#Frpol

[the-bibrarian]

[ribstongrowback]

For a rundown of French Politics Right Now:

The prime minister had to step down following a vote of no confidence which the left and far right both voted yes to, giving them a crushing majority.

The short of it is that the left voted for it because Michel Barnier is right wing and very fasc friendly

While the fascists find him not fasc friendly enough and are confident that whoever they have on hand will be president in the next elections anyway so they can play hardball

What's interesting is that the RN (fascist party) is actually under investigation on multiple counts of massive fraud and embezzlement which means that they might no longer exist soon or at the very least that Marine Le Pen will be made ineligible.

Still, while that's likely a loss for her, it's a win regardless for the other fascists. Either she pulls through and they'll be able to play the victim (possible) or she gets ousted and thus the Great Fasc Backstabfest begins in earnest, and many of them hope taking over the Le Pen clan's stranglehold over french fascism.

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More than 10 600 000 people voted for fascism this sunday in France. I need a playlist to soothe me a bit because this is getting dangerous as hell. I share it here because I've obviously put french songs.

"La jeunesse emmerde le Front National."

(The youth screws the National Front.)

Le Front National est l'ancien nom du Rassemblement National, parti politique fondé par des anciens nazis et collabos de Vichy. C'est un parti xénophobe, raciste, antisémite, homophobe, transphobe et j'en passe. Son fondateur et président, Jean-Marie Le Pen, était assez direct devant les médias pour que personne ne puisse penser qu'il n'est pas raciste.

Mais depuis que c'est sa fille, Marine Le Pen, qui a pris la tête du parti, elle a entamé une campagne de communication incroyable pour faire croire que son parti n'est plus raciste et n'a plus de lien avec le nazisme. Bref, qu'il n'est plus d'extrême-droite. Tout ça dans le but de pouvoir passer dans les médias et gagner des électeurs. Changer le nom en Rassemblement National fait partie de sa stratégie de communication.

Et ça a fonctionné. Aujourd'hui, beaucoup trop de personnes pense qu'elle et son parti ne sont pas d'extrême-droite. Pourtant ce sont toujours les mêmes idées, le même programme. Ils sont juste enrobés dans une couche rose bonbon de communication. Les mots sont bien choisis. Ils sont lissés. Elle a gagné des électeurs. Elle est au deuxième tour des élections présidentielles depuis 2017. On est obligés de réélire ce fichu Macron parce qu'elle se retrouve en face de lui.

Et là, élections législatives provoquées par la dissolution de l'Assemblée Nationale par Macron le 9 juin 2024.

Le Rassemblement National fait 33% des votes, plus de 10 millions de votes. Plus de 10 millions de personnes ont choisi le racisme.

Les 18-25 ans ont voté à 50% pour la gauche. Et à 25% pour le RN... Mais pour les 50% de jeunes qui ont voté à gauche, ce slogan existe toujours bel et bien : LA JEUNESSE EMMERDE LE FRONT NATIONAL !

[ungrateful-cyborg-moved]

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[yvernal]

[Thursday 5th]

I just wrote the One Good Thing post of today in which I do explain a lot of today's weirdness related to the country's current situation.

But to sum it up : yesterday our government was taken down by the Parliament, today civil servants (among others) were on strike and I worked all day in an entirely closed library due to worker shortage. Due to said strike.

The time I should have spent doing public service was instead used to help the shelving and transit backlog operation. I also kept equipping some mangas but needed the approval and correction of a colleague.... who was on strike.

All in all, a really weird day. I helped package surprise loan selections for our Christmas animation, did my work between shelving and mangas and then took out to the meeting I was supposed to attend too.

I posted a picture of it because I felt so out of place. I was dressed really queer in a really fancy room, listened as the mayor gave a speech, gave her a handshake as she exited the room after the signature and then ate chocolates and drank juice while conversing.

It was quite. Surreal. I felt like those commoners suddenly made nobles in fantasy manhua. I'll be meeting those people at other times when the Council will gather but we still don't have much information as this was the first event with the new batch of volunteers. Me included.

I came home earlier than expected and since this morning I found how to transform my phone into a credit card (don't judge me, I might be young of body but my mind is that of a grandpa), I went to the grocery store and got some stuff, including what Mom's needed for the banana-chocolate-oatmeal cake we've been talking about.

I'll do my dailies once my phone is done with updating the game as I'm too lazy to start the laptop and then go to sleep.

[ahalliance]

the thing is, if the opposite had happened, if the leftists had come in 4th and the right in 1st and despite it a leftist prime minister had been elected, the absolute uproar of screaming crying shitting we’d be getting from the right rn would be astounding . but naturally they don’t care if it’s undemocratic as long as it suits them

[gratuiciel]

🩷On a gagné! On a du taff, et pas qu'un peu, mais on a battu le RN! Beaucoup de courage pour ta circonscription. On les battra en 2027!

Sérieux comment ça m'a remonté le moral direct de voir le NFP en tête ! J'osais même pas regarder les résultats et au final tout s'est passé encore mieux que je l'espérais :D Merci pour ton soutien <3 on lâche rien !

