• thbb@lemmy.world
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    9 hours ago

    The french revolution was bloody. Today the whole world celebrates July 14th, the day a cheering crowd walked the head of the governor of Bastille on a pike.

    Go figure.

    • Polymath@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      45 minutes ago

      Something I’ve been thinking about recently is how it seems that MOST national anthems celebrate a bloody war in some way, shape, or form, because that’s pretty much what it always takes to escape from oppressors, is violent fighting back