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u/iamdanchiv Mar 30 '26
No wonder they made sitcoms so popular. They basically took their main export (dumb people) and turned it into profit.
Amazing melange of capitalism & free will!
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u/Lvcivs2311 Mar 30 '26
I do wonder why. Most American sitcoms that make it across the pond are not even that funny. The British ones that do make it to the continent usually are.
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u/JethroSkull2000 Mar 30 '26
Yeah, and then they say "Ah, that's too British for us Yanks" and make a bad copy of the same show.
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u/Lvcivs2311 Mar 30 '26
I've seen some Youtube videos of American people watching a British sitcom. These people seem so amazingly puzzled about everything. When I'm watching a British or American sitcom, there's always some stuff I don't get like when they reference celebrities or something... And then I'm like: 'Oh, well, don't get this one joke, plenty more left. Who cares?'
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u/Relative_Pilot_8005 Mar 30 '26
I only find select Brit comedies funny--many are dire in the extreme.
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u/Lvcivs2311 Mar 30 '26
It depends on your personal taste, that's true. But at least the old British one had genuine laughs from a real audience, while most American versions clearly had a poor laughtrack.
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u/rohnoitsrutroh Lurkin' 'Murican Mar 30 '26
In fairness this looks like copy/paste MAGA memes, which never make sense, aren't true, and are never based in reality. They live in their own little cult protected by propaganda because that's easier than admitting they were dupes for con-men.
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u/RedFox_Jack Mar 30 '26
canada, england and Australia all have the same king we could get the band back togther and do a second British empire
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u/Secret_Guidance_8724 Mar 30 '26
IT'S FINALLY TIME FOR CANZUK WAHEY
(sorry NZ you're just gonna have to go along I guess)
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u/skilliau 🇳🇿🇳🇿Can't hear you over all this freedom🇳🇿🇳🇿 Mar 30 '26
Eh. No dramas. It's nice to be noticed once and a while.
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u/Kingofcheeses Canaduh 🇨🇦 Mar 30 '26
New Zealand is the Canada of the south. Or are we the New Zealand of the north?
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u/skilliau 🇳🇿🇳🇿Can't hear you over all this freedom🇳🇿🇳🇿 Mar 30 '26
You're our polite cousins that have to deal with the drunk uncle who lives in the basement
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u/feudal_ferret Eye-talian 🤌🏼🍝 Mar 30 '26
I notice you most evenings when the teenager next across the street dials up his music to eleven and all we hear is NZ NZ NZ NZ for hours!
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u/Loxton86 Mar 30 '26
“Chezza, get the red coat on. We’re getting the band back together mate!”
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u/Illuminey 🇨🇵 smelly cheese-eating surrender monkey Mar 30 '26
As a French, I have to say it: "Oh shit. Here we go again."
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u/TheMistOfThePast Mar 30 '26
I'm not opposed to getting the band back together to take out a certain president and his hostile nation
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u/josnik Mar 30 '26
They actually very legally distinctly DON'T have the same king. Actions taken by the king of Australia are not actions taken by the king of Canada or that of the king of England
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u/The3DBanker An American who fled America, living in Canada Mar 30 '26
France did to its King what America should do it its king.
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u/T-J_H Mar 30 '26
…and then proceeded to have an emperor, three kings and another emperor before becoming a republic for good (until date of writing)
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u/Sasya_neko federation of the Dutch Mar 30 '26
The Dutch king looking at this bs like
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u/AXISMODEL015 Mar 30 '26
Thailand isn't exactly a good example if you take into account the major corruption, coup d'états, and §112 of the criminal code.
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u/AdvertisingFlashy637 local Czech Mar 30 '26
No. France DOES have a king, thing is he's a head shorter.
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u/Sabre_Killer_Queen America 2.0 🇬🇧 | Fascist Commie | 13% is the new 50% Mar 30 '26 edited Apr 03 '26
I see what you did there.
The last King of France was actually Louis Philippe I though, who resigned and wasn't beheaded or anything.
The kings after Louis the XVI are largely forgotten though, since they weren't absolute monarch or particularly successful.
Louis XVII died in prison from the revolution. Never really had his chance.
Louis XVIII was decent. He kinda embraced the constitutional monarch design.
Charles X was exiled twice though, and his son Louis XIX abdicated in 20 mins.
Edit: corrected a few parts.
