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Popoto
Oct 21, 2012

miaow
https://twitter.com/jamesstout/status/1639667051118870532

Did not expect to fill my “France devolves into MadMax” bingo tile today.

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R. Mute
Jul 27, 2011

good beats to strike to

https://www.tiktok.com/embed/7210870980338568453

https://www.tiktok.com/embed/7214616714091302150

https://www.tiktok.com/embed/7214161596199865606

https://www.tiktok.com/embed/7207830143044242693

i say swears online
Mar 4, 2005

is that the PR executive from The Boys

Oglethorpe
Aug 8, 2005
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https://twitter.com/BernieSpofforth/status/1640608962494988291
https://twitter.com/RaggedTP/status/1640843980777701377

lol PBS

https://twitter.com/NewsHour/status/1641356589662711808

Weka
May 5, 2019

That child totally had it coming. Nobody should be able to be out at dusk except cars.

Nice to get a rare candid photo of police training.

bedpan
Apr 23, 2008


is this a warning? isn't it what you need to do to guaranty a successful protest?

Weka
May 5, 2019

That child totally had it coming. Nobody should be able to be out at dusk except cars.

i say swears online posted:

is that the PR executive from The Boys

No, you can tell because her nostrils finish at her face not half an inch out on her nose.

RealityWarCriminal
Aug 10, 2016

:o:
https://twitter.com/broderly/status/1641910171914891264

Toplowtech
Aug 31, 2004

In case you are wondering how it is going here, we are currently in the "actually it's Melenchon who is the facist" twitter campaign phase of operation "capitalism must be saved", obviously with an alliance with the far right.
Also Macron hopes that opening a debate about end of life (finally allowing euthanasia in France as the population get super-old) is going to allow him to bounce back outside the retirement age pit of despair and that this debate isn't going to go loving insane and ends up with a referendum going in a really weird way just because people on the right wants him to gently caress off, hate the idea of people not suffering until they die and may be able convince people on the left that it would accelerate him going away (it won't). Also there was a referendum in Paris about allowing or forbidding free access electric scooters in the streets and Paris ended up the first major city forbidding free access scooters in its street. With a 92% of the votes against and under 10% participation. You can imagine what the people already blaming the female mayor over things she has little power over (like the waste collector trash strike which is 2000% macron fault) are now saying over that vote.

Popoto
Oct 21, 2012

miaow
how many body language specialist tripped over themselves in a rush to compare melanchon to hitler and khrushchev at the same time, i wonder?

Toplowtech
Aug 31, 2004

Popoto posted:

how many body language specialist tripped over themselves in a rush to compare melanchon to hitler and khrushchev at the same time, i wonder?
Not many, body language is a dumb science for dumb Americans, we just had an army of poor man "philosophers" magically appear on all tv channels during the 1970s (including BHL). They were called the "new philosophers", they spent years arguing that wanting to solve economical inequality was the moral equivalent of building concentration camps. Most of them are dead after becoming right-wing speakers(LOL Glucksmann's position on Iraq was something like the quadature of the circle). Only BHL stayed a really dumb by-the-book liberal.

vvv water boiling or oil boiling? this is important.

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YaketySass
Jan 15, 2019

Blind Idiot Dog
Obviously euthanasia in France should happen by slowly boiling people.

Archduke Frantz Fanon
Sep 7, 2004

YaketySass posted:

Obviously euthanasia in France should happen by slowly boiling people.

a three pronged guillotine

AnimeIsTrash
Jun 30, 2018

le wokeism

eSports Chaebol
Feb 22, 2005

Yeah, actually, gamers in the house forever,

Toplowtech posted:

Not many, body language is a dumb science for dumb Americans

now handwriting analysis on the other hand,

Toplowtech
Aug 31, 2004

eSports Chaebol posted:

now handwriting analysis on the other hand,
:haibrow: but at least it gives a job to people too dumb to be astrologist.

Honest Thief
Jan 11, 2009
this saturday in Lisbon there was a protest for housing which ended in the cops charging on the protestors after the protestors didn't let them up until they released two girls held for graffiting a wall, the scale of the violence is way smaller than what's happening in france but still the last time there was a similar event was in the 2010s, things aren't going well
and ofc the parliamentary left, even my commie party, is trying to downplay the issue

Cuttlefush
Jan 15, 2014

gotta have my purp
salut

Orange Devil
Oct 1, 2010

Wullie's reign cannae smother the flames o' equality!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hg212A_aPJ4

mila kunis
Jun 10, 2011
This person's arguing France is entering a revolutionary situation: https://newleftreview.org/sidecar/posts/the-french-uprising

Idk but I liked this bit:

"In the space of a few decades, and especially since 2017, an entire social model has been brought to its knees. They have brought the country to its knees. Not the CGT, not the Intersyndicale (if only) – they and they alone have done this. The country has been ruined by the competent. It is in a state of total disorganization. As we know, to oust the aristocracy, the bourgeoisie promoted university degrees and meritocratic symbols as replacements for blood and lineage. Hence a paradox (of which there are many) within late capitalism: the incompetence of the bourgeoise has itself become a historical force, one which a minimal amendment to Schumpeter allows us to identify: destructive destruction. Or, to give it its proper name: McKinsey."

mark immune
Dec 14, 2019

put the teacher in the cope cage imo
Bonjour!

