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From: The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid>
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Date: Wed, 2 Oct 2024 11:22:09 +0100
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On 02/10/2024 08:29, rbowman wrote:
> On Wed, 2 Oct 2024 03:05:23 -0000 (UTC), Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
> 
>> On 2 Oct 2024 02:40:51 GMT, rbowman wrote:
>>
>>> Democracy leads to mediocrity and worse.
>>
>> “Democracy is the worst system in the world ... apart from all the
>> others.”
>>      -- Winston Churchill
> 
> Winston Churchill was the best PM in the world aside from almost everyone
> else.

I think that's unfair.

He managed to stitch together different political factions and social 
classes into a pretty united war machine.

That's quite a feat.


-- 
I would rather have questions that cannot be answered...
....than to have answers that cannot be questioned

Richard Feynman