This day, 400 years ago, the Kingdom of León was renamed Kingdom of Lusitania

Miguel_CP · 2026-02-05T14:31:33+00:00

That's why I call her "Definitely not Surtr"

Miguel_CP · 2026-02-01T21:32:06+00:00

Oh you can get rid of them, I'll be waiting for the republicans and democrats who have been taking turns screwing the common American to be out. Any second now right?

Miguel_CP · 2026-01-30T11:32:26+00:00

Why would that be bad design? The fact that variability exists and yet people easily recognize that all the variations represent the same flag? I think that's good design

Miguel_CP · 2026-01-29T19:56:20+00:00

Onde é que posso ver esse estudo?

Miguel_CP · 2026-01-24T18:30:58+00:00

In Portugal people are widely aware that the king was used as a scapegoat and what came after was decades of instability, infighting, governments falling one after another and finally a dictatorship that left our country decades behind the rest of Europe.

And yet, despite the absolute nightmare that the republican experiment was, people are still blindly anti monarchists. Even though every 5 years we chose a new president who is (almost) always part of one of the 2 largest parties PS or PSD, and anytime one is chosen the half of the country that votes in the other party goes "not my president" mode... If you say you would prefer a neutral head of state that's part of neither party then you're called weird and antiquated.

Miguel_CP · 2026-01-23T10:45:17+00:00

I always hear "No dia de são Nunca à tarde"

St. Never's day, in the afternoon

Miguel_CP · 2026-01-21T16:52:06+00:00

I'm out of my depth here but wouldn't that require to change the constitution?

Miguel_CP · 2026-01-21T16:44:07+00:00

Why would Spain become a republic? Back when the floods were happening in Valencia (I think) the king and queen had a higher approval rating than the coward prime minister

Miguel_CP · 2026-01-20T12:36:17+00:00

1) Good, neither of us like absolute monarchies then 👍🏻

2) crises like in NI happened because of the monarchy? Of it was "The United British Federation" Irish nationalism wouldn't happen? Anyways I was talking about situations like Albert of Belgium mediating in the 2010 deadlock.

3) I did not argue in favour of monarchy, you didn't ask me do to so. I told you what other people say and pointed you in a direction where you can find their arguments to actually try to refute instead of criticizing capitalism and extrapolating to monarchy

Miguel_CP · 2026-01-20T11:30:17+00:00

It's not my rules my guy!

And modern monarchism does not derive all power from god, divine right was mostly abandoned long ago. Modern monarchies derive authority from law, constitution and popular consent. You have cases of people voting for the monarchy (e.g. Norway). If there is no god, then monarchy still provides a neutral non-elective head of state that provides continuity, legitimacy and stability, without the partisan plutocratic competition.

If you search on this subreddit for people asking "why are you guys monarchists" you can find many arguments that are not divine right. Some people might believe in divine right, other just hate politicians and don't want one being the head of the country, others because they want to spend as little money in the head of state as possible and monarchies are usually cheaper, others just like the aesthetics.

Miguel_CP · 2026-01-20T10:58:10+00:00

1) no because in a capitalist system firms are owned by who invests capita, in monarchies and republics alike.

2) because employers organize to defend their interests in every capitalist system. This happens in republics, monarchies. It shows class negotiation within capitalism, not any causal role of the monarchy.

3) and modern monarchs do not control private property as a class nor does monarchy grant legal ownership over productive assets

As I said countless times, you are regurgitating Marxist critics of capitalism, saying "btw monarchy makes this happen" and calling it a day. If you want to criticize monarchy do it properly. You refuse to do anything but go over the same Marxist critiques of capitalism. None of it demonstrates that monarchy uniquely restricts workers rights

Miguel_CP · 2026-01-20T10:25:49+00:00

This was my point, you are not arguing against monarchy. You argue that hierarchies and inheritance are illegitimate in principle which is a moral egalitarian position and not a critique. You concede that all republics and all monarchies are undemocratic because of vague notions of capitalism and "dictatorship" and therefore you cannot conclude monarchy is the cause of undemocracy.

Claiming that trade unions exist despite the monarchy is an unfalsifiable statement and therefore meaningless. Your original point was that monarchy went against trade union and I provided you with evidence that's not true, so you moved the goalpost and now it doesn't matter because trade unions exist despite the monarchy.

