After being heard to exclaim "Will no one rid me of this turbulent priest?", Henry II subsequently explained that the 4 knights each came to their own individual decisions about how best to deploy their swords.

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flohofwoe 26 minutes ago | parent [-]

A poor analogy for democratic countries (spot on for Putin and his merry band of oligarchs though).

	▲	SllX 19 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		Being a democracy does not make countries immune from the phenomenon where under their own judgment, private actors decide with information provided to them in part by their own government, it’s more often than not in their best interest to be with them rather than against them.