Opinion of King Juan Carlos I of Spain

[TDAS04]

Now that he's abdicating...

[Snowstalker Mk. II]

Ah yes, the man who shoots elephants in Botswana while a quarter of his country can't find work. Reactionary plutocrat.

[Sol]

Reactionary plutocrat.

[Cassius]

Ah yes, the man who shoots elephants in Botswana while a quarter of his country can't find work. Reactionary plutocrat.

Therefore he's a massive FF.

[Citizen Hats]

Say what you will, but being handed the offer of absolute power and a military willing to back him, and turning it down in favor of democracy is a pretty big FF thing to do, dead elephants or no

[Snowstalker Mk. II]

Say what you will, but being handed the offer of absolute power and a military willing to back him, and turning it down in favor of democracy is a pretty big FF thing to do, dead elephants or no

He turned it down because there was no feasible way the fascist regime was going to continue.

[RogueBeaver]

Mega-FF.

[MASHED POTATOES. VOTE!]

Say what you will, but being handed the offer of absolute power and a military willing to back him, and turning it down in favor of democracy is a pretty big FF thing to do, dead elephants or no

He turned it down because there was no feasible way the fascist regime was going to continue.

Juan Carlos was a realist, but I doubt he was a committed democrat.

[TNF]

Repugnant parasite, like all royalty everywhere.

[Simfan34]

Repugnant parasite, like all royalty everywhere.

To TNF, all the nice and interesting people are parasites.

[Citizen Hats]

I have no doubt that the regime was in the bound to cave in sooner or later. , but it's pretty damn hard to make those judgements on the inside of things.

[TNF]

Repugnant parasite, like all royalty everywhere.

To TNF, all the nice and interesting people are parasites.

No, simply those segments of the ruling class that get to live a life without want while most of mankind in subject to toil, hunger, and privation. All royalty fit that bill, as do all capitalists, big and small.

[PiMp DaDdy FitzGerald]

One of the few monarchs who brought democracy to a nation with a royal dictat.

[Atlas Has Shrugged]

FF, though I have soured on him in the last few years and am glad he is abdicating. I loved it when he told Chavez to shut up.

[Niemeyerite]

FF, he did a great job back in the 70s. He managed to put ideology aside and started negotiating with Carrillo before Franco was dead, and then made our "Transición" more or less peaceful, he looks friendly ("campechano"), has been impartial during these 39 years ("Por qué no te callas" the only occasion he wasn't). Even considering the elephantGate, Urdangarín and other scandals that have happened during the last years, he's a FF on balance.

But believing the King and the Prince are FFs doesn't make me a Monarchist.

[Simfan34]

Repugnant parasite, like all royalty everywhere.

To TNF, all the nice and interesting people are parasites.

No, simply those segments of the ruling class that get to live a life without want while most of mankind in subject to toil, hunger, and privation. All royalty fit that bill, as do all capitalists, big and small.

So it's the happy people. Nothing to do with their wealth. Just the fact they are comfortable is enough to earn your resentment, you deluded... something.

[TNF]

Repugnant parasite, like all royalty everywhere.

To TNF, all the nice and interesting people are parasites.

No, simply those segments of the ruling class that get to live a life without want while most of mankind in subject to toil, hunger, and privation. All royalty fit that bill, as do all capitalists, big and small.

So it's the happy people. Nothing to do with their wealth. Just the fact they are comfortable is enough to earn your resentment, you deluded... something.

It has everything to do with the fact that they enslave 99 percent of us.