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That was more she was persuaded out of it than being unable to do it.

The reigning monarch, in this case HRM Elizabeth II, does have the ability to dissolve Parliament at any time. It's a nuclear option, but she almost used it a few times during the 70's and 80's. She does have power and influence, but it's mostly behind the scenes soft-power -- the Royals are...

The Monarchy isn't all that bad, except for a few bad elements (Harry and that gold-digging prostitute he married; Andrew being an old pervert, et cetera) -- most of our problems come down to how basically inept and corrupt our system of government is; namely, the Houses of Commons and Lords.

Yes, yes! Become the Alt-Right puppet that Spacebattles irrationally feared us to be! Why take over Spacebattles when we can take over... France! ...Wait. :ROFLMAO: (Yes, this is a dig at the drones on Spacebattles that still believe we're all "Nazis" who wanted to take over the site from our...

...Yeah, we're gonna see a new French Republic in a few months.

As an Englishman, the French being the saviours of Western civilization makes me cringe. :p (Yes, I am joking, if people lurking reading this think otherwise).

Yeah. I know it's a joke that the French riot all the time, but the intensity and heat of these protests makes me think this isn't just going o be another phase but another "drag them out and lynch the current government in the streets" Republic-ender we've seen from history. I mean, fuck, they...

They're still going on -- I've heard anecdotally that things are started to get heated in Germany too, but I've no source for that -- but MSM has gone full on black-out on it, basically. Also, the Olympics. I've heard basically fuck all about them, despite the BBC actively covering them on both...

...Yeah, if this were just two hundred years ago, I'd fully expect Macron's head to be on a pike right now. Literally, I mean.

France on fire, again? Must be a Tuesday.