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Charles said to be adopting ‘anti-confrontational approach’ to republican campaigners before visit

King Charles has said he will not stand in the way if Australia wishes to replace him as the country's head of state, it has been reported.

Ahead of his visit later this month, the king is said to be adopting an "anti-confrontational approach" to Australian republican campaigners, the Daily Mail reported.

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[–] GraniteM@lemmy.world 101 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Suppose that Australia wants to become republic.

Scenario A: King Charles tries to oppose this. His opposition is overridden by, you know, democracy. Now he looks like even more of a schmuck for standing in the way of something that was going to happen anyway.

Scenario B: He doesn't oppose it. Australia votes to become a republic, and seems like a cool guy for not standing in the way of the inevitable.

Seems like a pretty straightforward choice between options.

[–] InverseParallax@lemmy.world 54 points 4 days ago (1 children)

The thing is: not being a massive asshole for 0 reason is now soaring above the bar of expected behavior in most cases.

So many people are assholes just for the sake of being assholes.

I like that he just said ’your call', even if he can't do anything about it .

Trump would threaten to send in the army, then hurricanes, then nukes, then nuclear hurricanes.

[–] ApathyTree@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 3 days ago

Tangental: your comment made me curious where, in global terms, hurricanes are even able to form. Surprisingly (to me), a lot of areas.

https://www.thoughtco.com/global-hurricane-basins-3443941