The biggest issue w/ them was that most of the monarchies were hereditary. Even worse, there were often clearly defined rules of succession. This meant that if the ruling king's firstborn son was a complete fricking r-slur, or an evil sociopath, or in any other way just completely inept and unable to lead the country, too fricking bad. He's gonna be the next king and the only way around it is civil war. Even in the few situations where the ruling monarch could choose their heir, they usually chose their own children (obviously biased lol).
And sure maybe you could assassinate the shitty firstborn son so the next in line will become king, but what if the current king only has 1 son? What if he has no son? I mean the pool of potential successors is so tiny that it's very likely over a dynasty you're gonna get some lemons in there to frick everything up.
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He's gonna be the next king and the only way around it is civil war. slow poisoning by way of arsenic.
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Monarchy is unironically bad. Here is why:
It creates a single head of state the death of whom is always likely too start a inheritance battle.
Organizations already exist that as a group can perform the functions of a singular king but better.
People leading the monarchy have more freedoms and get out of jail cards than representatives of the people in a democracy.
If Monarchy's were actually good they wouldn't be dying out over the course of two centuries.
43 sovereign states remain across the world and it is more likely than not that there would be even fewer by the end of the century.
@timmy_blueballs stand with Israel.
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The biggest issue w/ them was that most of the monarchies were hereditary. Even worse, there were often clearly defined rules of succession. This meant that if the ruling king's firstborn son was a complete fricking r-slur, or an evil sociopath, or in any other way just completely inept and unable to lead the country, too fricking bad. He's gonna be the next king and the only way around it is civil war. Even in the few situations where the ruling monarch could choose their heir, they usually chose their own children (obviously biased lol).
And sure maybe you could assassinate the shitty firstborn son so the next in line will become king, but what if the current king only has 1 son? What if he has no son? I mean the pool of potential successors is so tiny that it's very likely over a dynasty you're gonna get some lemons in there to frick everything up.
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Easy solution. Be like China so you have so many people that half of them dying still leaves you with a functioning powerful state.
@timmy_blueballs stand with Israel.
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Daily reminder that Jewish Lives Matter circumcizes converts too mentally buck break them.
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THE SEVEN KINGDOMS WILL NEVER ACCEPT A RULER WITH A C*NT.
#TEAM AEGON THE DRAGON PEEPEE!
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That all sounds fun
Jewish lives matter
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