"[After his second deposition], former Emperor Puyi was not punished by his deposers, excepting that they demanded he receive a Western education."
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You can apply that poll to half of all discourse and the answer is always Voltaire
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at least we've narrowed it down to the French
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The people in power are always responsible Did you know that Frederick the Great was friends with Voltaire?
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oh I know all about them frederick was far savvier he and catherine played the philosophes like fiddles
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Can't a man just tend to his garden in peace!
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Rousseau and it's not even close.
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Can we vote both?
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I can't hate voltaire because I laughed my ass off reading Candide.
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Other Enlightenment thinkers were flawed, but useful. I don't understand how anyone found Rousseau compelling, even at the time. His inequality essay is just him making shit up, yet people still quote it. In a post-Darwin world it's just pathetic.
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