#french political life

[the-girl-who-sold-the-wxrld]

Nous sommes en 2023, dans une supposée démocratie, dans le "pays des droits de l'homme" et une femme a été mise en examen, risquant de la prison et une amende exorbitante pour avoir qualifié Macron d'ordure.

Je n'arrive même pas à exprimer à quel point c'est grave, très grave. Cela n'est pas censé arriver dans une démocratie.

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It's 2023, in a supposed democracy, in the "land of human rights" and a woman has been indicted, facing prison and an exorbitant fine for calling Macron a piece of trash.

I can't even express how fucked up and serious this is. It isn't supposed to happen in a democracy.

Fuck Macron.

[the-girl-who-sold-the-wxrld]

The law is bad for the economy, for the workers, their health, their life, their money, the law is sexist and oppressive to women, they used the 49.3 for it, the police is very violent to the protesters and the government supports it, the government lied a lot about the law and tries to manipulate people in their speeches so they accept it and think protesters are the enemies of the democracy...everything about it is disgusting. everything.

hiii

as you probably know, france is going through a period of violent protests. here is a probably better explained version of why it’s happening than whatever i can come up with.

to make it short, the French government forced a law to make the age of retirement at 64. since 2017, the macron government passed a lot of laws destined to break the social system that we have (even if flawed).

this retirement law is extremely unpopular, and had been forced by the 49.3 article (i think the US equivalent is executive order). this means that the assembly couldn’t vote it. the voting attempt to dissolve the assembly and kill the law in the egg didn’t work out. it missed 9 votes in favor of the dissolution.

people have been protesting outside for weeks. the government doesn’t care, and police brutality is rising exponentially. the prime minister thanked the police yesterday as a lot of protesters are put in custody for nothing. they put in custody innocent people, even tourist kids. people lost limbs too.

what is happening is borderline unconstitutional, and amnesty condemned the French police brutality.

what can we do? as the protesters outside sacrifice their work days to fight against the government, money is getting scarce.

to help the protesters and to help them continue to protest, strike funds have been created.

even a dollar will help them fight the government, so if you can, please donate or share. our lives are on the line.

Caisse de solidarité

this is the link to the strike funds. to donate, click on "faire un don en ligne"

then you can choose "PayPal" for international folks.

the situation is bad. but we can make it worse for the government. stand with us and stand against social regression in France

[dooareyastudy]

Mes chers camarades, je vous présente notre nouveau ministre de l'enseignement supérieur et de la recherche 🥳🎊🤩🎉

[asofterepilogue]

It's hard to know how serious an event is and will turn out to be in the grand scheme of things while you're living it, but the president of France just officially refused to acknowledge the latest elections. And I don't want to call it a dictatorship because I'm aware it can be much worse, but it's also... not not a dictatorship.

It's very much one man (and his cronies) disregarding everything and everyone in order to maintain complete power over every single sphere of the government. And if it's not effectively a dictatorship, I do think it has all of the makings of one, and this might be one of the last tests before someone decides France is ripe for it.

[empirearchives]

The keys to the city of Lyon, France. 1805.

Joseph Chinard drew the pieces and the goldsmith Antoine Saunier made them.

They are symbols of Lyon’s allegiance to Napoleon I, who lifted the city from its ashes after the French Revolution. They were created in 1805 on the occasion of the emperor’s visit to Lyon.

These three keys are works of art and do not materially open any door of the city. They symbolically represent the three divisions (north, west and south) that made up the city under the First Empire (1804-1814). Each is decorated with a symbol illustrating the specificity of the neighborhood.

They were made for the visit to Lyon on April 10, 1805, of Emperor Napoleon I and Empress Josephine. They are presented to him publicly, in front of a floor of politicians —whose names are engraved on the back of the dish — as a sign of allegiance and gratitude on the part of the city.

MHL - Musée d'Histoire de Lyon

[brick-van-dyke]

If there's one thing I've respectively noticed from Zionists and defenders of Israeli war crimes, it's that every source, argument and potential avenue to explore each explanation is riddled with cherry picking, moving the goalposts and mental gymnastics to explain why their conclusions, which typically are barely even related to the sources they use, somehow overshadow literal reality and what we see with our own eyes.

While scrolling, one example I came across was the repetitive misrepresentation of BLM, antifa and quotes from Martin Luther King Jr, as well as statistics, scholarly journal articles and government website information. These are all good sources, yet every single time they're mangled completely until the only possible "interpretation" of any of them is "well Israel is right to defend itself after shorting rockets beforehand because the retaliation was brutal and all Arabs are bad by default therefore". As if any of these sources are even about individual exceptions of Israel versus hatred towards Arabs.

I think what I find most absurd, as someone in the middle of their own studies, is how every bit of critical thinking and logic goes out the window as they do every single thing possible to do what professors worldwide say NOT to do when evaluating sources. It's like watching a race to see who can tangle and misconstrue scientific information to fit their world view the fastest. Then said people say "um actually I studied at university before so it's actually not wrong that I'm doing this exact this everyone is warned not to do because I have a permit". Ignorance I can forgive, but willful and arrogant manipulation? That's another thing entirely.

