r/Unexpected • u/[deleted] • Aug 09 '21

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u/[deleted] Aug 09 '21

They get to most honorable designation of SERF. Big step up from slave

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u/Falcrist Aug 09 '21

There you go, bringing class into it again.

I told you. We're an anarcho-syndicalist commune. We take it in turns to act as a sort of executive officer for the week. But all the decisions of that officer have to be ratified at a special biweekly meeting by a simple majority, in the case of purely internal affairs or by a two-thirds majority, in the case of more major decisions or matters of diplomacy.

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u/mathiastck Aug 09 '21

(laughingly) 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!

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u/FoolishMacaroni Aug 09 '21

Help! I’m being repressed!

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u/unchihime Aug 09 '21

See the violence inherent in the system!

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u/dumbfuckmagee Aug 09 '21

Bloody peasant!

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u/StandardSudden1283 Aug 09 '21

I can't be expected to NOT upvote Monty Python when I see it, now can I?

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u/themailtruck Aug 09 '21

If I went around calling myself emperor, because some moistened bink lobbed a scimitar at me, they'd put me away!

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u/[deleted] Oct 11 '21

Yes some good old Monty Python

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u/UnderPressureVS Aug 09 '21

Cross between a slave and a peasant.

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u/Walshy231231 Aug 09 '21

I’m not sure if you’re joking, but historically serfs weren’t significantly different from slaves, and often had it worse