#Abolish The Monarchy

[nando161mando]

Abolish the Gender Binary

#Abolish the Gender Binary #abolish the police #abolish capitalism #abolish the monarchy #abolish prisons #abolish the death penalty #abolish the state #ausgov #politas #auspol #tasgov #taspol #australia #fuck neoliberals #neoliberal capitalism #anthony albanese #albanese government #class war #eat the rich #eat the fucking rich #gender critical #gender ideology #genderfluid #gender abolition #sex not gender #gender #antifa #antifascist #antifascismo #antifaschistische aktion

[ingek73]

King Charles looked for heroes to honour – and picked William, Kate and Camilla. Laugh? Cry? You choose

Can we really say Britain has a modernised monarchy when archaic titles are being handed out as if it were 1348, not 2024

Wed 24 Apr 2024 13.11 CESTS

I wonder if I should award myself an honour, something grand-sounding. How about Most Excellent Keeper of the Belfry? It has a nice ring about it, even if I have done nothing to deserve it. That latter consideration is of course no bar to our fossilised royal family who have this week breezily been giving themselves ludicrous sounding honours as if this were 1724, not 2024.

Camilla is now, as of yesterday, the Grand Master of the Order of the British Empire. What empire, you might ask? Rockall was Ronnie Barker’s pithy response, and that was about 40 years ago.

Kate is now a Companion of Honour, an award reserved for those who have excelled in the world of the arts, medicines, or science. Is this perhaps for creative doctoring of photographs?

The Duchess of Gloucester – there’s a household name – has been made a Member of the Order of the Garter, an Order created by the king in 1348 to reward his court favourites (while, incidentally, beyond the palace walls, much of the population was dying from the Black Death).

William has not missed out either (even if Harry has). The Prince of Wales is now Great Master of the Order of the Bath. Well it won’t wash.

The honours in themselves are absurd, and make the mythical Ruritania look like a beacon of modernity. So much for the spin from the palace that the monarchy was going to be modernised under Charles. Perhaps the latest medals are to be made from recycled precious metals?

Even more absurd, if that is possible, is the notion that the royal family can with a straight face award medals to themselves.

Take the Royal Family Order. This is awarded to female members of the royal family simply for being female. And for being a member of the royal family. Not a terribly high bar if you happen to be female and are born or marry into the family.

Then there are the military honours and decorations. Charles himself has accumulated dozens of medals, enough almost to sink one of the battleships under his command as a five star admiral. Oh, and he is also a five star general in the army and a five star air chief marshal in the RAF.

What stupendous military service or acts of bravery have led to this avalanche of medals? Well, he did captain a coastal minesweeper several decades ago for a short period. And he has only crashed a plane once.

The royals in fact have amassed between them over 100 military medals and decorations, and for what? Prince Edward, the Royal Honorary Colonel of the Royal Wessex Yeomanry, has never seen active service and even dropped out of his Royal Marines course because he couldn’t hack it.

Prince Andrew, to be fair, did merit his South Atlantic medal for service in the Falklands War. But did anyone stop to question whether it was a good idea, in 2011, when he was mired in accusations relating to his friendship with Jeffrey Epstein and serious questions were being asked about his self-serving activities as the UK’s trade ambassador, that he should be awarded the Knight Grand Cross of the Royal Victorian Order, a highly prestigious award in the archaic hierarchy of these things.

This latest set of nepotistic awards makes the royal family look ridiculous, arrogant and breezily self-serving. It also illustrates graphically how our monarchy is still an imperial one, wedded to a distant past and totally out of touch with modern Britain.

Moreover, giving themselves high honours like loose change when they have done nothing to deserve them serves to cheapen the value of the honours received by those who do deserve them. What is your one medal for outstanding bravery worth when Charles can pin dozens to his chest?

The whole honours system, started in 1348, has been about patronage. This easy corruption of the ideal of merit so graphically and repeatedly shown by the royals in their own favour is consequently mirrored further down the ladder, as prime ministers hand out life peerages and knighthoods to their mates, and to those who have given their party large amounts of money.

A proper honours system which allows society to recognise outstanding achievement is very worthwhile. But we don’t have it. Those who deserve and receive honours are lost in the trivial, the corrupt and the absurd.

I am reminded of an old television advert whose punchline was: “Award yourself the CDM – Cadbury’s Dairy Milk.”

Norman Baker was the Liberal Democrat MP for Lewes from 1997 to 2015

#abolish the monarchy #king charles III #Camilla Parker Bowles #Prince William #Kate Middleton #Anti Monarchy #the Guardian #Norman Baker

[farsight-the-char]

One day, "Canada" will no longer be a country, the citizenry free from pretending we were a country, and I won't need to worry about "Crowns" every again.

