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    Edward Snowden‏Verified account @Snowden 17 Jun 2017

    Edward Snowden Retweeted Edward Snowden

    I won't pretend to understand the British system of royalty, but it seems to me this was a missed opportunity to build public goodwill.https://twitter.com/Snowden/status/876176929568694272 …

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    Edward SnowdenVerified account @Snowden
    Painful to see strife over temporarily housing #GrenfellTower survivors in a nation full of actual palaces. Buckingham alone has 775 rooms.
    1:39 PM - 17 Jun 2017
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    243 replies 1,256 retweets 3,538 likes
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      2. Adam “Halloween Joke” Banks‏Verified account @adambanksdotcom 17 Jun 2017
        Replying to @Snowden

        Queen did OK, getting out to visit survivors while PM hid. But they need stable new family homes, not awkward camping in someone's palace

        8 replies 2 retweets 59 likes
      3. Farkakt Altekaker‏ @farkakt 17 Jun 2017
        Replying to @adambanksdotcom @Snowden

        The monarchy are part of the problem. Their money can wipe out debt & poverty but they won't. Callus cruel & worthy of contempt

        2 replies 2 retweets 7 likes
      4. DJ~ 🇺🇸‏ @DJ2779 17 Jun 2017
        Replying to @farkakt @adambanksdotcom @Snowden

        Like Snowden, I don't understand it. Most the men seem to do a lot. Andrew's 2 look like Cinderella's step- sisters and creep me out.

        1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
      5. Farkakt Altekaker‏ @farkakt 17 Jun 2017
        Replying to @DJ2779 @adambanksdotcom @Snowden

        They don't offer anything to UK. Monarchy is archaic & has no place in modern society. Retire them all & take back tax money for the people

        1 reply 0 retweets 2 likes
      6. DJ~ 🇺🇸‏ @DJ2779 18 Jun 2017
        Replying to @farkakt @adambanksdotcom @Snowden

        The way I read it: It looks like the Monarch turned a lot of their fortune over to England and live off a % of the worth.

        2 replies 0 retweets 0 likes
      7. Farkakt Altekaker‏ @farkakt 18 Jun 2017
        Replying to @DJ2779 @adambanksdotcom @Snowden

        First I've ever heard that. There's no place for them in modern society anymore. They bring nothing to the country.

        2 replies 0 retweets 2 likes
      8. DJ~ 🇺🇸‏ @DJ2779 18 Jun 2017
        Replying to @farkakt @adambanksdotcom @Snowden

        I agree with that. I read it on Wikipedia, for whatever that's worth.

        1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
      9. Farkakt Altekaker‏ @farkakt 18 Jun 2017
        Replying to @DJ2779 @adambanksdotcom @Snowden

        I heard combined wealth of well over a billion & we're to pay for refurb. Ridiculous this is allowed. Time to take back what's ours I say.

        1 reply 0 retweets 2 likes
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      2. Aaron Brown‏ @AaronMLB 17 Jun 2017
        Replying to @Snowden

        Good will is missing between public and Government, not public and Royalty. (Re Buckingham Palace, it's largely offices, not empty.)

        2 replies 1 retweet 22 likes
      3. Vicky‏ @trickehvickeh 17 Jun 2017
        Replying to @AaronMLB @Snowden

        Thanks for clearing that up, it seems most ppl think it's endless bedrooms rather than an HQ

        0 replies 0 retweets 6 likes
      4. End of conversation
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      2. Dr. Roy Schestowitz (罗伊)‏ @schestowitz 17 Jun 2017
        Replying to @Snowden

        Corbyn was never a fan of it. But even if it stays, it needs to be more modest. Recently refurbished at (our) cost of ~$500,000,000.

