• Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world
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    1 month ago

    The royal family costs the UK tax payer 77p per year

    If you believe that, I have a palace i. Buckinghamshire to sell you 🙄

    most people aren’t outraged by that.

    Because it’s utter horse shit.

    It can be argued that (repeats the same tired arguments that everyone’s heard a billion times before)

    Yes, it can, but it shouldn’t. None of that justifies wasting billions of pounds on the royal family and letting them own most of the country tax free while enforcing austerity politics on an increasingly impoverished population with a deepening housing crisis.

    It’s a grotesque waste of desperately needed resources and land.

    For the record, I’m not for or against the UK monarchy

    Yeah, I can tell by how you spent your first sentence making up an outrageous lie about how much of a financier drain on society they are, your second paragraph repeating all the usual pro- monarchy clichés, and the third disowning the second.

    Thanks for wasting my time and that of anyone else reading it with your wishy-washy nonsense.

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      1 month ago

      You talk like someone who has data. And a personality disorder, but we’d be happy with just the data, if you’d like to share.

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          1 month ago

          So, a bit more than one pound, instead of a bit less. *shrug* Not sure the difference was worth your abusive rhetoric.

          Fair play, mod. I have a personality disorder and some of my dark humour/coping came though. I feel for people like VH who, like myself, have enormous difficulty dealing with people.

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            First of all, that “bit more than one pound” is completely ignoring all the wealth they already own, including all of the precious baubles totaling hundreds of millions of pounds and land holdings covering a sixth of the surface of planet earth!

            Second, please can it with the concern trolling.

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              1 month ago

              Of course it ignores that, that was not the subject of discussion. You’ve just moved the goal post. I’m sure that was unintentional. Perhaps review the thread.

              You’re not the boss of me. And in no moral position to criticize.