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LovisXVI said:
Maybe Louis "Le Roi Soleil" XIV just sucked up all their good luck to leave his successors with jack and shit.
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He is the reason why the monarchy failed. He set up an absolute monarchy and court system that was simply unsustainable. It required too much money to sustain and a vain lunatic to oversee it all.
Louis XVI might have been a good monarch under a different system that gave him less control and blame for everything. He was the type of guy to listen to advisors and want to be left alone to his hobbies.
 
Slap47 said:
He is the reason why the monarchy failed. He set up an absolute monarchy and court system that was simply unsustainable. It required too much money to sustain and a vain lunatic to oversee it all.
Louis XVI might have been a good monarch under a different system that gave him less control and blame for everything. He was the type of guy to listen to advisors and want to be left alone to his hobbies.
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Isolating the monarchy into Versailles and then gutting the hereditary nobility of their autonomy was a recipe for disaster long term. It was extremely effective at centralizing power when you had above-mentioned vain lunatic guiding the ship, but it wasn't an institutional change; the Parlements still retained most of their authority and were still debating whether they or the King had the authority to extend taxes from the Paris Parlement over them up till the eve of the revolution.

I sometimes wonder how France's history might have been changed if Louis XIV hadn't had to have an angry Parisian mob marched through his bedroom while he pretended to sleep as a kid.
 
It pisses me off so much that I find new youtubers and just today I've had two of them say really POZ'd stuff. The first one released a video today where he basically makes cringe overtures to troon-gender ideology in describing an ancient cult:


and then this guy interrupts the video to do a brief moralfagging about how saying the vandals were destroyers of civilization is problematic, the idea of "more or less advanced civilizations".

 
Computer God Autism said:
Isolating the monarchy into Versailles and then gutting the hereditary nobility of their autonomy was a recipe for disaster long term. It was extremely effective at centralizing power when you had above-mentioned vain lunatic guiding the ship, but it wasn't an institutional change; the Parlements still retained most of their authority and were still debating whether they or the King had the authority to extend taxes from the Paris Parlement over them up till the eve of the revolution.

I sometimes wonder how France's history might have been changed if Louis XIV hadn't had to have an angry Parisian mob marched through his bedroom while he pretended to sleep as a kid.
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Paris and mobs seem to be a tale as old as time. I'm certain though Frogs outside of Paris fucking hate the city given it's oversized importance
 
GGSurvivor said:
vandals were destroyers of civilization is problematic, the idea of "more or less advanced civilizations".
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Speaking of the vandals, what's the lib/whig/progressive consensus on the European barbarian tribes from antiquity?

On one hand, all the bad things that are cited with colonization and imperialism occurred (genocide, mass enslavement, forced assimilation, race-based castes, resource plundering). But on the other hand, the descendants of the apparent victims ended up being Europeans, the only group in the progressive pseudo-Marxist academic view of history with volition and therefore culpability.

In the progressive view, are the crimes against European ancestors used to explain future behavior, as with American Indians being fat alcoholics because of colonialism?

I've only seen and heard the broad, boilerplate 'imperialism is bad and is done by rich people for wealth' response to such questions, however, that's probably because I'll drop anything the moment its creator makes a pointless aside that reveals them to be some flavor of leftist (which happens a lot; they can't help but PL). But the people in this thread have more tolerance for that kind of content, so maybe you'll know more.

I just find it funny that South Americans seethe about Spaniards and Portuguese stealing their gold and overwriting their culture when the Carthaginians colonized southern Iberia primarily for the purpose of extracting rare metals, then the Romans did the same thing, then the Umayyads did the same thing. Maybe its historical trauma?
 
Nobusuke Kishi said:
Pretty good video from a pretty small channel. It's becoming harder to find good stuff that isn't people reading Wikipedia or covering the same handful of topics over and over again.
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You should embed the videos, but yeah Ceramic makes really good stuff. His niche of internal politics of modern third world nations is really interesting. I first watched his Jiang Zemin video, which I also highly recommend.
 
LovisXVI said:
You should embed the videos, but yeah Ceramic makes really good stuff. His niche of internal politics of modern third world nations is really interesting. I first watched his Jiang Zemin video, which I also highly recommend.
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Yeah, that was the one I first saw too. I think he may be a Sino-boo since China is his most covered country but I appreciate him jumping around to different topics.
 
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