• D_C
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    62 hours ago

    “Our client denies all charges of sexual abuse, as well as the majority of the charges regarding violence. He will present a detailed account of his version of events before the court.”

    “Look. Now. Listen, let me explain. I only violently abused them a little bit. We’ve all done that. Right? It was just a tiny bit of violence!!”

    • @[email protected]
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      52 hours ago

      He already publicly apologized for hitting his ex while high on coke, so he can’t deny everything.

  • @[email protected]
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    21 hour ago

    I don’t know why Norwegians are up in Arms because a royal is being a traditionalist and honors his viking ancestry.

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    3 hours ago

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

  • @[email protected]
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    4110 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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      31 hour ago

      They don’t deserve all this media attention just because they got a lucky birth

      While I agree with you in principle, this guy in particular didn’t have a lucky birth. His parents were not aristocrats, his father is a felon and didn’t stick around, his mother raised him alone at first. His grandparents on the mothers side are divorced and his grandpa is also a felon.

      However when he was four and a half his mother married into the royal house. So he would have had a privileged upbringing from then on. So he’s still super fucked up, to piss it into the wind with violent crime.

    • @[email protected]
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      106 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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    11815 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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      14 hours ago

      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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    1812 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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      14 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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      1611 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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        810 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.