most people respect her because they're unaware that she left 2 close relatives to rot in asylums and never once visited them or acknowledged them because it was bad for the royal brand name. they committed the terrible crime of being born with special needs so she metaphorically buried them in unmarked graves while they were still alive.

this sounds like telling people with avocado groves to not grow avocados and burn the trees because avocados are bad for the ecosystem and they MIGHT make a better profit off something else.

England has a niche, they've pruned it for decades, and it works out for the country monetarily. unless you're of the opinion that the monarchy costs more money than they raise.

plot twist:

They transferred her mind into a younger body.

Source: my uncle worked on the blue brain project.

This is more like telling the Grove manager to fire the people sitting on the side who do nothing but steal avocados.

You can keep literally everything that draws tourists and just evict the royals. Unless the royals themselves specifically draw in a huge portion of those tourists they aren't adding anything.

inheritance of wealth acquired through work and effort? no, it wouldn't, since there is a clear distinction being made. you could of course pose those questions, expand on that angle, but i don't think it necessarily follows from the argument.

that said, i agree it won't fly - but IF there was an overwhelming public interest in abolishing the monarchy (which there isn't), it surely could be done in a reasonable way, allowing the living royals to still lead comfortable lives at the expense of the taxpayer, but not for eternity. this video is mainly meant as a response to the "acktshually, they are a financial net benefit" crowd, because the simple reality is that those people and the system itself are not required for it at all. personally i'm not negatively affected by it. if the brits want to spend hundreds of millions to be ruled by germans, let them have that. i'm just not a fan of the concept in general, and i'm glad we don't have that here...

This post was edited by fender on Sep 8 2022 12:34pm

you can legally just confiscate everything someone else owns? can you? by what law?

and yes, it is my belief that the existence of the royals does draw the tourists in a real sense. people want to go to the queens house, people want to get pictures with the queens guard, people want a wedding at the queens 4th summer estate she visited 12 years ago.

how much will that reduce if the royal family was somehow legally ousted? idk, but i think its relevant context in the discussion of the royals as a business.

You've had the Kaiser and Hitler so you should tone down a bit buddy

i did not. how old do you think i am, buddy?! do you genuinely not understand how time works?! we don't have a kaiser, we don't have a dictator, we don't have a queen, and that's a good thing.

Hitler died in Argentina in 1989 - source: History channel. they'd never lie.

Poor effort but eh, was expected