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  • I didn’t know, so I had to look. That’s a bit of a rabbit hole, but it looks like the answer is Patrice de MacMahon, or maybe Adolphe Theirs.

    If you’re talking more in abstractly in the sense of political ideology, it’s kinda tough to say. The government was less than a year old, fresh out of the imperial monarchy of Napoleon III, recovering from their losses to Prussia.

    MacMahon was Napoleon III’s Marshal, it’s not a stretch to imagine he may have harbored imperialist sentiments.

    Thiers was certainly more liberal, which only goes to reinforce my point that liberals aren’t inherently bad at revolutions. He was in the middle of his own revolution (again) and dissolved the Commune’s revolution in a month’s time.

    You’d be right to take issue with the Bloody Week for other reasons, but you can’t say it supports the idea that liberals can’t do revolutions.



  • The real self-help secret is balance, but different people have different biases so the changes necessary to achieve balance are different.

    Timid pessimists need to learn the power of yes.

    People-pleasers need to learn the power of no.

    Procrastinators need to work more.

    Workaholics need to work less.

    Narcissists need to be considerate of others.

    The insecure need to be considerate of themselves.

    Trying to read every self help book for maximum mental health is like taking every pill in your medicine cabinet for maximum physical health.