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I think it's more comparable to "negro" in contemporary American usage - stinks of historical racism, not acceptable in polite conversation but not a career-ending slur either.
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Can't wait to be empowered right into a ditch! At least strike season promises to be spectacular this year.
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Toplowtech posted:Thiers would have been a loving buzzfeed editor. I always picture Valls when I think about Thiers. Valls wouldn't have hesitated one second before executing all the communards.
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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
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Jul 8, 2017 12:22
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Squalid posted:Does anyone have suggestions for reading on France's colonial history in Sub-Saharan Africa? I can find a lot on the UK's colonies, BBC documentaries on decolonization, long wikipedia articles, detailed histories of individual countries etc., but I can hardly find anything on French Africa. Like for example this wikipedia article on Senegal hardly has anything, it skips straight the year 1902 to independence in 1960. I mean Senegal was a French colony for like 300 hundred years during which distinct Metis communities formed, but there's hardly anything approachable I can find on it. I don't think there's been a decent critical monograph on the French colonisation of Africa as a whole in recent years. I remember being impressed with Martin Thomas's work on the subject but it's admittedly very dry and erudite. I also really liked Lindqvist's Exterminate All the Brutes, if you haven't read it already.
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The X-man cometh posted:King Leopold's Ghost is about Belgian colonization, but the French pulled all the same bullshit. The Belgian Congo doesn't really work as a point of comparison, since the country was Leopold II's personal property (a so-called "domaine privé") rather than a dependency of the Belgian state. The whole operation was also so horrible (and incompetent) that it was heavily criticised contemporaneously -- which, considering what practices were common at the time, is saying something. Leopold eventually buckled under the international pressure and turned it into a "regular" colonial regime under Belgian rule. lost in postation fucked around with this message at 14:58 on Jul 12, 2017 |
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Jul 12, 2017 14:55
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The optics of stating that nepotism is all right as long as your family members actually do something aren't all that great either, though.
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Squalid posted:I was inspired to look into this subject again by this fantastic series on British decolonization called End of Empire. Anything similar for the French empire, whether in French or English? There was a similar documentary produced by France 5 that was pretty good (if a lot shorter and more basic): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mVfKi8F0iRY lost in postation fucked around with this message at 19:01 on Jul 12, 2017 |
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I'm not sure where you got the terrorist bit from, but our constitution contains an article that allows the government to gamble its continued existence for the chance of passing a bill without the assembly voting on it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Article_49_of_the_French_Constitution#Commitment_of_responsibility_on_a_bill_.2849.3.29 It's there because de Gaulle was big on the executive doing whatever the gently caress it wants.
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Jul 13, 2017 14:14
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Governments in general have been using it way less than in the early 5th Republic, because we're no longer in a tripartite system (SFIO/PCF/UDR) and the governing parties achieve parliamentary majorities much more easily. It's still a trash law for garbage people, though.
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Jul 13, 2017 14:41
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R. Mute posted:Has anyone bothered to ask Macron his opinion about de Gaulle? I have this feeling I think it's not so much an opinion as an earnest belief that he's CdG's reincarnation. The liberal press certainly seems to think so, at any rate: http://tempsreel.nouvelobs.com/politique/20170602.OBS0222/accord-de-paris-l-appel-du-1er-juin-macron-de-gaulle-meme-combat.html
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TIL that our Chef d'État-Major des Armées is called Pierre Le Jolis de Villiers de Saintignon, because l'Ancien Régime never really ended for our gallant men in uniform ("hosed" as they may be).
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Jul 15, 2017 12:56
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It was already shifty as hell to announce that it wouldn't be "pragmatic" to recognise the Palestinian state right now even though he supposedly supports a two-state solution, but going from that to accusing anti-Zionists of being Nazis is uh, certainly a leap.
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Jul 16, 2017 12:03
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Lightning Lord posted:Who is Dieudonné? Is it the actor who was in a live action Asterix movie that shows up when I google that name? Is he an antisemitic politician too? A French comic who's been associating with the FN and the negationist crowd in the past ten years or so. He's also been close to the catholic fundamentalists and a bunch of other nutters.
