• andros_rex@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    1
    ·
    2 hours ago

    Isn’t this kinda omitting the fact Pu Yi ruled Manchukuo before the whole “reeducation camp” thing?

    • Clot@lemmy.zipOP
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      9
      arrow-down
      20
      ·
      1 day ago

      Your country pretends to be democracy while you vote for 2 capitalist parties bootlicking the rich.

      • cheesybuddha@lemmy.world
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        2
        arrow-down
        1
        ·
        34 minutes ago

        Are people still pretending the US is a Democracy?

        I’m in the US, and no serious person that I know actually thinks that. Plus, a bunch of the non serious people keep saying inane nonsense like “We are a republic, not a democracy”, demonstrating that they neither know nor care what system we use.

        • Sharkticon@lemmy.zip
          link
          fedilink
          arrow-up
          1
          ·
          15 minutes ago

          Yes people still pretend that I don’t know where you live that you think nobody pretends that.

      • Soulg@ani.social
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        6
        arrow-down
        2
        ·
        13 hours ago

        Oh so you’re a tankie, can’t just have a cool meme about something neat China did, gotta make it stupid

        • cheesybuddha@lemmy.world
          link
          fedilink
          arrow-up
          1
          arrow-down
          1
          ·
          30 minutes ago

          Fuckin’ Tankies…

          These dudes are like the far left equivalent of Libertarians. They love their political theory and posturing, but have no idea how their theories are actually applicable in real life. I expect the majority of Tankies, like Libertarians, are young angry people who are trying to buck a system that has mistreated them. I certainly remember when I was young and had dumb ideas about how the world should work.

        • Clot@lemmy.zipOP
          link
          fedilink
          English
          arrow-up
          2
          arrow-down
          4
          ·
          5 hours ago

          0 lies in my comment. Does that make me a tankie?

  • Bizzle@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    7
    ·
    1 day ago

    All of the hierarchies are bad, the real galaxy brain ideology is anarchist mutualism.

    • cheesybuddha@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      1
      ·
      28 minutes ago

      It seems to me that well organized systems will always triumph over less organized system by nature of them being better organized.

    • Buddahriffic@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      1
      ·
      2 hours ago

      I don’t disagree but hierarchies have military advantages over anarchies that I think will prevent them from ever rising, let alone “holding” power any time populists rise up.

  • West_of_West@piefed.social
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    20
    arrow-down
    1
    ·
    2 days ago

    The UKs more: have monarch, cut head off monarch, create republic/military dictatorship, regret said dictatorship, install monarch, slowly siphon away power of monarch.

    • scholar@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      2
      ·
      1 day ago

      The Commonwealth of England could have been a great idea if they’d planned ahead and thought everything out, but considering the kind of people in charge I’m quite glad they didn’t…

  • JeeBaiChow@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    31
    arrow-down
    2
    ·
    2 days ago

    American ‘monarch’ will be selling you cheap Chinese goods with his name on it while yelling at brown people.

  • ChicoSuave@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    8
    ·
    1 day ago

    This is a good example of how we should treat all massive wealth: take it away and make the billionaire live at the bottom of the system they make.

    • NOT_RICK@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      47
      arrow-down
      2
      ·
      2 days ago

      I think it’s pretty fucked up to shoot children in a basement, personally. Nobody picks their family.

      • Chivera@lemmy.world
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        5
        arrow-down
        4
        ·
        2 days ago

        Interesting thought just like when you think about time traveling and killing baby Hitler.

        • NOT_RICK@lemmy.world
          link
          fedilink
          English
          arrow-up
          25
          arrow-down
          1
          ·
          2 days ago

          I’d argue the big distinction there is we know what Hitler did; we’ll never know what the Romanov children would have done had they lived.

          • Denjin@feddit.uk
            link
            fedilink
            arrow-up
            2
            ·
            1 day ago

            Would Hitler have gone on to do what he did if someone had liked his paintings?

        • Geobloke@aussie.zone
          link
          fedilink
          arrow-up
          4
          arrow-down
          2
          ·
          2 days ago

          What if you went back in time and bought up all Hitler’s art and got him into art school?

          Our maybe told the Allies not to be huge Dickson after the first world war…

          • Miaou@jlai.lu
            link
            fedilink
            arrow-up
            2
            arrow-down
            2
            ·
            22 hours ago

            Ah right the Nazis were the real victims.

            Fuck off with the Nazi propaganda/revisionism.

            • ThunderclapSasquatch@startrek.website
              link
              fedilink
              arrow-up
              1
              ·
              8 hours ago

              He has a point on the Allies in WW1, the Nazis may have never gained power if post war Germany wasn’t penalized so heavily we’ll never know the answer though because we live in the Nazi timeline

    • Rothe@piefed.social
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      6
      ·
      1 day ago

      No, they still get funded by the public. But only the people in the direct line of succession. The majority of the royal families do need jobs.

  • Enkrod@feddit.org
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    2
    ·
    1 day ago

    Germany just turned its nobility into bureaucrats, capitalists, military, civil servants and political leaders… so same shit, different system.

    Only losing WWI had us abolish nobility and by then the transformation of power through birth to power through money and influence had already happened.