The French are getting theirs now for the Revolution and destroying the legitimate political order of Europe. I have no pity to spare for the masters of revolution and republicanism. There hasn't been a France in terms of a living cultural monument since 1790, maybe even since 1661.
I am a Republican but I have no respect for the French revolution at all. The French revolution was more a pre-cursor of 1968 and the Russian Revolution then a true people's revolt. Some of the aspects of the Great Terror remind me of the Chinese Cultural Revolution.Quote:
Originally Posted by Magister Eckhart
I have more respect for the American Revolution.
I have a hard time not considering republicanism and communism to be two sides of the same liberal coin. I used to care a great deal about the American Revolution, but the more I read that was written by the actual revolutionaries and about their treatment of the Tories, the less respect I have. Americans may have feigned surprise and offence at the French Revolution, but they themselves tarred and feathered officials regularly, and invented a form of torture called "carting", by which they would kill a man's ox, stuff him inside and then beat the carcass with rods and sticks while pulling it for nine miles. Reaching the end of this suffering, the victim would be introduced to more of liberty and egalitarianism when he was pulled from the carcass and beaten out of his senses with the animal's entrails. The Americans were more creative than the French, but the legacy of liberty-equality-fraternity is the same vile profanity no matter where it raises its diabolical head.Quote:
Originally Posted by Civis Batavi
Republicanism in all its forms is generally negative and leads down the path to a greater tyranny than any dictator ever exercised, because it is an implicit tyranny.
As a Dutchman, you may have a hard time with all of this; the Dutch Republic never saw the sort of vulgarity and violence that the American and French Republics have - it may, in fact, be the only Republic in the modern age that has "done it right", so to speak.
finished by that? France is not just about Marseille and Paris. Taking the Black and Muslims in France also have a good birth rate among whites.Quote:
Originally Posted by zack
The situation is not good, but is not finished, as you say.
Je reconnais, Monsieur Ouistreham! Comme toujours, les commentaires génial! Ribéry a également épousé unne musulmaneQuote:
Originally Posted by Ouistreham
sounds better in french.Quote:
Originally Posted by ikki
"Aux armes citoyens! Formez vos bataillons!
Marchons, marchons,
Qu'un sang impur abreuve nos sillons" :thumbs up
I'd rather go back to France to be a monarchy again. I believe that Ms D'Orléans royal house has no chance to ascend the throne, so the French people need to do your part and vote for Sarkozy or most any other Jew, as Strauss-Kahn.Quote:
Originally Posted by Civis Batavi
My respect for the American revolution is that it was based around the small shopkeeper, the small-time writer and inventor and the yeoman farmer rather then on the intellectual elite and freemasons.Quote:
Originally Posted by Magister Eckhart
For short: the American moderate lower/upper middle class was the backbone of the Revolution. In France it was a very liberal middle and upper class helped by the dregs of society.
In the British colonies real oppression was never a tradition. In France it was. Britain was a modern society - while the French were still stuck in the Middle Ages.
Born in Ile-de-France.Quote:
Originally Posted by zack
And they don't have it, they got depisted because they're at risk to develop it.
Lock your doors and stay inside. The End is near.Quote:
Originally Posted by gandalf