[firespirited]

The greatest terrorist attack on the usa wasn't 9/11 but cointelpro. Think about the loss of hope and inability to imagine a different future by killing, silencing or buying off all radical thinkers. I feel that the supreme court is currently carrying out acts of terror, whether it's corporate rights or bodily autonomy. You've felt it like a cage, like a knife at your neck.

Locally the loss of hope when the president was able to override the will of the people and their elected representatives has had this suffocating effect that's rippling down to the smaller institutions. Oddly enough we're looking to the usasian strikes for hope that we've lost in our own.

[cheapfakeblood]

if france can do it, so can america (at least try and vote please please please)

me @ France right now

[the-bibrarian]

Pétition pour demander l’union des gauches aux législatives 👆

On ne devrait pas désespérer ! Avec le report des voix le système à deux tours est défavorable au RN et on a encore une chance de les bloquer, mais à condition de se mobiliser 💪

Parlez-en, partagez, signez et surtout votez ! Le 30 juin et le 7 juillet les électeurs du RN et de reconquête ne resteront pas chez eux. Ne les laissez pas faire ! Ne leur donnez pas l’occasion ne taper sur les plus fragiles, ne les laissez pas saboter toutes nos lois contre la crise climatique, détricoter l’état social, ruiner encore plus le pays pour enrichir les grandes entreprises !

Allez voter, et proposez des procurations à ceux qui ne peuvent pas !

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l'alternance possible ? oserait-on y croire ?

(transcript: [DIRECT. RÉSULTATS ÉLECTIONS LÉGISLATIVES 2024/ LE RN EN TÊTE AVEC 33,5%, DEVANT LE NFP À 28%, ENSEMBLE À 22%])

[ungrateful-cyborg-moved]

Sur une note plus optimiste ceci dit, les conneries de Macron vont découpler les législatives des élections présidentielles. Je suis pas ravi de sa merde, mais pour la démocratie française c'est nettement plus sain.

[firespirited]

Had some sleep and awake again so I thought I'd maybe drop some news.

First up all pro Palestine marches have been banned in town. Not even sure the local jewish folks agree with our non jewish secretary of state deciding that condemning Israel = saying it shouldn't exist let alone antisemitism but some Chetchen young man with clear PTSD went mad at seeing Gaza being well, Chechnya-ed into oblivion with international approval and killed a teacher so we're in right wing "terrorists under your bed" mode. I won't watch the news, there will be sound clips of horrific islamophobia like it's religion's fault and antisemitic dog whistles because this is french right wingers, they like Israel for strategic war reasons and also because they kinda hope all the jews will move there instead of their rightful ancestral lands which are Right Here in Europe. We did reparations so wrong. There have been jewish settlements, businesses, families, synagogues right here across Europe. A respected honored return and dedicated land for jewish refugees should have been right here, probably on German soil (I'd also say enclaves or debt from France... And Hungary and Lithuania but they're still in denial)

The profile as a terrorist is based on a single Allahu-ackbar. They had arrested him earlier that week, interrogated him and released him. The world saw him as a terrorist, he was watching another country like his get crushed, he lashed out with violence. Dude should have had a counsellor check in instead because of generational trauma. And now his stupid crime is propaganda for the machine. I hate this.

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J, like me, also had cramps last night and then spent the morning feeling nauseated in the loo and I knew exactly what items to hand her (water bottle, anti spasmodic, caffeine, bucket, towel for sweat, baby wipes in case of need for quick cleanup and vicks vaporub under the nose) she thought I was reading her mind, I've just been there.

Went to the dentist, a double booking with Mum to set up the 'family' account with a new dentist (9 have retired in the past year and there are only 4 close by so it's been two years to get a slot - once you're a registered client the wait times drop to 2 months) it was up a steep flight of stairs so a year ago I couldn't have made it. Hidden in a residential building between two shops and called 'le France' no I have no idea what that's about either I'm guessing it's le france because it used to be le bâtiment or le café france and got shortened or something.

I had a clear plan of action the night before (ask about neck, ask about tongue) but was hazy by the time we got there from car dizzyness and lack of sleep. Then the receptionist asks us to fill in forms while she's also asking questions on the form. It was hard to focus on either. And she goes "don't you recognise me?" and I say "oh I'm sorry we're terrible with faces! where do we know you from?" - guess! Anyway mum and i managed to throw out pretty much everywhere we've lived in France since 93 and any groups we've been part of together.

Five minutes later she explains she knows us from an address we never lived at LOL and knew my sister at 14yo. That actually narrows down the options because we know a ton of Valeries. I have never met this woman. This is horse lady Valerie. She took tourists on horse back rides through the lovely scenery to pay for her horse sanctuary and gave kids lessons.

