• Ilovethebomb@lemm.ee
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    3 months ago

    When someone says they don’t like to discuss politics, it often means they don’t want to discuss them with the type of person that says shit like this.

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      13 hours ago

      As someone living in one, fuck that.

      Someone being born out of one particular vagina shouldn’t determine his life as being able to dictate what I do!

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        12 hours ago

        shouldn’t determine his life as being able to dictate what I do!

        That’s not a constitutional monarchy.

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          12 hours ago

          It is, because a constitutional monarch signs laws, thereby helping them become effective.

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            9 hours ago

            Laws are rarely, if ever blocked, provided everything is going well

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        3 months ago

        Exactly. In America, the supreme court is answerable to the president (Trump) who changes every four years on a whim of democracy which is fragile.

        In the UK, everyone is answerable to the King who changes every few decades- and we always know who the next will be. And they don’t get involved in politics either.

        The first step towards fascism would be to replace the King

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            3 months ago

            The Lords can veto the prime minister if he intents to stop democracy. If the Lords are compromised, then the King can

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          2 months ago

          And they don’t get involved in politics either.

          Tell me you know nothing about British politics without telling me you know nothing about British politics.

          https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_spider_memos

          Not to mention that that’s a ridiculous viewpoint in the first place, everything and everybody is political.

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            2 months ago

            So an heir apparent - not the monarch wrote a few minor letters to the government. That’s nothing compared to other people being corrupt.

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    3 months ago

    There are cool people in the UK, just like the United States, but I will have to say, the UK is fucking weak. It’s so stupid and submissive. And the intelligence department inside of the UK is similar to Israel in that it spies on citizens of other countries for the country that it’s spying on. It’s like a VPN for Imperialism.