Too tired to bother naming names here but if you were wondering if the leading lights of British feminism had the same generally shitty reaction to Harry and Meghan's situation as Janice Turner -- Oh come on you weren't wondering
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Yes yes there's a GOOD REASON we have to have a hereditary monarchy that theoretically invests all state sovereignty in one random inbred dipshit but then devolves all that power into a quasi-representative democracy through an immense litany of stupid fucking traditions
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It's like the GOOD REASON that barristers and solicitors have to be two different sets of jobs because barristers are the only ones willing to wear the silly fucking wig
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And the GOOD REASON to have two entirely separate faucets for hot water and cold water so the actual stream of water is always scalding or freezing And the GOOD REASON to put a "u" in the words "neighbor" and "color" and "honour" but not "tailor", "donor", "debtor" or "horror"
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It's because it's a system that evolved through a Darwinian process over time and therefore *natural selection* created a system that *lasts* because it *realistically confronts the world as it is* and isn't a pie-in-the-sky construct of would-be intelligent designers etc Ugh
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I mean yes Americans are just as bad with their dumb shit about how the Constitution, a document that, no matter how you try to interpret it, is manifestly *too fucking old* to make *any sense* today, is somehow eternally perfect
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But y'know I don't hang out around those people and I generally don't think of them as "on the left" And maybe it's just my own chauvinism talking but it still doesn't strike me as obviously bullshit in the way the defense of the monarchy and House of Lords is
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You guys don't JUST have a Queen you still have Dukes and Marquesses and Earls and Countesses and Viscounts and Baronets and shit You have the whole damn kit and kaboodle No one else does that, they all mostly gave up that shit years ago
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Like shit Japan still has an Emperor and the imperial family, sure But that's it, it's one guy They abolished the peerage in 1947, they don't still have a WHOLE CLASS of bluebloods who are special and better than you because they "rule" their house and the fields around it
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I can just barely imagine living in a country where there was a King of America and you had to bow to him and whatnot but I cannot deal with having to do the same for some fuckstick going around being the Duke of Ohio or the Count of Cuyahoga or some shit People would rise up
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Isn't that how cultural relativism is supposed to work?
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