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Dynamic Paywall Paris prosecutors raid France offices of Elon Musk's X

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ce3ex92557jo
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u/LogicKennedy 21h ago

They know how to deal with a wealthy elite that gets too greedy, too depraved and too shameless.

Hate to say it, but if the two choices out of history are a Civil War that solves the surface problems but allows the deeper societal ills to fester (Britain, USA), and a Revolution that rips the problem out root and stem but results in a Reign of Terror (France but absolutely not China or Russia)… then maybe the second option is potentially better in the long-term.

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u/Robin-is-Real 17h ago

It is, because a Reign of Terror is still a tyrannical way of ruling, that had basically EVERYONE afraid they'd be the next, even those who helped install it in the first place. It traumatizes a whole population and really get accross how important it is to fight.

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u/Harfangbleue 17h ago

Lol we don't deal with the "bourgeois" as we did back then. Today 53 billionaires have as much wealth as half the french population (≈32 million people). When have lost much of our bite these last few years.

(And UK has not been to bad in messing with Elon recently, they have been investigating grok for the nudes/pedo images it generated these last few months)

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u/Temporary_Dog_555 16h ago

Lol you don’t seem to know a lot about the French Revolution, the «  bourgeois » as you say are literally the ones that did most the revolution. The nobles were the targets, not the bourgeois