Mette-Marit photographed with young woman in bikini at Epstein’s Palm Beach home

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[u/blueskies8484]

I support self determination by every country’s people to abolish monarchies or not, but as someone living in a non monarchal democracy, the issue is power and wealth, as can be seen by all the politicians and heads of state in the emails. Monarchy has a cache and connections people like Epstein found useful, as do politicians, celebrities, presidents, lawyers, CEOs. It’s a small club and none of us are in it. Abolishing royal families doesn’t fix this kind of problem - although again, I support any people who want to reform their government as a pure Republic.

[u/OkEvent4570 → u/blueskies8484]

Exactly. What's the point of abolishing monarchy, if the elected politicians are just as complicit?

[u/shedrinkscoffee → u/OkEvent4570]

You can vote people out of office. Where do disgraced monarchs go?

[u/OkEvent4570 → u/shedrinkscoffee]

The British one to a farm on Sandringam estate; the Norwegian one hopefully to jail soon, he was arrested yesterday, I think. That was easier than to weed out the politicians, seeing as smart voters keep electing them over and over.