1799: The French people politely ask for liberal democracy in a strongly-worded letter, Louis XVI gleefully abdicates and everyone parties. A cheerful Frenchmen in a phrygian cap grins at Louis XVI who has removed his crown. The guillotine is there --but it's just being used to open bottles of champaign for the party.

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   myrmepropagandist (futurebird@sauropods.win)'s status on Wednesday, 16-Aug-2023 20:27:02 JST myrmepropagandist

   If the idea of violent protests don't make you at least little scared I wonder how well you know history. At the same time, real change almost never happens without people putting their bodies on the line.

   The right understands this far better than your average liberal/moderate. To be a moderate is to trust that existing systems will (mostly) work.

   If those system fail? What then? To even consider this is moderate treason.

   (Cartoons by Mattie Lubchansky https://thenib.com/author/mattie-lubchansky/ )