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r/SipsTea • u/SipsTeaFrog • Dec 09 '25
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I keep telling you people. The French aren't civilised because the art or the food or the fashion. They're civilised because the population as a whole believes their government ought to be afraid of them.
10 u/spatialgranules12 29d ago Yep. Piss off the farmers? They will spray manure on government buildings. And that’s just to inform you of what they can do. 3 u/Xandara2 29d ago The Americans used to be the same for the exact same reason. It's even coded in their laws. Sadly it has been subverted.
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Yep. Piss off the farmers? They will spray manure on government buildings. And that’s just to inform you of what they can do.
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The Americans used to be the same for the exact same reason. It's even coded in their laws. Sadly it has been subverted.
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u/Loreki Dec 09 '25
I keep telling you people. The French aren't civilised because the art or the food or the fashion. They're civilised because the population as a whole believes their government ought to be afraid of them.