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minus-squarelurch (he/him)@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up1arrow-down4·30 days agoWell of course, as long as the US has halfway working elections, it’s technically not an empire. So it’s well hidden, if it really is one.
minus-squareBrainInABox@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6arrow-down1·30 days agoHaving elections by no means disqualifies something from being an empire. See the British Empire, for example
minus-squarelurch (he/him)@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up1arrow-down2·29 days agooh you mean the one that split and decolonised soon after it no longer had royal rulers and actually elected its leaders
minus-squareaeshna_cyanea@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up5arrow-down2·edit-229 days agoBro it’s literally still a monarchy. The monarch just hasn’t been in charge since like, 1689. The british empire absolutely functioned as a parliamentary democracy
minus-squareBrainInABox@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·29 days agoNo I don’t, not sure what you’re thinking of
Well of course, as long as the US has halfway working elections, it’s technically not an empire. So it’s well hidden, if it really is one.
Having elections by no means disqualifies something from being an empire. See the British Empire, for example
oh you mean the one that split and decolonised soon after it no longer had royal rulers and actually elected its leaders
Bro it’s literally still a monarchy. The monarch just hasn’t been in charge since like, 1689. The british empire absolutely functioned as a parliamentary democracy
No I don’t, not sure what you’re thinking of