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[–] [email protected] 173 points 10 months ago (3 children)

Listen, strange women lyin' in ponds distributin' swords is no basis for a system of government.

[–] [email protected] 77 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Supreme executive power derives from a mandate of the masses.

[–] [email protected] 61 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Not from some farcical aquatic ceremony

[–] [email protected] 46 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Look, if I were to go around saying I were an emperor just because some moisten bint lobbed a scimater at me, they'd put me away.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 10 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 28 points 10 months ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago

Did you see him repressin' me? You saw that, didn't you?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)
[–] Cracks_InTheWalls 1 points 10 months ago

Mummy's turned into a Scotsman.

[–] [email protected] 36 points 10 months ago

I mean, if I went around saying I was an emperor just because some moistened bint had lobbed a scimitar at me, they’d put me away!

[–] [email protected] 10 points 10 months ago

Hush, the pond folk have spoken! Their word is absolute.