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@Lash,

Lash wrote:

Governments need to feel popular anger. If governments are insulated from accountability, they become more like…(wait for it)…dictatorships.

In democracies, government feels popular anger in things called "elections".

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@engineer,

People in comfort can wait for years. You’re insulated from the horrors most Americans have to endure—or you’d understand the urgency.

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@Lash,

Yet most Americans routinely vote to put the same people in power. They don't seem to embrace your urgency either. In the US, you absolutely can change who is in power through the ballot box. That many people choose not to doesn't allow the vocal minority to resort to non-democratic means.

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@Lash,

Says a boujee white chick preaching nothingness.

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@engineer,

Apparently the most truly "democratic" nations are those which have regular populist coup d'etats (French purists can **** off).

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@neptuneblue,

Dang, I didn’t know whypipo could be “boujee”. I thought that was just sniffy Black folk who think they’re too chee chee poo poo.
😂🤣

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@blatham,

I am trying to understand your meaning by "French purists". Are you referring to the French Revolution?

Oddly, it seems the French (looked it up) celebrate Bastille Day. I know everyone else probably already knew this. I can understand the feeling behind the French Revolution, but was killing so many people their only recourse?

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/history/article/bastille-day-honors-rebellion-sparked-french-revolution

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@revelette1,

"French purists" is usually a term used for French people who feel it especially important to preserve the language they love so dearly.
'Franglais', but also "fake" salade niçoise etc are/were topics.
(Blatham lives on île de Vancouver, sacre bon Dieu!)

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@engineer,

When their day comes, they won’t be asking permission.

Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.
~JFK

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@Walter Hinteler,

Thanks. A little embarrassing, but the French Revolution in retrospect was like a very violent coup started with noble intentions but quickly turned violent to say the least. On the other hand, from what I read this morning, (bearing in mind I have never really paid attention to the post or headlines of late about it all)Bolsonaro was a dictator, far right, pro-torture, anti-gay President, so Bolsonaro's supporters breaking into the Brazil's congress and Presidential palace never had any noble intentions.

Just because a mob or people support an idea against their government don't mean their idea is automatically a good one or one that should be ever be considered.

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@revelette1,

They believe in palate cleansing before the next course.

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Revolutions are not polite.
The violence of every day life that decimates generations of citizens *seems polite*—most of them dying quietly in neighborhoods we avoid—but one day, they’ve had enough and there you are.

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@Lash,

There are two ways to palate cleanse, vomiting or eating foods which cleanse the palate. A violent coup would represent the first.

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@revelette1,

revelette1 wrote:

Oddly, it seems the French (looked it up) celebrate Bastille Day.

The public holiday, which in English is called "Bastille Day" has the French name Fête de la Fédération ("Festival of the Federation").
This day is in honour of the French Revolution, celebrating the Revolution itself, as well as National Unity.

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@revelette1,

I know some funsters in Rome liked to throw up to make more room for more food, but doubtful even they would consider their palate cleaned after a trip to the vomitorium.

Personally, I thought the French method was thorough.

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@Lash,

Lash wrote:

Revolutions are not polite.
The violence of every day life that decimates generations of citizens *seems polite*—most of them dying quietly in neighborhoods we avoid—but one day, they’ve had enough and there you are.

I don't get where you're going with this.

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@Lash,

Quote:

I know some funsters in Rome liked to throw up to make more room for more food, but doubtful even they would consider their palate cleaned after a trip to the vomitorium.

It is really an eating disorder, but not important.

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Personally, I thought the French method was thorough.

No surprising, you seem a little nihilistic, didn't really work out for them too well. They seemed to turn around and become dictating murderous "reign of terror". In my opinion, either way, the end didn't justify the means.

What was the Reign of Terror?

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@neptuneblue,

neptuneblue wrote:

Lash wrote:

Revolutions are not polite.
The violence of every day life that decimates generations of citizens *seems polite*—most of them dying quietly in neighborhoods we avoid—but one day, they’ve had enough and there you are.

I don't get where you're going with this.

I’m not 100% positive about it, but from what I can put together…
Lash is being the voice of the voiceless, downtrodden, poor, and disenfranchised who suffer under the yoke of capitalist oppression and in whose bosoms burn the righteous fury of a thousand white-hot suns.

Or something like that.

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@revelette1,

Everybody’s got an opinion.

I don’t think anyone needs the tutorial.

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@snood,

snood wrote:

neptuneblue wrote:

Lash wrote:

Revolutions are not polite.
The violence of every day life that decimates generations of citizens *seems polite*—most of them dying quietly in neighborhoods we avoid—but one day, they’ve had enough and there you are.

I don't get where you're going with this.

I’m not 100% positive about it, but from what I can put together…
Lash is being the voice of the voiceless, downtrodden, poor, and disenfranchised who suffer under the yoke of capitalist oppression and in whose bosoms burn the righteous fury of a thousand white-hot suns.

Or something like that.

We've got a winner here!

Hit the nail squarely on its head...and did it using sarcasm.

https://ih1.redbubble.net/image.1123275850.0103/flat,750x,075,f-pad,750x1000,f8f8f8.jpg

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