WHY ISNT EVERYONE A REPUBLICAN

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haha i wd vote for mark e. smith as direct political leader also!!

― mark s, Tuesday, 4 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

ok actually possibly i wouldn't

― mark s, Tuesday, 4 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

I've just remembered that an annoying news item early today, inserted between vitally important football matches, claimed that today's alleged jubilee festivities ended with "a royal appearance on the balcony and a fly-by". That impressed me, as I didn't even know she could fly.

― Martin Skidmore, Tuesday, 4 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

Someone was on Radio 4 on Saturday and claimed that support for the Jubbly celebrations was evidenced by the upsurge in sales of widescreens TV and packs of beer. That's the beauty of Monarchy - it's so rooted in everyday life.

― Nathan Barley, Tuesday, 4 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

The idea that it was the World Cup prompting those sales hadn't occurred to this caller?

― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 4 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

Hmmm, Mark E. Smith in Sophie's shoulder pads...

― stevie mitch, Tuesday, 4 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

I've never really undertsood the argument for why we even need a head of state (as well as a head of government.) The ceremonial reason seems utterly pointless and you could easily get away with sending Connie Huq off of Blue Peter or a Dimbleby.

― Pete, Wednesday, 5 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

Because, at least over here in the States, Republican = greedy and Democrat = humanitarian. Seems an easy choice to me.

― Jenga Blox, Thursday, 6 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

learn to live out side america. republican=republic not a monarchy

― anthony, Thursday, 6 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

fifteen years pass...

necromancy! i couldn't find a thread to discuss the "mainstream" republican party; it's all trump and the alt-right. here's the ideology of the republicans who _aren't_ trump or alt-right:

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2017/06/democrats-try-to-stop-gop-from-bombarding-you-with-robo-voicemails/

boy, they really have their finger on what people want.

― Frank Ocean is the Ultimate Solution (rushomancy), Saturday, 17 June 2017 13:09 (six years ago) link

I'm somewhat ambivalent about this. On the one hand, the monarchy is an illiberal imperialist vestige and seems like the sort of thing I would want to oppose in principle. Plus, I don't give two shits about the Royal Family as people and the bullshit celebrity gossip around them. On the other hand, I ... generally like how the constitutional monarchy functions and am not especially inspired by the examples of republics elsewhere. Am genuinely curious to see how they'll work things out in the BC legislature.

― No purposes. Sounds. (Sund4r), Saturday, 17 June 2017 14:14 (six years ago) link

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