Like if you ACTUALLY SAY "The Queen has no power, her job is just to wear a silly hat on her head for photo ops and preside over fancy dinners" then you're breaking the magic
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If you actually write a Constitution that says "You have no authority, you're a state employee who takes orders (from the Household Ministry) and doesn't give them, your job is to wear the hat" then it starts looking like a job no one would actually want
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I mean, it's fucked up, right It doesn't sound like a privilege when you put it like that, it sounds like a shitty burden If it's a job, it's a job these poor saps were born into and had no choice over, it's a kind of slavery
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the queen is like what would happen if macho man randy savage didn't wrestle and claimed he did
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I've heard folks make the case that it's good to have the nominal leader of your country be outside of party politics, but if you've got multiple houses and throw a fit when your son brings home a non-white girl I think we know exactly where you land on the political spectrum.
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I think that reinforces the point that “political neutrality” is inherently conservative. Avoiding controversy is considered a “duty” of the Royal Family but that makes you supportive generally of the status quo.
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Probably helps that this isn't exactly a particularly novel arrangement in the context of Japanese history.
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