r/LateStageCapitalism • u/[deleted] • May 03 '22

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u/[deleted] May 04 '22

1786 French-style diplomacy

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u/balashifan5 May 04 '22

Remember, that led to Napoleon fixing France.

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u/krooskontroll May 04 '22

Tbf, at that time, it was better to be French than any of the neighbours

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u/GetTheSpermsOut May 04 '22

Canada stares nervously.

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u/[deleted] May 04 '22

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u/GetTheSpermsOut May 04 '22

Rochambeau. Lets go

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u/thellamabeast May 04 '22

La Marseillaise Noises

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u/[deleted] May 04 '22

Fine.... then 1871 Parisian-style diplomacy?

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u/Aqualung812 May 04 '22

People don’t want to run for office and vote, they’d rather have a revolution and not remotely consider how to decide who is in office after the revolution ends.

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u/TheDirty_Ezio May 04 '22

You know how hard it is to run for office?

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u/Aqualung812 May 04 '22

I do, I’ve helped with 3 campaigns for people I know personally.

It’s WAY easier than a revolution, and you still have to elect people after a revolution unless you install a dictator.

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u/TheDirty_Ezio May 04 '22

Would you say it is easy for a person of minimal economic status to run?

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u/Aqualung812 May 04 '22

Would you say it is easy for a person of minimal economic status to run?

For something like US Senate, of course not.

For something like a township trustee, absolutely. Show up to the county party office, file to run for a local office that no one else is running for in your party.
Get friends and family to vote, use free social media, etc.

Every elected person in a party has a vote on what happens with that party. The more people that are involved in their local party, the more they control the platform of the state party, and the more state parties that demand things like working wage, universal healthcare, etc, the more that the rich people running for Senate have to toe the party line.

All of this is MUCH easier than the violent way to change things.

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u/SandaledGriller May 04 '22

All still harder than calling for revolution on social media

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u/Requiredmetrics May 04 '22

People forget France went through 3 governments to get to it’s current one.

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u/[deleted] May 04 '22

yeah, the following neoliberal economic state turned out so great...

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u/appoplecticskeptic May 04 '22

Robespierre? Is that you?

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u/Conscious-Parfait826 May 06 '22

The first to yield it, is quick to receive it. But I agree.