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  • JustARaccoon@lemmy.world
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    When the vote is either voting for status quo or voting for something worse, that’s not a fair vote, it’s one made under duress

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        Well yes but that’s the problem, we need to think outside the box, revolutions are seen as a thing of the past but maybe everyone could learn from the french

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            I believe Robespierre had lead a period of time known as the “reign of good times and normal vibes” where they all formed committees to talk out and mediate the the problems of the system they lived under.

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                It ultimately gave us the ideals that would go on to end monarchism in Europe. It killed the French monarchy legitimacy until it was ultimately destroyed.

                Once again, only if you know nothing about the French revolution would you say that.