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> The Crown also likely hold ultimate title ... Some Americans think they don't have to pay income tax because the 16th Amendment (1913) was never properly rat
by feoren 3y ago
> The Crown also likely hold ultimate title ...
Some Americans think they don't have to pay income tax because the 16th Amendment (1913) was never properly ratified. Some people think they own a star because they have a certificate that says so. You'll see this kind of analysis in all sort of "secret knowledge" conspiracy-theory-eqsue posts like this. It turns out these hundred-year-old (or much more) technicalities pretty much always handily lose to the modern reality of whatever the people alive today want. Nobody gives a shit if Pope Pius V signed a proclamation in 1571 that gives half of Finland to the Knights Templar, and a group today still claims to be the same Knights Templar, or whatever weird shadow cabals always creep into these discussions. If these "Knights Templar" went to claim Helsinki with that justification, they'd be told to get fucked, and they could do nothing about it. If "The Crown" decided to exercise their rights to this "ultimate title" they hold over all of Australia or whatever, they'd be told to get fucked just the same.
- gizajob 3y agoGet the Aussies to tell them to get fucked thinking they own it then. Funny how this doesn’t ever happen.
- kalupa 3y agoIf they have no need to why would they?
- gizajob 3y agoWhat I’m kind of getting at is that they have no need, because the only people who could tell them to get fucked act in the name of The Crown. If Australia becomes a republic and its own place then maybe, but I can’t see it happening.
- _yb2s 3y agoGreat comment, I think this illustrates a deeper issue- about people misunderstanding what power is and how it works. Power is a dynamic social thing that involves your ability to influence others behavior. Organizations, laws, governments, titles, positions, even money have no inherent power associated with them, and often reflect vestigial/historical power structures rather than the actual power structures at the present moment.
- captn3m0 3y ago> If "The Crown" decided to exercise their rights to this "ultimate title" they hold over all of Australia or whatever, they'd be told to get fucked just the same. Sounds to me The Crown holds an NFT to Australia.
- shashurup 3y agoI agree that in most cases things like this is a subject of conspiracy-theory-eqsue speculations. However, while rarely, things happen which make you think that under some circumstances even some fantastic scenarios realize. For instance, most people thought that Australian general-governor is purely decorative position until in 1975 it turned out that its latent power can be seized.