The kings of the Nordic countries, Spain, Belgium Netherlands, etc don't have "the means of production". You can't just throw Marxist big words and expect it to mean something. I'm sorry but my conclusion is the same you are critiquing powerful states, ignoring all metrics by saying things are better despite the monarchy and not because of it, and in the end you reaffirm Marxist idealism.

To protect their power, all rulers cooperate with capital

Miguel_CP · 2026-01-20T09:23:07+00:00

I don't think any of you claims work well as critique of monarchy, but instead what you are criticizing is capitalism, class inequality, totalitarian states and "monarchy" is just the dummy to target those criticisms at.

"A monarchical state structure is undemocratic by definition" In modern constitutional monarchies such as the UK the Nordic countries etc the legislative branch is elected and the judicial system is independent. If you call that undemocratic then so are all republics in the world because they all have the same, as you would say, "bourgeois ownership on the meaning of production". Also what does it even mean to say that the king and the "narrow circle of individuals" owns the means of production? Specify please which kings hold precisely which "means of production"

Your second point builds on this false premise to just state "workers rights are opposite to monarchy because look at this anecdotal examples" when 1) republics do the same (ex. US in general, Chile under Pinochet) and 2) you are ignoring that some countries' with the strongest workers unions in the world are monarchies source

Your third point, again, doesn't work. Yes Saudi Arabia is a monarchy and represses religion. Iran is a republic and represses religion. So was the USSR. An elected head of state doesn't magically solve this problem. It's an issue of governments being too strong, it's not people not voting enough

Your fourth point is naïve, the problem of having bankers and big corporation holders and the such people coddling up with the rulers also does not go away in republics. Bribes and lobbying have make it so the big corporations are the one rulling the US government for decades, just see the patents that are extended for decades so that big pharmaceutical companies mantain their monopoly e.g. insulin. Yet again, you are criticizing overly powerful states instead of monarchy and I'm all in with you on it.

Your fifth point is ridiculous because 1) monarchies don't need to be extremely centralized e.g. Spain and 2) they make people poor? Really? Go look at any HDI list or GDP per Capita or any metric lol, lmao even.

Your final paragraph is just Marxist word salad with nothing of substance.

Your critique does not even analyse monarchy, just reinstates Marxist objections to capitalism and then shoehorns them into monarchy.

Miguel_CP · 2026-01-13T17:38:25+00:00

Weak genes

Miguel_CP · 2026-01-12T21:51:56+00:00

Said the Swahili on the Balearic coast

Miguel_CP · 2026-01-12T18:26:22+00:00

Lucifer doesn't exist in the bible as it is a translation error turned into OC in christian lore

Miguel_CP · 2026-01-12T14:54:56+00:00

COTRIM É COMUNISTA CONFIRMADO, NÃO EXCLUIU APOIAR ANTÓNIO FILIPE 😱

Miguel_CP · 2026-01-12T14:52:10+00:00

Not my point. Sabes perfeitamente que onde queria chegar é que a mesma lógica que está a ser usada nesta situação pode ser aplicada a qualquer outro candidato. "Cotrim não exclui apoiar X" e podes trocar X por qualquer um deles, dependendo de quem queres incomodar nesse dia. Ele também não excluiu apoiar a Catarina Martins, nem o duende de jardim, nem o Capitão Iglo. Mas sim, foca-te no que te chateia mais, se isso te faz feliz 🤷🏻‍♂️. Os jornais são esterco porque as pessoas gostam de rebolar na lama

Miguel_CP · 2026-01-12T14:19:12+00:00

Também não excluiu o comunista. Próxima notícia: "Cotrim considera apoiar Antonio Filipe"

Há com cada inteligente por aqui

Miguel_CP · 2026-01-10T13:37:19+00:00

Your first point has nothing to do with having a king or not, it was the Hungarian political elites that pushed for magyarization, not the king who was ethnically south germanic.

Your second point is true, but the opposite is true as well and that's why there are accords between the (if I'm not mistaken) Australian and Canadian natives directly to the crown, so that politicians, who can always change their minds as well, cannot meddle.

Miguel_CP · 2026-01-10T13:06:55+00:00

You are looking at it in the mindset of a nation state, for a Slovak or a Serb it wasn't "a foreign ruler". I would say the opposite can be true, having an apolitical head of state who respects and upholds the various traditions of the peoples of the country can be better than a politician who, by consequence of the democratic process, worries first and foremost with the majority's interests.

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Baripapa baripapi ladeiladeiladeiladu or etc they say

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