• Kalkaline
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    1436 months ago

    You can’t expect to wield supreme executive power just because some watery tart threw a sword at you

    • @zcd@lemmy.ca
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      846 months ago

      Strange women laying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government

      • @PapaStevesy@midwest.social
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        6 months ago

        If I went around, claiming I was an emperor, cuz some moistened bint lobbed a scimitar at me, they’d put me away!

          • NielsBohron
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            6 months ago

            Oooh, now we see the violence inherent in the system!

            edit: I thought this line and this exchange was funny back when I was a religious, white, male teenager in a conservative part of the US. Now that I’ve grown up and seen enough injustice and evidence to become an anti-theist socialist living in a different (but still conservative) part of the US, it hits a little too close to home to be truly funny.

        • NielsBohron
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          36 months ago

          “[I]t has been said that democracy is the worst form of Government except for all those other forms that have been tried from time to time”