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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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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I will fight you on the water one. It totally was a good reason, until valve technology improved and it was made obsolete.
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I mean that one had a good reason once, it was to keep all the dead rats in the hot water out of the cold drinking water
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the taps thing is because the cold water comes right from the water mains (and is therefore always considered drinkable) and the hot water comes from the hot water tank (and might not be)
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Oh no a Noah Webster fan
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