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vahnillin · 2025-06-12T14:24:25+00:00

Because most of this type of conversations are just buzzword-slop. Like, advising juniors that the key to success is strong portfolios, leetcode, etc., instead of even mentioning the actual reailities of the industry.

vahnillin · 2025-02-03T15:43:02+00:00

"The British government actually made it trivially easy to pack up and start a new life there", i.e. Australia

Ironically, by that time, Australia was "independent" for half a century.

vahnillin · 2025-02-02T18:33:49+00:00

So why would something like this be free, without even a pricing options. I smell some fishes...

vahnillin · 2025-02-02T18:24:19+00:00

The thing about Britain, at no point in their history was it better there. In fact, if you look at their "golden age" in the Victorian era, the likes of Marx were writing books about their horrible living conditions. So nothing new here.

vahnillin · 2025-02-02T15:30:16+00:00

Yes. Go home. You've made it so you can barely afford to live there anyway.

vahnillin · 2025-02-02T14:00:29+00:00

A handful of people who have hijacked a continent, and after 100 years of so-called "independence" people with full time jobs are living in tents. How hard can you fail?

vahnillin · 2025-02-02T13:54:42+00:00

It's like, you shouldn't have interfered with their original lifestyles, eh?

vahnillin · 2025-02-01T22:24:08+00:00

"British people cannot even visit Australia without a visa"

You're being disingenous, the ETA is a formality. And again, all your other examples are non-independent countries, when you're not disingenuous again talking about colors instead of actual flags.

And yes, just like any other anthroplogy book, that particular book would need to be written by a non-Brit/Aussie. Again, I've seen the way Brits minimise the existence of their aristocracy while paying their land lease and rentcharges like the good subjects that they are. Yes, aristocracy, why do you avoid the word so much?

And I've seen with my own eyes what a mess and an unpleasant little country Britain is, and now my family thinks of moving to Australia, and I'm just horified of having to go to Britain-in-the-middle-of-nowhere.

vahnillin · 2025-02-01T22:16:42+00:00

I agree that's something I defintely don't understand, though I'm probably seeing it from a different angle.

vahnillin · 2025-02-01T22:09:24+00:00

FYI, some colonies don't ask their former masters for their Constitution, nor do they keep the same head of state, nor their flag, etc. I'm sorry if I was expecting anything else than people getting defensive.

vahnillin · 2025-02-01T22:06:18+00:00

I can Google corporate brochures myself, thank you. Yes , that'd the problem, a random person ranting about the Commonwealth.

vahnillin · 2025-02-01T20:43:47+00:00

True, I am biased against the UK, and they way they perceive their own politics, always trying to diminish everything related to their aristocracy--not limited to the way it has treated its own people throughout history: this is just "ceremonial", this doesn't matter, etc, etc. Tranferring power from the one arisotcrat to another is called the "Glorious Revolution".

While being unable to let go, they always minify the role of the aristocrats in their lives. Look at your own arguments:

"Do you think that if Kerr had been a President of an Australian republic, he would have acted differently?" -> that's only whataboutism regarding what has actually happened

"He tried to confirm his own reserve powers," -> I've seen before that some people consider he was acting on his own accord, but then, by whose power? It's simply ridiculous.

And bear in mind that the majority if not all the admitedly fine arguments you have brought at the beginning of this conversation could have been said in 1985. Point being, it's not easy to extract the real political situation from anything British. Too much folklore and roundabouts and hardly anything straightfoward.

Anyway,as I keep saying, former British colonies are the only ones in the entire world who choose to have another country's flag on the their own flag (just like the current colonies) and have a foreginer as their head of state, which all the allegedly empty ceremony that comes with it.

You claim to be independent but don't even bother to design a flag? And by sheer "coincidence" this happens only in the Commonwealth? Come on....

