#Jacobins

1. Great moments in the history of footnoting, a series.https://twitter.com/KaraSchlichting/status/1126489858023854080 2. Great moments in the history of footnoting, con't.https://twitter.com/amyplusthree/status/1314559746884673537 3. G
Read more
Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette were good, pious people who cared deeply for the people of France, and it bothers me that they’re *still* used as the model for elite
Read more
All these people with AOC hate boners now shit on me when I first criticized AOC in 2018 At the time I didn't like that she was basically a product
Read more
Against historical illiteracy, a thread:I have seen many people invoke the language and imagery of the French Revolution, particularly the guillotine, as a force for positive change the likes of
Read more
*Imagines a novel set in 1942 Nazi Germany described as an ‘entertaining story of the Holocaust, skullduggery and revenge’*See now? Slavery is SO easily diminished....the way European horrors never are.
Read more
listen and listen good:incels aren’t having sex because they see women as objects, but women aren’t objects, we have agency. the only way to argue that incels are somehow being
Read more
The Left - Right political spectrum started with the French Revolution. The National Constitutents Assembly's was drafting a French Constitution. Those who supported the Crown sat on the right and
Read more
“The Jacobins are having their moment, courtesy of a pandemic...or, better, of the panic and chaos of a crisis that must never go to waste. It is a time of
Read more
On laisse svt entendre à l'école que le contraire d'un État jacobin, ce serait un État girondin. C'est faux, les Girondins sont fondamentalement hostiles aussi aux régions historiques de France,
Read more
I think the attempt to seem fair and balanced in academic history has resulted in a lot of really boring writing. I am all about going back to histories that
Read more
Every leader of the Catholic and Royal Army of the Vendee was either executed or KIA. Generalissimo Cadoudal was the final leader of this great army. He was executed on
Read more
Procès de #Marat. C’est au cours de la séance de la #Convention du 12 avril 1793 que l’arrestation de Marat est décrétée. #Guadet, à l’appui de cette décision, a cité
Read more
The "push Biden left" socdems & the "anti-woke" socdems are the same people Which way Western lib? Ok its a shitpost. Most are not actually the same people but they
Read more
Imagine if Meagan & the Jacobins had the foresight to help Bernie when it mattered, by not giving Warren cover for her bait & switch, & clarifying the absolute imperative
Read more
Hey cisgender followers: Be careful how you interact with the following thread. I'm just a bit fragile and a tactless remark would be unfortunate.Trans followers: I'm fucking TERRIFIED of the
Read more
4 septembre... comme le 4 septembre 1870, jour de Proclamation de la IIIe République.Profitons de cette date pour expliquer brièvement comment la naissance de la IIIe République illustre notre thèse
Read more