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Vermain
Sep 5, 2006



Top City Homo posted:

im amazed that the greeks havent burned down their government and declared a workers state by this time

which means that France is going to go fascist regardless of how hard it gets hosed by President techbro GILF hunter

there's nobody in greece who's directing public anger into any kind of meaningful alternative program so people are resigned to either scraping by or trying to get the gently caress out if they're young enough

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Vermain
Sep 5, 2006



the last group that successfully directed public anger in greece turned out to be staffed by loving quislings top to bottom, it's no wonder everyone's become apathetic

BrutalistMcDonalds
Oct 4, 2012


Lipstick Apathy
I like the grotesque, bizarro aesthetic the French have going on

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g9IKopTwa8g&t=44s

bedpan
Apr 23, 2008

In 20 years the EU will be a single state run from Paris by a German.

Neo-Charlemagne, I guarantee it

Shear Modulus
Jun 9, 2010




why is macron campaigning to american liberals more than any american politician right now

Shear Modulus
Jun 9, 2010



macron knows that he doesn't need to campaign in english right

Agnosticnixie
Jan 6, 2015
Like Trudeau he realizes that he's going to be a lot more popular in the states than in his home country in 5 years.

Baloogan
Dec 5, 2004
Fun Shoe

Agnosticnixie posted:

Like Trudeau he realizes that he's going to be a lot more popular in the states than in his home country in 5 years.

lol ya

deadgoon
Dec 4, 2014

by FactsAreUseless
is macron just french human zuckerberg

Vox Nihili
May 28, 2008

Shear Modulus posted:

macron knows that he doesn't need to campaign in english right

i think that #vivatech bullshit is meant to signal to american investors in the silicon valley and elsewhere that france is ~open for business~

Karl Barks
Jan 21, 1981

macron is going to fix all the problems in the world via smart business acumen

BrutalistMcDonalds
Oct 4, 2012


Lipstick Apathy

Karl Barks posted:

macron is going to fix all the problems in the world via smart business acumen
feels good man

Shear Modulus
Jun 9, 2010



Karl Barks posted:

macron is going to fix all the problems in the world via smart business acumen

too late, trump got there first

Top City Homo
Oct 15, 2014


Ramrod XTreme
i hate

them

all

lollontee
Nov 4, 2014
Probation
Can't post for 10 years!
Macron... i want you inside me

- France

Agnosticnixie
Jan 6, 2015
Macron turning out to be the accelerationist candidate is, somehow, not surprising. Le Pen is what's going to happen once acceleration hits in full stride unless the french left sorts itself out (it won't).

Having half my family running from yet another country in 60 years is not gonna own.

jBrereton
May 30, 2013
Grimey Drawer
quelle panama

Ekster
Jul 18, 2013

pretty sure france will go full fascism or communism after macron

im leaning towards communism after trump is done

R. Mute
Jul 27, 2011

35%

Vox Nihili
May 28, 2008

so this guy won his election on Sunday



Cédric Villani

Hodgepodge
Jan 29, 2006
Probation
Can't post for 223 days!

Vox Nihili posted:

so this guy won his election on Sunday



Cédric Villani

this is the nearest i've yet seen to an awesome centrist

it helps that he's a mathematician; i kind of expect mathematicians to be a little crazy

Top City Homo
Oct 15, 2014


Ramrod XTreme

quote:

When he was 22, and already a precocious high-flier, the president spent several months as the amanuensis of one of France's then most respected philosophers, Paul Ricoeur.

The name will mean little to most people, but according to the experts, one of the key elements of Ricoeurian philosophy is the "ability to think at the same time two ideas that are apparently opposed".

Doublethink the philosophy

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-40322516

he is a utter poo poo

Fallen Hamprince
Nov 12, 2016

Top City Homo posted:

Doublethink the philosophy

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-40322516

he is a utter poo poo

i'm sure if Paul Ricœur, Kyoto Prize winner and one of the most influential and respected French philosophers of the 20th century, were alive to hear that Something Awful user 'Top City Homo' thinks his work is bullshit, he would be, as they say, absolument dévasté.

