OK, a long-form post from ThreadReader rolled-up from tweets made by MartyrMade. (He has other rolled-up threads here). So here it is in full. It did resonate with me and I think with many others.
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Regime
“The ordinary people were not happy. They loathed the Emperor’s interference in every detail of their daily lives.”
“Why should they be forbidden to bake ginger-bread just because Joseph thought it bad for the stomach? Why the Imperial edict demanding the breast-feeding of infants? Why the banning of corsets? From these and a thousand other petty regulations, enforced by a secret police, it looked to the Austrians as though Joseph were trying to … Read more