• 小莱卡@lemmygrad.ml
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    17 hours ago

    The “reign of terror” by the jacobins was infinitely less bloody than the permament actual state of terror the ordinary people lived in during that time, but of course since ordinary people have no voice they don’t matter, it only matters when some goody noble aristocrats get hanged.

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      17 hours ago

      They killed thirty thousand people. It was only that small because eventually a counterrevolution killed off all the people who were defining who lives and dies according to what side you’re on, and then instituted a reign of terror equally bad.

      I wasn’t making any point about the Jacobins. I was making a point about arbitrarily killing people without due process. I didn’t expect anyone to come in and say “come on it wasn’t that bad and anyway look at this other time when things were bad, so who cares,” because of who it was holding the axes, but you do you.

      I’ve been learning a lot about how the .ml people look at politics and life, and it honestly makes it make a lot of sense why communist revolutions so reliably start slaughtering people like leaves in autumn once they get control. Once “your side” is always right, and everything has to be twisted around and perceived that way, why wouldn’t you?

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        17 hours ago

        I’ve been learning a lot about how the .ml people look at politics and life, and it honestly makes it make a lot of sense why communist revolutions so reliably start slaughtering people like leaves in autumn once they get control.

        Yeah man whatever you say 😂