Also, can your t-shirt guy do balaclavas?
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Gonna be tough since mob size is now limited to no more than 10 people.
“Man the barricades! But please remember to stay 6 feet apart!”
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Can you make a guillotine with a 3D printer?
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three weeks ago saw our local HIgh Schools production of Les Mis. I hate that play but the kids were great. Have seen it multiple times. wife1-wife2-daughter all love it. So depressing. Everyone dies.
But were their barricades in the French Revolution in 1787? Are we conflating the actual event with a work of fiction set decades later?
But yes I think about all the “let them eat cake” mofos of today and the guillotine all the time. Only with a bucket cam to see the look on their faces as the blade drops and their heads fall into the bucket.
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Les Miserables is not about the French Revolution of 1789 but about the failed June Rebellion of 1832. There were barricades in both of those, but they did not play a crucial role in 1789 (and the guillotines did not start to drop until 1792 anyway).
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Considering Italy, Iran, Korea, and southern China are the epicentres of this thing I’m going on a limb and saying warm weather won’t help
North of Italy is cold in the winter. Korea is cold. Qom was the epicenter in Iran and in January and February typical highs are in the 50s and lows in the 30s. Wuhan in January averages 47 high and 33 low.
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None of these areas are warm now and in China there’s a strong correlation between temperature and number of cases.
I would’ve thought this was overwhelmingly the most likely outcome given the GOP’s complete lack of shame, until I saw this:
Wrong revolution yo
Dan’s pretty clearly aware that Les Mis is not set during the French Revolution (as he describes it as a work of fiction set decades later) and is questioning whether “man the barricades” is a historically accurate thing so say when people are making analogies to the French revolution.
He’s being a history nit, while I can’t help but think it’s “there” not “their”.
EDIT: Meant to reply to GermanGuy
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well Tucker can obviously rot but fuck I like this story arc by the writers
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I’ve a book on barricades in Paris, here’s a relevant passage:
It is often claimed that the barricade was absent from the French Revolution, and this is almost true. In Paris, the battles that led to the taking of the Bastille in July 1789 and the fall of the monarchy in August 1792 were not street fights, confrontations propitious to barricades. Elsewhere, the battles that took place at Thionville, Verdun, Lyon or Toulon were sieges in which artillery played the main role, so much so that barricades such as those Monluc encountered two hundred years before would have been as archaic as the harquebus.
It was only with the ebb of the Revolution, during the long phase of reaction that followed the elimination of the Robespierrists on 9 Thermidor year II (27 July 1794), that the barricade made its reappearance in Paris - an episode of a few hours, limited to the Faubourg Saint-Antoine, without real fighting but of great historical significance, as it marked the final uprising of those who would still for a while be known as sans-culottes.
At the start of a chapter about hunger riots / uprisings in 1795. (From “A history of the Barricade” by Eric Hazan.)
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Thanks Bruce. That was my point about the first post in this little derail.
Interesting that the rich still dominated after the revolution. I have no idea about the black and white justice portrayed. But some interesting parallels to the law and order folks and immigration policies of 2020 America.
I sea that ewe notice that eye often mix up there and their when typing. Homonyms. I sometimes miss articles as well.
FOX is trying so hard to shift the focus from Trumps handling of Corona that they are willing to eat their own, scary.
Props for having a book on barricades in France.
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This is from a guild mate in a game I play. This is the real issue with Trump’s daily press conferences.
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