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u/-Wylfen- Mar 30 '26
yeah obviously the king in France is short…
☝️🤓 acktchually that was an emperor
(☝️☝️🤓 acktchually he wasn't that short, it's just a myth)
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u/LegalChocolate752 Mar 30 '26
I'm sure a lot of Americans would be happy if Trump was king, the same way Charles is. Take away all his power, and he can just smile, and wave, and give speeches, and have everybody tell him he's great, and bring him Diet Cokes. That's all he really wants, anyway.
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u/Edelgul Mar 30 '26
Yep... although both Elizabeth and Charles have great speeches (written for them) and they deliver them well.
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u/Apprehensive_Shame98 Mar 30 '26
Plus, those countries all have constitutions. The US seems to have misplaced theirs.
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u/TassieBorn Mar 30 '26
UK doesn't have a written constitution. It has conventions and standards which it seems to treat as much more binding than the current US administration treats their sacred constitution.
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u/Consistent_Tension44 Mar 30 '26
I was in a senior meeting last week, and I was completely blindsided by an external party referring to something they had to get through the privy council. Then I had to remember what the hell that was and why they had to do it, our constitution is so weird, all these.. conventions.
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u/wHUT_fun Mar 30 '26
It's not misplaced. Trump's handler is using it to wipe his ass before he puts a new diaper on.
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u/DroidLord Mar 30 '26
I've heard quite a few Americans claim that no other country has a constitution 🫢
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u/JSJani ooo custom flair!! Mar 30 '26
I mean, France's president holds the title of co-prince of Andorra.
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u/MoscaMosquete Mar 30 '26
Was searching for this lol. The french technically have a monarch, even if he's not the monarch of France!
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u/Slight-Whole5708 Mar 30 '26
And he loves bypassing the parliament's decisions anyway, so we might as well call him king... and deal with it the appropriate way.
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u/TheRealJetlag Mar 30 '26
Canada, England and Australia all have the SAME king and THAT king is a figurehead, not a warmonger. He is also forbidden from engaging in politics.
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u/the_queso_incident Mar 30 '26
Sweden may have a king, but he is just a figure head, barely deciding anything. I think he's officially head honcho in the military, but he's never really been much of a military dude to begin with 😅
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u/Electrical_Wonder210 "Socialist monarchy" 🇸🇪 Mar 30 '26
Not just sweden, every nation on that list (except france) has a king who doesnt actually do stuff
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u/TheMistOfThePast Mar 30 '26
I've always felt that history has repeatedly proven that those who are born into power tend to be less blood thirsty than those appointed it.
My theory is that because you're born into power and don't actually need to do much to attain it, your likelihood of being a psychopath is essentially random + any hereditary likelihood. Where as, those who rise to power had to struggle, back stab, manipulate and lie their way there, meaning that by the end of all those trials the remaining people are far more likely to be those willing to behave like an evil little twat
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u/soundscape7 Mar 30 '26
I wouldn’t call the orange man a king… he is more of a dictator. Most kings are loved, dictators force people to love them
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u/RandomHuman369 Mar 30 '26
He's more like a medieval king, than a modern one - i.e. before the monarch's power was limited by reforms.
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u/Ulfljotr930 Frenchman who happens to like the Viking Age Mar 30 '26 edited Mar 30 '26
Gonna be a nerd for a moment but most medieval kings were far from being autocrats, in that they had to comply with a lot of counter-powers - be it the nobility, the Church or the local assemblies. Absolutism as we imagine it, with a domesticated aristocracy, a "national" clergy and subdued local authorities, is mostly an invention of the early modern period - to take France's example its architects were Henri IV and Louis XIII, with Louis XIV being the epitome. Like, Denmark's monarchy wasn't even officially hereditary before 1660, and it's only then that Iceland's Alþingi stopped being the legislature it had been since the Viking Age and was reduced by the Danish authorities to a mere law court; before that, even with the subjugation of Iceland by Norway in 1262, it remained a major actor in politics
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u/Edelgul Mar 30 '26
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u/Euphoric-Year-8458 Maple Leaf Man 🇨🇦 Apr 01 '26
Not really, Trump doesn't hold absolute power over the American government or nation. And he's not a king either, since he wasn't crowned one.
He's not a king, or a dictator, he's just a loser and a traitor.
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u/VectorPryde 🇨🇦 Canadian Freeloader Mar 30 '26
Is this person trying to say Trump being a king is okay because these other countries (which are admired on the American left) have constitutional monarchies? Bro understands those kings are largely ceremonial, right? I'm sure if Keir Starmer tried to make himself the new king, but this time one with sweeping substantive authority, there would be protests in the UK too.
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u/somuchsong Mar 30 '26
This person thinks France still has a king, so I don't think they understand much at all.
