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5d ago

Now this is how we treat monarchs

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American 'monarch' will be selling you cheap Chinese goods with his name on it while yelling at brown people.

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.
  
  Notice that they never deny it, they just deflect.

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...

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.
  
  Interesting thought just like when you think about time traveling and killing baby Hitler.
- Remember wiping out a dynasty means you will be murdering at least one child "Sorry kid your dad's the former king. Face the wall"

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.

All of the hierarchies are bad, the real galaxy brain ideology is anarchist mutualism.
- It seems to me that well organized systems will always triumph over less organized system by nature of them being better organized.
- based. Im voting for this dude in November.

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.

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.

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