The Queen / The Monarchy

[Pale Rider]

No that's just your cognitive dissonance and blinkered view blinding you to your actual words, which are suffused with arrogance of a MSN who thinks he is right about everything, but never actually says anything worth saying.

Another one for the meaningless bullshit library of Tool phrases.

 

[mudsticks]

This means f**k all to me pal!

Have you got an answer then, what harm does having the Monarchy do to anyone you know then?

Why has it always got to be 'direct harm to someone you know' with you.??

Once again this is a forum about 'politics' and current affairs..
That's 'bigger picture' and 'society' matters.

Not just "A bad thing that happened to a mate of mine"

If you really can't understand or tolerate this, really can't cope with other people actually talking about politics (the subject of this forum) then maybe go elsewhere. ??

Tho I'm sure you'd be heartily missed, by someone 🧐

 

[multitool]

Another one for the meaningless bullshit library of Tool phrases.

No, just a few sentences that most people, except you, understand perfectly. You are Shep, but with a huge unmerited level of conceit.

Still waiting for your reasons why monarchy is beneficial to nation...

 

[Ian H]

God save the King!

Comedy gold.

 

[Pale Rider]

Comedy gold.

Nah, the class sketch with Cleese, Barker, and Corbett is comedy gold.

Mind, you have (unknowingly) alighted on another benefit of the monarchy.

Given all of society's ills are their fault, we wouldn't have those glorious few minutes of comedy were it not for our Royal Family.

God save Cleese, Barker, and Corbett - and the King!

 

[multitool]

Given all of society's ills are their fault,

Now resorting to hyperbolic misrepresentation.

 

[All uphill]

Why?

What exactly in your eyes does 'it' stand for?

What affect does it have on you or anyone close to you, do you lose money due to the 'institution' or know anyone who has been harmed due to 'it'?

I'm just trying to understand any other reason for the bitterness you people have if it isn't jealousy of some sort.

As others have said I don't personally have to suffer to despise something. When I see someone verbally or physically abusing someone else I despise that.

The institution of royalty, to me, still is the enduring face of empire, with all it's ills and the whole colonial enterprise. Let me give you an example. There is a Monument near me that celebrates the reign of Victoria and the 'restoration of peace' in South Africa a long time ago. That peace involved the death of many, many young British men in a war to preserve the British Empire and the Empress.

The institution of royalty still epitomises hereditary inequality - in other words unearned privilege. Getting a bigger share of the pie, not because of special achievements or virtue, but simply because of an accident of birth.

I am not envious or jealous of the position Royals find themselves in; I enjoy a quiet and comfortable life like many boomers who had the benefit of a good education and health care system. I am distressed at the position people at the bottom of the pile find themselves in now.

I am surprised that the dissonance between hard working people struggling and the Royals is only now registering with younger people.

 

[multitool]

As others have said I don't personally have to suffer to despise something.

Great post

 

[All uphill]

Great post

Thanks.

Pissing in the wind, no doubt.

 

[Ian H]

Thanks.

Pissing in the wind, no doubt.

Meientis in ventum.

 

[Unkraut]

but ironically your failure at school can probably be traced back to low aspirations

If memory serves me right Shep has reached quite dizzying heights in his career.

They may return when time and circumstances allow, but with different views informed by their life experience in the meantime.

You mean they start off as devotees of the Socialist Workers' Party, and 4 decades later take their seat in the House of Lords.

 

[newfhouse]

If memory serves me right Shep has reached quite dizzying heights in his career.

You mean they start off as devotees of the Socialist Workers' Party, and 4 decades later take their seat in the House of Lords.

HoL apart, I must be getting younger as I get older.

 

[theclaud]

The monarchy only exist by the consent of the people

Repeating the same horseshit a thousand times doesn't make it true, you know.

 

[Pale Rider]

Repeating the same horseshit a thousand times doesn't make it true, you know.

Let's have the contra argument.

Clue: stamping your feet and saying I hate the monarchy won't cut it.

 

[Deleted member 28]

I am distressed at the position people at the bottom of the pile find themselves in now.

You think if there was no Monarchy this would be different?

There is no 'bottom of the pile' in countries that have no Royal family, USA for example?

People like you just love looking for someone or something to blame.