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unpacked robinhood
Feb 18, 2013

by Fluffdaddy

:suicide:

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Kassad
Nov 12, 2005

It's about time.
As expected:

https://twitter.com/AssembleeNat/status/882966514902732804


And :lol: at those attendance numbers. One month after the legislative elections, one week after the opening of this parliamentary session. The newcomers learn fast.

Kurtofan
Feb 16, 2011

hon hon hon
lol maybbe macron isnt wrong when talking about reducing the number of these lazy bums

Kassad
Nov 12, 2005

It's about time.
https://twitter.com/LeHuffPost/status/883353697438371841

I gotta admit, privatising propaganda shows some serious ideological commitment.

Kassad fucked around with this message at 17:23 on Jul 7, 2017

Flowers For Algeria
Dec 3, 2005

I humbly offer my services as forum inquisitor. There is absolutely no way I would abuse this power in any way.


Maybe they can have a daily show on TF1 right after the JT, maybe it could replace Nos Chers Voisins for the better as a comedy show.

Absurd Alhazred
Mar 27, 2010

by Athanatos

Flowers For Algeria posted:

Maybe they can have a daily show on TF1 right after the JT, maybe it could replace Nos Chers Voisins for the better as a comedy show.

Mieux comprennez une département?

unpacked robinhood
Feb 18, 2013

by Fluffdaddy

Absurd Alhazred posted:

Mieux comprennez une département?

I'd rather not be a dick when people actually try but I have no clue what you're saying here

Pluskut Tukker
May 20, 2012

I *think* Absurd Alhazred is referring to a regular segment on Stephen Colbert's former show, Better Know a District, featuring members of Congress expertly taken the piss out of. Here's a random example:

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

Toplowtech
Aug 31, 2004

Absurd Alhazred posted:

Mieux comprennez une département?
"Connaissez mieux votre département" aka "regardez FR3".

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!

Flowers For Algeria posted:

He won't because we of the Real Left will loving destroy the FN by being loud and active in the next 5 years.

please don't split, please don't split, please don't split, gently caress you why did you split

biglads
Feb 21, 2007

I could've gone to Blatherwycke



I lived in France for a couple of years a while back. My time there co-incided with the Chirac-JM Le Pen election. I remember thinking of the first round candidates only one seemed to be worth the steam off my piss and that was Olivier Besancenot (sp?) - 'Le Postie Rouge'. What ever happened to him? Is he still delivering letters around Sartrouville dispensing Marxist bon-mots to passers by?

Kurtofan
Feb 16, 2011

hon hon hon
He got replaced by Philippe "Le Garçon Absolu" Poutou

Toplowtech
Aug 31, 2004

blowfish posted:

please don't split, please don't split, please don't split, gently caress you why did you split
Speaking of split, the Front National is starting to heat up at their Summer Camp and it's just starting, something may happen (a split). I think Marine may go full actual right (aka only slightly racist but still racist) while the rest let her leave with the gay men and go fuller racist (aka it's not even integriste catholicism final form).

Toplowtech fucked around with this message at 10:48 on Jul 8, 2017

AceOfFlames
Oct 9, 2012

Kurtofan posted:

hollande was very hard to take seriously in these situations



"Goddamn it, I KNEW I shouldn't have parked the car around here..."

Kassad
Nov 12, 2005

It's about time.
I still remember when Hollande got rained on during the parade after his investiture. In hindsight, it was a clear omen.

Toplowtech
Aug 31, 2004

Mes amis, je me dois de partager avec vous la nouvelle de cette grande perte pour la diplomacie française:

Le Monde posted:

Le procureur Nicolas Baietto a requis, mardi 23 mai, une peine de dix-huit mois d’emprisonnement avec sursis, assortie d’une interdiction d’exercer toute fonction publique et diplomatique pendant cinq ans contre l’ex-ambassadeur de France Boris Boillon, interpellé en juillet 2013 gare du Nord, alors qu’il s’apprêtait à prendre le Thalys pour Bruxelles, avec 350 000 euros et 40 000 dollars en espèces. Il a également demandé la confiscation de ces sommes.

Alors que le prévenu avait affirmé au tribunal « les yeux dans les yeux » que son intention avait toujours été de déclarer et de régulariser ces sommes en Belgique (où il était fiscalement domicilié), le procureur a considéré que ses explications n’étaient pas crédibles. Il a également soutenu que le contrat présenté par Boris Boillon pour justifier sa rémunération constituait un faux destiné à habiller a posteriori l’argent perçu en Irak, en « coupures neuves » dont la traçabilité n’a pas pu être établie.

