• BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today
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        The British have always based their government on a similar mechanism, despite the occasional protest:

        “Listen: strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government. Supreme executive power derives from a mandate from the masses, not from some farcical aquatic ceremony.”

        It doesn’t work with bicycles either.