On this day in 1848, the French February Revolution began when thousands of Parisians took to the streets to protest political suppression, leading to the founding of the Second Republic and establishment of labor reforms. Among the reforms the Second Republic passed were universal male suffrage and a guaranteed "right to work", provided by National Workshops which gave the unemployed with a source of income.
The protests of February 22nd were triggered by the banning of political banquets, legal means of criticizing the government and fundraising for political organizing. Incidentally, communist journalist Friedrich Engels was in Paris at the time and witnessed these banquets. After the ban, thousands flooded out onto the streets to protest against the "Citizen King" Louis Philippe and his chief minister François Pierre Guillaume Guizot.
Shouting "Down with Guizot" and "Long Live the Reform", the crowds marched past Guizot's residence and erected barricades in the streets of Paris, where fighting broke out between the citizens and the Parisian municipal guards. French troops shot into the crowd, killing at least fifty-two people.
In the next few days, Guizot resigned and King Philippe fled the country. By February 26th, the Second Republic had been formed, with poet Alphonse de Lamartine acting as a de facto dictator over France for the next three months.
The Second Republic's governance would be tested in the "June Days" uprising, which Karl Marx identified as a conflict between petite bourgeoisie and the proletariat. The revolting workers were crushed by force (with over 4,000 insurgents being deported to Algeria) and the Second Republic continued until elected President Louis Napoléon Bonaparte dissolved the parliament in a coup in 1851.
The Class Struggles in France, 1848 to 1850 :marx-guns-blazing:
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Good luck! That's super cool, and if you've got the connection you have a good shot
I'm not a person of faith, but I was raised Catholic, and watching these tradcath adult converts on Twitter cheerleading a priest breaking the seal of confession to rat out a cheating wife is just incredible. "He lost his priesthood but God will forgive him", no, that's not how that shit works lmfao. The priest committed a mortal sin and is automatically excommunicated from the church. If you had any convictions in your faith, every day this priest continues to give and receive sacraments or hold service should be a literal heresy of the highest order to you.
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hahahah hell yeah the bong store gave me a refund and it was in Actual Money and not Bong Bucks (which would have been okay, I was gonna buy some feminized seeds maybe)
basically got a free bong since plumber's tape is sealing up the pinhole crack defect well enough
feminized seeds
why they gotta make seeds political? wokeness, smh my head
the 'female' flower is the one we want, the 'male' is the one that pollinates, and intersex/non-dimorphic flowers are 'perfect'
weed is sapphic CMV
until the plumber's tape gives me cancer or something but idk I don't think it's getting water any hotter than the hot water I bathe in every day which is also probably giving me cancer :yea:
When you simultaneously want to present as more masculine and as more feminine :blob-no-thoughts:
I describe my gender identity as wanting to be so femme and so masc that everyone is gay for me
Seems to work with how often "I wouldn't normally message X" start off on tinder and grindr
Feel like shit about myself. Never thought I would be 28 and never even have been in a relationship.
liberals: the Ukraine military is inherently good because they are defending against an unjust invasion
also liberals: the Viet Cong were bad even though they were defending against an unjust invasion
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I've been generally tolerant of anime fans using loan words directly from the Japanese terms, but please god someone explain to me why people are suddenly using "seiyuu" instead of voice actor/VA.
Theres no way in hell being a fucking voice actor is so uniquely culturally different over there that you need the Japanese word to convey the connotations accurately, fuck off.
Im pretty sure no one gave a shit about voice actors in the US until JP culture came over.
I’ve been generally tolerant of anime fans
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Death to America
people get weird if you don't use voice actor/actress as a gendered term, and seiyuu avoids that
Queer people are cooler than straight people because they’ve at least done some level of introspection. Shout out to the straights who are well adjusted, I know you’re out there somewhere
The cishet people I meet like this are usually friends with enough queer people to have done some introspection as well
I feel like it's less about the introspection and more about their amount of privilege in society. Class analysis and what not you know
Fuck it getting blackout drunk tonight.
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How's your day going ?
Really helpful when nutritional info is written "per serving" and they don't even tell you how much a serving is
DC films confuse me. They drop the ball so often but seem to usually get it right with Batman. Anything outside of that is such a toss-up. Like it's the only character they have confidence in.
but seem to usually get it right with Batman
disagree, the only good Batman movie is Joel Schumacher's camp masterpiece Batman & Robin
Batman is easy. All of their other characters are really hard to do movies about. I would like them to hire me for a sweeping epic superman trilogy that spans Clark Kent's entire life that I have planned out already. It involves Golden Age landlord beating Superman, a bit of Red Son, a bit of All Star Superman and the middle movie is basically a remake of Superman 4 that people will love.
Basically the big picture is normal origin story, he goes to metropolis during the Depression and sorta flies back and forth between there and the Kent farm after high school, he beats up landlord's and Klan members and ykmow sees injustices in America. Eventually ww2 hits and you know Superman isn't bout nazis and he enlists, he meets Stalin to find that his immense power was never used to aide the Russians and all thisnleads him to join the Soviet bloc for a bit. He still works as Clark Kent in America as well. So he kinda gets to see the cold war as it is from both sides as it develops and dude is an alien in the end so he's less caught between things ideologically but whether it's his place to get involved. Also after the war Lex Luthor is brought to America as his father was a scientist brought there through operation paperclip. He has the nietzch motives you expect and sees Superman's communist sympathies as an alien threat that a human individual must rise against, if God is dead we have to kill the new God sort deal. Superman starts taking a more distant and passive approach like Bender in that episode he had lil dudes living on him. Then the better version of Superman 4 comes in where maybe the Cuban missie crisis causes him to just collect all the nukes and yeet them to the sun. This gives ammo for lex in the press that the dude is just deciding what humans do and also with no deterrence the cold war heats up fast. He's now trying to stop proxy war after proxy war. Lex invents some kinda cancer gun that is used on Superman and he gets All Star Superman'd
I don't have this fully thought through but I'm talking giant giant giant budget and at least 3 hours per movie, most of.the action is just superman saving people I'm also absolutely NOT deconstructing Superman, I think he's a great character and it's fine to have a character who is just straight up a good guy with a shitload of powers and the tone is to be generally uplifting while being politically complex. It's a weird tone, but I've got it in my head really clear.
fuck, never thought I'd hear a Superman pitch I actually liked
I'd watch the hell out that
If you don't know the story of All Star Superman it's that he finds out he's dying and goes all fucking out to wrap up the loose ends. The big part is giving Luthor this speech that is for sure in the script.word for word:
https://youtu.be/PrcUb8MENAg
That's what the last movie hinges around entirely. All Star Superman has other bullshit. This is the end ofnthe trilogy
I didn't. Guess I have to read that someday. Was Red Sun any good? If it wasn't, were the brainworms at least funny?
Red Sun is good but lib, has a kinda cool twist ending. All Star Superman goes pretty broad in the Superman mythos, I made an edit in my last post where I linked a scene from the animated version that would more or less sum up the themes of how I'd do it as a third part in this trilogy
On this, Luthor is every tech billionaire rolled into one but at least semi competent
only complaint is that superman didn't immediately destroy the CIA headquarters
