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But the headline says five billion pounds. So which is it, 5 pounds of 5 billion?
 
 
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I think those robes, the crown, the Sceptre, they were all the Crown’s stuff - aka the Firm, the organization that is the English monarchy - and not his. They existed before him, they will exist after him, and his wearing them lays little claim of ownership past “work clothes” than a pilot can claim to own the plane he’s flying.

The Sovereign runs the Firm and so could sell the trappings of royalty.

if the Crown’s representative sells the work clothes he’s issued, who’s buying it? That guy, those people buying them, they’ve truly amassed a personal fortune to be able to buy something like that. It’s not work for them; it’s obscene decadence and greed.

THOSE are your villains.

Those are also our villains. It’s not an either-or. The capitalist class and the vestigial feudal class run the United Kingdom, at the expense of the working class.

Taxation is how we get them to pay their share from here on in, like we did in the '40s through the '70s.

The capitalist class & nobility gave the working class temporary concessions out of fear of revolution, and they have since clawed those concessions back. They’re not going to pay more taxes without a threat, never mind relinquish power.

If it wasn’t Fetterman, it would have been someone else. It’s a ruse, a tactic called the “rotating villain.” The Dems were never going to let it pass.

If everyone knows—including you—that Russia isn’t socialist, why would you imply that it is?

I truly think a big part of their motivation in making the software was to be able to create a place where their own controversial opinions couldn’t be effectively censored while they maintained complete control over their own instance. I wish I could assume better motivations. But it’s admittedly complete speculation.

You don’t need to speculate when it’s public knowledge. Reddit censored MLs so MLs made their own Reddit. They created Lemmy principally so that lemmygrad.ml could exist^[1], and secondarily so that anyone could do the same and the various instances could federate with each other—or not. That’s why they intentionally don’t bake politics into the software. They knew from the start that—if Lemmy were to survive at all—their own instance(s) would become less popular than liberal ones.

Has no one explained the Streisand effect to him?

I wouldn’t assume he believes what he says.

There are two parties because it’s a first past the post system, but that is a red herring. It’s not the source of the problem. The problem is that the US is a bourgeois democracy, AKA an oligarchy.

it’s the rich continuously stealing more capital and destroying businesses that is the problem

The rich are rich because they own the businesses. They own the means of production. The problem is capitalism; it’s private ownership of the means of production.

We all saw this happen, so I’ll assume the downvotes mean, “I’m in this photo and I don’t like it.” How about instead of downvoting, you finally learn your lesson and stop falling for the same ruse every time?

What a devastating counter-argument.

The reason is obvious: @CriticalResist8@lemmygrad.ml chose to comment with their lemmy.ml account because most liberal instances are defederated from lemmygrad.ml.

They’re all teenagers from America

You have no idea what you’re talking about. Many of those admins are not from the US, and none are teenagers by any stretch. I’m older than Danny Glover was when he said he was too old for this shit.

How can a person be pro-Palestine and anti-Ukraine?!?!

We’ve explained how, with receipts, hundreds of times. Previously.

“Genocide denial” is a liberal “gotcha” 🤷 Maybe stop acting like a lib on an ostensibly anarchist instance.

“Genocide denial” isn’t a magic spell. Do you not deny the genocide of white South Africans?

The reason it’s in Republicans the duopoly’s best interest to keep people stupid is that stupid people are much easier to propagandize to.

FTFY

Also the !world@quokk.au community harbors imperial shills like @Hotznplotzn@lemmy.sdf.org, @Scotty@scribe.disroot.org., @Sepia@mander.xyz, and @tardigrade@scribe.disroot.org.

cc mods @Deceptichum@quokk.au & @Grainne@lemmy.dbzer0.com

Let’s you and him fight.