If you're gonna be carrying pictures of Robespierre...
Robespierre, a no-goodnik Well. Last night, after a good dinner, I got into a discussion with a Jacobin. Yes, a fan of the magazine. But moreover a supporter of the actual Jacobin Club in Revolutionary France, most famous for the Terror which slaughtered 10,000 people with only cursory trials for "political crimes". This person, of course, blocked me. But Skythread is forever. The French Revolution was bloody, violent, and ultimately a failure, as it soon descended into Bonapartism and the Rule of the Strongman, setting off a decade of general European conflict. When Napoleon declared himself Emperor of the French, Ludwig van Beethoven famously scratched out the dedication of the Eroica Symphony, which had been dedicated to France's First Consul. The Jacobins didn't accomplish anything "monumental". They were nothing but Bolsheviks, using a French Cheka to terrorize its opponents. The other members of the National Assembly, seeing the guillotine come closer ...
