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    -311 year ago

    Having not read the story or care to: sometimes a peaceful crowd will go mad. hence there is a phrase “the madness of crowds”

    • @[email protected]
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      191 year ago

      Yes, in western society we often have hundreds of people pushing and shoving to desperately get food. The preferred solution to this is to mow them down with chainguns and RPGs. Happened in Toronto last Tuesday again.

    • BeamBrain [he/him]
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      191 year ago

      Having not read the story

      I. NO INVESTIGATION, NO RIGHT TO SPEAK

      Unless you have investigated a problem, you will be deprived of the right to speak on it. Isn’t that too harsh? Not in the least. When you have not probed into a problem, into the present facts and its past history, and know nothing of its essentials, whatever you say about it will undoubtedly be nonsense. Talking nonsense solves no problems, as everyone knows, so why is it unjust to deprive you of the right to speak? Quite a few comrades always keep their eyes shut and talk nonsense, and for a Communist that is disgraceful. How can a Communist keep his eyes shut and talk nonsense?

      It won’ t do!

      It won’t do!

      You must investigate!

      You must not talk nonsense!

      • @[email protected]
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        01 year ago

        I have to read stuff>? What is this, the mid 20th century? I’ll just wait till the mini-series comes out. I said was …sometimes a peaceful crowd will go mad. hence there is a phrase “the madness of crowds” === which is a true statement

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        01 year ago

        Explain your anger! I said was …sometimes a peaceful crowd will go mad. hence there is a phrase “the madness of crowds”. That’s a fact.

    • Chump [he/him]
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      171 year ago

      Having not read the story: sometimes humans shoot at other humans who they have been trained view as subhuman

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      161 year ago

      Having not read this comment nor caring to do so: Sometimes people post the first thought that comes to their mind even if it only barely relates to the topic.

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        11 year ago

        it is simply true. sometimes a peaceful crowd will go mad. hence there is a phrase “the madness of crowds”

        check out the dancing mania of the 14th-17th centuries

        • CloutAtlas [he/him]
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          41 year ago

          Starting off your post with “Having not read the story” then wildly speculating and referencing some mania from centuries ago makes you look bad.

          I. NO INVESTIGATION, NO RIGHT TO SPEAK

          If you don’t know what you’re talking about, don’t wildly speculate in a way that gives plausible deniability to Israeli genocide.

          • @[email protected]
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            11 year ago

            I’ll watch the mini-series. I was only speaking of crowds in general, so I didn’t have to read an article about crowds, because I just read a whole book about crowds and the madness that can accompany crowds. don’t tell me what i know. my comment was only on the scope of crowd psychology in human beings. A lot of the commenters are reading into things I said that arent’ there

            I said was “Having not read the story”…sometimes a peaceful crowd will go mad. hence there is a phrase “the madness of crowds”

            • CloutAtlas [he/him]
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              31 year ago

              You can’t chalk up any violence against a crowd as potentially justified because there’s a saying in your language that says crowds get mad sometimes.

    • @[email protected]
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      41 year ago

      No one gains anything from your comment if it’s not informed by the discussion the rest of us are having. Consider just keeping it to yourself next time.

      • @[email protected]
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        11 year ago

        what am I coping with. all I said was …sometimes a peaceful crowd will go mad. hence there is a phrase “the madness of crowds”