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Kassad
Nov 12, 2005

It's about time.
Looks like a French far-right group might have been at the neo-nazi march in the US yesterday. Unless it's another group with the same symbol (possibly, but this is what a Twitter account named "Le Peuple Bonapartiste" is saying so lol).

https://twitter.com/WCM_JustSocial/status/896739591117557760

Kassad fucked around with this message at 21:27 on Aug 13, 2017

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Cat Mattress
Jul 14, 2012

by Cyrano4747
I'm not surprised that they would show solidarity with their fellow shitheads, but still, why the gently caress where they over there?

Kassad
Nov 12, 2005

It's about time.
I made fun of the Twitter account with a Bonapartist name, but he says it's a Spartan symbol that's also used by far-right groups in the US. Sounds believable, at least.

steinrokkan
Apr 2, 2011



Soiled Meat
The Spartans used lambda painted on their shields, which looks like a wedge... but these photos have the wedge turned by 180 degrees (also there seems to be some squiggly lines breaking up the basic geometry). So either it's not Spartan imagery, or the authors are too dumb to paint their "shields".

That symbol looks more like a Zoro mark, which would be more hilarious, and easier to mock.

x420ReDdIT_Br0nYx
Jan 21, 2013


Cat Mattress posted:

I'm not surprised that they would show solidarity with their fellow shitheads, but still, why the gently caress where they over there?

According to
https://twitter.com/WCM_JustSocial/status/896743575781875713
fascist shitheads tried to create a chapter in the states. I guess they kept the logo anyway. It makes sense since they identify as white Europeans first and they keep using the same iconography as hate groups here in Europe. I watched some footage of the protest and I saw countless runes (of course), a few Totenkopfs (sadly, pretty much par for the course at this point) and the sun wheel was everywhere; which is weird since I recognized that last one because it's (mostly, AFAIK) used by the Aryan Sisterhood, and it wasn't used by leather-clad female SS praetorians but by regular shitlords with wooden shields.

Enjoy your nazis America! Please punch them on sight TIA

Toplowtech
Aug 31, 2004

x420ReDdIT_Br0nYx posted:

and the sun wheel was everywhere; which is weird since I recognized that last one because it's (mostly, AFAIK) used by the Aryan Sisterhood, and it wasn't used by leather-clad female SS praetorians but by regular shitlords with wooden shields.
Also gently caress those assholes for ruining good iconography. I know it's down the list but seriously, they could use the Hillary Clinton H with arrow to make Heil Hitler instead it wouldn't ruin millennia old symbols with their poo poo.

Kassad
Nov 12, 2005

It's about time.
Macron sure is taking his sweet time condemning this, by the way. Considering that Merkel did yesterday.

The X-man cometh
Nov 1, 2009
Merkel's running for re-election

Kassad
Nov 12, 2005

It's about time.
Newsflash: Gérard Collomb has a lovely idea

https://twitter.com/LeHuffPost/status/898470523969077248

Kurtofan
Feb 16, 2011

hon hon hon
gérard collomb has a lot of terrible ideas

Sneaks McDevious
Jul 29, 2010

by LITERALLY AN ADMIN
As if his omnipresence during the campaign wasn't annoying enough

lost in postation
Aug 14, 2009

I still don't understand why Collomb, a social conservative who can only orgasm when he thinks about the reduction of civil liberties, was ever even nominally a leftist.

e: props to the guy in the comments who thinks terrorism is caused by weed, though
https://twitter.com/51REMOIS/status/898474154982354945

lost in postation fucked around with this message at 13:05 on Aug 18, 2017

Absurd Alhazred
Mar 27, 2010

by Athanatos

lost in postation posted:

I still don't understand why Collomb, a social conservative who can only orgasm when he thinks about the reduction of civil liberties, was ever even nominally a leftist.

e: props to the guy in the comments who thinks terrorism is caused by weed, though
https://twitter.com/51REMOIS/status/898474154982354945

Glad to see that random capitalization is common to cranks of all nations (with languages that have capitalization). :unsmith:

Deltasquid
Apr 10, 2013

awww...
you guys made me ink!


THUNDERDOME

Absurd Alhazred posted:

Glad to see that random capitalization is common to cranks of all nations (with languages that have capitalization). :unsmith:

I wonder if cranky Japanese people use, say, random katakana or archaic kanji readings when trying to stress things that only make sense to them.

Toplowtech
Aug 31, 2004

lost in postation posted:

I still don't understand why Collomb, a social conservative who can only orgasm when he thinks about the reduction of civil liberties, was ever even nominally a leftist.
Serious answer: he was one of Mitterand's lieutenants since the 60s. Like most of the people who followed Mitterand into his let's reform the ps into our image adventure, i wouldn't consider them "pure leftist".

Bulbo
Nov 4, 2012
Sizzling take:
https://twitter.com/Zlowodzki/status/898272536739409920

Cat Mattress
Jul 14, 2012

by Cyrano4747
I'm not sure how it follows that dismantling every public service would help against Islamic totalitarianism, though.

Kopijeger
Feb 14, 2010

Cat Mattress posted:

I'm not sure how it follows that dismantling every public service would help against Islamic totalitarianism, though.

It would lead to more support for revolutionary movements that want to topple the current system, and those might act as a counter to Islamic totalitarianism?

Terribly stupid pun, but couldn't resist:

Kopijeger fucked around with this message at 15:01 on Aug 18, 2017

lost in postation
Aug 14, 2009

Toplowtech posted:

Serious answer: he was one of Mitterand's lieutenants since the 60s. Like most of the people who followed Mitterand into his let's reform the ps into our image adventure, i wouldn't consider them "pure leftist".

I hadn't really looked at his career pre-Lyon, but that makes a lot of sense. Good to know Mimi still poisons the left from beyond the grave!

