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"Major media outlets’ uniform criticism of Cannon’s ruling doesn’t change the fact that there’s still a prevailing cloud of “decorum” preventing those same outlets from stating the obvious: that Cannon is in no small part doing what she was hired to do by a broader movement of ideologues. Like Trump in some respects, Cannon is not an aberration, but an acute symptom and manifestation of something larger, and much more dangerous."

God I wish more people would say this. The amount of people who are actually surprised that this happened is mind-numbing.

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OK, so how do we fix this without bringing back French Revolution solutions?

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...why are you ruling out the French Revolution solutions?

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Who said I was?

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Why worry about ruling that out then?

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Because royals weren't the only people who died during the French Revolution. In fact, the common folk died at an astronomical rate.

I don't root for that! I concede it is increasingly becoming clear that it's one of the only solutions left, but that doesn't mean I have to smile about it!

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"Liberty, egality, fraternity"

Bring on the revolution dear citizens

(That you Dr Rossman professor of history Doane University during the flower power years)

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