Anyway not a question

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If a monarch makes an elected parliament to represent the people will that inevitably spiral into further loss of a monarch’s power or can a monarch’s power remain if a parliament exists?

Now there’s a good question

It’s hard to say

There’s not a large enough sample size to determine a clear trend

The British monarchy was pretty solid for centuries even with a separate legislature

Though of course their system has Lords n shiet

The king was still pretty powerful until after the war

And that was largely due to the complacency and weakness of the sitting monarch, rather than a systemic failure

IMO

I think that the system can exist for long periods when things are going good or ok but when hardship hits people tend to blame the system instead of the actual causes.

The parliament and House of Lords were fine because Britain was doing well.

But when they stopped doing as well the kings powers were taken.

it's almost as if the system of government is secondary to a strong culture and society

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Eh

Both reinforce eachother

As far as I can tell any sort of federal assembly is a bad idea in the longterm

If you have a parliament, the one thing it can agree on always is empowering parliament. Even one moment of monarchical weakness and you end up with a figurehead

And once parliament is in charge I think we can observe in history there's always been a drive to expand the franchise

If anything have regional parliament or better yet make large cities republican enclaves

I like large cities being mini republics, buy I'd also like to point out the necessity of Parliaments, of which all medieval monarchs had a form, for feudal tax collection. You're gonna have to find another way for people to consent to tax and your government.

They consent by not moving

Parliaments did exist in Britain and France exactly for the purpose of being able to vetos taxations and so they did

And it was a mess

I'd go so far as to say that if the French monarchy didn't have a parliament at all that the French revolution wouldn't have happened

Yo <@578804170342137867> why was Apollo banned?

He says he's sorry and won't post anything like whatever it was again

@ThunderFuck He spammed the channels with rubbish.

Nesselblatt, I'm talking feudal Parliaments, not early modern ones. The French Assembly was of course a disaster, but i think its important to reflect on monarchy before this period, and how they worked. Powerful monarchs expanded the roles of their Parliaments so they could expand their tax collection, and weak monarch minimised the role of their Parliaments so they could secure their hold on the throne. If you have a noble title, if you represent a wealthy city, you should negotiate with the ruler as to the taxes you give to said ruler.
Of course the monarch should be powerful in and of themselves, but absolutism is a modernist occurrence, and it was that centralisation of power which led to the revolution. Power should be dispersed throughout the estates, and not just legally like some liberal separation of powers BS, but by the actual reality of power held, and they will hold eachother in check, and in the aim of furthering their own interests (the clergy, nobility, bourgeois and commoners) they will progress the general interest of the civilisation.

I was referring to feudal parliaments like the one in Britain or France
In practice the nobility and monarch negotiating to raise taxes for the sake of the country just didn't happen

Parliament wasn't used except as a way for them to avoid taxes

The way you keep the monarch from excessively taxing the populace is by having the state be decentralized to some degree with other ppl with tangible power to collectively oppose royalty if there are genuine excesses

It's easy to veto taxes if you're a comfy landed noble who will never face consequences for obstruction

It's hard to on your own to oppose a king over some petty tax you'd like to avoid, easier to do when the entire class is pissed off about genuine excessive taxation

What you do with parliaments that vetoes taxation is first of all nothing since parliament would rarely be called into sessions to begin with the monarch finding creative ways to tax without calling it taxation (for example forced loans) until eventually some sort of crisis gives a parliament leverage over the monarch which they can use to enhance their own powers etc.

@Endeavour do you have a folder filled with boomer memes on your phone/computer for whenever you see a boomer statement

@EYEFORKNOWLEDGE156

I have a q-boomer friend that understands the race realism but buys believes in the "demkkkract plantation"

I don't know how he can combine both of race realism and and boomer views on race but he managed to do it

Like he told me he thought candace owens was based

just thought of him when you put that up

@EYEFORKNOWLEDGE156 Ask him if he really thinks that he'll be able to convince black people to accept less welfare paid for by white people or affirmative action since they can't complete in a free market due to lower average IQ. The other thing to point out is that they get status by being on the left. It gives them power over white people which is really appealing to them.

