I'll start : They fucking killed Thomas Sankara :france-cool:

I share the blame as I am French myself, that's why I don't forget today is not only a mindless military parade in paris but also the birthday of the people's revolt that took the Bastille, one of the King's fortresses in Paris, making way for one of the first revolutions in modern history. The Bourgeois and reactionaries may have betrayed the revolution but it still remains an example to follow and was a the stepping stone for the broader "left" political movement to develop in Europe ( the term itself was created during the revolution).

Let us remember the Peasants in the streets of Paris who had enough and went against their all powerful god-king who's family had reigned for centuries, and won !

May we have their strength , May we know their bliss

:comrade-raccoon:

  • Crowtee_Robot [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    The tragic end of the Paris Commune always makes me sad and angry. This isn't Dragon Ball Z or Batman; don't leave your enemies to fight another day, goddammit.

      • Vncredleader
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        3 years ago

        Wasn't John Ball hanged, drawn, and quartered? That's what happens when concessions are made.

        "We have no compassion and we ask no compassion from you. When our turn comes, we shall not make excuses for the terror. But the royal terrorists, the terrorists by the grace of God and the law, are in practice brutal, disdainful, and mean, in theory cowardly, secretive, and deceitful, and in both respects disreputable

        This is why for any excesses, and any genuinely unjust trials and executions thousands of which did occur, the Reign of Terror and the actions of the Jacobins are justified by history before and since.