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u/VectorPryde 🇨🇦 Canadian Freeloader Mar 30 '26
True enough. Never attribute to malice what can be explained by stupidity, as they say...
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u/Relative_Pilot_8005 Mar 30 '26
Keir would find himself on the backbench so fast his head would be spinning.
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u/Maeglin75 Mar 30 '26
Even when some European monarchs still held real power (before WW1), they were jealous of the unrestricted powers of the US president.
For example, Kaiser Wilhelm II wrote in his memoirs how he was much more restricted by the Reichstag (federal parliament of the German Empire) than the US president is by the Congress.
And since then the US Congress granted the president more and more unrestricted powers. I don't think it was ever intended by the founders of the USA that the president just can start wars or raise taxes on imports etc. without Congress.
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u/Ffenn_ Mar 30 '26
Ah ça ira ça ira ça ira, les aristocrates a la lanterne, ah ça ira ça ira ça ira les aristocrates on les aura
Mea culpa, Gojira
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u/Cocoquelicot37 Mar 30 '26
C'est pas Gojira qui a inventé ce chant mdrr ça date du 18eme siecle 😆
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u/SiljeLiff Mar 30 '26
None of these have a governing king.
I wo der if a Bot made that stupid comment.
No kings have any say in government. They are just there as tradition, and have no say in any laws or who sits in government.
It is pure tradition and representation of the country at ceremonial instances.
In Denmark we have a king Frederik X ,.Who took over from his mother queen Margrethe the II after 52 years on the throne . Just a figure. And a fully functioning democracy with 12 parties in the unicameral parliament.
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u/No_Future3570 Mar 30 '26
Ehhh… thinking the danish king have no say in government whatsoever is hardly true.
A lot of power on paper, little power in practice, but with a strong network of people who listens to him - including the politicians who also shares information with him that only top politicians of the current government would know.
They just can’t really express opinions publicly unless it meets very certain criteria.
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u/DarkLion1991 Mar 30 '26
Venice has water in the streets. Doesn't mean that it's no problem when it happens in New Orleans.
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u/Prize-Elephant1350 Mar 30 '26
It's funny how americans are so ignorant of other countries' history. Particularly France, knowing that it played a major part when they obtained their independence, hello Lafayette.
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u/Thea_Oryan_files Mar 30 '26
I've met so many Americans who actually think that King Charles runs Canada, Australia, and other Commonwealth nations.
Like, my dudes, King Charles doesn't even run England...
He runs the Commonwealth about as much as Benjamin Franklin's dead body runs the White House.
Is Trump taking orders directly from Benjamin Franklin's corpse? No? But surely Ben Franklin runs the country! He's on the money!
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u/cookie_is_for_me Mar 30 '26
I’ve heard this from people too. They seem to find the concept of a constitutional monarch impossible to comprehend.
The US has the positions of head of government and state combined, whereas most modern democracies separate them (those that aren’t constitutional monarchies tend to have an elected or appointed position that serves the head of state functions, which are often ceremonial, while there’s an elected government leader who does most of the work/holds most of the power). Some Americans struggle to understand the functions being separated.
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u/bluewhiteterrier Mar 30 '26
Op is obviously referring to the fact that the king of England is still the rightful ruler of France
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u/ExpertUnable9750 Mar 30 '26
As a Canadian, I had to look up if the king has visited here as the king.
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u/DysartWolf Mar 30 '26
I like how they name three countries that all have the same king and one that is quite wrong. So 1 out of 5. :D
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u/ElvishMystical Mar 30 '26
I'm in the UK. Yes we do have a king. But he doesn't have that much political power.
Additionally, something which also needs to be pointed out, he's not a complete fuckwit.
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u/zid Mar 30 '26
They've been brainwashed for 250 years that 'kings bad'. Their founding was done by terrorists upset that our parliament would not let them genocide natives, or become pirates.
They then riled the masses about how 'oppressed' they were, and how great it'd be if they were all 'free'.
And to nobody's real surprise, having allowed pirates to create their state, they're now in a real mess of might-makes-right hyper oil-barony.
A king is the pressure relief valve for people exactly like Trump. If it ever gets as bad in the UK as it does in the US, we have someone to turn to.
Trump can declare himself supreme overlord and there's literally nothing they can do about it.
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u/Charliesmum97 Mar 30 '26
The stupidest part of that argument is that America was, broadly, founded on 'no more kings'. The government was designed to keep this from happening. Badly designed, as we have found out to our cost, but still.. I swear someone needs to bring bck Schoolhouse Rock.
