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Bicoastal (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-02-09 01:19 AM Original message |
Why the fuck are we being inundated with the ugliest, most ghoulish anti-monarchy posts tonight? |
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New Dawn (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-02-09 01:21 AM Response to Original message |
1. History has shown that there are three best ways to eliminate royals... |
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babylonsister (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-02-09 01:23 AM Response to Original message |
2. Links? Thanks. And my neck is in tact. nt |
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Bicoastal (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-02-09 01:35 AM Response to Reply #2 |
8. I don't think I can link to them, can I? |
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babylonsister (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-02-09 01:40 AM Response to Reply #8 |
10. No, you shouldn't, but thanks for spotlighting the stoopid. nt |
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guruoo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-02-09 10:47 AM Response to Reply #8 |
47. Not necessarily.... |
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Hanse (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-02-09 01:23 AM Response to Original message |
3. Happens every time English royalty, and typically only English royalty comes up. |
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readmoreoften (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-02-09 01:26 AM Response to Original message |
4. Every political system has a death count. The important question is usually "why?" |
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Mike Daniels (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-02-09 08:23 AM Response to Reply #4 |
42. Yes, cause the French Revolution was so "moderate" in its aftermath |
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HCE SuiGeneris (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-02-09 01:29 AM Response to Original message |
5. It is the transfer of wealth. |
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Smith_3 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-02-09 01:31 AM Response to Original message |
6. No person should get any preferential treatment by birthright, ever. |
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Old School Liberal (58 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-02-09 02:08 AM Response to Reply #6 |
17. Inclined to agree |
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Captain Hilts (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-02-09 07:29 AM Response to Reply #17 |
35. We have a different kind of inherited monarchy, but we've got it. nt |
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MADem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-02-09 06:16 AM Response to Reply #6 |
32. BINGO!!! |
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Captain Hilts (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-02-09 07:28 AM Response to Reply #6 |
34. Liz pays taxes now. nt |
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AndrewP (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-02-09 07:31 AM Response to Reply #6 |
36. Agreed. Fuck them. |
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readmoreoften (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-02-09 01:34 AM Response to Original message |
7. I guess the Royal's slaughtering of 30K peaceful Communards who banished the guillotine |
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Bicoastal (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-02-09 01:45 AM Response to Reply #7 |
13. 1871? Good lord, why not bring up the atrocities directed at rebellious peasants in the Middle |
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RoyGBiv (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-02-09 01:38 AM Response to Original message |
9. I don't get it either ... |
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HCE SuiGeneris (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-02-09 01:42 AM Response to Reply #9 |
12. Roy |
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RoyGBiv (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-02-09 08:22 AM Response to Reply #12 |
41. What are you fishing for? |
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babylonsister (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-02-09 01:46 AM Response to Reply #9 |
15. There seems to be quite a few people living in the distant past. |
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tomreedtoon (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-02-09 01:41 AM Response to Original message |
11. Probably because Bush ran a monarchy. |
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Caliman73 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-02-09 01:46 AM Response to Original message |
14. I agree with you about monarchy bashing, but... |
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Bicoastal (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-02-09 01:58 AM Response to Reply #14 |
16. OK, you're right--I modified the second paragraph for historical accuracy. |
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Hardrada (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-02-09 02:34 AM Response to Reply #16 |
19. The Shah of Iran, The Light of the Aryans |
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Caliman73 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-02-09 02:41 AM Response to Reply #16 |
21. That is why I agree with you that it is stupid to bash a system of government |
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Fumesucker (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-02-09 03:00 AM Response to Reply #21 |
23. Saudi Arabia had a considerable amount to do with 9/11 |
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Bicoastal (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-02-09 03:13 AM Response to Reply #23 |
25. Saudi Arabia is one of the few Absolute Monarchies still in power. |
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Fumesucker (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-02-09 03:35 AM Response to Reply #25 |
27. My parents were British, emigrated shortly after WWII.. |
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anonymous171 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-02-09 02:18 AM Response to Original message |
18. The founders were definitely "ugly americans" then. nt |
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Bicoastal (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-02-09 02:39 AM Response to Reply #18 |
20. Well, our founders were rebellious Englishmen until they actually WON the war... |
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Irreverend IX (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-02-09 02:47 AM Response to Original message |
22. Monarchy embodies a poisonous idea. |
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Bicoastal (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-02-09 03:02 AM Response to Reply #22 |
24. As I think I said, It's not the idea that bothers me, it's the tone of these rants... |
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Irreverend IX (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-02-09 03:18 AM Response to Reply #24 |
26. Tolerating the power structures of foreign nations? |
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Bicoastal (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-02-09 03:49 AM Response to Reply #26 |
29. Tolerating is different than advocating. US Presidents have "tolerated" the CCP |
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AngryAmish (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-02-09 08:06 AM Response to Reply #24 |
39. We just don't like supine royal ass-lickers |
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bird gerhl (129 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-02-09 03:38 AM Response to Original message |
28. I just find fawning over foreign royalty to be a little vulgar... |
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Political Heretic (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-02-09 04:05 AM Response to Original message |
30. Americans looking down their noses at other countries systems |
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eridani (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-02-09 04:51 AM Response to Original message |
31. I don't get it either. If you ain't British, it's nunnayu beeswax n/t |
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Captain Hilts (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-02-09 07:27 AM Response to Original message |
33. The British monarchs were all that tried to protect working class from mercantilist parliament for |
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RB TexLa (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-02-09 07:37 AM Response to Original message |
37. Good for you, you feel you know your place in regard to royalty. |
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BoneDaddy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-02-09 07:38 AM Response to Original message |
38. Well said |
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SidDithers (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-02-09 08:18 AM Response to Original message |
40. K&R... |
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Orsino (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-02-09 08:44 AM Response to Original message |
43. Because monarchs are antithetical to everything we believe in. |
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JohnnyLib2 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-02-09 08:49 AM Response to Original message |
44. Makes me wonder, was some of DU anti-France in the early years? |
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Lyric (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-02-09 08:49 AM Response to Original message |
45. Hitler? "Democratically elected?" |
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LanternWaste (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-02-09 09:07 AM Response to Original message |
46. I see it simply as another piece of the "elitist" puzzle-board. |
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Prophet 451 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-02-09 06:43 PM Response to Original message |
48. It's a little like Irish-American Nationalists |
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