[neverevergiveup]

Words of wisdom, from 234 years ago. How stupid have we become as a society such that we would throw freedom away, and cede more power to a corruptible central authority - of any kind?

[humblegunner]

How stupid have we become as a society

Stupid enough to post this as NEWS, apparently.

[lightman]

Written 13 years AFTER Patrick Henry’s “Give me liberty or give me death” speech before the Virginia house of Burgesses.

[Lurkinanloomin]

Stupid enough to not know that if you have any other nationality you are not naturally an American.
Natural born citizens only have ONE.
That was the whole point of the clause.

[Paladin2]

[robowombat]

DesMoulins was one of Robespierre’s buds until Max decided he and the rest of the Girondins were not pure enough for the incorruptable’s taste. He and Danton and a passel of their cronies got shortened a head. The Girondins were just another group of terrorists. Danton, who for reasons I cannot fathom is constantly presented as some sort of tragic figure, was personally responsible for organizing and financing the September Massacres to make sure the government could not go back on its revolutionary trajectory. Being weepy for Camille because he had a pretty wife and all is like people who make that slick weasel Bukharin some sort of hero and get emotional about Godfather Joe offing him with his Marxist know it all buddies.

[Secret Agent Man]

Well it almost sounds like they want us to get so depressed we just off ourselves. They want us dead any way possible.

At least fight and make them work for it. May take some with you.

[SpaceBar]

Freedom is an illusion.

Three years after this was written the whiskey rebellion started.

[Ransomed]

Our version of bread and circuses is more effective than anything ancient Rome ever attempted or could even imagine as possible.

We actually did things like making the poorest people the most likely to be obese, a condition that has never existed in all of history until now.

Freegards

[Paal Gulli]

"Más vale morir de pie que vivir de rodillas"

-- Emiliano Zapata

(It is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees.)

“Then out spake brave Horatius,
The Captain of the Gate:
To every man upon this earth
Death cometh soon or late.
And how can man die better
Than facing fearful odds,
For the ashes of his fathers,
And the temples of his gods”

-- Thomas Babington Macaulay, Lays of Ancient Rome

[Angelino97]

The only freedom most people want is the freedom to indulge their appetites. Bread & circuses. Sex, drugs, and rock & roll. Netflix and social media.

They prefer security to freedom. Secure that someone will always permit, and provide for, their appetites.

1984 is the stick. Brave New World (sex & soma) is the carrot.

[joma89]

Gen. Patton would have said it is better to kill than not live free. Just saying.