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Reminds me of the bitter colonialists' quip during the period of African independence: "one man one vote. Once" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_man,_one_vote
by vegabook 10y ago
Reminds me of the bitter colonialists' quip during the period of African independence: "one man one vote. Once"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_man,_one_vote#One_man.2C_one_vote.2C_once https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_man,_one_vote#One_man.2C_o...
- JoshTriplett 10y agoOr Terry Pratchett on the Patrician: "Ankh-Morpork had dallied with many forms of government and had ended up with that form of democracy known as One Man, One Vote. The Patrician was the Man, he had the Vote." (Mort, Terry Pratchett)
- hx87 10y agoThat was the /anti/ colonialists, I believe.
- dragonwriter 10y agoI've mostly heard it in echoes referring to later events, and am not clear on the origins, but intuitively it makes the most sense as a statement by the opponents of decolonialization commenting on the likely results of democratic elections after the departure of the colonial authorities, so it makes sense for it to be the colonialists rather than the anti-colonialists.
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