Hackers' Pub

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HeavenlyPossum @HeavenlyPossum@kolektiva.social

2/1/2026, 1:59:53 PM

Public

At the end of the English Peasant’s Revolt of 1381, King Richard II told the survivors:

“Villeins you were and villeins you will stay – not as before, but worse. Your slavery will be an example to others.”

You can almost feel the sputtering indignation. How *dare* they think they could overturn the feudal order. How *dare* they think they could ever be anything but slaves.

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