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Uh France? It annoys me when people say this stuff is "inevitable." No, many countries have forcibly "reshaped" their government (French revolution, American revolution, etc etc) and nobody has any basis for saying it won't happen again, perhaps many more times.

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French Revolution is largely regarded as a tragedy. It led first to the Terror, and after that a series of new monarchies over the following century.

Revolutions in most countries have generally replaced one faction of the ruling class with a competing faction of the ruling class, with little actual change for the people.

> It annoys me when people say this stuff is "inevitable."

"Resistance is futile" is an old slogan of them Borgs.

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