotrash douche villain.

      • Underfreyja
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        78 hours ago

        I mean… He do be a real life euro trash douche villain. Maybe he looked at those characters and was like: You know what? I like this style.

  • aramis87
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    612 hours ago

    Høiby is alleged to have raped four women between 2018 and November 2024. All the alleged assaults allegedly took place after consensual intercourse while the women were sleeping.

    I hope this goes better than Assange’s trial went.

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    210 hours ago

    Always the ones you most expect…

    Just me or does he look like the love child of Matt Damon and Dominique Pinon from City of Lost Children?