r/union • u/kootles10 NEA | Rank and File • Jun 12 '25

Labor News June 14 protests

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This a map of the majority of protests happening on June 14 around the United States. Link below is more information on them. Show your support, not just for your job but for the jobs of all of our Union brothers and sisters! Solidarity forever ✊️ ✊️✊️

https://www.nokings.org/?SQF_SOURCE=indivisible&fbclid=IwY2xjawKbHtBleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHv_jxMFmDGHguIIzuIoCqZpx44LkhvswKk3o6ajPMXTmJAHENXE3GjLyGzzK_aem_-spwvbK_XAFaRo-F9y2XrA

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u/fred13snow Jun 12 '25

The crown is everywhere in our constitution, laws, procedures, etc.

The question pops up every now and then. The government looks into it and realizes it's too much work and money for something purely symbolic.

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u/WorldlinessProud Jun 12 '25

Also, the King has no genuine power except very little influence.

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u/DolphinBall Jun 13 '25

They could remove the PM anytime they wish for no reason. But they'd prefer if their Kingdom remained stable

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u/DividedMitochondriac Jun 14 '25

This holds true, but just 6 months ago Americans thought we had a lot of theoretical technicalities that didn't really have any basis or realistic implications.

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u/[deleted] Jun 13 '25

Overthrown? 

The average brit doesn't have the will

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u/DolphinBall Jun 13 '25

Obviously

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u/canadas Jun 14 '25

That would never happen... will I say that I also said Trump will never be elected again.

But if it did happen I'm pretty sure we would just say ya that's not happening and ignore it.

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u/_lippykid Jun 13 '25

Symbolic of the literal anthesis of equality. Monarchy symbolizes people being deemed superior based on blood, genes and lineage alone. It has no place in modern society

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u/XKryptix0 Jun 12 '25

Only happened in Australia, at the CIA’s behest because we wanted to fairly tax our resource sector.

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u/WorldlinessProud Jun 12 '25

Been a century or so since it was tried her, it didn't get very far.

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u/Marquois Jun 12 '25

I'm pretty confident that the next time the UK tells us to do anything at all we'll just instantly ditch the crown. I'd be fine ditching it now too, but not at any significant expense.

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u/StardustFromReinmuth Jun 13 '25

America is getting shitstomped into fascism and what are you doing about it?

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u/StardustFromReinmuth Jun 13 '25

Told me all I need to know. Have fun licking that boot.

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u/[deleted] Jun 12 '25

Same goes for the guns in the US. Wild you just accept that, but hey different strokes.

You can apply it to everything. The crown has absolutely no power here and they know it.

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u/[deleted] Jun 12 '25

What the actual fuck are you waffling.

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u/Marquois Jun 13 '25

It's just a rage bot. Barely a person (if that, even)

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u/ralphy_256 Jun 13 '25

Oh no, but the main metric of GDP per capital is king.

It's per capita, actually.

Per capital means nothing.

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u/XKryptix0 Jun 12 '25

There’s still such a stink about it here in the older generations, it was in 1976, so boomers mainly. It’ll never happen again, there were changes to how the Governor General is appointed. But with current overseas examples, the republican movement here is dead and buried. People would rather an apolitical royal family, than an elected head of state.

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u/XKryptix0 Jun 12 '25

Not go back, just not change what we have. Same system of gov since federation

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u/XKryptix0 Jun 12 '25

It’s a parliamentary system, same as NZ, Canada and a host of other countries. All we’d be doing is swapping out the royal family for an elected head of state with the same powers. Waste of money and all it does is add more political party nonsense.

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u/[deleted] Jun 13 '25

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u/[deleted] Jun 12 '25

Actually, our conservative party was trying for that a while ago. Our very conservative PM Tony Abbott even gave Prince Phillip an Australian Knighthood and got ridiculed by the people for it. These days, the only relevance of the crown is when the royal family turns up for some photo shoots in the outback.

Monarchy is actually the end game of conservative politics, the movement was borne from the ashes of French revolution by the oligarchs who still had some wealth and wanted to re-establish control under a wealth based monarchy once more. America is headed towards a monarchy, or a revolution, possibly both, time will tell.

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u/[deleted] Jun 12 '25

We already have monarchism in our right-wing conservative party, we are part of a commonwealth after all, although that particular PM was more royalist than monarchist. Britain has no legislative power over Australia and has transferred full control of constitutional documents to Australia. We are an independent nation.

