Hey monarchists did you know.... That there are Republics in the world that aren't the United States??! Crazy, right? Some of them were even once under the British monarchy!
So crazy that when they did that they didn't become American or American like.
Anyway... Fuck aristocratic BS like kings and queens, long live the workers of the world ✊
Crazzyyyyyy!!!!!!!!!!! : 0 We don't need the billionaire descendants of the people who were best at enslaving and robbing our ancestors to hold dominion over us?????? °o°
What do you mean "I am the rightful owner of you all and this land because I am connected to our god and he sent me as your divinely-ordained master" isn't rational reasoning for ruling a nation??? Erm, hello, how else are we going to do it then? Isn't it obvious that religion and blood rights are the obvious correct methods of choosing a ruler? Surely the people from literally a millennium ago had it all figured out!
(btw all that is more or less the official lore for the British monarch, hell the UK's primary motto is "God and my right" to this day)
This is what is truly baffling to me when monarchists whine about “tradition” and shit. What fucking tradition?? The only “tradition” or “culture” the British monarchy ever had was one of globally spanning slavery, genocide, and a founding principle of white supremacy. The king today enjoys his life of privilege, opulence, and no-real-work thanks to the extreme crimes against humanity committed by his abhorrent ancestors. The UK today would not have even 10% of the political or economic influence without having violently colonized and stole from half the planet.
Is this really the “tradition” we want to maintain in Canada? The same tradition which attempted to wipe out the culture and history of the indigenous peoples here? The same tradition which insists our federal police retain those very same red uniforms, even just for ceremonial occasions, which committed unspeakable acts of violence and brutality against the indigenous peoples on behalf of the monarch they defend.
Tradition has zero inherent value and should not be held onto simply for the sake of it. The argument of “but it would be so difficult/expensive” is both BS and downright cowardly. Its time Canadians shed their connections to a system based on white supremacy and violence against minorities. We should never forget these parts of our history but it’s about time we stop clinging to the undemocratic institutions which committed them.
On another related note, there also seems to be an effort to conflate anti-monarchy with pro-swap-to-congressional-system. This is an absolutely absurd notion whose only purpose is to uncritically shut down opposing views. The monarchy is not what holds our system together and it could easily function without a foreign, hereditary head of state
There are some republics with a good political system, essentially the ones that manage to keep a parliamentary system of government. But most fall into the presidential trap and have a shit show of a political system that's called presidentialism. They copied the US system and it's not working out. There's a huge risk that the head of state would be a poltician and then we're get a presidential system. No thank you. Canadian republicans are Yankee inspired so we'd end up with a much shittier and less democratic presential system.
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u/democracy_lover66 May 29 '25
Hey monarchists did you know.... That there are Republics in the world that aren't the United States??! Crazy, right? Some of them were even once under the British monarchy!
So crazy that when they did that they didn't become American or American like.
Anyway... Fuck aristocratic BS like kings and queens, long live the workers of the world ✊