The Greek deal opens for expansionist e-currency | 115 comments (115 topical, editorial, 0 hidden)

"Until the Spanish guerrillas demonstrated the French could be defeated the English didn't get involved."

clever, these shopkeepers.

by IM on Mon Mar 2nd, 2015 at 06:53:18 AM EST
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Sure, that absolutely is the way to use a local insurgency, as Putin is also demonstrating in Ukraine right now.

But bragging about your martial prowess when everyone else did all the real fighting that won the war for your side is just pathetic. It would be like Iran crowing about how great the Revolutionary Guard is for winning the Iraq war.

- Jake

Friends come and go. Enemies accumulate.

by JakeS (JangoSierra 'at' gmail 'dot' com) on Mon Mar 2nd, 2015 at 07:41:35 PM EST
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I haven't said anything about martial prowess. I just pointed out the the shopkeepers defeated Napoleon.

by IM on Tue Mar 3rd, 2015 at 07:09:13 AM EST
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And JakeS pointed out that shopkeepers only bragged about defeating Napoleon...

_{*Lunatic*, n.

One whose delusions are out of fashion.}

by DoDo on Tue Mar 3rd, 2015 at 09:54:37 AM EST
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To revisionist for my taste. I stand for now by the traditional interpretation that bear and whale defeated the egale.

by IM on Tue Mar 3rd, 2015 at 10:17:04 AM EST
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Actually, it's really a government influenced by shopkeepers. Wealth of Nations (courtesy of Marxists.org)

To found a great empire for the sole purpose of raising up a people of customers may at first sight appear a project fit only for a nation of shopkeepers. It is, however, a project altogether unfit for a nation of shopkeepers; but extremely fit for a nation whose government is influenced by shopkeepers.

by gk (gk (gk quattro due due sette @gmail.com)) on Tue Mar 3rd, 2015 at 01:01:27 PM EST
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Since the late 17th century has been a government of elites of wealth and power, divided between landed and commercial/manufacturing interests. It wasn't until the second half of the 19th century that the opinions of actual shopkeepers even really mattered. They were too far down the hierarchy and the elites were too good at getting what they wanted from the electorate, such as it was with the very limited voting franschise. As the franchise broadened the elites simply stepped up their game to stay ahead.

"It is not necessary to have hope in order to persevere."

by ARGeezer (ARGeezer a in a circle eurotrib daught com) on Tue Mar 3rd, 2015 at 01:58:17 PM EST
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