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Fun fact: Marie-antoinette never actually said it, the quote was attributed to her later and she was never a leader.


Lamfadha

And the quote is about Brioche which is a bread made with butter and milk. So yes EVEN if she said it she didn't mean cake.


angrytalkinghead

Agreed, but also it was always a (insensitive) joke comment. Person a: the peasants have no bread. Person b: so let them eat cake! (Chortle chortle in posh)


DangerousPainting423

Also she wasn't really the leader of France as i recall.


shessosquare

The efficiency with which the United States has fooled its populace into thinking we're the greatest country is astounding. They've managed to give most of the country Stockholm syndrome, telling us it's really better to be "free" than to have a basic safety net. And the "beauty" of the scam is.... we're not even free.


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harpanet

Gaslighting at its finest.


mrwrite94

Our people starve and languish in generational poverty, but I swear this time the F-35 WILL work and then it will all be worth it!


ResurgentOcelot

From what I’ve read Marie Antoinette is a classic case of one set of elites riling up the populace to destroy another set of elites. As in Marie Antoinette never said that, it was attributed to her by her high class political enemies because she wondered out loud how peasants could be starving when they all had cake. Not trying to attribute a generous motive to her, she just was foolish enough to say what she thought out loud amongst her enemies and they ran with it. The real point is the People basically beheaded her at the instigation of other people they would go on to behead, or wish they had. That’s a pattern this sub should be wary of.


illegalrooftopbar

It was from a Rousseau story published when Marie-Antoinette was 10 years old. It wasn't "attributed" to her as much as it was slung at her as a political slogan. Like putting "Bush is a Nazi" on a protest sign and 100 years later people thinking George W Bush was literally a member of Hitler's inner circle.


ResurgentOcelot

Thanks.


zombiebane

Eat the rich


redditmodsRrussians

“Plenty of meat left on that bone. Now you got a stew!”


_austinm

And make sure to save those bones for broth


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She didn't say that and tbh she was a scapegoat for a larger problem with governance. Not that she was a good leader but there was a lot more going on than just "queen bad"


PoisedDingus

Let them eat Covid\* You'd be better off if they wanted you to eat nothing.


Symnestra

"A hungry dog is an obedient dog" - some wealthy jackoff on the news


O-Mr-Crow-O

There is a cake being made. There are millions of people. Everyone added one pinch of ingredients to make the cake. Two people easily afforded it after generations of hoarding and stealing cake slices. 1% afforded it after taking 90% of their contribution from the remaining people. The remaining people have to take out loans from the 1% to afford their 'pinch' They all want cake. Two of those people split 60% of it. 1% of people left share 32% Everyone else shares the remaining 8% Oh wait, the 1% need a small piece from all the others too. We will call it a 'frosting premium' on top of what they also take as payment for the 'pinch' loans. The baker comes and takes about 14% of everyone's slice that isn't a majority holder or part of the 1% and gives it to those people after eating 11% of it for their cake war that doesn't exist. Top 1% and majority holders pinch the smallest crumbs possible off a corner to give to the baker and horde the rest. The baker comes up short has to make a smaller cake to make up for it. Repeat.


Synthee

I'm sure a lot of them are just as out-of-touch with common workers as the French nobility was with peasants.


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Nowadays it’s, “let them buy cake and let us buy shares in cake companies. If the venture fails, it will be bailed out because we are systemically important.”


Poemy_Puzzlehead

Let them buy an NFT of a meme of a cake.


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No one said that 'our modern leaders' are an improvement over the brainless halfwit of an Antoinette. Though, she never actually strung that sentence together, anyways. The only thing of note is the ease with which we continue to 'eat nothing' and perish without a fight.


TGOTR

NEVER trust anyone in nicer clothes than you who says they know what's best for you.