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DOGEWontAmountToShit
2024 Mar 28, 10:13pm
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2024 Mar 28, 10:13pm
richwicks says
History shows that post revolutionary states are pretty fucked up.
Including ours. The period between the end of the Revolutionary War and the establishment of our second constitution was unstable. Post-Revolutionary France couldn't build the guillotines fast enought. Russia had a civil war. So did most of South America & Mexico after kicking out the Spanish.
The problem is, convincing people that they are better off with a reformed state.
History shows that post revolutionary states are pretty fucked up.
Including ours. The period between the end of the Revolutionary War and the establishment of our second constitution was unstable. Post-Revolutionary France couldn't build the guillotines fast enought. Russia had a civil war. So did most of South America & Mexico after kicking out the Spanish.
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richwicks
2024 Apr 7, 3:19pm
richwicks
2024 Apr 7, 3:19pm
UkraineIsTotallyFucked says
The United States is a post revolutionary state, that's how it was founded.
You can rightly claim that the French revolution was insane, but ultimately it made a better state.
Russia today is a post revolutionary state.
When it's an authentic revolution, and not caused by external factors (i.e. a coup) quite often you end up with a superior nation although that transition is not easy.
The US should have gone through a MAJOR reformation in the 1990's, and didn't. Instead our government continued to waste money on the useless war machine even after the USSR had collapsed. There was a brief pause, and we had ENORMOUS development during the 1990's. We went from having long distance phone calls for communication to just "the Internet". We got sidelined by 9/11 which was very likely done (or at least allowed) by our own government, and we have squandered resources and development into pointless war to the point that nobody supports any of these wars to the point the media is getting afraid to even report on them.
War will be our undoing, it was for the USSR - they squandered all their resources and manpower on their warmachine as well, until there was a revolt. It's going to happen here as well in time. Our nation will start ANOTHER war, and eventually, we're going to get our asses handed to us. I don't think Russia is going to do this, but if we start shit with Iran, they might. They are formidable military force, and Russia will support them.
History shows that post revolutionary states are pretty fucked up.
The United States is a post revolutionary state, that's how it was founded.
You can rightly claim that the French revolution was insane, but ultimately it made a better state.
Russia today is a post revolutionary state.
When it's an authentic revolution, and not caused by external factors (i.e. a coup) quite often you end up with a superior nation although that transition is not easy.
The US should have gone through a MAJOR reformation in the 1990's, and didn't. Instead our government continued to waste money on the useless war machine even after the USSR had collapsed. There was a brief pause, and we had ENORMOUS development during the 1990's. We went from having long distance phone calls for communication to just "the Internet". We got sidelined by 9/11 which was very likely done (or at least allowed) by our own government, and we have squandered resources and development into pointless war to the point that nobody supports any of these wars to the point the media is getting afraid to even report on them.
War will be our undoing, it was for the USSR - they squandered all their resources and manpower on their warmachine as well, until there was a revolt. It's going to happen here as well in time. Our nation will start ANOTHER war, and eventually, we're going to get our asses handed to us. I don't think Russia is going to do this, but if we start shit with Iran, they might. They are formidable military force, and Russia will support them.
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Robert Sproul
2024 May 14, 7:11am
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