Kassad
Nov 12, 2005

It's about time.
https://twitter.com/SylvainMaillard/status/898457009267367936

Le SMIC pour tous.

Absurd Alhazred
Mar 27, 2010

by Athanatos

Is this saying that there will be no whatever the equivalent of payroll taxes is in France on people earning minimum wage?

Kassad
Nov 12, 2005

It's about time.
Yep. It's primarily social security contributions.

x420ReDdIT_Br0nYx
Jan 21, 2013


Absurd Alhazred posted:

Is this saying that there will be no whatever the equivalent of payroll taxes is in France on people earning minimum wage?

Basically yes. I can't stress enough how terrible this idea is. They're promoting the reform by saying minimum wage workers will make more money, but in reality this means that the small part of our wages that is collectivized won't be collectivized anymore; pensions, healthcare, child benefits and unemployment insurance among others are part of what they call "charges" to imply that they're a dead weight for everybody even though they're only in the way of the free market. This is the first step in privatizing our last socialist institutions.

And I'm saying this as a minimum wage worker who's going to make between 100 and 200 more euros a month if this ever becomes law. They're taking a poo poo on all the post-WWII reforms that were meant to improve the lives of working class people.

Absurd Alhazred
Mar 27, 2010

by Athanatos

x420ReDdIT_Br0nYx posted:

Basically yes. I can't stress enough how terrible this idea is. They're promoting the reform by saying minimum wage workers will make more money, but in reality this means that the small part of our wages that is collectivized won't be collectivized anymore; pensions, healthcare, child benefits and unemployment insurance among others are part of what they call "charges" to imply that they're a dead weight for everybody even though they're only in the way of the free market. This is the first step in privatizing our last socialist institutions.

And I'm saying this as a minimum wage worker who's going to make between 100 and 200 more euros a month if this ever becomes law. They're taking a poo poo on all the post-WWII reforms that were meant to improve the lives of working class people.

LOL, healthcare alone would eat that up with interest if people just had to pay it themselves. Ask America. :911:

lost in postation
Aug 14, 2009

Another car attack in Marseille. One dead, perp shouting jihadist stuff.

https://twitter.com/afpfr/status/899564292462313472

Horrid stuff as usual, but it feels like ISIS's death throes as they're losing enormous ground in their actual territories, especially with the upcoming assault on Tal Afar. Not that them losing the last of their territories will really repair the damage to our politics and society...

lost in postation fucked around with this message at 11:07 on Aug 21, 2017

Kassad
Nov 12, 2005

It's about time.

lost in postation posted:

Another car attack in Marseille. One dead, perp shouting jihadist stuff.

Where did you see that? It's not mentioned in that article or others I've looked at.

lost in postation
Aug 14, 2009

LCI tweet that's been corrected since, turns out he pointedly didn't do that. Sorry folks!

Kassad
Nov 12, 2005

It's about time.
No worries. Just feeling cautious since I just saw this BBC journalist jumping the gun:

https://twitter.com/AmaraSophia/status/899561335574409216

HookShot
Dec 26, 2005
Journalists these days not even bothering with using accents in their tweets :colbert:

Kassad
Nov 12, 2005

It's about time.
And here's the official word:

https://twitter.com/szadkowski_m/status/899574982782705665

Kurtofan
Feb 16, 2011

hon hon hon
great that crazies ape terrorists now

Toplowtech
Aug 31, 2004

Hey with terrorism so low cost those days, even the usual crazies can hype themselves into mass terror.

Toplowtech fucked around with this message at 13:11 on Aug 21, 2017

Cat Mattress
Jul 14, 2012

by Cyrano4747
As I said, copycats. News about the ram attacks starting with Nice have planted the idea in a lot of unstable heads, and they figure "hey, I've got a car too, I could do that too".

R. Mute
Jul 27, 2011

HookShot posted:

Journalists these days not even bothering with using accents in their tweets :colbert:
abolish all accents

unpacked robinhood
Feb 18, 2013

by Fluffdaddy
There's also the old gently caress in Lyon who strangled a woman with her purse because she smoked near a mosque.

ElNarez
Nov 4, 2009

Kurtofan posted:

gérard collomb has a lot of terrible ideas

And, also, he has TWENTY TWO MILLION EUROS WORTH OF GRENADES

https://twitter.com/Arflecon/status/899593487397650432

Kurtofan
Feb 16, 2011

hon hon hon
cool, cool

unpacked robinhood
Feb 18, 2013

by Fluffdaddy
Not saying they aren't gearing up for september but maybe it's part of a regular scheduled restocking ? Those things probably have an expiration date.

suck my woke dick
Oct 10, 2012

:siren:I CANNOT EJACULATE WITHOUT SEEING NATIVE AMERICANS BRUTALISED!:siren:

Put this cum-loving slave on ignore immediately!

Cat Mattress posted:

As I said, copycats. News about the ram attacks starting with Nice have planted the idea in a lot of unstable heads, and they figure "hey, I've got a car too, I could do that too".

Yeah. Though it really speaks to the lack of brains/sadbrains many of these idiots have that it took them till now to discover that cars and trucks can run people over.

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Kassad
Nov 12, 2005

It's about time.

unpacked robinhood posted:

Not saying they aren't gearing up for september but maybe it's part of a regular scheduled restocking ? Those things probably have an expiration date.

Looks like they do. And I'm reading this right, the appel d'offre is for a 4 year period:

quote:

Durée du marché, de l'accord-cadre ou du système d'acquisition dynamique
Durée en mois : 48
Ce marché peut faire l'objet d'une reconduction :non

I trust the police has plenty of stuff in stock at the moment. They had all summer to get ready.

Kassad fucked around with this message at 20:00 on Aug 22, 2017

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