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I unironically loved it when he defended the rein of terror. gently caress the monarchies.
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"THERE were two “Reigns of Terror,” if we would but remember it and consider it; the one wrought murder in hot passion, the other in heartless cold blood; the one lasted mere months, the other had lasted a thousand years; the one inflicted death upon ten thousand persons, the other upon a hundred millions; but our shudders are all for the “horrors” of the minor Terror, the momentary Terror, so to speak; whereas, what is the horror of swift death by the axe, compared with lifelong death from hunger, cold, insult, cruelty, and heart-break? What is swift death by lightning compared with death by slow fire at the stake? A city cemetery could contain the coffins filled by that brief Terror which we have all been so diligently taught to shiver at and mourn over; but all France could hardly contain the coffins filled by that older and real Terror—that unspeakably bitter and awful Terror which none of us has been taught to see in its vastness or pity as it deserves."
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Aug 24, 2014 03:46
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BlackJosh posted:Nah dude. Might've been hyperbolic but that dude did not like indians one bit. Why do you think Injun Joe was the bad guy? To be fair he did live in the time where indians would literally ride into homesteads, bash babies against rocks and then kidnap and rape daughters. People didn't like Indians for good reasons, not just because they wanted their land. Although they did kill them to take their land too.
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Aug 24, 2014 07:43
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Why can't everyone be nice and just talk about Mark Twain or the Indians he loathed? 
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