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Started by Korea, March 10, 2009, 06:24:26 AM

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Habbaku

Giving you shit about your Republican sympathies is hardly an insult, Valmy.  And I thought I was clear in indicating you only approved of very specific war crimes. Totally different.   :P
The medievals were only too right in taking nolo episcopari as the best reason a man could give to others for making him a bishop. Give me a king whose chief interest in life is stamps, railways, or race-horses; and who has the power to sack his Vizier (or whatever you care to call him) if he does not like the cut of his trousers.

Government is an abstract noun meaning the art and process of governing and it should be an offence to write it with a capital G or so as to refer to people.

-J. R. R. Tolkien

Barrister

Giving Valmy shit for being a French Revolution fanboy is always justified.
Posts here are my own private opinions.  I do not speak for my employer.

Habbaku

The medievals were only too right in taking nolo episcopari as the best reason a man could give to others for making him a bishop. Give me a king whose chief interest in life is stamps, railways, or race-horses; and who has the power to sack his Vizier (or whatever you care to call him) if he does not like the cut of his trousers.

Government is an abstract noun meaning the art and process of governing and it should be an offence to write it with a capital G or so as to refer to people.

-J. R. R. Tolkien

Valmy

Quote from: Habbaku on December 03, 2015, 10:58:46 AM
Giving you shit about your Republican sympathies is hardly an insult, Valmy.  And I thought I was clear in indicating you only approved of very specific war crimes. Totally different.   :P

Ah ok. If you meant I only approve of war crimes against enemies of the people well then you should have specified -_-
Quote"This is a Russian warship. I propose you lay down arms and surrender to avoid bloodshed & unnecessary victims. Otherwise, you'll be bombed."

Zmiinyi defenders: "Russian warship, go fuck yourself."

Valmy

Quote from: Barrister on December 03, 2015, 11:07:20 AM
Giving Valmy shit for being a French Revolution fanboy is always justified.

Give me shit if you want but Burkean evolution makes for boring history.
Quote"This is a Russian warship. I propose you lay down arms and surrender to avoid bloodshed & unnecessary victims. Otherwise, you'll be bombed."

Zmiinyi defenders: "Russian warship, go fuck yourself."

Duque de Bragança

Quote from: Valmy on December 03, 2015, 09:19:37 AM
Quote from: Habbaku on December 03, 2015, 08:09:08 AM
Quote from: Valmy on December 03, 2015, 12:06:27 AM
And the terror would never have happened without the war.

:mellow:

What? That is hardly a new controversial idea. The war made everybody lose their shit.

And the war was decided by the Girondins, not the Jacobins. So Robespierre was a peace loving guy!

Valmy

Quote from: Duque de Bragança on December 03, 2015, 11:33:37 AM
And the war was decided by the Girondins, not the Jacobins. So Robespierre was a peace loving guy!

Well now lets not celebrate the Jacobins too much. Robespierre was rather out there in his fierce opposition to the war.
Quote"This is a Russian warship. I propose you lay down arms and surrender to avoid bloodshed & unnecessary victims. Otherwise, you'll be bombed."

Zmiinyi defenders: "Russian warship, go fuck yourself."

Barrister

Quote from: Valmy on December 03, 2015, 11:20:40 AM
Quote from: Barrister on December 03, 2015, 11:07:20 AM
Giving Valmy shit for being a French Revolution fanboy is always justified.

Give me shit if you want but Burkean evolution makes for boring history.

Edmund Burke is never boring. :mad:
Posts here are my own private opinions.  I do not speak for my employer.

Duque de Bragança

Quote from: Valmy on December 03, 2015, 11:35:59 AM
Quote from: Duque de Bragança on December 03, 2015, 11:33:37 AM
And the war was decided by the Girondins, not the Jacobins. So Robespierre was a peace loving guy!

Well now lets not celebrate the Jacobins too much. Robespierre was rather out there in his fierce opposition to the war.

Are you sure? Marat, Danton, Desmoulins, even Hébert, the (future) Montagnards were not for the war. Now Brissot the Girondin...

katmai

Quote from: Barrister on December 03, 2015, 11:07:20 AM
Giving Valmy shit for being a French Revolution fanboy is always justified.
I'd much rather give him grief for with Washington #^*~* fanboism.
Fat, drunk and stupid is no way to go through life, son

Valmy

Quote from: katmai on December 03, 2015, 01:35:22 PM
Quote from: Barrister on December 03, 2015, 11:07:20 AM
Giving Valmy shit for being a French Revolution fanboy is always justified.
I'd much rather give him grief for with Washington #^*~* fanboism.

FIRST PLACE Washington #^*~*!
Quote"This is a Russian warship. I propose you lay down arms and surrender to avoid bloodshed & unnecessary victims. Otherwise, you'll be bombed."

Zmiinyi defenders: "Russian warship, go fuck yourself."

Barrister

Quote from: katmai on December 03, 2015, 01:35:22 PM
Quote from: Barrister on December 03, 2015, 11:07:20 AM
Giving Valmy shit for being a French Revolution fanboy is always justified.
I'd much rather give him grief for with Washington #^*~* fanboism.

Washington fanboisism is its own punishment.
Posts here are my own private opinions.  I do not speak for my employer.

Valmy

Quote from: Barrister on December 03, 2015, 01:53:35 PM
Washington fanboisism is its own punishment.

Well you got me there.
Quote"This is a Russian warship. I propose you lay down arms and surrender to avoid bloodshed & unnecessary victims. Otherwise, you'll be bombed."

Zmiinyi defenders: "Russian warship, go fuck yourself."

derspiess



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