Message from @pratel
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nah, Canada is cucked
you'd kneel to the queen
I find it hard to believe that Canada is independent of the UK bearing these factors in mind
Really, it depends on the circumstance.
If Canada were itself too divided to act, it probably wouldn't.
If what she did had wide popular approval
You're probably right
That was the case with Australia
Doesn't even need wide popular approval. Just enough to make revolt inpractical.
however you define 'revolt'
The prime minister was unpopular enough that the people didn't complain when a perfectly law-abiding politician was suddenly and swiftly ejected from the office they were duly elected to serve in
at least according to polling
Even if the people DID revolt, it's not like the Canadian armed forces swear allegiance to Canadian law
or people
or politicians
But in practice the Queen doesnt excercise a whole lot of power here, and if she did try to do something widely unpopular she'd be putting herself in a precarious situation i imagine
They swear allegiance only to the Queen
But she DID exercise this power in practice in 1975
So what's to stop her from doing it again?
Yeah, but show me a Canadian that'd actually answer to the Queen instead of the nation when it mattered
Don't give political power to someone purely because they came out of the right vagina
It shows where power nominally rests and the traditions and culture lie, but it says very little about how things might operate in a true crisis.
That's rich coming from someone whose screenname starts with "Swedish"
This is more a matter of us inheriting this governmental structure, and so long as the Queen just stays quiet, it doesnt hurt us much to keep it.
I hate my monarchy too @RMS_Gigantic
Knug Gustaf and whatnot
Our royal family wants more tax money so they can marry more Beverly Hills Americans
be a man Swedishmafia
Challenge your king to the right to the crown!
Demand a trial by wombat!
Hold on while I steal that picture of the guy with a flag and shotgun off the firearms-chat.
Dude, I am literally the reincarnation of Maximilien Robespierre
Rats. I can't post pictures.
Sweden apparently has Republikanska Föreningen and the Swedish Republican Association as political groups for opposing monarchism
this one?
Yes!
^Me irl
Me irl
I'm so fucking American, I view republicanism as a political ideology in itself
why not be so american, that you consider Republicans to be communists too 😛
like George Liquor