@Endeavour I'll ask him the next time I see him but I don't see him too often when he told me that I thought he was joking at first because I had already shown him my power level he picked up his race realist views because he grew up in a white working class neighborhood that was being absorbed into the ghetto he has a lot of crazy stories from those times.

It was basically a situation where most of the whites would view you as a friend because you were white and most blacks viewed you as an enemy because you were white. He also has to be one of the strangest person I have ever met.

sorry it took me a minute

this pandering to minorities is just hilarious

its only possible in a democracy

PULL YOURSELF UP BY THE BOOT STRAPS

GET OFF THE DEMOKKKRACTIC PLANTATION

Get back on the plantation neeger tbh

Come on boy, I got kfc and welfare. I'll pay off all your child support if you get back on my plantation boy

@Skellington WELL WELL WELL LOOKS LIKE WE GOT A DEMOKKKRAT IN THIS HERE REPUBLICAN SERVER

Yep

@everyone What kind of content would you like to see more of?
- Political theory (eg. Lies of the Enlightenment videos)
- Cultural commentary (eg. The Gettysburg, Frankenstein, or Athens videos)
- Personal Experience (eg. My political journey, authenticity, or my leftist family member videos)
I have several ideas, but I'm wondering what people want more.

Political theory

Bloodsport /s

@Liechtenauer I've never done bloodsports and I'm not going to.

I really enjoy your political/philosophical videos

They have made me reconsider a lot of my ideas about life and society in general

Political theory

/s denotes sarcasm. Honestly answer would be to pick up where trudiltom left off by exposing new ideas / esoteric political theory

Political theory

cultural commentary

Political theory.

Political theory would be great

Political theory, tho i would prefer philosophy videos

Political theory. Personal experience would be interesting from time to time too.

Political theory

Then I guess 'Lies of the Enlightenment 5' is coming up next...

based

A Democratic Endeavour? In MY Discord? Say it aint so!

Personal experiences

In my opinion you should do what fits you best. If you have a story to tell.. share it, if you have a idea you want to express.. do it. Do content that you are interested and excited to produce 😁

Oh shieet

ignore wanderingrusski, do poltical theory

Just woke up

Do Political Theory

Your political theory is very well put together. I think the cultural commentary is more important, though.

we love the political theory, but if you can tie it in to your personal experiences, like the search for authenticity, that makes it really powerful.

All three subjects. @Endeavour

i'd say personal experience

@Endeavour you've demonstrated the lies quite diligently. I agree with @WanderingRusski about naturally sharing your experiences and being open and taking your audience through your discovery and thought process with you. These qualities are what made your content captivating and authentic.

I would caution about traveling to far down the road of critiquing culture. I imagine if most of us here are anything like me we're pretty disillusioned. Continuing to fixate on what is wrong would be fostering a culture of critique (/outrage a la Tim Poole) and we don't want to become our enemy's.

I would recommend following your gut and launching and endeavor in search of authenticity since that has caught your attention. Go find subjects and/or talk to different people who you suspect may living in authenticity and purpose in this fallen society and provide analysis. Homesteading, Religious communities, families, frontier jobs, civic resistance groups, occupations. Find them, tell us, but remember, it's much easier to destroy than to create.

Orthodoxy

@MicMac My cultural commentary videos are usually about reactionary themes in works of art which I enjoy (like the Gettysburg video). I don't do "ANTIFA ATTACKS JOURNALIST!!! MSM SILENT!!!" videos like Tim Pool. I'm not interested in just saying "SJWs are bad". I need to feel like I have something of value to say on a subject to warrant a video.

My Tim Poole example was off point, you're right

I would like to see more historical content.

Didn't intend to imply you were anything like Tim Poole, you're obviously not. What I was trying to get at was to suggest a search for authenticity and purpose and to avoid potential traps of 'beating a dead horse'. No offense intended. I like your content. Trying to offer input that may be of some utility.

@MicMac Yeah, no problem. I didn't take it that way. You are right that outrage porn makes for low quality content.

I like all the topics

^

Though I agree that the personal anecdotes are the most relatable and unique

For obvious reasons

More political theroy would be nice

more history would be interesting

like that video on the 1848 Hungarian revolution

@Endeavour I think you should have a mix of these but I personally like your personal anecdotes videos