General Chit-Chat Thread: A New Beginning

[Big Jean Studd]

no one even mentioned they went back to monarchy after briefly, country was a mess in the 1800s lol

populists ruin everything man

 

[Barry Poppins]

no one even mentioned they went back to monarchy after briefly, country was a mess in the 1800s lol

You know what's even worse? Is that the Bourbon Restoration wasn't even terrible until Charles X came into power.

 

[Big Jean Studd]

Napoleon was fucking nuts tho

 

[Big Jean Studd]

Military genius. At least back then populists like did something like meaningful to get to power lol

 

[Big Jean Studd]

Usual military lol

 

[Barry Poppins]

Like Louis XVIII compromised with people and at least tried to keep a level head (pun intended), even if he was an authoritarian.

 

[Chris]

Yeah that's the real big negative about monarchies and dictatorship is they usually start bc someone is actually good at it, well in the past at least. Not modern really, easier to keep people subdued with force than it ever has been

 

[Big Jean Studd]

Yeah that's the real big negative about monarchies and dictatorship is they usually start bc someone is actually good at it, well in the past at least. Not modern really, easier to keep people subdued with force than it ever has been

better weapons but also fear n control. They barely have to dissuade us these days

 

[Chris]

Military genius. At least back then populists like did something like meaningful to get to power lol

yeah he did a lot of good policy too, just obviously also bad. He was a "good politician" tho in almost all aspects but clearly overreached in war

 

[Barry Poppins]

Charles X got to power and immediately was like, "I hate democracy, the French Senate is dumb, you all need to do what I say", and he got ousted in less than 6 years lmao

 

[Big Jean Studd]

I.saw eastern Europe using sonic weapons on protesters the other day. Super cool

 

[Barry Poppins]

yeah he did a lot of good policy too, just obviously also bad. He was a "good politician" tho in almost all aspects but clearly overreached in war

Probably the worst things he did was backpedaling on women's suffrage and bringing back slavery

 

[Big Jean Studd]

yeah he did a lot of good policy too, just obviously also bad. He was a "good politician" tho in almost all aspects but clearly overreached in war

well he did the thing ur not supposed to

 

[Barry Poppins]

 

[Chris]

I've never really been a military tactics guy, I cared more about the stories of history but really bc of Civ I've been way more into that now too and yeah Napoleon was fucking insane with his resources. I'm not sure he would have been great if he was more limited but for the time he was a monster