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Originally Posted by Nate the Great
So of what use is the Royal Family if all they do is act as part of a complicated set of checks and balances that could easily be accomplished in a better way through a system closer to the USs'?
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Originally Posted by Nate the Great
Do we really need watchdogs to stop dictators in democratic countries?
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Originally Posted by Someone On Another Forum
"Hello, Pot? This is kettle. You're black."
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Originally Posted by InfImp
So all of these former British colonies and territories theoretically split off from the United Kingdom a hundred years ago, but they still bow down to the Royal Family? So they're independent nations...how? They sound like they're trying to have it both ways. Downright shady if you ask me.
If they have the same head of state then they can't be separate countries. That's absurd.
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Tell that to:
Aragon,
Castile,
Navarre,
The Basque Territories,
Granada,
The 17 Provinces,
Milan,
Most of Southern America
in the Sixteenth Century. It's called
monarquia, bub.
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Originally Posted by InfImp
Okay, in bygone days InfImp would've been better than the alternative, but Zeke altered the code and everything. It's Nate or NTG now. I suppose it's meant as a term of affection, and it's not THAT bad...
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I will refer to you by this anachronism for as long as you keep asking me not to.
And I refuse to refer to you as 'great'
