imagine having a MONARCHY in the year of our lord 2020, lmao
fucking netherlands, didn't even start with a king, keeps theirs
fucking belgium, king's grandda or whatever did genocide in the Congo, wtf
fucking Scandinavia wtf ur kings suck get rid of them it isn't 1320 anymore
fucking SPAIN my god ur king was put there by a fascist get a grip
and England, fuckssake, first ones to behead the fuckers, yet now the most attached to that dessicated corpse named Lizard or something, truly the most feebled people: getting shown up by puritan genociders 😑
There's only one thing more cucked than having a Monarch, and it's having a Monarch who doesn't even live in your country, or care that you exist. It's findom on the international scale.
This means you: Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Jamaica, Barbados , The Bahamas, Grenada, Papua New Guinea, the Solomon Islands, Tuvalu, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Belize, Antigua and Barbuda, and Saint Kitts and Nevis.
Legit question I have since long ago: All those tiny islands, wtf is their economy like? I just really don't get it.
Yeah, but did you see The Crown on Netflix? It's stressful being queen
I'm genuinely positive that our country is gonna think about becoming a republic when our queen dies. Both her sons are the royal equivalent of fail-children and enjoy only a fraction of the support that she does. Somehow she is also a voice telling our most fervent nationalists to stop being mean to polish people, which lasted for roughly a week.
i will pour one out if that happens but i do not share your confidence at all
Might be too optimistic, but our Crown Prince is mostly considered an idiot and even among the Conservatives I am starting to see more and more republican ideas. The sole saving grace for the royals might actually be the future Queen, as most royalists seem to like her, atleast of the ones I've spoken to.
Denmark. Our queen is Margrethe II and her son is called Frederik. The crown princess is from Tasmania and the daughter of a rich guy who became a university professor. But yes, most of what I said in the original comment also applies to England, funnily enough.
i totally interpreted your comment in the light of england omg
still tracks haha
how dare you say theyre fail children they are TIER 1 OPERATORS and you BETTER respect their service
Fuck, I forgot I was insulting not only the future king, but also a failson who went through Special Forces training. I'm sure that will make him worth the 1 million dollars he will roughly get every year, since he is appointed by God to take my money or some fucking shit.
Wait what, most people like Frederik it seems and think he would be a "cool" king or whatever? Do agree that most people dislike the idea of a monarchy in general tho
I'd like to be smug about Finland not having royals, but back in 1917 we wanted to fit in with all the other Nordic countries and be a constitutional monarchy. We even had some German baron or count guy lined up to be King but he declined the job after Germany ate shit in WWI
liechtenstein isn't a country it's a tax shelter and money laundering operation
fucking SPAIN my god ur king was put there by a fascist get a grip
lol, I know right.
ACTUALLY a lot of people over 60 chose that over said fascist dictatorship 2.0; so everything is peachy and we will remain like that for millenia.
I've talked to European Marxist Leninists who hate American and EU imperialism but somehow think their local monarchs are still good. The one good about America is that at least here we hate kings
The UK royal family is the most evil family in world history. No other group of people have overseen so much death and destruction as them
Well, excuse me, just because our former king was a bumbling sex-crazed, money-laundering buffon who hunts elephants and killed his brother; doesn't mean our current one will also be a meanie.
Ah, si, el tipo que manda a apalear viejos votando (como modo de protesta) y después sale diciendo "esto fue su culpa".
La concha de la lora cómo nadie les cortó la cabeza la san putísima
Which countries do these monarchies actually have power? I'm getting tired of googling them all and pretending to understand a parliamentary government.
doesn't matter; the state pays to upkeep a buncha pompous goons i dont care if they can launch nukes or not
Which countries do these monarchies actually have power?
Direct political power? Lichtenstein, Luxembourg, and Monaco all still have monarchs with significant direct political power.
Indirect political power? Well, all of the monarchies are rich as shit so...EDIT: Also the UK monarch literally removed an Australian Prime Minister (and dissolved the Aus Parliament) in 1975, and still has the power to do it again.
Indirect political power? Well, all of the monarchies are rich as shit so…
Their ceremonial roles also tend to give them a lot of access to powerful people, and a lot of prestige.
Also the UK monarch literally removed an Australian Prime Minister (and dissolved the Aus Parliament) in 1975, and still has the power to do it again.
That was the governor-general, who afaik is only nominally under the control of the monarch. To all intents and purposes they are appointed by the prime minister and use their powers independently. I think that's how it works in all of the non-UK countries that have the British monarch as their head of state.
Anyway the current British royals only seem to be interested in using their influence for stupid shit like promoting homeopathy and interfering with random building projects (and protecting their own status and wealth of course).
Good edit. Everytime someone says the queen is just a figure head for our country I scream and scream about Whitlam until they leave me alone forever.
Yeah, I understand that she's just a rubber stamp, but that's just a threat, you know? Also, the CIA influence is whack as fuck, and we know Charles had some idea about the dismissal (read coup) before it happened.
Sure indirect monetary power. Thanks for clarifying, i was curious about literal "i can make laws and change the course of the country" type power.
Good point, forgot that it's technically an elective absolute monarchy...over like 500 people.
Hey now don’t sell il Papa short, he’s also the spiritual monarch of over a billion people!
And sure, the overwhelming majority of them just pick and choose whether they feel like listening to anything he says, but they still pay taxes to him so really it’s not much different from the other European royals.
English crown has direct rule over Northern Ireland. Its Parliament was suspended because it was something like ~50% Sinn Fien and they couldn't form a government.
English crown has direct rule over Northern Ireland
No it doesn't.
Its Parliament was suspended because it was something like ~50% Sinn Fien and they couldn’t form a government.
They formed a government in January. The reason they didn't have one prior to that is because Sinn Féin pulled out of the power-sharing agreement with the DUP, mostly over the Cash for Ash scandal (which was as stupid as it sounds), and they failed to reach an agreement to restore it for a long time. Their system of government requires at least the two largest parties to form a coalition government - other parties can join it if they want to - and that has consistently been the DUP and Sinn Féin in recent years.
Also when the assembly and executive are suspended they're just ruled by the UK government in basically the same way that they rule over England. They aren't directly ruled by the monarch.
It's still pretty wild to me that Swedes appointed Marshal Bernadotte to be their king.
okay critical support for the swedes but that takes no heat off the rest of scandinaia
Its so funny because those same racist asshole never talk shit IRL tournaments. Beat the shit out a chud in 3rd strike @ CEO and the dude was about to explode.
if a european ever tries to act superior to americans, just ask them their opinion on gypsies and then you can also see how they are soulless fascists too<3
in saying that, as a gypsy, still would rather live in greece again than america. but alas! my point still stands
I would rather live in a constitutional monarchy than whatever the fuck hellscape america is :)