[moth-o170]

Hey god remember how I use to beg you to kill me and make me a warrior cat? Well I’m back to that, and you should totally consider it more this time around. I’ll even convert back for you, forget about the religious trauma, just as long as I’m made into a warrior cat I’ll fucking do it <3!!

[biblicalhorror]

Thinking about one of the loser men I dated directly post-college who, after I showed them Dirty Computer [the emotion picture] by Janelle Monae, said they "prefer rap that has something to say"

[sforzesco]

hi there, I hope you're doing great! I love your comics so much, everything about them is amazing: your style is so unique and the way you organise them (does it make sense?) is wonderful, and since I'm quite familiar with ancient Rome but much less with everything else, especially the Renaissance that I know only superficially, they got me very curious, especially about Cardinal Sforza. Do you have any reading recommendations to get a bit more in detail about the whole thing and him in particular?

thank you so much!!

so. oh boy. so the thing about ascanio is that he was doing so much everywhere all the time that there's a 800 page biography about him that specifically mentions that it chose to focus on his life in the political sphere because it would be too fucking long if they covered his impact on the arts and music as a patron

the extreme cliff notes version of his life (english): HERE

a short biography (italian): HERE

the rest of these are in english (except the ascanio bio), there's a whole bunch of scholarship on the sforzas that's somewhat region locked to italy/your ability to read italian, and god I feel it every day I look at the bibliography of the ascanio biography. someday......someday I'll go to milan in person.....get ahold of these books and texts...........see the archives................

A History of Milan under the Sforza, Cecilia M. Ady

Milan Undone: Contested Sovereignties in the Italian Wars, John Gagné

Popes, Cardinals and War: The Military Church in Renaissance and Early Modern Europe, D.S. Chamber

Ascanio Maria Sforza: la parabola politica di un cardinale-principe del Rinascimento, Marco Pellegrini (Italian)

an additional rec, Showtime's The Borgias. he's extremely fun in that one

[windsails]

the easiest way to achieve socialism is to build a worker owned social media network and find a way to collectively make money and help each other learn and grow and improve our lives. and pretty much just ignore all the people who don’t believe in collaboration and teamwork. expand operations to include more stuff. create a healthy ecosystem of creative teams. make knowledge sharing an entertaining art form

we will also need to prove to the people who think violence is necessary that we all deserve better than another failure like the french revolution. the french revolution and russian revolutions both failed BECAUSE of the violence, that’s why we got napoleon (capitalism) and stalin (nationalism). so that’s why it has to be about collaborative ecosystems. because networks of ecosystems transcend both capitalism and nationalism and allow everyone to express their unique nature, to express their portion of truth

truly radical shifts are only possible if you can reassure people and make them feel cared for. you can only do that if you have no enemies and no intention of making any

if someone hurts you, don’t hurt them back, retreat and show them what they’re missing. eventually the superior system will establish itself. it will be collaborative & generous. we're closer than you think

[the-girl-who-sold-the-wxrld]

Marie Ulven Ringheim (girl in red) asked the french public at the Olympia to teach her some french words and the crowd screamed "Macron démission! Macron démission!" and i fucking love my country

(Macron démission! = Macron, resign!)

[neptunefairytales]

Saw this this morning: Jean-ne d'Arc est non binaire /Joan of Arc is non binary (with a play of word on the name Jeanne/Jean), on an anti-royalist sticker.

[clockwork-stars]

Okay so next week (really this afternoon), I have something for Uni. We need to do an immersion activity of at least 40 hours (so we can discover the people/public (aka the people with who I want to work)(we are gonna have a real internship later (like in 2 years)). In my case I think about working with children, so I am doing it in a place that organize playing fields (?? Like a week of activity organized, parents give the children at 8 take them back at 17? I have no idea of how it is translated in english) for autistic children.

Anyway, since I am doing it for uni, there are other student of my faculty that are coming. And I got their name so I could contact them if needed. Being as anxious/nervous as I am, I did. But somehow, sending an email (or worse calling them) seemed weird. So I searched them on Instagram!

And I found one of them (we are five, I knew one already so I am missing two)! So I sent a dm. With my bookstagram account with my queer flag and she/they in bio and with, at the time, my magneto profile picture. Anyway. It was her and all that, BUT she watched my story. In my story at the time, was just a post about how the RN (a french far right party) was racist.

Today, she sent me a text again, and, very obviously, saw my story again. Once again, only one story there (don't ask why I am not active, I do NOT know) and it was a call for french people to vote for NFP (french left party) today.

I am NOT french. At all. I do not live in France either, my university is very much in Belgium, same for the place I am going.

So I have no idea of what impression this person has of me but it could be a very wrong one.

[galliaestomnis]

Dark times lie ahead of us and there will be a time when we must choose between what is easy and what is right.

-Albus Dumbledore

J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (Harry Potter, #4)

[empirearchives]

Napoleon’s coronation oath — 1804

“I swear to maintain the integrity of the territory of the Republic, to respect and enforce respect for the Concordat and freedom of religion, equality of rights, political and civil liberty, the irrevocability of the sale of national lands; not to raise any tax except in virtue of the law; to maintain the institution of Legion of Honour and to govern in the sole interest, happiness and glory of the French people.”

Source: Steven Englund, Napoleon: A Political Life

[gregor-samsung]

La Crise [The Crisis] (Coline Serreau, 1992)