A nice thought for your Monday morning.

[Swede]

— Seth Abramson (@sethabramson.bsky.social) 2026-02-07T07:20:02.657Z

[niyad]

1. Sadly, the magats probably have no clue about the reference.

[bucolic_frolic]

2. If that filter were applied to the last 500 years

it would explain most conflicts, wars, and revolutions. Even in WWII, the international capitalists as they were known at the time, skated. The role of monied interests is always hushed up, yet conflict reasserts itself.

A lot of historians and ordinary folks should be asking, what is the driving force of history?

[Martin Eden]

3. What is the driving force of history?

Human nature.

[paleotn]

6. Funny thing about monied interests.

Goes along with Martin Eden's response above. One interesting thing I've noticed upon moving to an ultra blue state, the easiest way to make a flaming liberal lean conservative is give them a business. Doesn't work every time, but does enough to be very noticeable. We saw that here during the fight to increase the minimum wage. Some who you'd think would be all about that weren't.

End of the day, it's human nature. Monied classes aren't some different species of Homo. They are us.

[Martin Eden]

4. Marie Antoinette said "Let them eat cake"

Her head was the icing on top.

Great sign, thanks for sharing.

[RecoveringJournalist]

5. MAGA thinking

MAGA will see this and say "France? Bunch of weak snowflakes surrendering! See? Liberals are weak!"

Yeah, keep thinking that Fakeriots!

[paleotn]

8. Hmm. Shortly after all that guillotining, there was the Grande Arme.

The terror of Europe. Granted, The Monster was Corsican, but the army was primarily French. And since we've had a bad habit since WW2 of "declaring victory" and skedaddling, perhaps we have little room to talk. But that's well over the heads of magats I'm sure.

[Joinfortmill]

7. This rocks! Share Everywhere!