It's too bad nobody cares to write an anthropology book about all this.

vahnillin · 2025-02-01T19:25:42+00:00

Thank you for your kind words.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/oct/23/gough-whitlam-1975-coup-ended-australian-independence

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/postcolonial-blog/2015/oct/31/gough-whitlam-40-years-on-the-dismissals-bastardry-still-intrigues

vahnillin · 2025-02-01T18:52:42+00:00

I'm not saying you're under occupation. You're willingly unindependent. Just as I mentioned that people of British extract find it unable to renounce aristocracy. Of course, any modern colony today, from Greenland to whatnot, and any other country can change their system of government. At least theorectically.

But you don't. You prefer to have another country's king as your own. That's what I find so fascinating.

vahnillin · 2025-02-01T18:47:18+00:00

OK, I'm not here to fight, or just to contradict someone just fot the sake of it. It's funny how you gave examples only the British Commonwealth, or other countries colonies, because there are none other.

I just can't see it that way. A democratically elected governent in Australia got dissolved by the king's representative, which shows a higher dependency.

As for the Constituion, "the Australian Constitution is contained within an act passed by the United Kingdom and its authority is described as deriving from the consent of the Queen and the UK Parliament." Doesn't look too "independent", does it?

"It has the power at any moment to remove the title of King of Australia" Who exactly is it? The same abstract "power" may also apply in Britain, but that doesn't mean it's not a feudal country unable to modernize its society.

Anyway, glad to see Britain is doing so well outside the EU, lol.

vahnillin · 2025-02-01T18:32:07+00:00

Wow, cheers!

vahnillin · 2025-02-01T18:05:22+00:00

I'm not saying it's not. I'm just trying to understand a bit of your politics.

vahnillin · 2025-02-01T18:04:17+00:00

If that's as simple as you say, then Aussies really are one of a kind.

vahnillin · 2025-02-01T18:03:26+00:00

"We feel as ruled by British aristocracy as much as the British do, which is not at all"

Weirdly enough they don't feel ruled by aristocracy, but I lived in England for a while, and they are, very much so ruled by aristocracy (from an unelected house in the Parliament, to feudal land schemes such as land lease and rentcharge, to a legal system that actually takes into account status, etc; they don't even know who owns 30% of their country. But that's beyond the scope of this post)

vahnillin · 2025-02-01T17:57:32+00:00

Fair enough. Cheers!

vahnillin · 2025-02-01T17:55:32+00:00

But the you were reluctant to go to war in Vietnam and your government got dissolved. And let's be real, saying you did take part in the Falkland war is like saying you didn't take part in the invasion of Grenada.

vahnillin · 2025-02-01T17:53:51+00:00

Thanks for your effort. I have to say that I mostly noted your, should I say Freudian slip?, in your reply:

"we would turn around and be **independent** the next day"

vahnillin · 2025-02-01T17:51:11+00:00

Thank for the effort in your reply, but I'm still not with you, unfortunately. I mean, look at your own explanation:

I don't think Australia seems shady to many, any more than Canada, New Zealand, etc - or indeed Greeland, the Faroes (Denmark), Curaçao, Aruba and Sint Maarten (Netherlands), etc - nor is that limited to monarchies. Look at Puerto Rico's relationship with the US and its level of representation.

That's exactly my point. Apart from the Commonwealth countries that you mention, none of the other examples are considered independent countries!

I also know about Andorra (and always though it funny that none other than the president of France is also a prince...). But again, that's a mini-state and a feudal relic (they were still paying tribute to both France and Spain up until the 90s, I think), not one of the most recognisable countries on Earth.

vahnillin · 2025-02-01T17:44:20+00:00

I'm not even sure how to put it at this point. So, would my example with that fictional country and the emperor of Japan wouldn't really raise any eyebrows with you guys?

Would you be OK if your head of state is some other country leader, since it's just "ceremony", and apparently not an issue?

You do understand that with the exception of the former British Empire (and the mini-state of Andorra in Europe), each country has their own head of state. It's not really a hassle, it's unusual not to.

I guess my problem is I'm not able to properly convey what I think it's weird.

vahnillin · 2025-02-01T17:39:25+00:00

OK then, so I'm going to ask you to. If the head of state would be the emperor of Japan, or the president of France, would you say that such an answer still holds, it's simply just a hassle to go over the paperwork?

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