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Thomas Carlyle [proto-Joyce / Melville] is your DEFINITIVE #lawoffunny guide for the French Revolution, and more generally the enlightenment (thread)
The Festival of Reason was celebrated on the eve of its worst atrocities - mass drownings at Nantes and shootings in Lyon
The Festival of Reason was celebrated on the eve of its worst atrocities - mass drownings at Nantes and shootings in Lyon
Which was all true to the Revolution's Enlightenment form / origins - that it enthroned Reason, but unleashed Furies, worshipped Liberty, yet institutionalized Terror, it proclaimed Brotherhood, but ate its children
The Revolution culminates in a grotesque display of the law
The Revolution culminates in a grotesque display of the law
The whole Revolution compresses to a single point of #lawoffunny where the Revolution began in *words* by the Philosophes, then ends in Robespierre's shrieking from a *jaw* wound when the Executioner Samson wrenches the dirty linen holding his mutilated jaw in place
@PereGrimmer Since we're relying on #lawoffunny for its predictive power, have we validated how well the law holds up historically? Maybe I missed a megathread - I couldn't help try to apply it to last election.. just one here
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2015 - Trump kicks off his Presidential campaign with now infamous elevator scene to deliver speech focused on illegal immigration; media interprets as racist / xenophobic, Trump steps right into the exact impolitic media stereotype of Republicans
nbcnews.com/news/latino/do…
nbcnews.com/news/latino/do…
How does such a xenophobic bigot ushered in by Putin hacking our election, who fails to disavow white supremacy after 4 years of woke nonsense and shrieking about Trump's racism all culminate for literally white supremacist Hitler? 
