Fen CJust in case anyone's unclear as to my position on this anachronistic bullsh:t pageantry.
Bookfairiecymru@fencoul It’s. It 8am and I’m already cringing at the relentless sycophancy. Why do the royal family get all this praise for being - people?! I’m glad people can have pleasant interactions with them but surely that’s their job.
StuartB@fencoul
In a functioning democracy, how can a person acquire a job because they can show direct line of descent from a warlord roving around Europe almost 1000 years ago.
How did he get the job?
He was his mother's eldest child.
She got the job because she was her father's eldest child.
He got the job because his brother quit.
He got the job because he was his father's eldest child.
It goes back like that, with occasional detours, for 960 years.
In a functioning democracy, how can a person acquire a job because they can show direct line of descent from a warlord roving around Europe almost 1000 years ago.
How did he get the job?
He was his mother's eldest child.
She got the job because she was her father's eldest child.
He got the job because his brother quit.
He got the job because he was his father's eldest child.
It goes back like that, with occasional detours, for 960 years.
@fencoul
No one voted for him, no one was allowed to vote for an alternative, the sole requirement for the job wasn't any actual ability but rather being the eldest son of the previous Monarch.
How is this possible in a functioning democracy?
Oh, wait...
No one voted for him, no one was allowed to vote for an alternative, the sole requirement for the job wasn't any actual ability but rather being the eldest son of the previous Monarch.
How is this possible in a functioning democracy?
Oh, wait...
Andii אַנדִֽי@stuartb Exactly ...
Mark Mason@markmason
@fencoul
Liz II managed to carve out exemptions in tax law, meaning that the Royals are often pretty much exempt from tax.
How much inheritance tax do you think Charlie paid?
@fencoul
Liz II managed to carve out exemptions in tax law, meaning that the Royals are often pretty much exempt from tax.
How much inheritance tax do you think Charlie paid?
👆 He has a high level of soft political power and influence. That's not the same as none. He weilds it unconstrained, exactly as he personally sees fit.
(The one that abdicated would've used it to support the NAZIs, for example = the holocaust.)
👆 So? You started out saying he didn't have *any*...
Patrick Hadfield@markmason @stuartb @fencoul the Royal family have massive political influence. They can lobby parliamentarians and, according to an MSP yesterday, are protected from having that information revealed.
@patrickhadfield @stuartb @fencoul they can ask for things and a complaint government will grant them. That’s privilege not power.
@markmason
@patrickhadfield @fencoul
Privilege and power are pretty much interchangable - they may not be exactly the same thing, but the end results are pretty much indistinguishable.
In effect, power is the ability to create a law, privilige is benefitting from that law, and they appear to have input into many laws, which they then benefit from.
Privilige or power, it doesn't matter -they benefit from laws, or exemptions to laws, that no one else does.
@patrickhadfield @fencoul
Privilege and power are pretty much interchangable - they may not be exactly the same thing, but the end results are pretty much indistinguishable.
In effect, power is the ability to create a law, privilige is benefitting from that law, and they appear to have input into many laws, which they then benefit from.
Privilige or power, it doesn't matter -they benefit from laws, or exemptions to laws, that no one else does.
@stuartb @patrickhadfield @fencoul in effect yes but only because those with real power, the ones we elect, make it happen.
AndrewHS
John Caveney woke is me🛠️
The Doctor Is In@fencoul
But he's touched the bracelets of sincerity and wisdom, and worn the glove of, um, purity and integrity! How can he NOT be our 'monarch'...?
But he's touched the bracelets of sincerity and wisdom, and worn the glove of, um, purity and integrity! How can he NOT be our 'monarch'...?