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Lefty Journalists Defend the French Revolution as Mobs Topple Statues
PJ Media ^ | June 25, 2020 | Tyler O'Neil

Posted on 06/25/2020 4:36:37 AM PDT by C19fan

Some left-leaning journalists — including an editor at The New York Times — defended the French Revolution after Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) suggested that the Democratic primary upsets on Tuesday led in part by Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) showed that something like the French Revolution was taking place in that party. Their defenses of the French Revolution led to stern rebukes from those who remember how that revolution ended up.

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TOPICS: History; Society
KEYWORDS: frenchrevolution; left; revolution
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Behold the output of our elite institutions of higher learning. I guess whatever exposure the students had to the French Revolution ended in 1792. Another so called journalists did not even know the dates of the American and French revolutions as she claimed the American Revolution was inspired by the French Revolution.
1 posted on 06/25/2020 4:36:37 AM PDT by C19fan
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To: C19fan

Presstitutes are in full idiocracy mode now AND there is no “editorial review” to fact check their writers’ pieces for timeline, sources, etc.


2 posted on 06/25/2020 4:39:00 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (Joe Biden- "First thing I'd do is repeal those Trump tax cuts." (May 4th, 2019))
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Given the mofos are historical ignits, they forgot that their heads were also chopped off when all was said and done with the French Revolution.....


3 posted on 06/25/2020 4:39:03 AM PDT by cranked
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To: C19fan

The french revolution was antifa on steroids, and run by about the same caliber of people. They quicky dispatched anyone they didnt like, set up thought police and then beheaded the people who got them imto that mess, which lead to napolean rising to power, which got him eventually exiled.. sheeeese, There people are dumber than rotted fence posts!


4 posted on 06/25/2020 4:41:47 AM PDT by Ikeon (They see me roll'n and they be hate'n. they think Im talkin dirty.)
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5 posted on 06/25/2020 4:42:06 AM PDT by Travis McGee (EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: cranked

I don’t recall the French having tens of millions of people with lots of guns that were against the revolution.

And I recall there being a monarchy instead of a republic.

If a race war is coming better now than later.

well there already is a race war but only one side is fighting. And a lot of our race is fighting with them :-)

To be fair though what percentage of blacks really want that? Posting articles of black people going to work and going home and popping open a beer don’t exactly sell newspapers or make people click online.

I’d be surprised if more than 20% want one


6 posted on 06/25/2020 4:42:09 AM PDT by dp0622 (The very future of the Republic is at stake. dems will do ANYTHING to win.)
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To: C19fan

Heads are gonna roll.


7 posted on 06/25/2020 4:45:19 AM PDT by HighSierra5
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To: dp0622

I was made out to be a bandit yesterday when I commented to a thread “Can we just get to CWII please!?!”


8 posted on 06/25/2020 4:45:37 AM PDT by cranked
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To: cranked

CWII? Don’t skip over state(s) secession. That could go peacefully and relieve the political pressure without war.


9 posted on 06/25/2020 4:48:00 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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They should realize revolutions eat their own. Maximilien Robespierre for example
10 posted on 06/25/2020 4:49:33 AM PDT by Nateman (If the left is not screaming, you are doing it wrong.)
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French Revolution? Bring back the Guilletine. That will solve a lot of the problems.


11 posted on 06/25/2020 4:52:15 AM PDT by GoldenPup
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The deadliest method of execution during the Reign of Terror was simply loading undesirables onto barges and sink the barges in the middle of the river. Tens of thousands of mostly peasants were dealt with by that method.


12 posted on 06/25/2020 4:53:50 AM PDT by C19fan
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To: C19fan

bkmk


13 posted on 06/25/2020 4:56:58 AM PDT by sauropod (Quarantine is when you restrict sick people, tyranny is when you restrict healthy people.)
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One of the managers at our work once had her staff all wear berets as it got closer to Bastille Day and sent around an email crowing about how their revolution inspired ours. With great relish I immediately corrected her. She was such a ditz. Annoying Francophile and typical lib who thought everywhere was better than the U.S.


14 posted on 06/25/2020 4:57:21 AM PDT by cld51860 (Volo pro veritas)
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They should realize revolutions eat their own. Maximilien Robespierre for example


Graffiti I saw in a video, “Liberals get a bullet too” signed with a hammer and sickle.


15 posted on 06/25/2020 5:06:41 AM PDT by joshua c
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“Don’t skip over state(s) secession.”

I really like this idea. I don’t see why it isn’t more greatly promoted, as the differences between conservatives and leftists are now irreconcilable and mutually incompatible. Two countries should live side by side, and we would actually get along much better, akin to the U.S. and Canada — laughing at each others differences, instead of bearing incalculable hatred. The current trajectory is going to lead to greater violence and death.


16 posted on 06/25/2020 5:11:54 AM PDT by BlueStateRightist (Government is best which governs least.)
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Don’t forget-the French Revolution got them Napoleon I- and a bloodbath that lasted more than 20 years involving all of Europe, Britain, the Dominican Republic and Africa (including strife over the whole globe where the Europeans had to defend trade and travel).

It was twenty years of a nearly non-stop recruiting, fighting, dying and a ruinous drain on resources


17 posted on 06/25/2020 5:18:45 AM PDT by SMARTY ("Nobility is defined by the demands it makes on us - by obligations, not by rights".)
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we would have to build a wall though.


18 posted on 06/25/2020 5:21:42 AM PDT by teeman8r (Armageddon won't be pretty, but it's not like it's the end of the world)
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To: HighSierra5

The rioters spreading the virus to their friends and family members are more deadly than the statues. The Democrats are always planning a way for the Black communities to kill themselves off. The Democrat politicians don’t want to stop the riots they are making money on every Co Vid case.


19 posted on 06/25/2020 5:21:44 AM PDT by cnsmom
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To: BlueStateRightist

I view each state as a country. The “country” of Nebraska has more in common with Poland than it does with California.


20 posted on 06/25/2020 5:28:06 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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