#personal political posts #abolish the monarchy #canadian politics #secular stuff #hate hate hate #death to royalty

[originalleftist]

There should not be billionaires.

And, it has little or nothing to do with the moral character of an individual billionaire. It doesn't matter if you like a particular billionaire, or if they give a lot to charity. It's wonderful if they do, truly. Nor is it necessary to vilify individual billionaires to prove the point, though many of them certainly are vile. But it doesn't change the fact that the concept itself is fundamentally unjust.

We live in a world with finite resources. Very finite, until and unless we establish a large-scale presence off of Earth. If some people have billions, it means that others have a lot less. It also means that those people with billions have vastly access, more options, more power than others.

"But they earned it"- NO THEY DIDN'T. Even if they really did somehow work their way up to being a billionaire from nothing, you cannot say anything that will convince me that some people are literally MILLIONS OF TIMES more valuable or more meritorious than others. And anyone who's NOT a billionaire making that argument honestly needs to stop and ask themselves why they have so little self-respect, as to think that those billionaires are worth so much more, are so much more deserving, than they are. Do you REALLY believe that there are people out there who are MILLIONS OF TIMES more worthy, more talented, more deserving than you?

Much the same is true for any form of hereditary monarchy/aristocracy. Sure, King Charles is an asshole and easy to mock, but even the best monarch or noble is still a fundamental injustice, because it's not about the character of an individual person. It's about the idea that certain people are inherently more important, more worthwhile based on heredity/"blood", which is a lie, fundamentally undemocratic, and fundamentally unjust.

And this is the absolutely central difference between the Left and the Right.

#Tax The Rich #Abolish Billionaires #Abolish The Monarchy #Leftist

[noonetoldmeineededausername]

I've been looking into the King Charles has pancreatic cancer thing. Every news article I can find seems to get this info from an article with In Touch. Which is an American gossip magazine. I believe the article in question is this one:

I’ve found articles across four sites that mention King Charles specifically having pancreatic cancer. As said already one is American, a Nigerian site and two Pakastani sites. I’ve yet to find a single British news site reporting on it.

I’ve seen this topic posted in several anti-monarchy circles now, which is why I started looking into it. With the source of the claim anonymous the trail seems to end here. However I’m still looking into it because I want to see if I can find out anymore.

I have no evidence that it’s fake, there is absolutely a chance that this is a credible leak. But since it originates from a gossip site I think doubt should be cast. Honestly I just want people to stop throwing it around like fact.

I'll link all the stuff I found in a reblog.

#King Charles #fuck the monarchy #abolish the monarchy

[icedsodapop]

😑😑😑

So sick and tired of this Marie Antoinette is actually a misunderstood "uwu" scapegoat narrative. The problem with pushing this narrative (esp by progressive White women like Kat Tenbarge 😑) is that in wanting to redeem her, it comes at the expense of erasing the irl people (many of whom were poor women, Black women etc) that she was complicit in oppressing becos ultimately, she's still a part of an oppressive class.

I'm so done with the whole "actually Marie Antoinette never said let them eat cake!" Yes, that's not true but do any of these pple acknowledge the actual questionable things the woman had done?

Like her complicity in igniting the American slave trade:

Or her "adopting" a Sengalese boy. Senegal in Marie Antoinette's lifetime was actively in the process of being colonised by France and other Western powers

Or her and the other royals hyperconsumption of food and other luxuries while their people were starving:

Or her belief in her and the other monarchs' own divine right to rule:

And she wrote letters to her family in Austria, begging them to send armies to crush peasant rebellions in France. She's a conservative through and through. But sure, she's wholly a misunderstood victim in all this 🤡

And there's the whole "she was sold into French court" narrative, which I never really was comfortable with. Becos slavery was, ya know, a thing:

It's so weird that we are living in an era where we want to eat the rich, yet we are still promoting infantilized narratives of powerful wealthy historical figures.

#white feminism #marie antoinette #anti monarchy #abolish the monarchy

[sourcreammachine]

#196 #abolish the monarchy

[drsarcasticraspberry]

there is a non-zero chance that Charlie has died of cancer right at the same time that Kate has dumped Will/been abducted by aliens/absconded with a hot lumberjack (situation unclear) and i for one find that hilarious. imagine Will becomes king and everyone's like where's your wife our new queen and he's gotta be like. well about that

obviously we should abolish the royal family but i *do* think we should let whatever the fucketh this is play itself out first

#british royal family #abolish the monarchy

[thenotoriousscuttlecliff]

I love how these idiots clearly have no idea how conspiracy theories work because all they keep doing is pouring more and more fuel on the fire.

