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How can people be so idle when there is so much at stake at your inaction?

[It's quiet. The past jump has not been kind to Marius. In fact, he sounds positively unsettled, almost as if he needs to just go to sleep and not talk to the public at large, but he needs to do something and this is the only way he can make his heart less heavy.]

We are slaves here to the whim of individuals we cannot even see, to those we cannot even meet, and -- I cannot keep quiet about it any longer.

[He draws in a breath.]

I know there will be much discussion about why we are here and whether or not we can escape -- and I am interested in hearing all of that, but what I am more interested in is opinion. I want to hear what people feel about being here, be it anger or apathy, rather than the facts of our situation, for nothing has ever been changed with cruel numbers and statistics so much as heart.

[And he stills for a long moment before Marius shuts off the feed -- and, maybe twenty minutes later, he sends out a text.]

[Filtered Away from Enjolras]

What can be done about nightmares?

Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

[Hello new debate partner how are you]

So what would have been the right way, sir?

[WHY HELLO FELLOW CRAVATTED GENTLEMAN.]

I do not disagree with the terror, it is what was needed at the time; there was no other way to move forward. However, moderation is what was lacking. I would rather Robespierre had listened to Danton and Desmoulins, perhaps, but that is not how it ended at the last.

A moment, if I might ask that of you, to address an earlier point. How was the terror needed?

Consider it from the viewpoint of the time. France was at war on all sides -- within herself and from outside -- Prussia, Austria, a good amount of the continent. We were desperate, and going to lose what we had so recently gained, a Republic shot down before it could barely begin to live. In order for it to thrive, those who dissented needed to be quieted. Royalists, spies, those who would turn the works of those great men into chaos and disorder.

I do not agree with the lengths it was taken to. But in theory, in moderation? Certainly.

All right: let me ask you something, in that case. When your King killed and imprisoned those who advocated for revolution, did you not spit upon his name and call him a tyrant?

Personally, I did not. I would have had I been alive, however.

Quite. So why was violent tyranny all right when you agreed with the tyrant's ideals, but not when you disagreed with them?

Blood must be shed for the Republic to live.

Why?

Monsieur, if peaceful methods had worked, there would have been no need for the barricades my brothers and I fought at.

But that logic is circular, sir. You had to rebel, therefore you built barricades; you built barricades and that is proof you had to rebel.

[But - ]

I quite detest typing over these foolish things. Meet me in person.

Very well. Where do you wish to meet?

The gardens, if that is amenable to you.

It is. I shall be there shortly.

Excellent.

I will wait at the entrance.

[LET'S DO A LOG THEN]

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[text] He has a google alert doesn't he

[text] He would if he knew what that was

[text] Oh Enjolras, let me show you the 21st century, we have so many more tools for fanboying

[text] Iiiii can show you the wooooorld

[text] shiiining shimmering full of revoluuutions

[text] over sideways and under?

[text] I'm out of song lyrics :(

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[text] should we handwave this or action it in another log so that we don't torture poor Marius

[text] uhhhh whatever you want, broski!

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