#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 🥳🎊🤩🎉

[thebusylilbee]

spanish neighbors can you guys PLEASE take back Manuel Valls ? 😭 at least he was just useless in Barcelona, meanwhile in France he's actively harmful !! come on guys please help us !

[cleradinthealps]

it’s so telling that the ultra-wealthy are suddenly so worried about violence when it’s against a ceo but couldn’t be bothered by the hundreds of school shootings that have happened over the years

[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.

[macronexplosion]

I was casually looking for Le pen's grave on maps when I stumbled upon a public bathroom at the exact same place where the cemetary should have been

[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

[saunne]

Welp.

We just lost our government I guess.

It was expected but it's still going to be chaotic for the upcoming months since we still don't have a fucking ✨budget✨.

The upcoming front desk shifts are going to be a pain in the ass because the everyday newspapers are next to it, patrons will want to talk about the disastrous situation we're in.... BUT the rule for the librarians is "when behind the front desk, the outside world doesn't exist". Or : We don't have the right (not the envy quite honestly) to talk about politics, be it national or international.

But patrons don't get the memo and, well, it's going to be an exercise in patience.

[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.

[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!)

[some-siren]

Love my best friend, Jean-Marie le Pen is dead and they’re sending me memes about it

What a good way to start the year

[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!!

[thanksoldbean]

I hate Macron.

[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.

[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"