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.

POTM

Particularly during a 250 year anniversary or anything

The wealthy can enjoy themselves, but not the poors.

To be fair, it's killed a few ducks with all the algae and chemicals in it right now... It probably isn't a good idea. But also we know that's not why they're stopping people.

"Demonstrators cool off in the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool on the National Mall, Washington D.C., May 9, 1970."

What was it previously? Concrete or painted a different colour? I don't know much about it, only it's in US movies all the time.

You could say that it was showing a reflection of the sky.

The Donald J. Trump & Jeffrey Epstein
Memorial Swamp

With bigly intent.

Stripping away rights from women

Regime changed by oil interests

Especially in the White House and Congress.

Not AI. People absolutely make the poor choice of wading in. Not everyday but it certainly happens.

For everyone who doesn’t know. An anecdotal summary (look up yourself for facts, i am just recalling from memory)

Irans democratic elected ruler tried to nationalise the oil industry which was largely controlled by the UK and US who then staged a coup to reinstate and support the monarchy in return for securing them that control.

This made a lot of people in Iran very angry with the West.

That monarch went kinda mad with oppressive power to the point that the clergy was the only real opposition left. Which created the conditions that started the islamic revolution.

And we seemingly learned nothing as one of the Trump regime early ideas for the current war with Iran was to reinstate and back the monarchy with the current last descendant living in the US.

funne

The French Revolution advanced the idea that property could be owned by anybody and you didn't have to be "nobility" to have power in society. Pretty frickin huge stuff.

As for Napoleon, his civil laws were extremely progressive for the time. There is a reason that he was beloved by basically everybody in France. In the context of chaos of the Republic, and the tyranny of the Kings before that, most people were relieved by the stability he brought, and ecstatic with the reforms enacted. He obviously wasn't perfect (especially his abhorrent treatment of Haiti), but Napoleon was a hero of history. It's all about context.