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[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

The quote is correct, but as I recall the divine right didn't end because the people cried out for freedom. Royalty was replaced by governments of the nobility or military, neither of which are necessarily better for the people.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 4 months ago (2 children)

And how did such replacement happen? It wasn't out of nowhere but after a lot of turmoil, uprisings, and guillotines. The point being, there's people outcries, prostest, and so on. I'm not endorsing violence, but we can't just ignore that there was a process in-between. That's the whole point of the quote, is up to grassroots movement to try and find a way to open a crack and then make it grow...

[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 months ago

I don't see how anyone can look at 99.9% of history and not endorse violence.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 months ago

I might be endorsing violence this time. You can't always make nice with a bully. We've given them plenty of chances to stop kicking over our sandcastles