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the French Revolution got itself deep in a lot of pointless poo poo when it had unlimited power. Like trying to create a new calendar and build their own god
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Sep 23, 2020 15:40
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Bro Dad posted:oh yeah it was a whole stupid thing 
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Sep 23, 2020 16:43
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CharlestheHammer posted:the French Revolution got itself deep in a lot of pointless poo poo when it had unlimited power. Like trying to create a new calendar and build their own god honestly if you won a revolution why wouldn't you try to build your own god
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Sep 23, 2020 17:04
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A Wizard of Goatse posted:honestly if you won a revolution why wouldn't you try to build your own god
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Sep 23, 2020 17:10
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Sep 23, 2020 17:15
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I'm told by a lot of op-eds that being rich is very hard. We should really help them take a load off.
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Sep 23, 2020 17:32
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the French republican calendar is cool. we should modernize it and name all the days after potato chips and energy drinks. https://twitter.com/sansculotides/status/1283189553122009088?s=20
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Sep 23, 2020 17:40
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I was down with the french calendar until I saw that my mom's birthday is the Day of the Plow
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Sep 23, 2020 18:00
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say hello to the plow king
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Peanut President posted:I was down with the french calendar until I saw that my mom's birthday is the Day of the Plow Yeah it is
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Sep 23, 2020 18:11
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mandatory lesbian posted:hey maybe do something important instead of trying to reinvent the wheel, guys who have been dead for centuries Units of measurement are instruments of bourgeois imperialism so that's a yikes to mr Robespierre imo
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Sep 23, 2020 18:31
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christmas boots posted:Units of measurement are instruments of bourgeois imperialism so that's a yikes to mr Robespierre imo I mean that’s what the French Revolution was, fundamentally
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Sep 23, 2020 18:56
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hon hon hon
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Sep 23, 2020 19:10
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the calendar was a sideshow but the measurement was not. there was a paris pound, a lyons poind, etcetc all of them carefully calibrated w fraudulent measures to steal from peasants and gently caress with customary taxes in the nobilitys favor
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bob dobbs is dead posted:the calendar was a sideshow but the measurement was not. there was a paris pound, a lyons poind, etcetc all of them carefully calibrated w fraudulent measures to steal from peasants and gently caress with customary taxes in the nobilitys favor rich people are always inventing new ways to steal from poor people. french aristos heads would spin if you told them how they do it these days.
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Sep 23, 2020 19:19
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yeah but they whacked that one good and permanently, which is something to say, notwithstanding the modern grocery shrink ray
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Sep 23, 2020 19:21
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A Wizard of Goatse posted:honestly if you won a revolution why wouldn't you try to build your own god eventually sure but there were a lot of problems they ignored to do that
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Sep 23, 2020 19:29
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uber_stoat posted:french aristos heads would spin yeah but you gotta get just the right English on the blade as it comes down the slot
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Sep 23, 2020 20:34
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A Wizard of Goatse posted:honestly if you won a revolution why wouldn't you try to build your own god
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Sep 23, 2020 20:42
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lol just remembered that swatch (the watch company) invented its own decimal time system for the internet
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Sep 23, 2020 20:44
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oi its 865 .beats
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A Wizard of Goatse posted:honestly if you won a revolution why wouldn't you try to build your own god there's a nerd-rear end joke about the numidium in here somewhere
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Sep 23, 2020 22:09
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Proust Malone posted:yeah but you gotta get just the right English on the blade as it comes down the slot
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World War Mammories posted:there's a nerd-rear end joke about the numidium in here somewhere after the revolution, we had all these tonal chainsaws the dwemer provided...
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Sep 23, 2020 22:43
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Greg Egan uses metric time and if it's good enough for sempai it's good enough for me
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Sep 23, 2020 22:51
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posting without comment https://twitter.com/EyePatchGuy/status/1307675822183022593
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Cup Runneth Over posted:posting without comment https://twitter.com/EyePatchGuy/status/1307675822183022593 https://twitter.com/EliotETC/status/1308677763335778305
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Sep 23, 2020 23:25
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props to him for the praxis
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Sep 24, 2020 00:56
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That uhhh... doesn't really belong in this thread, but I'm hard-pressed to say where it should go. Nice work, Mr. Feeney. 
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Sep 24, 2020 02:48
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ehhhh. I doubt he's made restitution to all the people whose labor he exploited to make a billion dollars in the first place, and now he can't afford to. so gently caress em still.
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Sep 24, 2020 02:49
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I was thinking something along those lines, but I'm still just really impressed, tbph. THIS should be the baseline for fawning opinion pieces, not that "Gates gives away negative $60 billion for third consecutive year" bullshit.
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Sep 24, 2020 02:51
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mandatory lesbian posted:Wait did the frech revolutionists really try to start a new calendar, lol i have a physical version of it on the wall near my computer desk, its honestly really nice lol also wait til you hear about metric time
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indigi posted:ehhhh. I doubt he's made restitution to all the people whose labor he exploited to make a billion dollars in the first place, and now he can't afford to. so gently caress em still. I mean yeah, it's still obviously  worthy that he was a billionaire in the first place but we don't know anything about his business practices or how he paid his employees and I doubt there's gonna be a better example of "acquires shitload of money, bypasses Scrooge McDuck swimming pool to do helpful things for society". If he was a fucker of an employer on top of it then yeah, definitely earlier in the guillotine queue
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Sep 24, 2020 07:04
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Mr Feeney betrayed his class, and will be spared the guillotine for it.
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Sep 24, 2020 08:44
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Orange Devil posted:Mr Feeney betrayed his class, and will be spared the guillotine for it. My stance imho We could use more of his kind of class traitor
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Cup Runneth Over posted:My stance imho one marxist historian i read (can't find the name at the moment) referred to these sorts as "social cranks" and they have a sort of established history in these sort of moments i guess?
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Sep 24, 2020 10:15
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Judge Dredd Scott posted:i have a physical version of it on the wall near my computer desk, its honestly really nice lol
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the single largest recipient of Feeney's "philanthropy" was his alma mater Cornell University, a private Ivy League university which already receives state funding. he gave them a billion fuckin dollars and they still charge students $60k a year for tuition "giving away his fortune" sounds impressive, but the guy's 89 years old, he wasn't holding onto that money much longer anyway. he's just wrapping up his affairs, and doesn't want to leave the money to his kids, so he's choosing for himself what organizations and causes are worthy of his support, while also minimizing his tax liability by doing so and while some of his donations have been for decent causes, they tend to be outweighed by his more vanity donations. it may sound impressive that he donated $25 million to lobbyists for the ACA, but put it next to the $35 million he spent on a sports center for Trinity College and it starts to look a little small. he's cumulatively spent $380 million on social services in Vietnam over a period of decades, which is nice, but he gave Cornell $350 million in 2011 to build a new campus, and of course that's just a portion of his total donations to Cornell
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Oh don't get me wrong he's in no way a good guy, but I do think there's a difference between him and most other billionaires.
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