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I mean, just declare a republic ffs.

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[–] floo@retrolemmy.com 1 points 3 days ago (4 children)
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[–] BlueEther@no.lastname.nz 1 points 3 days ago (20 children)

What's wrong with New Zealand or Australia ot Canada or?

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[–] SoftestSapphic@lemmy.world 0 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Because some people never grow up and still want a daddy/authority figure to tell them how to live.

That's why orginized religion or other authoritarian fetishes exist.

[–] throwawayacc0430@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (4 children)

That reminds me:

What the fuck does a "Pope" do? (rhetorical question)

They don't even have a country to ceremonially rule over 🤣

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[–] Adderbox76@lemmy.ca 0 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (7 children)

Republics give you Trump....

What I mean is this:

A Prime Minister is not a president. They are simply the leader of whichever party has he most seats in parliament and is therefore the "face" of the government in many ways.

Most importantly this means that there is no such thing as "executive orders" because there is no "executive" branch, per se. Meaning even if we (Canada) had fucked up and elected Trump-lite, Pollieve, his ability to do the same shit Trump is doing would be severely limited in that everything goes through parliamentary vote without exception (for the most part).

A ruling party has something called the Emergencies Act, that can, to a limited degree, allow them to enact a few things without parliamentary vote, but its use is generally highly controversial and is still very controlled by judicial review.

Long story short (too late, I know) is that the tsunami of bullshit that Orange Hitler is doing is because he's using executive orders to enact things and then fighting congress in court when they push back rather than getting congressional approval BEFORE enacting it.

Something that is far more limited in a governmental system where that much power HASN'T been given to one person.

A Parliamentary Republic with a ceremonial president or Semi-Presidential system with the President and Prime Minister sharing executive powers could also acheive the same thing.

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[–] starlinguk@lemmy.world -1 points 3 days ago (9 children)

In the UK, the Royal Estate provides the government with a huge income (even though 25 percent goes to the king so he can repair his fancy castles).

[–] Jobe@feddit.org -1 points 3 days ago (2 children)

This is the best answer I think, tons of income from tourism.

[–] Skua@kbin.earth 1 points 2 days ago

It's the estate that makes the income though, not the family. In the UK most of that estate is owned by the position of the monarch itself rather than by the monarch; a perk of the job, not private property. In other words it'd probably still make just as much money in a republic, arguably more since we could let visitors in to see the buildings

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