Only in the sense that the Royal Estate makes money, and it's very debateable whether they 'deserve' to have that or if it counts as 'theirs'.
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Only in the sense that the Royal Estate makes money, and it's very debateable whether they 'deserve' to have that or if it counts as 'theirs'.
attackfighter
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Unless you're some type of insane communist who's against inheritance, there's no debate whatsoever. I guess there could be debate about how much tax they pay on it, but asides from that it's a total non-issue and deserves no discussion.
Well, it's rather ill-gotten gains, since it was seized at the point of a baguette by her distant ancestors.
Probably ought to point since AF isn't around that often that I'm probably the most ardent monarchist on this forum: I love her really; this is just banter.
Mr. Dictator
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What a small world you live in. Wanna join us in the real one? We all upgraded to technicolor a while ago.
G-Max
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We profit enormously from tourists enjoying everything Disney.
Which has absolutely nothing to do with your government.
You have the ConDem coalition in power, you don't get to talk.
And Somalia, too, but that's hardly something to brag about, is it?We have the distinct advantage of not having elected either our head of state or our head of government and we're still doing better than Belgium.
attackfighter
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So you're saying that you shouldn't be allowed to exploit others to gain wealth? If so you're about on par with a rabid communist, like I said earlier. (also please reply I want to hear your proper view)
As for your support of monarchy. Well I can respect that view, since it's at least better than being ruled by ******** peasants (democracy).
Honestly though I don't see why people care. It's not like their lives will improve if the monarchy is abolished/preserved. It's yet another first world problem to distract peasants from their boring lives.
Well, until we actually get the government we voted for, I'll go with what I can get.
And even if you did, you still wouldn't have an elected head of government
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Our government just extended the copyright (or is it a trademark?) on Mickey Mouse by another 75 years. They're totally in Disney's pockets.
attackfighter
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Well that's not so bad. Imagine if the trademark on <something good> ended, then you'd get a bunch of <crap> written by hacks cashing in on it's popularity... and it'd be canon. Just look at StarWars and assume it's an example.
The point being that we don't normally consider stolen goods to be rightful property, even after inheritance. Since it's very obvious that said goods were stolen from the British People (yes, I know!), then due legal process should remove them from the thief and return them to their rightful owner, right?
I'll probably be quite unpopular for saying that the Coalition as it stands is much better than a Conservative government, a fair bit better than a Lib Dem government (Clegg as Prime Minister?), and infinitely prefereable to a Labour government.
attackfighter
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They didn't steal it in the legal sense, so legally there's no grounds to deprive them of it.
You can only consider it stolen in the sense that they exploited other people to gain it. And if you think that's a justifiable reason to break up an estate, than you might as well break up all large estates, since they were all built on exploitation in one way or another. And if you do that, you might as well start calling yourself a Bolshevik. There's no sane reason to abolish the monarchy.
Mr. Dictator
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And on the other side, many could use the image to do great things.
Opposing hereditary power is COMMUNIST.
Feel free to flesh out your argument soon.
attackfighter
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Feel free to flesh out your argument soon.
