Is The US In Its French Revolution Era?

Far too optimistic of a take

Ill be cutzen va cutizen while the goverment hire mercinaries from other countries to kill the rebaling citizens and provide the goverment supporters with arms and money. Thats the new age if American civil war if we had one.

The 7 years war and the french-indian war are the same thing.

I sure hope so, but probably not.

LOL history doesn't repeat itself, the Irony. Bush jr said Iraq was about to have a nuke so they had to invade. Fast forward to 2025 it's now Iran that is usppossedly the one close to having a nuke and has been attacked by the US for the umptied time. Why? because the Iranian people ousted the US placed dictator Pahlavi in 1973 and cut the US/UK off from their oil.
The US population is too far in their victim complex and too cowardly to stand up. Maybe a 1 or 2 day protest at best, then back being a victim.

I would point out that the idea of too much too fast is much different in the age of the Internet, where major shifts in societial dynamics happen much faster. Especially after the sense of stagnation and the stalling of ideas that 80% of people want that neoliberalism has facilitated for decades. Though to be fair womens liberation and the red pill movement show it is still possible. Also the abortion backlash was manufactured as a wedge issue by a political party to capture religious individuals as single issuer voters rather than a natural backlash, and as referendums have shown is not actually popular. Which is why after 50 years of trying to convince voters they failed to overturn it via legislation and had to use the courts.

Ya, why don't we listen to our elders (countries)? Oh yeah.. we Americans are so smart and already know everything (teenage stage)

I've been wanting "French revolution " since 2017.
Full on with guillotines & gallows along the DC Mall

Too much too fast but to who?

I had a wonderful interaction at the post office the other day while wearing the "Reagan Ruined Everything" t-shirt the other day. I went to go mail off my taxes and the post-office worker simply loved to hear himself talk. He kept saying how he liked to make people uncomfortable with his opinions, then when it was my turn in line, he looks at my shirt and asks " Is that the name of a band or something?" I just reply nope, he says oh, and didn't say a single thing after that 😂

I hear you. BUT. The more severe the damage, the more severe its correction must be if there is a ticking clock involved.

We were already so close to the Climate Change tipping point, it is entirely possible we are already too late to save Humanity. THEN the oligarchs took over and began systematically destroying everything we needed to save the ecosystem while it still supports our species. The future of our very species literally does not have time to argue. We need the progress yesterday or we are literally all going to suffer until we die, entirely, all in vain. No progress ever again, a number of generations you can count on your fingers, and all of them will suffer more and more until life as we recognize it extinguished.

The stakes have never been higher because they literally CANNOT be higher.

Gilded age—- what a fantastic show

Basically, change needs to happen but you dont want it to be via revolution BUT if our government doesnt get its collective head out of its ass its gonna lead to a revolution.

“History doesn’t repeat itself, it echoes.” Been living that as long as I know. In some way or another, we forget where we came from, how we started, or causes to bigger struggles. We have the resources to learn, that is, through whatever books weren’t burned by those in power…
You know, I never really did like how history always seems to be “written by the winners.”

The biggest thing a french revolutionary had to worry about was a cannon, in our current era they can turn you into a cloud of red mist and you did not know they were even there. I strongly advise against attempts of violence. I advise everyone to stock up at least 1 year of food and prepare for horrible things.

I just hope that, some days, lukewarm democrats like you will realise that your passivity is harming people everyday. You are closing your eyes on shooting victims, on drug addicts, on poverty damages or on law abuses. Each year the suffering count is growing and, each year, you are pretending they don't exist, that there is no cost to your games, that everyone should absolutely not go too far or else…
The only result is that the worst beast is growing from all of it, and just like Germans not that far ago, you won't be able to pretend you have nothing to do with it when it gets free. All this blood is on your hands.

I suspect it may be more like the late 1800s and early 1900s, when anarchists hunted royalty and nobility. Today, similar actors may start kidnapping billionaires. Alternatively, governments might start investigating how they make their money and massively fining them for some of the unethical and/or illegal things they did. In a way, governments could be seen to be kidnapping billionaires for those payments. Russia already does that sort of thing to billionaire oligarchs who fall out of favor with Putin.

5:55 The crop failures were caused by a volcanic eruption in Iceland that changed the weather patterns and caused torrential rain and cold summers in most of Europe for about 2 years.

Hqw about the Bolshvek?

i really really really fcking hope so

We need to invite the French to the 250th No Kings Day on July 4th.

Just a warning for anyone, especially women and ESPECIALLY queer women interested in researching this period further: the Jacobins were wildly, violently misogynistic. Hundreds of women were guillotined during the Terror for failing to conform to traditional gender roles, and there's a massive amount of xenophobic and specifically lesbophobic rhetoric relating to Marie Antoinette. Accusations of her being a lesbian due to coming from the "backwards" Austrian court contributed a not-insignificant amount to the decision to execute her. If you find content discussing the manosphere upsetting, for example, I recommend proceeding into your research with caution. While I do think everyone would benefit from learning more about this history, I was blindsided by a lot of this when I began my own research a few years ago, and I hope that other marginalized folks can go into this with more warning than I had.

I’m gonna say we’re not due the simple fact that the French citizens were willing to engage in unprecedented bloodshed and kill their ruling class while we in the US clearly aren’t despite the fact that our ruling class is very small, elderly and can’t run fast.

Excellente récapitulation des moments forts de la Révolution française.