• Maple Engineer
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      24 days ago

      That’s how this ends. The French perfected the process with the invention of the guillotine.

      • Flying Squid
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        4 days ago

        They perfected it so well that Napoleon was crowned emperor with even more power than the King had 15 years later.

        • Maple Engineer
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          34 days ago

          Revolution is never perfect and things often get worse before they get better but the current path that the US is on leads to a bloodbath.

          • Flying Squid
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            34 days ago

            One comment ago:

            The French perfected the process

            This comment:

            Revolution is never perfect

            I don’t think I want someone this inconsistent leading the glorious uprising.

            • Maple Engineer
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              14 days ago

              It’s going to happen despite the wet blanketing.

              • Flying Squid
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                14 days ago

                Which is going to happen? The perfect thing or the thing that’s never perfect?

                • Maple Engineer
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                  24 days ago

                  Both, pedant. The French perfected the process of lopping off the heads of the powerful and wealthy. They did an extremely good, extremely efficient job of that. In the long term things will likely be messy for a while while things sort themselves out.

                  Keep up the wet blanketing, though, you’re doing your best.

                  • Flying Squid
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                    24 days ago

                    And that’s why France is a communist country today!