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> I too would need a half bottle of port to write about freedom and liberty while my slaves built me a countryside mansion. Indeed, after deposing the monarchy
by chrisco255 3y ago
> I too would need a half bottle of port to write about freedom and liberty while my slaves built me a countryside mansion.
Indeed, after deposing the monarchy of your mother country, and setting about to create a republic in the face of thousands of years of bloody noble rivalries over succession to the throne, a tall pint of cider is well in order.
- avgcorrection 3y agoReminds me of the Bolshevik Revolution.
- mwbajor 3y agoExcept it actually resulted in a functional country.
- avgcorrection 3y agoFrom peasant-based aristocratic power to an industrialized superpower in not many decades. Seems functional to me.
- mwbajor 3y agoGive me 3 examples of Bolshevik influence that still remain today. You don't even need to give me positive examples, just examples.
- tech_ken 3y agoGazprom? Maybe someone else will come up with the other 2
- avgcorrection 3y agoWhy are you moving the goal post? The country was functional although it didn’t last forever, and was eventually disbanded.
- mwbajor 3y agoThere's no goalpost moving. The point is that the USSR was so successful that no one wants to copy its legacy nor did anyone want to emigrate there.
- hnbad 3y agoThousands of years? The UK barely existed for a thousand years at that point and that's being overly generous with rounding and definitions.
- shemtay 3y agoIn all fairness, prior to the UK being the UK, it was governed by a different set of bloody noble rivalries.
- hnbad 3y agoThe Roman occupation lasted until the 5th century CE, which is 1.5 millenia ago. Prior to that, our knowledge about Iron Age Britain seems to be mostly sourced from Romans, with all the biases they brought in. The Celts (which is a very vague term historically) seem to have been "tribes" and engaged in foreign trade but I'm not entirely sure we have enough information to say they had a "throne" in a meaningful sense, certainly not for a span of 500 years or more (if we generously interpret "thousands" as exactly 2000 years).