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[AJUMP23]

She is a crook and a politician so i don't believe she really care about the common folk.
If i had to bet i'd say she'd rather keep the liberal status quo than implement the radical changes we need. She's hard on immigration in theory but it could be only talk, since nowdays maybe a quarter of her party is composed of those 2nd and 3rd gen migrants form north africa that are mostly westernized but still won't vote for someone who says "lets get arabs out of france".

Only one who can save us are We, The People if you catch my drift. Maybe We, The People will have to go get the next politician in charge and remind him who he is supposed to represent.

That is the trouble with politicians, they lie a lot for power and who knows if they will follow through when they get there. We spend a lifetime of disappointments in leaders. I worked in the US congress in the 2000s and they were full of disappointments then too.

 

[EviLore]

Here is the first preview.



Looks beautiful.

"No suffering which Britain can inflict will reduce America to submission. The thunder of their artillery may lay waste the cities, but the spirit of the People is unconquerable." -Mercy Otis Warren

 

[AJUMP23]

Hope you are all watching episode 1 tonight.

 

[P:axMagellanic]

15 constitutions
Since 1791, France has had a total of 15 constitutions. The most recent constitution was adopted in 1958, establishing the Fifth Republic.

Even the French don't think their constitutions were that good.



If man grants your rights, man can take your rights.

To be fair to the baguettes, the US has had multiple amendments to it's constitution and fought a ruthless civil war within not even a century of its founding.

 

[AJUMP23]

To be fair to the baguettes, the US has had multiple amendments to it's constitution and fought a ruthless civil war within not even a century of its founding.

Yet the founding documents still stand.

 

[DKehoe]

Has anyone been watching this? If so, how is it?

 

[AJUMP23]

Has anyone been watching this? If so, how is it?

I have been watching it and having my kids watch it.

The details in the battles and events is excellent like Lexington and concord bunker hill. Maps and troops and people and quotes. Good stories.

None of the historians are brilliant like Shelby Foote.

In the first minute they imply that Franklin got the idea for democracy from the Iroquois confederacy. But that can't be further from the truth. No mention of John Locke or enlightenment writers yet.

My review is mixed. Every founding father the dwell a lot on slavery. Except for Adams he owned no slaves.

I'm 2 episodes in. Watched episode 1 twice. Once with myself and once with my kids.

 

[AJUMP23]

Has anyone been watching this? If so, how is it?

They just mentioned Locke during the writing of the declaration. No in-depth on the rights of man. But he did get a mention.

 

[Escape Goat]

I want to read more historical non fiction but im afraid every bookbi pickup is some fox news analyst ghost writing revisionist history. Ken Burns was always the gold standard with documentaries. More documentary and less edu-tainment.

 

[DeepEnigma]

 

[EviLore]

Has anyone been watching this? If so, how is it?

I went with the Japanese version instead

 

[StereoVsn]

I watched the first episodes and the battles were interesting. Some of the take on origin of the revolutionary thought not so much.

I have a feeling that I need to get books written before 2000 on the subject if I don't want to get bogged down in "modern thought ". I will keep watching for the military side of things as that's both done and told very well.

 

[AJUMP23]

I watched the first episodes and the battles were interesting. Some of the take on origin of the revolutionary thought not so much.

I have a feeling that I need to get books written before 2000 on the subject if I don't want to get bogged down in "modern thought ". I will keep watching for the military side of things as that's both done and told very well.

Books before 1960.

 

[AJUMP23]

Still watching with my kids and in some ways a great let down to what is a seminal event in human history. But this quote set during Yorktown caused my eyes to well up some.


Johann Ewald Hessian captain

"With what soldiers in the world could one do what was done by these men. One can perceive what an enthusiasm, which these poor fellows call liberty, can do. Who would have thought that 100 years ago that out of this multitude of rabble would arise a people who could defy kings."

 

[EviLore]

Still watching with my kids and in some ways a great let down to what is a seminal event in human history. But this quote set during Yorktown caused my eyes to well up some.


Johann Ewald Hessian captain

"With what soldiers in the world could one do what was done by these men. One can perceive what an enthusiasm, which these poor fellows call liberty, can do. Who would have thought that 100 years ago that out of this multitude of rabble would arise a people who could defy kings."

A lot of people in the French Revolution made similar statements five minutes before they all had each other guillotined and paved the way for a dictator. So it's a testament to the character and competence of the Founders that they went on to produce lasting, stable, positive change.

 

[AJUMP23]

I didn't want to make a new thread but TIME has commissioned Darron Affronsky to make some AI videos for the Revolution.







They look like AI but also have some production quality.

 

[Big-G]

Ken Bruns is the best documentary filmmaker out there. True masker of his craft and respects the history.

 

[Donald mac Ronald]

A lot of people in the French Revolution made similar statements five minutes before they all had each other guillotined and paved the way for a dictator. So it's a testament to the character and competence of the Founders that they went on to produce lasting, stable, positive change.

Isn't it interesting that of all the European colonialism the ones that British did all prospered in their settled colonies.
Americans pre revolution used English common law and kept British institutions intact to govern.
USA, Canada, Australia and new Zealand. Despite British people mostly being oppressed themselves to the elites, they possessed individualism as a trait. Something Europeans lacked, especially the Spanish.

All the other European ones turned to shit. Mind you the Spanish ones were built for pure greed, extraction and wealth stealing.

What's the best way to watch this outside of the USA?

 

[AJUMP23]

Isn't it interesting that of all the European colonialism the ones that British did all prospered in their settled colonies.
Americans pre revolution used English common law and kept British institutions intact to govern.
USA, Canada, Australia and new Zealand. Despite British people mostly being oppressed themselves to the elites, they possessed individualism as a trait. Something Europeans lacked, especially the Spanish.

All the other European ones turned to shit. Mind you the Spanish ones were built for pure greed, extraction and wealth stealing.

What's the best way to watch this outside of the USA?

I don't know outside the us. Maybe you could vpn to the us and watch on pbs.

You could always download it through less that savory means.

Just watch.com might be able to help you.

 

[DKehoe]

I didn't want to make a new thread but TIME has commissioned Darron Affronsky to make some AI videos for the Revolution.







They look like AI but also have some production quality.

 

[AJUMP23]

I didn't create a whole thread for them like some people.