[bots]

when will people realise that there is good and bad in everyone and that includes royalty. Everyones opinion can be valid at the same time

[Zizu]

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[bots]

Originally Posted by Zizu

Why are you telling me that when I am the one who doesn’t put people on ignore for having different opinion to mine ??



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i didn't address you directly

[Zizu]

Originally Posted by bots

i didn't address you directly

True
Apologies !


I assumed someone else was having a go at me and reacted impetuously ..

In hindsight you nailed it !!

Sorry !

[Yuki Maru Hoshi]

Originally Posted by bots

when will people realise that there is good and bad in everyone and that includes royalty. Everyones opinion can be valid at the same time

But mine are extra valid though bots, because as an American I can see from the outside and as a woman, I have more of the feelings and therefore more actual data and as we know, extra data regardless of quality must mean more accurate right. That's how it should work, I think.

Spoiler:

This is a **** post for people who are too drunk celebrating on New Years to tell the difference. I didn't read much of anything but bots post......

[Yuki Maru Hoshi]

Originally Posted by Merry Mockmas

I personally am not really fussed one way or the other with the Royal Family as an institution tbh.

But I do agree with you that the Royal Family bring stability, because the one area where they definitely help with stability for the UK is how many tourists go to London to want to see Buckingham Palace up close.

I wouldn't say that Americans on average judge our culture's stability based on how many people visit the White House. Tourism is not talked about very much in most parts of the US. I've been and I shook the fence when Obama was there. It was a cute moment only I could appreciate. The White House is "just a building", but the building is a place of transition for better or worse and like Christmas, that transition creates something of a holiday spirit. If it didn't have that quality, we would've replaced it with some modern mundane monstrosity much sooner based on whatever feeling we were having at that the time based on trends... we aren't the kind of culture to be get as terribly attached to tradition or even specific ways of thinking contrary to how a butthurt traditional media likes to portray these cultural transitions. It's a mentality that is working against us atm because of the seemingly endless decision fatigue... I see the UK has this effect also, but it's particularly strong in the States without a proper "calmhead".

What represents our interests most? It seems anything we could do could be counterproductive or at least easily undermined by the kinds of conversations decided to create cultural disillusion.

This is off topic, obviously, but I think that having the Royals around, even if they are disliked by half the country. That's a lot of commonality already, even the common disagreement. And even if they do go or the system is "abandoned", it's still going to play a part in that culture for some time as certain habits or way of thinking are more effectively borrowed from the past than out of thin air... that's the problem we're having in America is that we can't invent anything new yet as it has to be borrowed. This is where the pro-immigration argument is strongest, imo.

[Merry Mockmas]

Originally Posted by Livia

They are also patrons of countless charities, employ thousands of people and bring in countless trade deals through diplomacy and by hosting foreign dignitaries. It's not all 'changing of the guard'. I worked briefly with the Prince's Trust, now the King's Trust. What an amazing organisation and one that is ignored every time an anti-monarchist reduces the royal family down to a tourist attraction. I'm not really referring to you there, by the way, Mock.

Oh I know.

[Livia]

Originally Posted by Merry Mockmas

Oh I know.

Happy New Year, Mock x