On the 14th of July in 1789, a crowd of nearly one thousand protesters stormed the Bastille in Paris, France, a major event in the French Revolution, commemorated annually as "Bastille Day".
In the months running up to the uprising, the people of France were facing a dire economic crisis, food shortage, and increased militarization of Paris on orders of King Louis XVI. The Bastille was an armory and prison, perceived by many as a symbol of royal authority in the city.
On the morning of July 14th, a crowd of approximately one thousand people surrounded the Bastille, calling for the surrender of the prison, the removal of its cannon, and the release of the arms and gunpowder stored there.
After negotiations stalled, the crowd surged into the courtyard of the Bastille and were fired upon by troops in the garrison. In the carnage that followed, ninety-eight protesters and one defender of the Bastille were killed.
Governor Marquis de Launay, fearing his troops could not hold out, capitulated to the crowd and opened up the Bastille doors. He was captured and dragged towards the Hôtel de Ville in a storm of abuse. While the crowd debated his fate, the badly beaten Launay shouted "Enough! Let me die!", kicked a pastry cook in the groin, and was then promptly stabbed to death.
As news of the successful seizure of the Bastille spread throughout the country, revolutionaries established parallel structures of power for government and militias for civic protection, burned deeds of property, and in some cases attacked wealthy landlords.
King Louis XVI first learned of the storming the next morning through the Duke of La Rochefoucauld. "Is it a revolt?" asked the King. The duke replied: "No sire, it's not a revolt; it's a revolution."
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Is there anything that'll untorque or lower the temperature of stochastic violence at this point? Like, from a lib POV. Trump gets shot at, survives - heighten temp. Trump gets shot at, dies - heighten temp. Trump wins peacefully - heighten temp, emboldens etc. The system is so sclerotic, unresponsive, undemocratic that of course there will be more and more political violence. I guess the hope is that you can just take the politics out of politics and give people a managed spectacle in its place - but people are gonna identify with that spectacle so hard that they'll redirect their urge for adventurism or change into these random uncoordinated acts of violence on behalf of a giant ass spectacle.
Do long as the stochastic violence is for the system there will be no immune response against it.
Remember how ths only time we passed any gun controll was when the black panthers were active? It would takes something like that for any momentum to build in the direction of stopping the violence
Also the response to right wing vs left wing violence.
When the us army was sent to occupy my city they were deployed by a democrat governor and a democrat mayor to protect a race-murderer cop. Likewise, Biden has ruthlessly used force to dismantle left protests.