#where is kate #abolish the monarchy #and the scum press that props it up #almost every response to this has been saying it's not her #and they just hired a look-a-like #whether that is true or not #releasing grainy distant footage from someone's phone is no way to silence conspiracy theories

[nando161mando]

#abolish capitalism #abolish the monarchy #abolish the police #abolish prisons #abolish israel #abolish ice #1312 #all cops are bastards #all cops are bad #ftp #fuck the cops #fuck the police #anti police #anti cop #ice #antifa #antifascismo #antifaschistische aktion #antifascist #class war #oppression #repression #fascism #no laws no borders #eat the rich #eat the fucking rich #anti imperialist #antinationalist #ausgov

[ingek73]

what the actual fuck

This reads like a The Onion headline

Also

It is now described as being "awarded for having a major contribution to the arts, science, medicine, or government lasting over a long period of time".

What an insult to those actually making major contributions to these fields

#abolish the monarchy

[s-petals-blog]

wtf?

Brf- Kate not seen since reports of royal cars driving to hospital around new year

Surgery not planned in advance because planned overseas visit cancelled

Reported abdo surgery. Rumoured gynae and plastic surgery.

William swaying weirdly at official engagement

William close to godfather’s memorial service but cancelled with 45 mins notice for “ personal matters”

William didn’t go to godfather’s funeral either

H and M kicking goals so obvs W had to try to one up them.

Kate papped with bankrupt mum on private estate. Kip gives one photo to TMZ. British media pressured not to publish for her “privacy”. Face shape different. Puffy? Tyre tread clearly visible so perhaps not driving and still. Mum clear, Kate blurry.

BMedia furious.

KP release fake photo of Kate with kids for Mother’s Day. Kids wearing same outfits as baby bank visit last year but they have been photoshopped. Kates hands weird and not wearing Diana’s engagement ring. Kate’s face lifted from vogue.

4 international agencies issue kill-order on photo. BMedia can now go wild and do about pic, trouble in marriage.

False report on Murdoch papers that H and M do the same thing. Milan Harriman refutes with proof and drops the original. Kensington Applecross refuses to drop the original.

Kpalace now issues weird and likely false statement that Kate did the photoshop. Media calls this out because she’s a control perfectionist mannequin (see Hilary mantel on royals bodies).

Kpalace offers doctored/fake pic of W on way to commonwealth service in car with woman whose head is turned away. Claims it’s Kate. Car different colour from the one W arrived in. Not clearly K- could be anyone. Interweb detectives find old profile pic of Kate from 8+ yrs ago that matches car pic.

Theories… Kate is sick, rehab, surgery complications, separation from W and refusal to play his narratives.

But KPalace acting like she’s dead. No messages, no pic, no video. Coverup and acting as if he killed her.

He isn’t fit to be in charge of anything, let alone billion pound estate, monarchy.

Also they are protecting an alleged pedophile so let’s not focus on lifestyle brands and bs. The whole family is complicit in protecting Andrew.

#late stage capitalism #abolish the monarchy #Kate middleman disappears and is blame for everything #covid #5g #photoshopped moon landings #Lehman brothers and bear sterns

[nicetoseesofttotouch]

i just know that Kate Middleton will appear just like they said, after Easter, they will find a way to push her to be the same picture perfect face of the falling monarchy, but it's too late, their image is already too damaged after the way they are handling everything since the Queen died

#abolish the monarchy #brf #british royal family #kate middleton #prince william #prince harry #harry and meghan #meghan markle

[i-fucked-your-milkshake]

Just throwing out my theory, since we’re all doing that. Kate Middleton, whose pregnancies have all been horrific and required bed rest for months, had a miscarriage in December which revealed Something Incredibly Wrong that required a hysterectomy and no one is talking about it because it’s no one’s business and they’re gonna do a major interview about it in like May or June and everyone is going to talk about how sad the whole thing is and how brave Kate is for three weeks until Prince Charles explodes from cancer and we all laugh about the monarchy again.

#kate middleton #british royal family #abolish the monarchy #but also like #Kate middleton’s health isn’t our business

[earlymodernbarbie]

Monarchists fighting for their lives on Instagram

#they’re losing #abolish the monarchy #united ireland

[sourcreammachine]

#196 #abolish the monarchy