• Son_of_dad@lemmy.world
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      9 months ago

      “these inbred, pedophilic, half alive cretins are your monarchy! They are your betters, bow to them and pay their bills!”

      It is absolutely moronic that we haven’t dragged every king on earth off his throne, made them private citizens and kicked them off the government payroll

      Edit: for anyone downvoting, my comment was light. What I actually believe is that once they are dragged them off the throne, they should be executed and tossed in the river. But I know that’s a bit far for 2024

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        9 months ago

        But I know that’s a bit far for 2024

        Thats polluting the river bro!

        Compost the wealthy.

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        9 months ago

        The far bigger issue is land owners in general.

        Targetting the Royal family and them alone will solve nothing. I’m pretty sure all their land money goes to the state anyway doesn’t it?

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          They’re pretty much the American military of landowners, in that they own more land than the next 10+ biggest land owners combined.

          And no, I’m pretty sure that the majority of the income from their… mimes big bosoms vast tracts of land goes to them rather than the country as a whole. They’re one of the biggest public funds black holes in the world, just like the aforementioned military.

          You could feed, clothe and house every person in the UK for the rest of their lives with just a fraction of the land and riches that the royal leeches are hoarding.

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        9 months ago

        We did that with some of them. But there are also a lot of ‘royalists’ out there.

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      9 months ago

      I can’t speak from the British Commonwealth perspective, but from a Swedish perspective my opinion is this regarding having a monarch:

      Yeah, it might not reflect our modern values well, but since the (Swedish) monarch is mostly ceremonial and completely unpolitical, there’s actually quite little to hate about it. They’re just the mascot of the country. There’s far more pressing issues in our country than having that confused old guy as head of state.

      At least he doesn’t possess nuclear launch codes.

      • sugartits@lemmy.world
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        9 months ago

        there’s actually quite little to hate about it

        Where does their money come from?

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          9 months ago

          I don’t know about Sweden, but the UK monarch is an aristocrat that owns loads of land, businesses, trusts, etc, and his money comes from that. At least, he gets to keep about a quarter of it; the rest goes to the Government.

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        9 months ago

        In Sweden that might be true. But in the UK the monarch has some vestigial power. Even though everyone assures that if he ever tried to actually use those powers they would be taken away. But it doesn’t change the fact that in the UK the monarch still has power.

    • Chainweasel@lemmy.world
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      9 months ago

      Let’s see where we’re at after November before we start shit talking too much.
      There’s a very high chance that if Trump wins, he’ll make himself a monarch