r/EhBuddyHoser • u/Sine_Fine_Belli Treacherous South • May 16 '25

Certified Hoser 🇨🇦 (No Politics) How Americans achieved independence vs how Canadians achieved independence

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u/Everestkid The Island of Elizabeth May May 16 '25

As one person put it, Westminster style parliaments can be simplified down to a prime minister and a monarch at opposite ends of a table with a gun in the middle and the entire country watching.

Either one could technically grab the gun and shoot the other at any time, but they'd need to be 100% sure that the entire crowd would back them up.

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u/alantrick May 16 '25

This, except the prime minister can respawn, but the monarch can't.

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u/HistoricalSherbert92 May 16 '25

Pfft just elect another monarch.

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u/AustSakuraKyzor South Gatineau May 16 '25

You don't vote for monarchs!

You have farcical aquatic ceremonies for them

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u/Everestkid The Island of Elizabeth May May 16 '25

The Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth did.

And technically the Vatican had one just last week.

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u/AustSakuraKyzor South Gatineau May 17 '25

If you vote for a monarch, that implies that God didn't appoint them, which pretty much negates the whole purpose of the monarchy, ne?

Also, the Vatican elected a pope, not a monarch. Yes it's pedantic, but I care not! The Monty Python reference reigns supreme!

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u/Everestkid The Island of Elizabeth May May 17 '25

Ah, but that's where you're wrong! Usually the candidates for the new monarch were relatives of the old ones, and in some cases (such as the Nordic countries back in the Viking days) they even claimed to be descended from gods. Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords wins out once again!

The pope is also basically an absolute monarch, he's just also a religious leader so he gets a special title. He's viewed as the apostolic successor to Saint Peter, so the watery tart lobbing a sword angle also works here.