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AK47isthetool's avatar

I am allergic to aristocracy. I vastly prefer the French or Bolshevik way of handling them vice the fawning American press. That being said anyone who thinks Bill Gates or Prince Andrew is in their respective positions because they are stupider or less ruthless than the average street level gangster probably believes that Epstein hung himself.

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MD Streeter's avatar

So far as a landed gentry or some sort of aristocracy goes, sure it looks good now, but some of our greatest entrepreneurs would not have happened had we been tied to some worthless royal family. John D Rockefeller was the son of a con man and lived in Cleveland. Henry Ford was some random farmboy, and Dale Carnegie's parents were farmers. Thomas Edison's mom was some schoolteacher in Michigan. I'd rather have those guys doing the leading without someone like King George III or Louis XVI. Fortunes and influence can be pissed away by the inept, but titles are forever... unless we French Revolution our way through them. And like I always say whenever I see some stupid news item about the British royal family, we fought a war to not have to care about them. I'm not about to start.

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