Boris Boillon « a beaucoup de mal, aujourd’hui encore, à intégrer la notion de conflit d’intérêts », a observé Nicolas Baietto, qui a enjoint au tribunal de « faire barrage » à sa réintégration au Quai d’Orsay, en soulignant « l’incompatibilité totale » entre les faits qui lui sont reprochés et la nécessaire « probité des représentants de l’Etat ».

Le procureur a également demandé aux juges de faire droit aux demandes de l’administration, qui réclame une amende équivalente à un quart de la somme saisie, soit 95 036 euros, et 50 000 euros au titre de l’impôt sur le revenu, et de prononcer contre Boris Boillon l’interdiction de gérer une société pendant cinq ans.

En défense, Me Jean Reinhart a dénoncé « les hypothèses sans preuves » de l’enquête conduite contre son client, même si celui-ci « s’est égaré en retournant en Irak » pour faire des affaires après y avoir été ambassadeur. « Boris Boillon a travaillé et a été payé pour cela, c’est légal », a indiqué Me Reinhart, qui ne reconnaît que le défaut de déclaration de transfert d’espèces et plaide la relaxe pour les autres délits de faux, usage de faux, blanchiment de fraude fiscale et abus de biens sociaux.

Evoquant l’attentat terroriste de Manchester et ceux qui ont été perpétrés en France, l’avocat a observé : « Ne croyez-vous pas que les compétences de Boris Boillon pour comprendre le monde musulman sont utiles et ne doivent pas être écartées ? Laissez-le revenir dans la discrétion dans la diplomatie française. »

Le jugement a été mis en délibéré au 7 juillet.
RIP Sarko-boy, je me souviendrai toujours de ton pathétique et si peu diplomatique sejour en Tunisie.

lost in postation
Aug 14, 2009

biglads posted:

I lived in France for a couple of years a while back. My time there co-incided with the Chirac-JM Le Pen election. I remember thinking of the first round candidates only one seemed to be worth the steam off my piss and that was Olivier Besancenot (sp?) - 'Le Postie Rouge'. What ever happened to him? Is he still delivering letters around Sartrouville dispensing Marxist bon-mots to passers by?

He's still the NPA spokesman and appears in the occasional hip-hop song:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qy3uSbQfxRY

Soviet Commubot
Oct 22, 2008


Toplowtech posted:

"Connaissez mieux votre département" aka "regardez FR3".

J'adore FR3 :colbert:

Toplowtech
Aug 31, 2004

Oui c'est très bien FR3. :colbert:

Absurd Alhazred
Mar 27, 2010

by Athanatos

unpacked robinhood posted:

I'd rather not be a dick when people actually try but I have no clue what you're saying here

I probably should have used "connaissez", and I guess in French the order is reversed. Basically what Toplowtech said, except that:

Pluskut Tukker posted:

I *think* Absurd Alhazred is referring to a regular segment on Stephen Colbert's former show, Better Know a District, featuring members of Congress expertly taken the piss out of. Here's a random example:

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

I thought it was on the whole lovingly mocking his character's view of the place, rather than really taking the piss out of them.

Kassad
Nov 12, 2005

It's about time.
https://twitter.com/leLab_E1/status/884397407504564224

Mais quelle surprise!

:suicide:

Al-Saqr
Nov 11, 2007

One Day I Will Return To Your Side.
https://twitter.com/joeprince___/status/884463860736028672


lol what a complete dumbass. like, what a jupiter-sized piece of poo poo.

icantfindaname
Jul 1, 2008


Al-Saqr posted:

https://twitter.com/joeprince___/status/884463860736028672


lol what a complete dumbass. like, what a jupiter-sized piece of poo poo.

aahahahahaha lol. leader of the free world indeed

JFairfax
Oct 23, 2008

by FactsAreUseless
turns out even the french moderates are racist

Gammymajams
Jan 30, 2016

Al-Saqr posted:

https://twitter.com/joeprince___/status/884463860736028672


lol what a complete dumbass. like, what a jupiter-sized piece of poo poo.

Can anyone translate this into English?

