Attributed to Napoleon, who ended democracy in French, this quote was also used by Anders Breivik, the far-right anti-immigrant terrorist who murdered 77 people
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He who shows compassion in chaos will save the world. He who knows that freedom is false unless it applies to all, will lead the masses. He who values the gifts of our planet instead of raping it ... will stay instead of wither .... Make it so !!! we command by the directed energy of our history
The Napoleon phrase that Trump evokes comes from a film called “Waterloo” starring Rod Steiger, an 1970 Italian-Soviet production shot in Ukraine with Red Army soldiers... Napoleon never said it
Disgusting. I had no idea about the 14 white flags. Alito better have his lovely wife string them up and proudly fly then over both of their mini-mansions.
This will end up with people in the streets like never before. America, you have no idea what you have done to yourself. America will be utterly transformed coming out of this, and it will be, eventually, after a long fight.
Please note that Musk posted 14 American flags in response to Trump’s dictatorial decree yesterday. The 14 words are a white supremacist motto. Musk is over and over telling us who he is, and it is Hitlerian.
Seriously read some history! This is just ignorant. Napoleon overthrew the Directory in a coup on the 18 brumaire which was probably a good thing. The directory was the last iteration of the repressive, violent gvt of the French revolution. The revolution overthrew the monarchy. Sheesh.
This rhetoric about saving the country has been common on the right at least since 2016. What else was that nonsense about the Flight 93 election? It was always an implied excuse for - and threat of - illegal measures.
I assume you know, but pitched out and exiled once by a restored monarchy. But Elbe was too close, so he came back for a hundred days and then finally exiled to St Helena which was 1200 miles from the nearest other landmass. No airplanes in those days. They wanted him stuck there.
Well I'd hedge that since as a legal system, the French revolution got rid of feudalism in France but its decade long gvt was in fact much more repressive than what it replaced. They even changed the name of the months and the date. Year one of the revolution. Reminds me of Trump and the Gulf.
I don't think that's a good comparison. I also don't think it's all that useful to compare a violent revolutionary period to a centuries long system of oppression and violence that preceded it. The violence was more acute, but the oppression of feudalism was far greater.
I don't disagree there. Feudalism as a legal system went on for far too long. But the utter violence and repression of the gvt that ended it has always struck a deep chord of fear in me (I teach French and French history); literally anything you said could get you reported and guillotined.
“But according to the Norwegian anti-Islamic citizen journalist website https://Document.no … large parts of the manifesto are copied directly from ‘Unabomber’ Ted Kaczynski's own manifesto, with minor changes such as replacement of the word ‘leftist’ by the phrase ‘cultural Marxist.’”
The madness keeps getting more and more mad... It's batshid crazy... And they keep supporting each others madness, and so continues the circle... Pathetic and sad... 😞
The madness and the ignorance...
In Trump's world you don't side with the smaller or weaker, you get the little they have! The quick-fix, putrid smell of appeasement hangs in the air! His repugnant betrayal of the underdog, at home, in Gaza, Ukraine is destroying the West, if not stopped!
In Norway it started then Anders Behring Breivik attacked the Norwegian government and then a Labor youth camp on the island of Utoya, killing a total of 77 people. Dressed as a police, a small man in every aspect just like Trump, Musk and their gang.
GOP thinker “Yarvin's view, democratic governments are inefficient and wasteful and should be replaced with sovereign joint-stock corporations whose "shareholders"-billionaires-(large owners) elect an executive with total power, but who must serve at their pleasure.
Napoleon did not end ‚democracy‘, though. there was a ruthless bloody blood 🩸 terror regime in power in France when Napoleon took power. and brought lots of new freedoms to many all over Europe. not by abolishing law, but by granting civil rights.
I've seen this talked about 50 times and not once has anybody pointed out that the person justifying doing whatever he feels like happens to also be a colosal lying grifting traitor.
Democracy had already ended in France. The National Convention had been elected by universal male suffrage, while the Directory only allowed propertied men to vote.
And I'm not surprised to see that the MAGAs at Texas A&M consider this the most profound statement that the greatest President America has ever had uttered. Yeah, I'm totally disgusted, but not really surprised.
Do you have a link to this? The 14 flags is batshit and I would like to verify it's real. I don't have a twitter account and it seems impossilbe to look at his tweets in chronological order. And the musk tweet archive I found stops in 2023 -- guessing some API change?
Ok these two are like that couple on Facebook - I love you schmoopy!!
And then next thing you know they are in a horrible divorce. It’s so performative and there is a huge lie shared between them.
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Doing anything in French makes it more stylish.
But I know what you mean.
How it's going
https://myferretsatepepethefrog.blogspot.com/2025/02/destroying-village-left-behind-is-lie-v.html
You mean Luigi?
He's a Nazi.
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/teddy-roosevelt-patriotic-quote/
This one is good too.
“But according to the Norwegian anti-Islamic citizen journalist website https://Document.no … large parts of the manifesto are copied directly from ‘Unabomber’ Ted Kaczynski's own manifesto, with minor changes such as replacement of the word ‘leftist’ by the phrase ‘cultural Marxist.’”
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https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/He_who_saves_his_country,_violates_no_law
Liberals in the US were the foremost supporters of the militarized War of Terror on Brown people. Now they're worried it's turning upon them.
In Trump's world you don't side with the smaller or weaker, you get the little they have! The quick-fix, putrid smell of appeasement hangs in the air! His repugnant betrayal of the underdog, at home, in Gaza, Ukraine is destroying the West, if not stopped!
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“Who’s Liberty?”
“Mine, of course!”
“… wrong answer.”
“He who publicly covets his tween daughter’s body is a Pedophile.”
This week.
He is saving himself and his klepto klan from jail, or worse for not paying Putie back. That's it.
I'm sure.
And then next thing you know they are in a horrible divorce. It’s so performative and there is a huge lie shared between them.