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Socialist Progressives

HassleCat

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1. Turned out OK

Reply to TBF (Original post)

Sat Jul 4, 2015, 02:23 PM

Jul 2015

Sure, the real motives did not match the flowery rhetoric and exposition of Enlightenment thinking, but rebellions are messy things. We came out of it with this great constitution, even if we don't always respect it enough.

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Not Our Independence Day [View all] TBF Jul 2015 OP

Turned out OK HassleCat Jul 2015 #1

And unlike the Eurozone's documents, ours are designed to be fixed as needed Demeter Jul 2015 #2

The revolution was also a rebellion against one of the first WDIM Jul 2015 #3

This message was self-deleted by its author TBF Jul 2015 #4