Because the cycle of violence always escalates and is ultimately self-defeating.
charonn0
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It's Maximilien Robespierre, head of the Committee of Public Safety during the Reign of Terror.
My point is less about him being the literal last person executed by guillotine, and more about his execution by guillotine marking the end of a period of mass executions by guillotine, largely because he had been the leading champion of mass executions by guillotine.
The last guy guillotined *during the French Revolution
The guillotine was primarily used against innocent commoners during the French Revolution, and the last guy guillotined was the guy who had been in charge of deciding who to guillotine next. If anything, the guillotine symbolizes the fact if you normalize political violence against your opponents then you also normalize it against yourself.
That's an awful comparison. The Maquis are not a separate, independent culture being dominated or obliterated by another. They were already Federation citizens, born on Federation worlds into Federation culture and society, subject to Federation laws, educated by their own parents and family in Federation values, and the Federation enabled and supported their colonization efforts. The Maquis are a product of the Federation's culture not a victim of it.
And they do have self-determination. They can stay in the DMZ on their planets if they want to, but there are consequences of that choice. And if they do leave the DMZ then they would not even have change their preferred lifestyle. There are any number of uninhabited planets they could relocate to, found new colonies, etc. They have so many options and opportunities open to them that their grievances, however valid they would be under real-world circumstances, seem childish and selfish particularly when the alternative is continuing a decades-long war.
The Maquis didn’t start the war with the Cardassians.
But they did know the border was in dispute, and had been in dispute for decades, before they colonized the area. They can't feign surprise that the border might move if and when the dispute ended.
The Federation traded away their planets without even giving them a seat at the table.
They did have a seat at the table. They just didn't get their way. That sometimes happens, and it doesn't mean the process was unfair.
In a fully-automated luxury communist utopia, the Maquis are selfish assholes. Clinging to a planet because of the inconvenience of having to relocate. A planet which was never theirs to give or take in the first place. They talk a big talk about being "farmers who made something of the land," and maybe that's true. But they have replicators; farming is a hobby, not a livelihood.
Human, Vulcan, Bolian, etc. Maquis could lead happy, safe lives if only they were willing to lead happy, safe lives. They are not oppressed; they are not fighting in a righteous cause.
Bajorans, such as Ro, have different motivations. Bajor is not a party to the Federation-Cardassian Treaty, and Bajoran colonies were not sacrificed. Ro's motivations are sympathy for the Maquis and hatred for Cardassians. Understandable and relatable motivations, but not heroic.
In my area, you are notified by mail that you will be in the jury pool during a specific week (5 days). You're assigned a group number and an individual juror number.
Each day of the week they'll announce which group numbers will actually need to report to the courthouse the following morning. If your group doesn't get called in all week then your obligation is satisfied.
If your group number is called then you have to report to the courthouse in the morning. You'll be sent to a waiting room with all the other people called in that day. They'll start calling individual juror numbers at random for assignment to cases. If the end of the day arrives and your number wasn't called then your obligation is satisfied.
If you're assigned to a case then the judge will ask if serving would be a hardship. If so, you can be excused and replaced with another juror from the waiting room. Being excused from duty does not satisfy your obligation, but it does end your jury duty for the week.
That's as far as I've ever gotten.
As for ignoring the summons, that's basically contempt of court. You can be subject to fines and jail time more or less at the discretion of the judge.
I've had no complaints about Firefox for Android. It even supports privacy addons like NoScript and UBlock Origin.
A web page is a combination of a structured document and a separate stylesheet. The same structured document can be styled in radically different ways just by changing the stylesheet. This is how a website can offer different skins, light/dark mode, etc.
Consider this basic HTML document:
<html>
<head><title>Test Page</title></head>
<body>
<p>This is a paragraph.</p>
<ul>
<li>This is an unordered bullet-point list item</li>
<li>This is also a list item</li>
</ul>
</body>
</html>
And here's a stylesheet to make the bullet points square:
ul {
list-style-type: square;
}
Change the stylesheet and you change how the document is rendered. "Reader mode" is just a minimalist stylesheet built into the browser.
A number of my repos are listed.
But the weird part is that it also lists a repo I don't recognize. The repo does actually exist on my github account, but it's marked as "ignored", and the description says it was automatically exported from Google Code. The code seems to be a MacOS shareware file encryption tool called "BitClamp", published circa 2008.
No idea how it got on my account.
That depends on how you define success. It also depends on how you define revolution. If the French Revolution can be defined as ending when Napoleon crowned himself Emperor, then I think that qualifies as a failed revolution.