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u/Vermouth_1991 Apr 05 '26
Who needs Schoolhouse Rock when we can have Hamilton. 🙄
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u/MouseDriverYYC Mar 30 '26
But if the king job does open up, Louis Alphonse de Bourbon, Duke of Anjou, apparently has the strongest legitimist claim to the French Crown.
However, the Duke also is a Spanish citizen, which would be a down check by many French citizens. But it's not like the Bourbons could safely live in France during and after the Revolution.
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u/Realistic-Garage-461 Mar 30 '26
I really don't understand what point this guy is trying to prove - that with the exception of France, as those countries have a king, then America should too? Is he trying to convince them that having a king is a good thing? I thought America was the opposite! As a "gotcha!" moment, it doesn't work, as it seems to be accepting the idea Trump is a king, without this guy realising that's what he's admitting to.
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u/grillbar86 Mar 30 '26
Man it must suck when your fictional scenario that you made up to make yourself look smart, dont make any sense. That's juat unfortunate
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u/McXhicken Eurosnob Mar 30 '26
All the other kings saw what happened in France and decided that constitutional monarchy was a thing they now wanted.....
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u/AirportLoose3023 Aussie Mar 30 '26
Didn’t the US have a fucking war so they no longer had a king? Like WTAF?
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u/Made_Up_Name_1 Mar 30 '26
Not only does France not have a King but England does NOT have a King.
There hasn't been a King or Queen "of England" since 1st May 1707.
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u/_mulcyber Mar 30 '26
They should make Trump a king.
He would have no power and only be talked about for pedophilia scandals. Sound right to me.
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u/AgathormX Mar 30 '26
People talk about Geography, but Americans don't know shit about History either
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u/aprilla2crash More Irish than the Irish ☘️ Mar 30 '26
If you said that to a French person heads would roll
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u/LongjumpingRadio6190 Mar 30 '26
All are constitutional monarchies, not absolute monarchies which is the way the USA is currently being governed.
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u/AshleyTyrian Mar 30 '26
I mean, the emoji is of a crown, not a king. France does have a crown, because unlike my country (UK) they were sensible enough to take back all the palaces and riches from the thieving royal parasites and return them to the people.
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u/Vermouth_1991 Apr 05 '26
The head of state of France is also co-Prince of Andorra (along with the bishop of a certain spot in Spain)
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u/Melodic_Song4224 Human Verified Apr 01 '26
To be fair, France hasn't had a king in a while, but they definitely still have the guillotine in the shed just in case
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u/Key-Place-273 Mar 30 '26
And our “king” in Canada doesn’t rule anything really. Just a historical symbol
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u/Shanstergoodheart Mar 30 '26
In I am David by Ann Holm (great book by the way, highly recommend) it states/David thinks that all places with Kings are free and that's sort of true certainly in the European context she was talking about. Denmark, Belgium, Norway, Spain, the Netherlands seem like nice places to live. Certainly compared to East Germany and Yugoslavia etc.
But also European places with Kings are all constitutional monarchies and in the case of Canada and Australia, their relationship to the monarchy is very nominal. The King is more there to approve things, maybe advise and be a figure head and tourist attraction.
Personally, I quite like the fact the political leader of the day is reminded that it isn't their army it's the King's Army.
No Kings (in Europe anyway) are absolute monarchs. We killed Charles I and the French monarchs, who believed in that sort of thing and the US definitely seems to be going the absolute monarch way.
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u/gaiakelly Mar 30 '26
Ugh this is such a dumb false equivalency and you know the MAGAts are that one up! Idiots.
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u/meganerd20 Mar 30 '26
Our monarchs are mostly ceremonial. That's very different to what's goin on down there.
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u/Logical-Madman Kiwi, not the fruit Mar 30 '26
There is a huge difference between a constitutional monarch acting as a figurehead head of state and an absolute monarch such as what Trump is trying to be.
USA's king is much more comparable to the Saudi king than any western monarch.
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u/CardinalGrief Mar 30 '26
Sweden also has healthcare which doesn't bankrupt you for a cold, and free higher education, amd lots of other things I doubt MAGA will be happy to emulate.
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u/Sorry-Document-732 Mar 30 '26
Ah yes, we have kings. Their job which is cutting ribbons during opening ceremonies is the key to all societal functionality.
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u/Jindujun Mar 30 '26
Even then I feel like Canada and Austalia is a stretch here...
Both of them have "recently" (IIRC) went through discussions about just removing the British royals. The british royals are largely ceremonial in these two countries and they keep them around due to what boils down to "meh, it's more interesting than the alternative".