Honest Thief
Jan 11, 2009

Gammymajams posted:

Can anyone translate this into English?
There was a rough translation on the tweet followup

Condiv
May 7, 2008

Sorry to undo the effort of paying a domestic abuser $10 to own this poster, but I am going to lose my dang mind if I keep seeing multiple posters who appear to be Baloogan.

With love,
a mod


Honest Thief posted:

There was a rough translation on the tweet followup


whoa, thousands of euros of aid and you get no results? these people are truly beyond help...

farraday
Jan 10, 2007

Lower those eyebrows, young man. And the other one.
Full translation. There is an awful lot of eliding in this 'controversy'.

https://twitter.com/jessesingal/status/884490993319464963

Dmitri-9
Nov 30, 2004

There's something really sexy about Scrooge McDuck. I love Uncle Scrooge.

JFairfax posted:

turns out even the french moderates are racist

Literally every other region including South Africa and African descended people in the Caribbean have their fertility under control. It is time the rest of Africa gets on the same page.

R. Mute
Jul 27, 2011

e: ^^^^ what the gently caress ^^

It's pretty standard in how everyone from social democrats to full on liberals in the west talk about Africa, really, but the problem is that he doesn't really elaborate on what his policy on Africa will be. He outlines the problems that everyone can outline, says the usual stuff about having to work together, fighting corruption, difficult circumstances - it doesn't stand out as particularly racist, but that's because it doesn't stand out at all. It could've been said by any western leader during the past twenty years and it can be interpreted however you want.

You can p much assume that it's going to be poo poo, however.

HookShot
Dec 26, 2005

Condiv posted:

whoa, thousands of euros of aid and you get no results? these people are truly beyond help...

He actually said billions, milliards and milliers are two different words the translator didn't differentiate between apparently.

He also doesn't actually blame women with 7-8 kids, that's pretty disingenuous, he just says that those kinds of demographic issues are one of the myriad of problems Africa has to deal with which is far greater than the challenges that had to be dealt with when it came to Marshall Aid.

It'd be nice if the tweet showed the whole speech instead of just 28 spliced seconds.

HookShot fucked around with this message at 20:47 on Jul 10, 2017

jBrereton
May 30, 2013
Grimey Drawer

Honest Thief posted:

There was a rough translation on the tweet followup

Billions of Euros. Milliards is what he says.

Kassad
Nov 12, 2005

It's about time.
It's worth noting that what he says about women with 7/8 kids is inaccurate, the birth rate in most (but not all) African countries went below that in the 1990s (as you can see here). It's around 5 children per woman in most countries now. The region is just going through a typical demographic transition, it's not helpful to act like this is some kind of failure. Especially since states overreacting about a birth rate that's "too high" leads to poo poo like people getting forcibly sterilised.

Willie Tomg
Feb 2, 2006
You guys just can't comprehend his genius read of the situation. Every time he uses such clumsy utensils as "words" to convey his magnificence, you may reasonably expect some difficulty.

Kassad
Nov 12, 2005

It's about time.
As mere mortals, we cannot comprehend the true glory of Jupiter Optimus Maximus.

Gammymajams
Jan 30, 2016

Kassad posted:

It's worth noting that what he says about women with 7/8 kids is inaccurate, the birth rate in most (but not all) African countries went below that in the 1990s (as you can see here). It's around 5 children per woman in most countries now. The region is just going through a typical demographic transition, it's not helpful to act like this is some kind of failure. Especially since states overreacting about a birth rate that's "too high" leads to poo poo like people getting forcibly sterilised.

According to the World Bank Niger had a fertility rate of 7.6 children per woman in 2015. He's using an extreme example to justify his case for not supplying billions of dollars in aid.

Kassad
Nov 12, 2005

It's about time.
Yeah, that's what I'm taking issue with.

Fallen Hamprince
Nov 12, 2016

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qEGFaOeUm2A

e: also the full (french-only) video of the question and macron's answer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lu2_Bc4Uek8&t=1567s

Fallen Hamprince fucked around with this message at 01:21 on Jul 11, 2017

unpacked robinhood
Feb 18, 2013

by Fluffdaddy
The demographic projections for Africa are pretty lol

quote:

By the year 2050, annual increases will exceed 42 million people per year and total population will have doubled to 2.4 billion, according to the UN

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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!

unpacked robinhood posted:

The demographic projections for Africa are pretty lol

translation: no wildlife larger than a peccary left and people still living like poo poo as increasing levels of climate change gently caress farming

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