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• DonaldJMusk@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  But everyone talks about how Europe is sooooo much better than the US. And they have a king thing going on, so we should. Right?

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  • Drivebyhaiku@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    You know those are constitutional monarchies right? Their monarchs have effectively less political power than the American President by far and at best hold a symbolic role of paper stamper.

    Also they have a solid history of axing them when they overstep (sometimes literally), and bringing their successors back on with further reduced function in government. These days they are basically just overpayed legacy mascots that have lucrative longstanding contracts…

    Maybe America should follow suit with the rest of Europe, depose their Mad Kings and make them actual civil servants accountable to the people or just kooky sock puppets to entertain the masses with. It would be a nice change.

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    • DonaldJMusk@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      But Trump isn’t going to be king

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      • Drivebyhaiku@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        He already is dipshit. American democracy is old as fuck compared to the rest of the world and an American president has undemocratic levels of power compared to most other democracies. Biden and every other President before him was also a King they just played by the expectations not to act like one.

        Your system is crumbling old ass garbage half written in archaic obsolete law language. A Democracy beta test written by people who still saw the role of monarch as nessisary. The world moved on from your system a hundred years ago because they unlike you lot didn’t mythologize the writers of their documents as Gods of creation and you lot had your heads so far up your own asses you never noticed the joke you were becoming. It might have been cute once but now it’s just fucking sad.

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  • TheFinn@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Why are you holding a turd?

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  • Kolanaki@pawb.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    You mean the King and/or Queen of England? The role that is entirely just a public display and they have next to no real power?

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  • Jayjader@jlai.lu ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Lol. The kings left in Europe have little power over their people, and even less over their governments. I doubt Trump wants to be a figurehead that everyone ignores when it comes to actually governing.

    Not to mention over here in France, we got rid of our kings. And when they came back, we ended up getting rid of them again.

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  • GeeDubHayduke@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    The country of Europe has a king. And you’re allowed a vote. Both insane comments, and only one is true.

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    • DonaldJMusk@lemmy.today ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      It’s hilarious to me if you think Trump is really going to be a king.

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  • usernameusername@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Europe is indeed better than the US. Not because of monarchies, though.

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    • DonaldJMusk@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      But they have dealt with having kings, so must not be so mad.

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      • usernameusername@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        The point is that turning Trump into a king won’t make your country any better. It won’t really solve anything.

        Besides that, most monarchies in Europe are just constitutional monarchies, which means that the monarch does not actually influence the politics.

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      • Adulated_Aspersion@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        I remember how France dealt with some of their kings. Great kings. Some have even said the best kings.

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