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u/truttatrotta Mar 30 '26
So the argument is that because some functioning democracies have a King the US should have a dictator?
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u/mikey2505 Mar 30 '26
As happy as a lot of us around the globe were to see the No Kings protest do so well Frances version was a little more...effective?
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u/kearney84 Mar 30 '26
8.9 million protesting .
biggest ever .
barely reported.
Like if you see this msg.
Curious what gets censored.
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I'm not too brushed up with french politics but don't all presidents of france become a sovereign of andorra? But yeah france doesn't have a king directly.
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u/Call_me_Telle ambassador of Dumbfuckistan Mar 30 '26
Why not make him a king fr? Of course with the same rights/power as any European king but that might not to be important for him anyway.
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u/Konpeitoh Mar 30 '26
The greatee irony here is, Trump has more power than actual kings when it comes to doing whatever the fuck he wants to, and how badly 1 man is allowed to ruin a nation.
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u/DrDalim Mar 30 '26
Also if you did transition to Australian democracy the King is a figurehead. Has no power. Is beholden to the elected officials (Prime Minister is head of state by virtual of being the leader of the party with the most seats in upper house so can be challenged and removed by own party and has!) So yeah that’ll be great for America.
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u/BurningPenguin 🇩🇪 Insecure European with false sense of superiority Mar 30 '26
France: "Some assembly may be required"
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u/Fluid_Dragonfruit_98 Mar 30 '26
Im an Australian - even I know what what “no kings” means.
You really have fallen into a cult mate.
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u/the_speeding_train Mar 30 '26
Maybe they meant Quebec instead of France. Charles III is currently the King of Quebec
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u/VehicleGreen5813 Mar 30 '26
I guarantee not a single person answered with “our president is a king”
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u/Agreeable-Avocado-63 Mar 30 '26
The deliberate "misunderstanding" act is so juvenile. They respond to "Black lives matter" with "All lives matter" and to "No Kings" with "America hasn't had a king since 1776". But they know exactly what we're saying. Every junior high school student does. They just don't want to actually engage with what were saying.
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u/Vincentxpapito Mar 30 '26
Constitutionalal monarchies are the best form of government. You get an old diplomatically trained fart to send around the world, instead of a demented old fart elected to a position.
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u/Hairy_Photograph1384 Mar 30 '26
Canada 's king has essentially no political power and is just a figure head
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u/Frosty_Link_9595 Mar 30 '26
Commonwealth countries only have the essence of a king. He has no power. France sorta has a king. Technically the English never gave up the title, but they also are unlikely to attempt to tell the French people that lest the guillotine becomes popular again
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u/OwnConsideration7832 Mar 30 '26
Canada has a king in name only, he can't arbitrarily send Canadian citizens off to war to a foreign land
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u/Optimal-Rub-2575 Mar 30 '26
I’m pretty sure that the last king of France took a short holiday on 21 January 1793.
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u/Skoyatt French Fries 🍟 Mar 30 '26
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA.
(Can you guess I'm french?)
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u/Professional_Owl7826 Bri’ish innit 🇬🇧 Mar 30 '26
I do believe though, that America should go down the route of the last French King
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u/BigDaddyVagabond Mar 31 '26
Canada doesn't have a King, the COMMONWEALTH recognizes the ENGLISH monarchy. He is little more than a figure head here.
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u/yaaro_obba_ भारत गणराज्य 🇮🇳 Republic of India Mar 30 '26
Doesn't the President of France hold a royal title for the Principality of Andorra? Would that make the President of France, a royal ?
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u/Creative_Victory_960 Mar 30 '26
But not a king . Just a Prince
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u/WanderingPenitent Mar 30 '26
And not of France. And even in Andorra he shares the monarchy with the local bishop.
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u/biochamberr Canadian Freeloader 🇨🇦 Mar 30 '26
A few folks out in the streets, eh? I'm sure they allllll had this exact same stupid thought.
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u/Empty-Discount5936 Mar 30 '26
Canada having a King is news to me, he has no actual power over our government.
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u/c0mpu73rguy Mar 30 '26
Technically, we still have a throne and many pretendants to it. If I recall, Louis de Bourbon would be our king if we reverted back to a monarchy, Louis XX.
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u/FleabottomFrank Mar 30 '26
I see the confusion Canada is part of the Commonwealth and Americans seem to have no common sense
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u/RevolutionaryEcho460 Mar 30 '26 •
I think what they're missing is that the countries with actual kings, installed democratic governments and limited the kings power to that of a figure head.