Bulbo posted:

She has!
She's been given a sinecure created by Sarko for Rocard "ambassadrice chargée des pôles arctique et antarctique", aka ambassador to penguins.

Flowers For Algeria posted:

No it's not a joke we are literally passing a law called "Moralisation de la vie publique".

Bulbo posted:

Here's the picture French goons will have to endure in every public building for the next five years:

https://twitter.com/EmmanuelMacron/status/880374825784619008

At least he doesn't look lost in the Elysée's gardens.

unpacked robinhood posted:

Whats wrong with the lighting ? Maybe a little too flat and direct but it's in character.
I like the greenery in the back too.

Al-Saqr posted:

White ISIS tries to ram another mosque full of muslims in france

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/jun/29/france-mosque-attack-paris-creteil-car-crowd

Kassad posted:

Edouard Philippe literally said that France is addicted to public spending. God help us.

Edit: Here's a list.

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.

unpacked robinhood posted:

The demographic projections for Africa are pretty lol

Slim Jim Pickens posted:

These predictions come up so often that I'm sure it's just pr tactics at this point. They are good pr tactics tho, because they end up getting everybody, even racists, on board for contraception and female education programs.

Accepting the prediction that Niger is going to have nearly 1 billion residents, or even just a tenth at some point in the future also requires one to make the insane assumption that mortality rates won't go back up to medieval levels as a not very rich nor food-secure country careens into malthusian apocalypse.

Meanwhile ,maintaining the low mortality rates means maintaining the infrastructure for increased medical coverage, and that means that more people need to be educated, and more education has literally 100% of the time led to dramatic declines in birth rate.

Kassad posted:

Debate & Discussion › French Politics: Fear of a Black Planet Europe

A Buttery Pastry posted:

Yeah, we're definitely going to see the refugee flow towards Europe reaching into the high tens of millions per year at some point, even as Europe internally sees Southern Europeans looking northward for similar reasons. At least we can rest easy, knowing President Maréchal-Le Pen's steady hand will guide France through this crisis - and save Western civilization in the process.

R. Mute posted:

More likely they're thinking of enlightened despots - probably Napoleon.

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".

Flowers For Algeria posted:

I'm sorry I despise Macron with all my being but I can't give a poo poo about something as ridiculous as the piddly amount of money it takes to keep him looking human on TV.

Please remember to take a day off on the 12th of September so that you can march against his shitass labour reform tho!

Kassad posted:

I don't see how you can believe that there's a risk of Muslim religious nutjobs imposing their will about any goddamn thing in France today. This is the country that freaked out about swimsuits because Muslims, for gently caress's sake.

VitalSigns posted:

I recommend an immediate investment in guillotine technology

Kassad posted:

That's not the extenuating circumstance you seem to think it is

Toplowtech posted:

^^^Actually the faineants were the one loving up the post Irma effort. Also can you guess who said that it was the previous gov? Castaner, aka a former PS and a member of said goverments during the previous 15 years.

Ahahaha jesus after that new york time OP calling Macron a "yet another failed french president", Castaner is losing his loving mind calling the author a nazi. The people surrounding Macron are the worst, i swear. How did he manage to get a crew worse than Sarkozy, i swear?

Fallen Hamprince posted:

https://twitter.com/BFMTV/status/908992606998278144

Melenchon is running out of words for 'disaster', by spring of next year he's going to be calling France 'un sharknado social'

Kassad posted:

Speaking of which:

https://twitter.com/manuelvalls/status/910931996414750720

ElNarez posted:

french socialists have seen Jeremy Corbyn bring Labour back from the brink and all they took from it was "I gotta grow a beard"

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.

Make your bets right now on how many public services will be slashed to pay for that.

Kassad posted:

We're hosed.

HookShot posted:

Why the gently caress wouldn't spanish just use -e or -i as a gender neutral ending ahhhhhh


But yeah if I was going to gender neutral something in French I'd just go for the masculine ending.

Cat Mattress posted:

Speaking of sexual assault, more on Ramadan:

https://www.thenational.ae/world/europe/french-official-knew-of-tariq-ramadan-s-violent-sexual-encounters-but-failed-to-act-1.672183


"I knew he violently forced women to undress for him, but I would never have imagined he could be a rapist!"

Kurtofan posted:

loving hell

Kassad posted:

I'm just going to leave this here:



A member of the Front National pretended to have been kidnapped in order to run away with her lover.
_{Suspected of the kidnapping for a time, the husband ordered his pig to bite a policewoman of North African descent during a house search.}

Kassad posted:

Hey now, sometimes they just ditch them in the middle of the Alps at 1am in winter:

https://twitter.com/Telerama/status/931572021158346752

AceOfFlames posted:

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/w...o-a8084586.html

No no no no no loving NO

100YrsofAttitude posted:

Glad I found this thread. I've been trying to understand this country's politics for a few years now and it's always been a hard nut to crack.


Talk about ambitious. Just because French used to be the language of diplomacy doesn't mean it's going to have a weird resurgence. How would one even go about re-instating a language at that sort of level?

HookShot posted:

BUT ITS THE HAUTEST BIT ON THE MAP!!!

Kurtofan posted:

Im from seine st denis and didnt give a poo poo about his funeral either

Kassad posted:

https://twitter.com/Europe1/status/940107595733520384

Blanquer has been on a roll lately: a dictation exercise every day, a full ban on cell phones and now compulsory choir lessons in primary schools by 2019. Free choice of songs except for two: La Marseillaise and Ode to Joy.

Soviet Commubot posted:

mdr

Toplowtech posted:

Yeah, she probably realized that if even Margaret Atwood can't comment in any critical way on #metoo, she had no hope for her opinions not to generate her own downfall. She probably will be back "later" too.

Absurd Alhazred posted:

https://twitter.com/AP_Politics/status/955072406728486913

Flowers For Algeria posted:

Oh wow gross I just had a dream with Manuel Valls in it

Cat Mattress posted:

Cat Mattress posted:

The plan, as always, is to modernize the country by rolling back on every social progress reform made since the 18th century. The bold new vision for a competitive and modern France is the Ancien Régime.

Kassad posted:

Montpellier : des étudiants occupant la fac de Droit passés à tabac par des hommes cagoulés.

TL;DR in English: a group of men in balaclavas and armed with sticks beat the hell out of law students occupying a lecture hall in Montpellier. There are a few videos in the article.