On this day in 1789, a crowd of nearly one thousand protesters stormed the Bastille in Paris, France, a major event in the French Revolution, commemorated annually as “Bastille Day”.
In the months running up to the uprising, the people of France were facing a dire economic crisis, food shortage, and increased militarization of Paris on orders of King Louis XVI. The Bastille was an armory and prison, perceived by many as a symbol of royal authority in the city.
On the morning of July 14th, a crowd of approximately one thousand people surrounded the Bastille, calling for the surrender of the prison, the removal of its cannon, and the release of the arms and gunpowder stored there.
After negotiations stalled, the crowd surged into the courtyard of the Bastille and were fired upon by troops in the garrison. In the carnage that followed, ninety-eight protesters and one defender of the Bastille were killed.
Governor Marquis de Launay, fearing his troops could not hold out, capitulated to the crowd and opened up the Bastille doors. He was captured and dragged towards the Hôtel de Ville in a storm of abuse. While the crowd debated his fate, the badly beaten Launay shouted “Enough! Let me die!”, kicked a pastry cook in the groin, and was then promptly stabbed to death.
As news of the successful seizure of the Bastille spread throughout the country, revolutionaries established parallel structures of power for government and militias for civic protection, burned deeds of property, and in some cases attacked wealthy landlords.
King Louis XVI first learned of the storming the next morning through the Duke of La Rochefoucauld. “Is it a revolt?” asked the King. The duke replied: “No sire, it’s not a revolt; it’s a revolution.”
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Yeah, I’m a bit of a thinking man. A thinkerman, if you will.So one of my co-workers is disgustingly heartless. My work is bwtween my house and the nearest grocery store so I was walking by around 1pm and there was a dude at one of the patio tables who looked to be nodding out, didnt think much about it until I got to work at 3 and the guy was still there in the exact same position. It’s 35 degrees out today, I asked the server who had been working the day and she said he hadnt moved. So I said to call a fucking ambulance, got the guy inside and sat him somewhere cooler, ambulance took another 2 hours to arrive. So this guy was passed out in the heat at a restaurant table where she is a server, this table is directly across the sidewalk from the front door, she would have a clear view all day of this dude rotting in the sun and juat ignored it. Like, first off, it’s a table at a restaurant so when he sat down he should have gotten water and a menu in the first place, and then there’s the basic humanity element where you dont let someone maybe die 30 feet from where you’re standing. She’s dead to me now.
One of my anarchist buddies was talking about how there are no longer proud boys because now they’re all ice agents
I also remember having a similar conversation with someone online who kept insisting that this very thing would be an inevitability (and thinking that they were paranoid at the time). I doubt they’re happy they were right tbh but holy shit I can’t even imagine what is to come
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Biography Director, International Affairs Group, CNA Ken Gause is the director of the International Affairs Group, a part of CNA’s Center for Strategic Studies. He is CNA’s senior foreign leadership analyst and has spent the last 20 years developing methodologies for examining leadership dynamics of hard-target, authoritarian regimes. In particular, he is an internationally respected expert on North Korea who has written three books on North Korean leadership. His latest book is “North Korean House of Cards: Leadership Dynamics Under Kim Jong-un.”
Leadership and opposing force (OPFOR) analysis are core areas of expertise within CNA Strategic Studies and Gause has personally directed studies on the North Korean, Iranian and Russian leadership and decision-making. His work on foreign leadership dates back to the early 1980s with his work on the Soviet Union for the U.S. government. Over the last three decades, he has devised analytical techniques used to understand adversary decision-making. These techniques span a five-tier set of methodologies that range from biographical analysis to studies on how to impact and shape an authoritarian or totalitarian regime’s actions. These studies include a range of approaches from sophisticated game design to proprietary analysis based on a “virtual network” of researchers around the world dedicated to providing analysis on regimes of interest, their leadership, and how they make decisions.
Gause has also published numerous articles on leadership structures for such publications as Jane’s Intelligence Review, Jane’s Defense Weekly, and the Korean Journal of Defense Analysis. He has a B.A. from Vanderbilt in Russian and Political Science and an M.A. from The George Washington University in Soviet and East European Affairs.
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The “criticism” of The Odyssey not having any Greek actors is obviously farcical, but I do think they should have put Stavros Halkias in it
Trying to make c/soviet a bit more active now that the comm is open again, might as well! It’s nice to actually see what the Soviet Union actually was, to humanize its existence, not just read about it alone. It helps us connect our current struggle to what they went through. It means we carry the torch forward.
There’s this uncle in China who runs a restaurant, and went viral for desperately trying to convince people not to come, but it’s not working.
It started when a food blogger with millions of online followers happened to visit the restaurant, and the owner would repeatedly ask the blogger not to brag about the food, and to not make him too popular. The video went viral, because people thought he was using some sort of reverse psychology on them. Turns out he just prefers the easier and more peaceful lifestyle of serving a few dozen customers a day. People began showing up in droves to try his food. Influencers and celebrities included. He then left tons of fake 1 star reviews to deter people, but no one is falling for it.
In interviews he only talks about how bad his food is, and how it will make you shit out of your doodoo ass. Unsurprisingly, this backfired as well. It made even more people want to come, so now the poor guy is suffering from success.
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Apparently this as nothing to do with gender identity, feminine expression etc, its from the 50’s an the artist is commenting on razors now being marketed to women to shave legs etc when they’d been exclusively marketed to men prior
C/Soviet is back open BTW!
Re-reading lotr and find it interesting how completely unimpressed I am by the writing, the story, the poems. Compared to when I read it at 16 years of age.
It’s really pretty reactionary too, and so male centric it hurts, and the elitism oh my god… And kind of boring tbh, I was bored with the war stuff even on the first read as a teenager, but now I am just bored with all of it.
Not sad that I’ve changed this much.
Edit. Pictured my mood reading it. In the book Sam kind of does the carrying from day one.
A while ago on the side of the road, I found a discarded rear rack from some bike. It took some doing but I strapped it to my mountain bike amd have been hauling big bags of groceries strapped down with bungee cables home. Rear rack owns.
When I see someone eating a lot I think to myself wow damn that person must really like pooping
almost like 6 years of hexbear?
Started moving over some of my Lemmy.ml effort posts to c/Marxism in an effort to keep them backed-up
