:liberalism: My politics may have gotten a bit extreme for your taste

  • TornadoThompson [none/use name]
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    2 years ago

    She is also entirely comfortable with sacrificing plebs as cannon fodder and getting others to do her dirty work then acting all uppity when people talk back to her.

    • cawsby [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      Does anyone remember the names of the men who fought in the Charge of the Light Brigade?

      Great people theory is bs. Real humans put their necks, bodies, lives on the line and someone eating steak every day a world away gets the credit.

      We should remember the miners who took Lithium out of the earth before Musk. We should know their names.

      • Vncredleader
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        2 years ago

        Who built Thebes of the 7 gates ? In the books you will read the names of kings. Did the kings haul up the lumps of rock ?

        And Babylon, many times demolished, Who raised it up so many times ?

        In what houses of gold glittering Lima did its builders live ? Where, the evening that the Great Wall of China was finished, did the masons go?

        Great Rome is full of triumphal arches. Who erected them ?

        Over whom did the Caesars triumph ? Had Byzantium, much praised in song, only palaces for its inhabitants ?

        Even in fabled Atlantis, the night that the ocean engulfed it, The drowning still cried out for their slaves.

        The young Alexander conquered India. Was he alone ?

        Caesar defeated the Gauls. Did he not even have a cook with him ?

        Philip of Spain wept when his armada went down. Was he the only one to weep ?

        Frederick the 2nd won the 7 Years War. Who else won it ?

        Every page a victory. Who cooked the feast for the victors ?

        Every 10 years a great man. Who paid the bill ?

        So many reports.

        So many questions.