Sis has loved horses forever despite only meeting them in fields. So one year we got her riding lessons, she paid for half with stable work. She had a wonderful time, V has very strange social skills and isn't good with kids (specifically not picking favourites) but sis bonded with a stubborn reliable mare who didn't like people but who did like my sister for her respect for boundaries and always asking the horse first (Show the brush, ask, then brush. Show the saddle, ask, then saddle... ). Yeah the horse loved her and she loved her back, and they got to do horse riding and it was as amazing as the books and period films showed it to be.

So Horse Valerie is a dental assistant now and has a weekend job doing kids yoga. She told us quite a bit about herself (we asked all the right questions: how many horses did she keep? She carefully rehomed the others, How was she adjusting? She does sophrologie (?) now... but didn't ask a thing about sis or us. So she's still her odd self. 😆 I had a flash thought and asked about the horse that spends time in a field in town as the conditions had distressed sis: she felt they were insufficient for a horse to stay all day let alone night when sis and I visited. She said it's a hardy horse from the region from a family who've owned horses for generations. (sis thinks this is a non answer)

By the time I got into the dentist my mind was blank, I managed to list what I'd tried for my tongue and eventually asked if he felt I should get my wisdom teeth out. Forgot to mention the neck!!!

I'm trying base mouthwashes and extra brushing for a month or two we'll see if that helps. As for my wisdom teeth, it'll help the lower teeth not be so cramped and at risk of cavities because I can't floss half of them and he knew the right one comes out partially on the regular.

But otherwise I've been really lucky because I mouthwashed daily for over a decade when bristles would make my teeth bleed while only really brushing my teeth once or twice a week in the bath (because of POTS - brushing sat down is a mess when you can't get up fast and need both hands to get up), I only have been brushing daily for 18 months and use kid fruity toothpaste because mint makes it hard to eat for the next few hours. If my health goes backwards I really want to work out a sat down system with an electric toothbrush and a towel bib or something.

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Ok so we get home J's feeling much better as she's fully emptied her system but has a fever. A friend called from the hospital to say covid cases are through the roof, time to mask up and avoid groups if possible: stomachs sink, we're all hoping J has a minor stomach flu, she'll be getting tested for Covid before the booster tomorrow.

I can't find the infection stats online in last years' places. Absolutely none of us want to go to hospital this winter unless pandemic protocols are in place. Me and the dentist were the only ones wearing masks, mine came off for the appointment, his came off to do computer work but he was right in front of a window. No-one in town, none of the five people in the waiting room or Valerie. Makes you feel like you're being paranoid. I'd be having a panic attack rn if I hadn't worn a mask today though.

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Got two parcels done 🎉🎈, i still get a little bitter throwing money at laposte because I don't trust them and the box they made me tick saying "i'd pay return fees if things don't work out" doesn't help. But on the bright side I got to choose some cool stuff to send a friend and also said goodbye to more handpicked baldies: 3 Licca modern l07, 5 Licca classic modern k29, Karen chan ribon (I will find you again someday) and Kurhn.

Yes I had concepts for most of them. Split hair, gradients, thermal hair, a proper Cinnamoroll themed gal, a twin stars dupe. Blank nicely spherical heads with a flattish top (+small, soft vinyl) let you play with dividing it up in a way that's less easy with Barbie. From about 1cm back the hair falls backwards and won't be seen from the front.

Ok speaking of hair, Hair Wear Summer's green underhair streak is doll grade kanekalon and matte. No wonder there were so many rerooted versions of her on flickr, that will have frazzled right up if a boil wash was too close to the boiling point. She's pre-gluehead era thank goodness. If my neck wasn't busted I'd have replaced those 40ish plugs with a nice shiny green saran or a ginger blend so the next owner doesn't ruin it. Good to be reminded Mattel was also making baffling decisions for higher end playline in 2007.

Today I took Lily for a short walk and the new neighbours' dog came running to the gate (which is up a steep slope about 4 yards in) and barked, I was going to walk on by but decided to walk up to the gate because Lily is super chill, I told the dog "no barking. we're neighbours and we're cool" handed him a piece of cracker, he let me stroke his nose but later still wanted to bark at Lily. This is going to take stronger treats! In the meantime, orange cat came running and tried to squeeze through the fence to play with the fluffy dog.

We left right as he finally wiggled that derrière out of the fence. Sorry lil orange mischief, some other time!

[the-bibrarian]

Our government is at the battlefront of the war against wearing large clothes and calling vegan steaks “steaks”

We can rest easy that their priorities are in order, and our future in good hands 🫡

[legallychanged]

en vrai vous rigolez mais les changements de noms se font en mairie sur dossier, pourquoi pas les changements de sexe ??? il est ARCHAÏQUE notre système je plaisante pas. j'attends depuis deux mois la décision du tribunal alors que la mairie m'a rappelé le jour J et en attendant je suis dans la merde avec la sécu, la CAF, les assurances, et ma banque.

c'est un changement de civilité c'est que dalle, POURQUOI CA MET 15 ANS et POURQUOI C'EST AU TRIBUNAL

n'oublions pas macron qui a dit que si la gauche passait au pouvoir on allait avoir des "changements de sexe" en mairie a la carte

j'attends

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don't forget to

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tomorrow!!