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> if you don't like it, you have any day available to protest.

There are people thinking that we should not spend our public money on the monarchy. This viewpoint is absolutely topical on the very day when a large chunk of money is being spent on celebrating something they don't want to celebrate.

If you think that is rude, bad for you. Sometimes people will be rude to you and you have to take it.




> There are people thinking that we should not spend our public money on the monarchy.

They may be right, they may be wrong. They surely have the right to express their opinions. But the fundamental question is: who cares? Or, actually: how many people care?

If enough people cared, that would be on the agenda of a major political party. If it isn't, they have to suck it up.


> But the fundamental question is: who cares? Or, actually: how many people care?

I don't know. But I care about their right to shout their slogans and wave their placards more than I care about the existence or non-existence of the monarchy.


> I care about their right to shout their slogans and wave their placards more than I care about the existence or non-existence of the monarchy.

I do, too. I would have sympathised more with them in any other day, though.

Actually, I personally could not care less about coronation, so every protest going on that day just slipped over me :-)


Yet here you are, discussing it online.

If you didn't care, why would you even be in this thread?


> If enough people cared

Maybe they care but are scared by the nazi squads, ehm the police?




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