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re: Let’s discuss the French Revolution, please
Posted on 7/18/25 at 1:10 pm to grizzlylongcut
Posted on 7/18/25 at 1:10 pm to grizzlylongcut
It’s called communism which started with the French revolution and was refined by the Bolsheviks in Russia.
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Posted on 7/18/25 at 2:30 pm to grizzlylongcut
Well there was this tax on salt and .....
Posted on 7/18/25 at 4:38 pm to OldmanBeasley
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Revolutions are no time to go losing your head
Posted on 7/18/25 at 5:48 pm to SammyTiger
American revolution showed it can be done, that is why there are no more kings governing europe
Posted on 7/18/25 at 6:32 pm to geauxtigers87
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European peace…until WW1…
Except for the Franco-Prussian War 1870.
Posted on 7/18/25 at 11:32 pm to beachdude
This passage from ATOTC shows how France came apart.
Is it any wonder the able and competent backed Napoleon, who promoted meritocracy?
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Military officers destitute of military knowledge; naval officers with no idea of a ship; civil officers without a notion of affairs; brazen ecclesiastics, of the worst world worldly, with sensual eyes, loose tongues, and looser lives; all totally unfit for their several callings, all lying horribly in pretending to belong to them, but all nearly or remotely of the order of Monseigneur, and therefore foisted on all public employments from which anything was to be got; these were to be told off by the score and the score. People not immediately connected with Monseigneur or the State, yet equally unconnected with anything that was real, or with lives passed in travelling by any straight road to any true earthly end, were no less abundant. Doctors who made great fortunes out of dainty remedies for imaginary disorders that never existed, smiled upon their courtly patients in the ante-chambers of Monseigneur. Projectors who had discovered every kind of remedy for the little evils with which the State was touched, except the remedy of setting to work in earnest to root out a single sin, poured their distracting babble into any ears they could lay hold of, at the reception of Monseigneur. Unbelieving Philosophers who were remodelling the world with words, and making card-towers of Babel to scale the skies with, talked with Unbelieving Chemists who had an eye on the transmutation of metals, at this wonderful gathering accumulated by Monseigneur.
Is it any wonder the able and competent backed Napoleon, who promoted meritocracy?
Posted on 7/18/25 at 11:52 pm to grizzlylongcut
I think you solved your own question... But simply put..
I see the French Revolution as Mob Rule. All the people rising up to down the king. No real thought of the aftermath.
Where as the American Revolution was organized Militias fighting and forming their own government with a clear thought of a Constitution and formation of military.
The US Civil war were two governments fighting for control of one country through an organized military on each side.
I see the French Revolution as Mob Rule. All the people rising up to down the king. No real thought of the aftermath.
Where as the American Revolution was organized Militias fighting and forming their own government with a clear thought of a Constitution and formation of military.
The US Civil war were two governments fighting for control of one country through an organized military on each side.
Posted on 7/19/25 at 2:41 am to grizzlylongcut
Leftists are bad
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