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[–] [email protected] 144 points 8 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 85 points 8 months ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 57 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 30 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Shut up, will you??? Shut up!!!

[–] [email protected] 26 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I mean the others haven't proven much better...

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 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"