        3 replies 1 retweet 7 likes
      3. Dr. Roy Schestowitz (罗伊)‏ @schestowitz 17 Jun 2017
        Replying to @schestowitz @Snowden

        Put in perspective, that is about 100 times the #Grenfell rehousing fund, which total s just one Kensington homehttp://metro.co.uk/2016/11/19/thousands-sign-petition-for-royal-family-to-pay-for-buckingham-palace-repairs-themselves-6268174/ …

        5 replies 5 retweets 10 likes
      4. Adam Baiton‏ @AdamOculporate 17 Jun 2017
        Replying to @schestowitz @Snowden

        But also paid for by the Monarchy's own money given back to them by the government.

        1 reply 0 retweets 2 likes
      5. Dr. Roy Schestowitz (罗伊)‏ @schestowitz 17 Jun 2017
        Replying to @AdamOculporate @Snowden

        Given back for what? Why does the government owe them in the first place?

        4 replies 0 retweets 3 likes
      6. Bertus a. de Jong‏ @BertusadeJong 17 Jun 2017
        Replying to @schestowitz @Snowden

        Revenue from Crown Estates. It's a complicated business.

        1 reply 0 retweets 1 like
      7. thinker!.‏ @reb_les 17 Jun 2017
        Replying to @BertusadeJong @schestowitz @Snowden

        And when you consider the work the royals do. Embassidors to hundreds of charities and organisations. And all the work abroad with 3rd world

        1 reply 0 retweets 1 like
      8. Dr. Roy Schestowitz (罗伊)‏ @schestowitz 17 Jun 2017
        Replying to @reb_les @BertusadeJong @Snowden

        That's tourism.

        2 replies 0 retweets 1 like
      9. Adam Baiton‏ @AdamOculporate 17 Jun 2017
        Replying to @schestowitz @BertusadeJong @Snowden

        That is a fair enough argument against the the side duties being not important. One I mostly agree with.

        1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
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      2. Justin Lewis‏ @Yoostin 17 Jun 2017
        Replying to @Snowden

        Quick primer: Monarchy relinquished income from all their lands in return for a regular payment from the nation. UK Turns a profit on deal

        3 replies 0 retweets 3 likes
      3. Hans Michael Brecht‏ @Hansnfranz 17 Jun 2017
        Replying to @Yoostin @Snowden

        The monarchy shouldn't have had ownership of those lands in the first place. Divine right of kings is complete and utter nonsense.

        3 replies 3 retweets 12 likes
      4. Justin Lewis‏ @Yoostin 17 Jun 2017
        Replying to @Hansnfranz @Snowden

        Legitimate within the prevailing sense of property ownership. Not only predates subsequent notions of ownership but underpins them.

        2 replies 0 retweets 2 likes
      5. Hans Michael Brecht‏ @Hansnfranz 17 Jun 2017
        Replying to @Yoostin @Snowden

        I understand this. Basically it is what it is but royalty was a scam devised in collusion with the church to control the masses.

        2 replies 1 retweet 3 likes
      6. Justin Lewis‏ @Yoostin 17 Jun 2017
        Replying to @Hansnfranz @Snowden

        No. Divine right replaced might. Rather than perpetually conquering lands we began to create a system that saved continuous bloodshed

        2 replies 0 retweets 2 likes
      7. Hans Michael Brecht‏ @Hansnfranz 17 Jun 2017
        Replying to @Yoostin @Snowden

        You have a point concerning the establishment of rule of law and preventing further civil war. Like everything in life, it's complicated.

        1 reply 0 retweets 1 like
      8. Justin Lewis‏ @Yoostin 17 Jun 2017
        Replying to @Hansnfranz @Snowden

        Very. And we do ourselves an enormous favour when we just go "Ok, this kinda works - let's not go back to everything being up for grabs"

        1 reply 0 retweets 3 likes
      9. Hans Michael Brecht‏ @Hansnfranz 17 Jun 2017
        Replying to @Yoostin @Snowden

        Yeah much like the Good Friday agreement. When something ain't broke, don't fix it. Very wise words.

        1 reply 0 retweets 1 like
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