a-lil-rat

As someone who lives outside the UK, I find it so hilariously wild when "the monarchy brings in tourism" is used as a reason to keep this random family in power.

Tourists are not going to see or meet members of the royal family, it's not a Disney meet and greet situation.

Tourists visiting places of importance like Windsor and Buckingham Palace does not require an active monarchy to fuck over the working class.

If anything, I would be MORE compelled to visit England if the monarchy were abolished and the public were allowed to view the miriad of art the royal family have hidden away.

Visiting Versailles and being able to enter much better for tourism than if you could only look at it from outside because some nepo baby lives there.

So for anyone quaking in their boots about tourism post-abolition, worry not, tourists will come because seeing the monarchy was never the point in the 1st place.

chokopoppo

The worst thing in the entire world is when you’re sweeping a big pile of dirt into a dustpan and it leaves that little coke line of grit behind. No matter how you position your pan or your broom and no matter how many times you sweep over it your outcome cannot change. As immovable as fate. I hate it so

swords-n-spindles

Get a wet paper towel and wipe up the last line of dust with it. No fate is so immovable that we cannot change it.