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American ‘monarch’ will be selling you cheap Chinese goods with his name on it while yelling at brown people.
The UKs more: have monarch, cut head off monarch, create republic/military dictatorship, regret said dictatorship, install monarch, slowly siphon away power of monarch.
The Commonwealth of England could have been a great idea if they’d planned ahead and thought everything out, but considering the kind of people in charge I’m quite glad they didn’t…
So glad china get rid of monarch so they could have a real dictator.
Your country pretends to be democracy while you vote for 2 capitalist parties bootlicking the rich.
Ohh, and what country could that be?
Are people still pretending the US is a Democracy?
I’m in the US, and no serious person that I know actually thinks that. Plus, a bunch of the non serious people keep saying inane nonsense like “We are a republic, not a democracy”, demonstrating that they neither know nor care what system we use.
Yes people still pretend that, I don’t know where you live that you think nobody pretends that.
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I’ll bite, where do you know I live?
Why would I know that? I literally said I don’t know where you live.
You said people pretend that you don’t know where I live
I see, I was using voice to text so there should be a comma after the first that. However even without it, it still doesn’t say what you’re implying. You’re having to remove words to make yours even marginally plausible.
Yes people still pretend that.
I don’t know where you live, that you think nobody pretends that.
American exceptionalism is alive and well.
The prevailing opinion, if not that the US remains as a functional democracy, that it once was functional as a democracy, but has become broken and in need of repair.
The pivotal question is when, if ever, did it ever even come close to fulfilling its own ideals as a democracy.
Depending on your social status there’s good arguments to be made that the US has never been a functional democracy.
The US was founded on slavery and genocide. When elections were implemented, four percent only of the population was granted suffrage, propertied white men.
I always wonder at what particular point the US is believed to have become democratic, since its founders clearly maintained a deep enthusiasm for racism, sexism, and aristocracy.
I guess, it’s always been a democracy amongst the oligarchy. Though actually I’m pretty sure that’s not true either.
Better 250 years of imperfect Democracy than millennia Monarchy.
The last time we were close to fulfilling is a democracy is when we were instituting civil rights, workers rights, and social security. Idk the 1990s was kind of weird and cool. It was the sweet fruit of all that work right before it would go to rot. We still support our democratic ideals at a local level. At least us small town people, who are too insignificant to attract the attention of an establishment party. We can still vote for our neighbors to run the show.
Notice that they never deny it, they just deflect.
I think France and/or USSR win this one. No monarchs, “re-educated” or not.
I think it’s pretty fucked up to shoot children in a basement, personally. Nobody picks their family.
That’s fair.
Forgot to mention monarchies are a pox
Interesting thought just like when you think about time traveling and killing baby Hitler.
I’d argue the big distinction there is we know what Hitler did; we’ll never know what the Romanov children would have done had they lived.
Would Hitler have gone on to do what he did if someone had liked his paintings?
What if you went back in time and bought up all Hitler’s art and got him into art school?
Our maybe told the Allies not to be huge Dickson after the first world war…
Ah right the Nazis were the real victims.
Fuck off with the Nazi propaganda/revisionism.
The scandi countries mostly kept their monarchs but made them take regular jobs iirc
No, they still get funded by the public. But only the people in the direct line of succession. The majority of the royal families do need jobs.
India/pakistan/Bangladesh did that, but let them have wealth, but next to no power.
This is a good example of how we should treat all massive wealth: take it away and make the billionaire live at the bottom of the system they make.
Isn’t this kinda omitting the fact Pu Yi ruled Manchukuo before the whole “reeducation camp” thing?
He was mostly just a puppet though. Can’t say he really ruled.
All of the hierarchies are bad, the real galaxy brain ideology is anarchist mutualism.
Germany just turned its nobility into bureaucrats, capitalists, military, civil servants and political leaders… so same shit, different system.
Only losing WWI had us abolish nobility and by then the transformation of power through birth to power through money and influence had already happened.