Nonsense
Jan 26, 2007

Aurélien Pradié: The rising star shaking up French politics

Toplowtech
Aug 31, 2004

Nonsense posted:

Aurélien Pradié: The rising star shaking up French politics
LOL, les républicains.

100YrsofAttitude
Apr 29, 2013




that was on the BBC news page. I love reading British takes on the French. It’s filled with such smoldering resentment and disdain. The countries are technically allies in the way Japan and Korea are and it’s very amusing.

Weka
May 5, 2019

That child totally had it coming. Nobody should be able to be out at dusk except cars.
Except they have actually been close allies since what, napoleon? Which makes the naked disdain all the sweeter.

Toplowtech
Aug 31, 2004

Weka posted:

Except they have actually been close allies since what, napoleon? Which makes the naked disdain all the sweeter.
Technically since Napoleon III destroyed the last tariffs toward English products liberalized trade with England in 1860.

100YrsofAttitude posted:

that was on the BBC news page. I love reading British takes on the French. It’s filled with such smoldering resentment and disdain. The countries are technically allies in the way Japan and Korea are and it’s very amusing.
Well considering it's also how the British press talk to and about their own people, it tells more about the British Press members than about us really.

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TDepressionEarl
Oct 28, 2010


I'm trying to win the World Cup
but I'm dummy thicc
and the clap of my ass cheeks
keeps playing Argentina onside


england prove your commitment to scotland: spin off london like singapore

nobody likes london all my friends hate london

same with france: spin off paris

nobody likes paris all my friends hate paris

Oglethorpe
Aug 8, 2005
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TDepressionEarl posted:

england prove your commitment to scotland: spin off london like singapore

nobody likes london all my friends hate london

same with france: spin off paris

nobody likes paris all my friends hate paris

2 cities 1 channel

YaketySass
Jan 15, 2019

Blind Idiot Dog
bringing back the classics:

https://twitter.com/mstambolis/status/1646171284181590016

tazjin
Jul 24, 2015


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wp84sRpM1Js

Lostconfused
Oct 1, 2008


Found Waldo.

Toplowtech
Aug 31, 2004

The typical Parisian experience of our epoque.

lobster shirt
Jun 14, 2021

so whats the constitutional council going to say tomorrow

Honky Mao
Dec 26, 2012

lobster shirt posted:

so whats the constitutional council going to say tomorrow

Bon jour je mapelle Pierre et Je mange les bonbons

Venomous
Nov 7, 2011





lobster shirt posted:

so whats the constitutional council going to say tomorrow

'we have no choice but to declare martial law and hand control of the government to Madame Le Pen'

YaketySass
Jan 15, 2019

Blind Idiot Dog

lobster shirt posted:

so whats the constitutional council going to say tomorrow

fart

Oglethorpe
Aug 8, 2005
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getting spicy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UQKi1fOLuHo

HallelujahLee
May 3, 2009

im assuming that court is mostly right-wing turds so probably eat poo poo is the ruling

Popoto
Oct 21, 2012

miaow

HallelujahLee posted:

im assuming that court is mostly right-wing turds so probably eat poo poo is the ruling

i don’t know. that’s definitely possible. but i also wonder: this could be a way for Macron to get out of this situation without having to back on the law/step down. you can’t ever be seen bowing to protests, since that would send the message that your government responds to that instead of the law/democratic appointments.

but you can send it to the courts, phone your judge friend and tell him to strike it down so you can then say “oh well we tried but the courts said no!”, which would send the message that you bowed to the law and not the “unruly crowd”





but as always i probably ascribe more forethought to all of this then they do themselves

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YaketySass
Jan 15, 2019

Blind Idiot Dog

Popoto posted:

i don’t know. that’s definitely possible. but i also wonder: this could be a way for Macron to get out of this situation without having to back on the law/step down. you can’t ever be seen bowing to protests, since that would send the message that your government responds to that instead of the law/democratic appointments.

but you can send it to the courts, phone your judge friend and tell him to strike it down so you can then say “oh well we tried but the courts said no!”, which would send the message that you bowed to the law and not the “unruly crowd”





but as always i probably ascribe more forethought to all of this then they do themselves

They really, really want the reform passed and have been in full DGAF mode for weeks.

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