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Belgian prince loses legal battle to receive social security benefits on top of royal allowance (www.theguardian.com)

submitted 4 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 101 points 4 days ago (3 children)

Social security benefits should be universal. Royal allowances should stop immediately. Monarchy should end immediately.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago

One cant be democratic if the head of state is unelected and nobility still has influence!

[+] [email protected] -18 points 4 days ago (3 children)

I don't know much about how Belgian royalty behaves, but I argue it would be fair not to end this tradition until they fuck up. Royal allowances and costs of ceremonies etc aren't that high if you consider the diplomatic weight royalties have in foreign countries, even more so in foreign monarchies.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 4 days ago (1 children)

if you consider the diplomatic weight royalties have in foreign countries

They shouldnt have any diplomatic weight. They should be stripped of anything that separates them from normal citizens.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 days ago

But they do though. I'm not saying it's fair, just that we better use it since we pay for it.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Yeah you wanna read a little about the shit that the Belgian royal family has caused. Or just about all royal families, for that matter...

[–] [email protected] -1 points 3 days ago

If they cause shit than I'd say there is an actual reason to kick them out, as I said I don't know anything about Belgian royals. What I think is that the financial argument is weak, especially compared to the moral argument on whether it's fair or not. I think it'd be better this 'tradation' dies slowly.

Also, I think this guy wanting extra money is a douchebag move. Feel like I need to stress that with all these downvotes.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 days ago

I really don't care for that excuse.
They are a buch of parasites and there's no need to give them our money.

[+] [email protected] -18 points 4 days ago (3 children)

Yes, we need an elected head of state so we can elect an orange alt right dictator with unchecked power

[–] [email protected] 16 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Monarchists being absurd to defend a deplorable family that’s actively shielding a (alleged) pedophile sex trafficker.

Idgaf if the Windsors continue to exist as a bloodline, but they shouldn’t hold significant if unexercised powers, shouldn’t play any role or advocacy in politics, and shouldn’t be whinging about not having enough money to fund their property and land portfolio.

Can’t pay the bills? Oh no, I guess the public/National Trust can take ownership and maintain those building like all the other stately homes that went into administration decades ago.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago

The Brits are one of the biggest monarchist bootlickers.
And this for a horrible German family.
Call these fascist parasites Saxen-Gotha, not whatever they opportunistically changed their name to bcs it was 1914.

[–] [email protected] -4 points 4 days ago

Republicans being absurd to suggest we should elect 10x more deplorable people who are sex traffickers into their office.

Also, the Windsor's will profit from their land and property instead of having to give the vast majority of that revenue to the government, as it currently stands

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago

We could take countries like Finland as an example and keep the power in the parliament. It would be very similar to how constitutional monarchies work, but without the monarchs.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago

They get what they deserve

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 days ago

Its always a weird reminder that there are still so many monarchies

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago

No more yankee my wankee.