• knowone@slrpnk.net
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          2 months ago

          There are quite a few European countries that still have monarchs. Just seems our last one before this one was “iconic” or whatever people call her. Glad the popularity of it is fading with the new one

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      2 months ago

      Their government was an imperial model during WWII. Unless they killed off the royalty, why would you assume they had no descendants?

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        2 months ago

        It’s not that, its just not something I have heard of, like, at all. Unlike most of the rest of the worlds royalty. Though them being less in the world news makes plenty of sense.

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          2 months ago

          Well, things went about as well for Japan’s royalty as it did for Japan in general when they lost WWII.

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      2 months ago

      Loads of countries have royal families. I said many times that it’s not a stupid model and latest events in Poland only confirm this.

      Long story short: Polish president has mostly decorative role but current far-right guy is now illegally usurping powers that are constitutionally not his and conspiring with Trump behind the government’s back.

      In monarchies the King/Queen have pretty much the same role but their position is so weak that they simply smile and follow the orders. They have a lot to lose and nothing to gain.

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        They call him tennou actually (heavenly king) but then when they were forced to open up, they heard of Napoleon and they thought damn that’s cool, we’ll tell foreigners to use that too.