David Forbes: Far-right chud in NYT: "They went about the ordinary business of life - laboring, raising children, worshipping their creator - untroubled by futile expectations of change." Medieval commoners: "I would rather the king and all kings were dead than that my son should be hurt on his little finger."

Far-right chud in NYT: "They went about the ordinary business of life - laboring, raising children, worshipping their creator - untroubled by futile expectations of change." Medieval commoners: "I would rather the king and all kings were dead than that my son should be hurt on his little finger."

More anti-democratic thoughts from 2018 the NYT allowed this writer to exclude from his current piece. Delivered with an air of detached irony, as if he miiight be joking or exaggerating. But is he?

It's linked in the alt text, but the above is from my piece on how much plenty of commoners hated royalty (i.e. a lot) www.patreon.com/posts/dead-a...

'Dead and damned': medieval commoners' wonderful hatred of royalty | David Forbeswww.patreon.com Get more from David Forbes on Patreon

There were huge peasant revolts where they dragged counts and dukes out of their manors, killed them, stole anything that looked expensive, and burned all the documents

Absolutely were. A lot of them. I wrote about their organization and tactics here: www.patreon.com/posts/pact-a...

Pact and pike: How medieval peasants organized and fought | David Forbeswww.patreon.com Get more from David Forbes on Patreon

Sssshhhhh. They don’t need to know that right now.

Que? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...

List of peasant revolts - Wikipediaen.wikipedia.org

Medieval Commoner 2024

You know, I’ve often wondered what does happen to the NYT et al in the Republic of Gilead, and the past couple of months up to now have given me the answer.

Wat Tyler, Jack Cade, Captain Swing, all those stay at home lads doffing the cap.

His use of the word "luxury" in that context is a cry for help. Or a broken nose. Stupid ass ho.

I had a quick search to find out what happened to Guillaume Le Juponnier books.google.co.uk/books?id=o64... and I'm getting the impression he was imprisoned and then released, but not until he'd been branded with a fleur de lis on the face. My French is rusty, so maybe someone could check that?

Pathologie mentale des Rois de Francebooks.google.co.uk

All the accounts I've read from historians, including ones who translated from the French chronicles, say he was released (the piece quoted above goes into it a bit) due to such anti-royalty sentiment being incredibly common. None mention that he was branded.

Thanks! I hope that it didn't. But this bit from the page I linked to made me worried about him.

I would absolutely not put it past late medieval nobility, it's just the kind of thing I'd want more verification for when accounts from sources differ like that.

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