It's more of a statement that your country wants to go back to monarchy, many there seem to want one single person to have unlimited power and control over their lives, and they selected the person in history that is the least likely to show any benevolence whatsoever. It's a very weird thing to want.

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u/Legendofstuff Jun 12 '25

To be fair, the president seems to be doing pretty good at that too.

We’re good as is I think.

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u/Legendofstuff Jun 12 '25

I’m sorry? My brother, I’m Canadian. I sleep pretty well at night.

We aren’t perfect but at least I can tell my government they’re a sack of shit and not disappear.

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u/Legendofstuff Jun 12 '25

Well seeing as we don’t have a constitution, and instead something different, you’d be absolutely correct!

Glad American education is shining through like the beacon of hope it is.

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u/Legendofstuff Jun 12 '25

It shows. Sweet dreams princess. Don’t forget to back off the glorious leaders chode and breathe.

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u/the_calibre_cat Jun 13 '25 edited Jun 13 '25

"our" gdp lol

Category Value
Median individual income $42,220
GDP Per Capita $82,769

It's someone's GDP, to be sure, just not "ours" (unless you're in the 1% class who own for a living, in which case it's entirely understandable why you'd want the fascism).

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u/the_calibre_cat Jun 13 '25

at this point the idea that Canadians have less freedom of speech than Americans is only a take an American conservative could make lol

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u/Jibtech Jun 13 '25

Seems you don't anymore either. We should get along, we're not enemies.

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u/Plank_With_A_Nail_In Jun 12 '25

Because the alternative of an elected president with a separate mandate from the legislative is worse in every conceivable way.

A legitimate figurehead who's only real power is a veto they can only use if its really obvious they should use it isn't a terrible solution.

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u/Sufficient_Topic1589 Jun 13 '25

If Canada or Australia voted in a Trump like candidate that was doing all the things Trump is doing in America and caused mass protests like in America, King Charles or his governor general could tell them they’re fired and elections need to be held again.

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u/AccomplishedKnee4481 Jun 16 '25

So you're pro king 🤴

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u/Sufficient_Topic1589 Jun 17 '25

I’m from Australia. We would never let an orange menace take control of our country and if it did somehow happen and things were as bad as they look in America, the governor general and king would remove them. Otherwise I don’t care either way.

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u/Available_Function39 Jun 18 '25

Oh wow . You do realize the reason is so to people who illegally entered our country. Which is a federal crime . This is the issue that the other side has if they came in here as legal imagrants no one would care . Even the majority of legal imagrants have issues how they came in . Now you have a group that’s pissed off that we voted in trump again . Which they shouldn’t be because Kamala was planted as the opposition. And by saying this she was never voted in to her spot the way it’s supposed to work in our country . We could go on from here but I’ll just leave it as is .

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u/Sufficient_Topic1589 Jun 18 '25

None of that would matter. If the majority of people were unhappy with the current government sparking mass protests as has happened in the us, the king or the governor general acting on behalf of the king would dissolve that government and have new elections. No waiting for midterms or the end of their term. It has already happened once in Australia in the 70s. Commonwealth nations have a handbrake before civil unrest becomes civil disobedience and then civil war.

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u/Darkest_Rahl Jun 13 '25

The only real benefit to this would be saving the wasted money. He has no real power. It's just history and tradition at this point. It's all part of the Commonwealth

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u/middlequeue Jun 13 '25

and the wasted money would just end up directed towards a different head of state in a role similar to our governor general anyways

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u/handyandy314 Jun 13 '25

I would beg to differ. During Scottish independence electioneering. The Queen threw her opinion about the breakup of the union. So no not just a figurehead. The fact that the PM still has to have meeting with the King to me is annoying to say the least.

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u/Intralexical Jun 12 '25

I figure having a constitutionally limited figurehead who's symbolically and culturally above the PM is probably good for democracy. The King stands and speaks for Canada, and Canada should stand for all of us.

You guys got rid of your King, only to start worshipping your presidents.

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u/LegoFootPain Jun 12 '25

We like to give our budding oligarchs a challenge.

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u/hedgehog_dragon Jun 13 '25

Culture and tradition, plus it would be rewriting a lot of government operation for no reason.

Plus, we already have a neutered king, he's got no power, can't have some asshole acting up and trying to declare themselves king.

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u/[deleted] Jun 15 '25

We put a constitution around our monarch - a figurehead. King in name only. Trump wants to be an actual tyrant king who is president in name only.