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To be fair his innocuous gesture was as close to a Nazi salute as you could get while remaining legally distinct. Although I do remember a few CHUDs at la fête de l'Huma trying to explain to me that it was just a bras d'honneur and I was being hysterical because of the lamestream media a few years back. vOv
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Jul 17, 2017 14:45
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Turns out welcoming anybody with a heartbeat into the big liberal tent was a mistake, who woulda thunk it. He literally says that he couldn't do his job because he was tired after giving judo lessons; how is this not a Gorafi article
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Oh right, the APL dust-up. I liked that her defense was essentially "yeah, we know €5 is a lot of money for students but can we please stop talking about it now?"quote:«Ça ne suffit pas», convient-elle, avant de relever «vous avez beaucoup d'étudiants qui sont obligés de travailler encore, c'est vrai. Mais bon sang, regardez un petit peu ailleurs! Whouuu! Ça va!». (Wholly ignoring that most of the benefits are granted to non-students, but welp)
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Both of my friends who were militantly En Marche (tee-shirts, pins, went to the inauguration, the whole shebang) now sigh / pull a face every time I mention his name. It's a small but real comfort.
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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 |
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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!
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Another car attack in Marseille. One dead, perp 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 |
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Aug 21, 2017 10:38
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LCI tweet that's been corrected since, turns out he pointedly didn't do that. Sorry folks!
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It didn't exactly take a psychic to predict that Macron, the minister for economy under a president incredibly unpopular because of his economic policy, would make an unpopular president
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Joyeuse grève générale, fil de discussion français! Any of you in the streets today? (Flowers, probably?)
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The base, including regional leaders, is certainly up for it (and I'm guessing many of them will be striking regardless). Berger already spoke in favour of the 2016 Loi travail so I'm not surprised he's turning a little yellow. Still, disappointing to see Mailly selling out as well. lost in postation fucked around with this message at 11:05 on Sep 12, 2017 |
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It could go either way. He's got the vast majority of the assembly technically with him but his party is very young and probably pretty lovely at voting discipline. MPs might decide that the project is not worth burning their credibility with their constituents over, in which case we would have a repeat of last time and the law might pass partially under dubious circumstances or after months/years of assembly-senate back-and-forth. On the other hand, if the party falls in line, there's not much we can do: he's got an incomparably larger voting bloc than last time and can easily get a majority with EM people alone. The whole difficulty last time was the division within the socialist party and the hostility of even the moderate right. Now that the former is a non-entity and the latter has largely joined ranks with EM, people are going to have a much tougher time putting a dent in the reform, unfortunately. lost in postation fucked around with this message at 15:48 on Sep 12, 2017 |
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Flowers For Algeria posted:Back in... June, or July, I forget The loi d'habilitation was in late July iirc, bravely passed in the middle of most people's holidays.
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Jesus, that is the sorriest-looking couscous I've seen since my students days. No wonder they're not keen on North African culture.
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Kassad posted:bonus talking point of "civilizational issues" that's straight from the LMPT homophobes' playbook. I mean, dog-whistling rather than being explicitly homophobic is almost a step-up for Collomb... lol at the conceit that the all-powerful Jupiterian government can't tackle two issues at once, though
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Uh, I think "civilizational issues" is more "what will the gays do to precious God-given children" rather than "white genocide"
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Sep 18, 2017 17:37
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The homophobes and the racists are actually having it out in the FN as we speak! It's all a beautiful tapestry.
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I still think our official national day celebration should be eating some tête de veau on January 21st.
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Emmerduel Macrotte
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Kassad posted:Speaking of which: Ahah Manuel Valls took his half-rejection from EM so hard that he turned into a cartoon version of a gritty populist leader! Maybe he thinks we can't recognise him with the beard?
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If you were asking in earnest, it's a combination of pursuing exactly the same labour law reforms as when he was a minister in the previous administration and being extremely bad at hiding his obvious contempt for the French public.
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L'Archipel is a real publisher and everything! I guess even they couldn't be arsed to look at him long enough to cut out his head properly.
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Love to live in a democracy that the UN says gravely endangers the human rights of its citizens. http://www.un.org/apps/newsFr/storyF.asp?NewsID=40262&Cr=terrorisme&Cr1=
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Haha it's the pre-pubescent FN wunderkid, too. 5 days paid leave for a "jaw ache", let it never be said that these people work too hard.
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Marine & co raising a kerfuffle about far left militias was unsurprising but particularly shameless considering both of the organisations that mainly do security for the FN wear literal jackboots and have a worrying tendency to have members end up in prison for violent acts. I guess it wouldn't be the far right without the wild projection.
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Cat Mattress posted:The constitutional court has decided that it was unconstitutional to have a tax on dividends. Shareholders' money is sacred, you don't touch it. Result: the state will need to refund 10 loving billions in total to corporations. I for one am surprised that our council of elderly rich men named by the majority (and VGE for some reason) would be so callous.
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