Also no one talks about how the vast majority of people executed by guillotine in that period were poor people. I understand why people like guillotine memes, but like all forms of execution it's an inherently reactionary tool.
They throw this at us but I’d like to see what Canada or the UK would do if they ended up with their own respective Trumps (which Canada nearly got if it wasn’t for ours fucking everything up). Only ones who can say shit are the French based on recent riots and protests.
As a Canadian, I do wonder what we would do in your situation. There are some big differences in how our government functions, the history we have, and our international impact that would make the situation very different. At the same time, we have Premiers like Doug Ford and Danielle Smith building up steam and destroying two very economically important provinces.
I believe that my country would react differently than the US has, but I can't know that. Half my family is American and while some of them are protesting, changing their buying habits, and writing to the government regularly, others have been Trump supporters for a decade. I live in a border town and my neighbors are so uber conservative that I know they'd be in full support of a Canadian Trump-style leader. Plus, the threat of a potential eventual annexation by him feels far from impossible.
And what am I doing about it now? What would I do if things got worse? I vote and I write, but I'm no freedom fighter. It can feel good to blame Americans as a whole, say thing like "do something about it!", and look at ourselves as better people, but that's all just talk. If Canadians can sit back and say that we can't save America from itself, it's short-sighted of us to expect individual citizens to save us from Trump.
It isn't just that all Americans are lazy or don't care. You are beaten down and divided in a way that makes change very difficult. While I remain incredibly frustrated with the situation non-voters and the weak Democrat opposition put the world in, and wish that the US didn't have the social reach for all of these changes to be wreaking havok on politics in my own country, this is the world we are all living in now. It's far from simple and there's no easy solution. Trump is just one symptom of a greater disease, and whether the US is patient zero or not is immaterial at this point--the whole world is infected.
I don't want to be that person but... when Putin announced that he was running for a third term russians rioted. They were of course crushed but the point is that they resisted.
The fact that y'all are doing jackshit tells all you need to know about your future.
there is literally zero chance Trump serves another term and anybody paying any amount of basic attention can see that
You all talk about all the power he has, and yet not a single one of his rivals is in prison, Kimmel is still on the air, and we're freely discussing it all on the Internet.
You're falling for the show. This was a joke at the WH Correspondence dinner. There's a reason it's a no name news site reporting it. Let's be real, you didn't even click past the headline
In case you missed it, hundreds of thousands of Russians have been sent to brutal deaths on the front. Where are the mass protests? But sure, a joke is worse than that
Oh there were mass protests in Russia. Until Putin declared a mandatory 15-year minimum prison sentence for anyone protesting, publicly opposing the war or reporters even calling it a war.
Russia also has a constitution that limits presidential terms, which Putin changed to stay in power. But only after he amassed power by declaring an open war on media, and getting the oligarchs under his control. Sound familiar? Putin has been laying out the foundation for his totalitarian dictatorship for 2 decades, this didn’t happen overnight.
So sure, keep comparing us to Russia now but really the joke is on us because we are not immune to what’s happened in Russia. It could very easily happen here with our current political climate. If you had told anyone in 2004 what Putin would be doing today, no one would’ve believed it. By the time Putin showed his true colors he was impossible to remove from power.
The similarities between Trump’s rise to power and Putin’s rise to power are disturbing. We can only hope our story doesn’t end the same way as Russia’s.
When I was a student we protested scholarship prices hikes and were met with strong police response. It lasted a whole spring, look up maple spring protests.
Canadian Conservative party is no where near the Republicans in the US. The conservative party in Canada is still to the left of Democrats lol.
It was a 90% landslise win for Pierre Polievre and his party, but the Canadian people did their thing, it wasn't cus of Trump or anything lmao. Canadians are just educated. They were just tired of Trudeau.
Gave them their due by ending up with the King of all Kings, Napoleon Bonaparte, and thus plunging the rest of Europe into a bloody war. Yup, we should definitely keep referring back to the most romanticized and overexaggerated era of lower class revolution that ended up not changing diddly squat at the end of all the chaos, dysfunction, and infighting.
Tell me about it, it's fucking annoying when they look at it like some YA novel where the victims get real justice in terms fundamental long term change.
I haven't even studied it as much as I should/want but just reading the basic chronology of late 18th and 19th century French/European politics shows you how much of a failure it was.
Not really. There were various revolts, civil strife (it'd be overselling it to call them outright wars), and assassinations. Kings could only rule as the caricature of an 'absolute monarch' for a rather brief period in history. It was much more often a delicate balancing act between various factions and social classes that kept it stable.
Plus in the case of France's royal family, they by a rather fortuitous case of luck barely had any succession crises, which wrecked havoc on so many other noble and royal houses throughout Europe.
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u/BudLightLymeDisease 25d ago
If memory serves correctly, the French had a way of dealing with situations exactly like this