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@AlRoeh@social.tchncs.de @prachisrivas@masto.ai @academicchatter@a.gup.pe @pluralistic@mamot.fr
You said the magic phrase.
Come see the violence inherent in the system!
https://youtu.be/ZoQptriioxA
This version is longer. The first minute shows the purpose of legal language: to claim possession of people and their property through identification with titles of authority:
Monty Python And The Holy Grail Dennis The Repressed Peasant
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eKIyVnoZDdQ
"I am Arthur, King of the Britons."
"King of the who?"
"King of the Britons."
"Who are the Britons?"
"We all are. We're all Britons. And I am your king."
Cleese and crew understood it instinctively.