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  • Doubledee [comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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    I assume if you’re an ideological monarchist you believe in the divine right of kings or something similar, an ideological justification for a specific group of superior people to have the right to be sovereign. Because you don’t really want just anybody to do the job, or you’d be something besides a monarchist.

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    Wait you’re allowed to be a monarchist and advocate for yourself being king?

    I’m a monarchist now. King me.

  • SootySootySoot [any]@hexbear.net
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    If you’re psychopathic and crave the power to control and fuck up poor peoples’ lives, this society is basically built for you already, go and exploit the fuck out of poor people right now. Honestly I have like five big money-making schemes I could do right now if I was willing to steamroll peoples’ real lives and happiness.

    You only advocate for Monarchism if you have some superhero fantasy of someone else saving you without you having to put in any work or change anything.

  • 7bicycles [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    My impression was always an aversion to thinking / decision making. They just want somebody to tell them what to do and be rewarded and work backwards from there.

  • KobaCumTribute [she/her]@hexbear.net
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    The monarchists who do think they should be on top are mostly too busy doing depraved old money aristocrat stuff to get messy on social media, because even though they’re no longer personally the dictator of a country they literally own as their personal property their families are still rich aristocratic scum in the upper echelons of the empire. I mean some of those still get messy on social media too, because they’re bored reactionary filth despite being rich enough to have endless entertainment treats poured down their gullets forever, but a lot of them are just less visible rich shitbags.

    Which just leaves the real weirdo reactionaries who’ve bought into the propaganda that the special allegedly-pretty rich people are magic and should own everything, and if you think the special magic blood people will make the crops grow and the holy line ever rise then of course you want the ones with the real special magic blood to be doing their magic thing while you worship them and get special good boy headpats for it.

  • CarmineCatboy2 [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    Monarchies run on the magic of legitimacy moreso than one would assume. We live in post-liberal states where legitimacy arises, in one way or another, via popular will. Or at least consent. That said consent might arise due to consent manufacturing, a popularity contest, foreign threats or whatever else is immaterial. Monarchies arose from different customs, many of which don’t really matter to commonfolk any more. So that they continue to exist at all is by converting the magic of ancient legitimism into the modern magic of celebrity worship. But that on its own cannot sustain a political regime. Celebrity worship turns sour in like a year, often.

    So monarchists yearn for a parallel reality where said magic is unbroken. They don’t live in a world where its a given that someone’s family just inherits the divine mandate to rule over a territory. So they have to reconstruct a facsimile of whatever is going in Britain right now. What if the Russian/French/Portuguese/Chinese/Brazilian/German/Whatever monarchy was still alive to this day? They cannot fundamentally ask what changes would have been necessary for such a status to be reached and how, just like Britain, said regimes would have changed over the past 150 years at least. But they feel no need to because they are just esoteric reactionaries who like the bells and whistles of having a Court of unelected Your Graces instead of Oligarchs.

    Meanwhile the actual oligarchs with any power to become monarchs are too busy owning the world as it is.

  • DragonBallZinn [he/him, they/them]@hexbear.net
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    And it’s always funny how they are magically immune to “muh human nature” arguments.

    “Commie impossible because humans naturally bad.”

    “We need to put all our faith in one unaccountable nepo baby who never suffered a day in his life! Trust your betters! This will never go wrong!”

    The best way to cure a monarchist is to start arguing for technocracy and watch them mutter about “but freedom and democracyTM!”

  • Blep [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    Western Divine right of kings bullshit. Kings are fit to rule because they were chosen by god, so people separate from god cannot hope to ascend to the position.