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[trf-chan.livejournal.com]

The New Jacobin Elite.

Barack Obama: A latter-day Camille Desmoulins? Discuss.

Also discuss if the author stopped to employ earth logic at any point while writing this.

Comments

[estellacat.livejournal.com]

Presumably, were Obama really a Jacobin, he would be sending some representatives on mission to the, er, department of California to enforce some progressive taxation. Am I right?

[missweirdness.livejournal.com]

I have no idea if Obama is or not and I live in the US. Yeah..i've not been keeping up with anything. Sleeping in has it's disadvantages..

though i'm not sure if i would call Obama a latter-day Camille. Because Obama is a good speaker(i've listened to him..)and Camille wasn't a good one..his stutter coming to mind. But who knows?

But there are more things to this..but i'm too lazy xD

[misatheredpanda.livejournal.com]

OH, lol. Lololol.
Personally, I hope not, because as much as I love Camille, I would not want to live in a country run by him. He, er, didn't always seem to think things through very well.

And whaaat? I think part of Camille's oratorical genius had to do with the fact that it very rarely occurred. And hey, it's debated whether or not he was handsome. :p

[victoriavandal.livejournal.com]

A couple of years ago, these same idiots were calling Bush Neocons 'Neojacobins'. Still, it's good to see the word 'Jacobin' in use, even if it is by maniacs...I suppose they think communism is a busted flush so have to dig around for an older term of abuse for the left (and I don't think Obama is very 'left', sadly). Last week the Guardian newspaper were calling Sarkozy 'Robespierre' for his thinly veiled (pardon the bad pun) response attack on Obama's thinkly veiled attack on French 'laicité', which presumably makes Obama Ancien Regime.

[maelicia.livejournal.com]

...Foremost among these was Louis Phillipe II, the fabulously wealthy and infamously degenerate Duc d’Orleans, who hated King Louis XVI (his cousin) and hated even more Queen consort Marie Antoinette (for rebuffing his sexual advances and causing his banishment from court). Joining him were other titled men of considerable pelf (and, usually, libertine habits), to wit: the Duc de Biron, the Marquis de Sillery, the Vicomte de Noailles, the Baron “Anacharsis” de Cloots, the Comte de Mirabeau, the Marquis de St. Huruge, the Vicomte de Segur, and the infamously perverse Marquis de Sade (from whom we derive the adjective “sadistic”)...

And THAT, is where I stopped reading. :DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD Or took a very long pause before continuing. -_-

I would note that I'm personally tired of people not knowing how to write "Saint-Just". Because of them, I miswrote his name in that gorgeous icon I have, and I obviously no longer have the base to correct it. :(

Anyway, vain self-interests aside: this thing is crap. Must it really be discussed? I think it sounds more insane than the usual crap I would discuss: like, say, Artarit on Robespierre's psychosexual freudian transexual gender desires-to-menstruate issues, etc. But this, it really goes beyond all debatable logic. At this point, I think committing the author would be the best solution.

And bonus points to this part: Thus were the orgies of bloodletting accompanied by appeals to the Jacobins’ new environmental theology: “Perish forever the memory of the priests! Perish forever Christian superstition! Long live the sublime religion of Nature!” ...Oh dear.

And, um, yeah, I will abstrain from commenting on Desmoulins the "handsome young lawyer with oratorical skills".

[neuropathology.livejournal.com]

Ahahahaha...."earth logic."

[citoyenneclark.livejournal.com]

.....That's really really upsetting.