| Posted: 21 February 2026 at 3:09am | IP Logged | 1
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| As I’ve gotten older, it’s hard to feel anything but scorn for the so-called “ruling elites” - can you believe they ever got people to call them that? - and at the top of the dung heap is “royalty,” aka the descendants of the world’s biggest, most despotic bastards who all got there by taking so much by force that it became not just legal, but “moral.” Celebrities by blood. An entire multi-generational nepo class |
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Odd way to put it. The modern usage is a pejorative and historically, those it refers to would not have 'got people to call them that'. The actual terms would be nobility, aristocracy and peerage (though no better really).
As for taking 'so much by force'.. We are talking about the British royal family here. They're kind of there by sufferance. There a several examples of the British people not being happy with the sovereign and the sovereign getting the short end of the stick (for example, see Charles I, James II, Edward VIII and Andrew now). Compare with the number of US Presidents removed throughout the entire history of the country.
As for the multi-generational nepo class... This is not unique to royalty. See Kardassians, Gettys, Rockefellers, Vanderbilts, Waltons, DuPonts, etc.
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