Political Memes

And yet, to this day, the French government and French companies are very hesitant to piss off their population, who proudly protest and strike at every perceived grievance.

We have faster computers now, so hopefully it will take less time.

Third French Republic (1870–1940): Napoleon III is captured by Prussia; France sets up a highly unstable parliamentary democracy.

Is it really that unstable, if it lasted for 70 years and only ended due to foreign invasion, not internal collapse?

You seem to forget that one of the most important legacies of the French Revolution was how it inspired people in other countries. People all over the world got inspired by the ideas present in the early stages of the Revolution. For example the revolutions of 1848 wouldn't have happened without the French Revolution, but so many other democratic events owe their debt to it as well.

And by the end France is still a dictatorship of capital with its own billionaires and a rising nazi party, which will lead to a repeat the same cycle of violence again at some point.

People haven't forgotten. Just now, I saw a very thorough breakdown on the history of the French Revolution, summarized down to social media length, by someone masquerading as a slime monster with a moniker about how they feel about less than stellar code.

Sure, not everyone remembers the specifics of how XYZ was achieved throughout history. Some willfully, others because the opportunity was taken from them.

That's why it's so important to remember History. A cautionary tale is an approach in need of reforms, with pre-identified lessons to be built upon.

There's a world's worth of work, and a need for (the collective unnamed) you.

That's greatly overselling the Fifth Republic. Sure, it lasted a long time by French standards, but it's one of the weakest democracies in Europe, inches away from falling to fascism.

Sometimes you have to plant a tree, even if you don't get to sit in it's shade.

200 years later, companies and government dont want to cause too much trouble because the people will riot. Should they have sat down and let the rich demons eat everything?

They seem to try out a new government every 14-18 years or so, which reminds me of Jefferson's quote about watering the tree of liberty with "the blood of patriots and tyrants," and he thought that should happen no more than every 20 years or so.

Who said it was gonna be fun?

Be the change you wish to see in the world

Hope for 100 years of chaos and death?

Dude clear your inbox 😭

Yeah, ancient history is full of gold plated statues, and not a guillotine in sight for thousands and thousands of years.

At some point, pervasive surveillance alongside an army of AI-controlled bots and drones with unquestioning mechanical loyalty might actually make it different.

That's one possibility of the near future that really scares me: it might become practically impossible to have a revolution anymore. Of course, the tyrant can't depend entirely on the AI bots, but they could easily be enough to tip the balance in the tyrant's favor -- revolutions are already a dicey business, before introducing that factor. Historically, revolutions have succeeded because while the revolutionaries might not be as well trained or as well equipped, they have the numbers, and they might be able to get some of the tyrant's own forces to turn against him. But in an age of AI surveillance along with plentiful, cheap, and deadly robots, that may change. The robots could outnumber revolutionaries, and they could be immune to being turned against the tyrant.

The french revolution happened after the American one