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And really, a king telling someone to shut-up for calling someone else a fascist is quite humorous.
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Well that's not the whole picture now, is it? He was told to shut up because he wouldn't, even if it was not his turn to talk and kept interrupting the person who should have been talking. Furthermore, he was doing this insulting in a very unpleasant way. It says so in the article you posted in the OP. You can also see it in the video I linked.
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Here is a man who is given all luxury and opportunity, all wealth and spoiled privilege in his life - just by virtue of his blood.... whatever. His majesty should go look in a mirror.
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And he does a really good job. In Spain people are proud to have him as king (except republicans and anarchists, of course...
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No. Chavez is a politician. At least his position is at the whim of the people who can remove him at the next election. For that he deserves only a modicum more respect. If you are right and he enshrines himself as a dictator at some point down the road, then he will have lowered himself to the position of a king.
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I'm starting to think your image of our king is that of a medieval one or something, who has the power to establish the
prima nocte and shit like that... Our king is not a dictator; he doesn't even rule - we elect our governments democratically. If people didn't want him, he wouldn't have much reason to be. But that's not the case.