Lastgirl
Sep 7, 1997


Good Morning!
Sunday Morning!
macron is a tool

Kurtofan
Feb 16, 2011

hon hon hon

Fallen Hamprince posted:

i'm sure if Paul Ricœur, Kyoto Prize winner and one of the most influential and respected French philosophers of the 20th century, were alive to hear that Something Awful user 'Top City Homo' thinks his work is bullshit, he would be, as they say, absolument dévasté.

Jewel Repetition
Dec 24, 2012

Ask me about Briar Rose and Chicken Chaser.

Shear Modulus posted:

why is macron campaigning to american liberals more than any american politician right now

The centrist ideology is like that everywhere.

Fallen Hamprince
Nov 12, 2016

Shear Modulus posted:

why is macron campaigning to american liberals more than any american politician right now

part of any world leader's job is to market one's country as an investment opportunity to foreigners

Pener Kropoopkin
Jan 30, 2013

Fallen Hamprince posted:

i'm sure if Paul Ricœur, Kyoto Prize winner and one of the most influential and respected French philosophers of the 20th century, were alive to hear that Something Awful user 'Top City Homo' thinks his work is bullshit, he would be, as they say, absolument dévasté.

I spoke to Paul Ricoeur personally about this thread, and he said to thank that that Sometthing Awful user "Fallen Hamprince" who valiantly rushed to defend his career.

Kurtofan
Feb 16, 2011

hon hon hon

Vox Nihili posted:

so this guy won his election on Sunday



Cédric Villani

mélenchon just called him a nerd

Comrade Cheggorsky
Aug 20, 2011


the 21st century needs it Robespierre and Babeuf to shake things up a bit

Top City Homo
Oct 15, 2014


Ramrod XTreme

Fallen Hamprince posted:

i'm sure if Paul Ricœur, Kyoto Prize winner and one of the most influential and respected French philosophers of the 20th century, were alive to hear that Something Awful user 'Top City Homo' thinks his work is bullshit, he would be, as they say, absolument dévasté.

maybe ....


the truth is in the middle

R. Mute
Jul 27, 2011

Kurtofan posted:

mélenchon just called him a nerd
mélenchon is just too perfect for france

Tacky-Ass Rococco
Sep 7, 2010

by R. Guyovich

Kurtofan posted:

mélenchon just called him a nerd

He's a Fields medalist who dresses like a magician. What could possibly be cooler than that?

Nothing. :colbert:

Shear Modulus
Jun 9, 2010



Kurtofan posted:

mélenchon just called him a nerd

:hellyeah:

Shear Modulus
Jun 9, 2010



has piketty abandoned the dumb dead socialist party and gotten on the melenchon train yet

whats a good french word that starts with m and means some kind of vehicle

Shear Modulus
Jun 9, 2010



Tacky-rear end Rococco posted:

He's a Fields medalist who dresses like a magician. What could possibly be cooler than that?

Nothing. :colbert:

someone with not-poo poo politics

R. Mute
Jul 27, 2011

Hodgepodge posted:

this is the nearest i've yet seen to an awesome centrist

it helps that he's a mathematician; i kind of expect mathematicians to be a little crazy

Tacky-rear end Rococco posted:

He's a Fields medalist who dresses like a magician. What could possibly be cooler than that?

Nothing. :colbert:
these two people are nerds too

Tacky-Ass Rococco
Sep 7, 2010

by R. Guyovich

Shear Modulus posted:

someone with not-poo poo politics

Unless this hypothetical someone also has a Fields medal, or at least a Nobel Prize in physics, he's not gonna be as cool as the mathemagician guy.

Kurtofan
Feb 16, 2011

hon hon hon

Tacky-rear end Rococco posted:

Unless this hypothetical someone also has a Fields medal, or at least a Nobel Prize in physics, he's not gonna be as cool as the mathemagician guy.

what if he has holograms

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Fallen Hamprince
Nov 12, 2016

Kurtofan posted:

what if he has holograms

Melanchon: Roughly as cool as will-i-am talking to wolf blitzer

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