#upthebaguette

[eeios]

Sticker sheet that will be available on Dinoël Day !! Behold medieval dinosaurs . . ;.

I'm sooo happy how they turned out, i love to mix two fixations ...

Dinoël est un marché de créateur.ices, organisé le 7 décembre à Strasbourg... Plus d'informations ICI

[thebusylilbee]

this might not seem like a big deal to some bc US politicians say worse things every single day of their lives, but in France this is genuinely some bottom of the barrel shit, I do not remember any significant french political figure ever insulting another country and its citizens this openly and vulgarly in recent history 😐

[echo-s-land]

[sonicskullsalt]

me @ France right now

[reddit-eco-plus]

lien

[platypusplayhere]

besties, french results for the european elections are kinda disgusting (as expected) and the president just dissolved the national assembly (unpredictable and stupid) which will probably lead to more far right ppl in the parliament (expected and horrible) so my french besties lets go vote on june 30 pls (im begging)

[gouinisme]

"if i die of their transphobia forget a funeral drop my body in front of the national assembly"

seen at the official marseille pride parade on 6/7/24

[saecookie]

Just so you know. In France at the EU elections, more than 35% votes were for the 2 ultra right fascist lists m.

So bc this is apparently unacceptable (funny from what his politics has been so far)

Macron just dissolved the National Assembly

(one of the two legislative chambers in fr)

To call people to the vote at the end of the month again.

What is gonna happen is just: fascists are gonna win the legislative chamber

[sometimes-gloriousstudent]

he has that sadness in his eyes that you only see in french leftists on election day

[dyketennant]

(alt) glad to see y'all are doing well i was starting to worry

[thebusylilbee]

god this is so sexy

[gay-impressionist]

france is burning.

667 people were arrested last night. they are curfews in place. public transport is partially closed at night.

nahel, a 17-year-old, was shot tuesday by the police during a traffic stop. he wasn't violent or armed, he wasn't a threat. but he broke the law and tried to drive away, so the cops killed him.

and now france is rioting.

there is a video so the government isn't trying to deny the facts for once. but the minister of the interior (in charge of the police) still insist that the police shot less people since the 2017 law on public safety.

but an analysis of police statistics by Le Monde, the most read newspaper in france, says otherwise. when the police shot on average 250 people each year in the five years prior to 2017, that number became 297 after 2017. for shots fired specifically on moving vehicles, the average used to be 119 and it's now 150. before 2017, there was an average of 0.06 deaths per shot. now it's 0.32.

more than ever, the police shoots to kill.

so france is burning.

[fleur-de-violette]

If you hear something that is the collective sigh of relief of every sigle decent french person

[the-bibrarian]

I see a lot of incomprehension online about our pension reform and the anger it generates in France, and what it often boils down to is "why are they so angry, 64 is plenty young to retire?"

I don't agree, but even if I did I would still oppose the reform. Here are some of the reasons why:

We already need 43 full years of work and tax contributions to be able to retire. Which means college-educated people were never going to retire at 64 anyway, let alone 62. This reform is aimed at people who start working early, mostly in low-paying jobs.

There's very little provision made in this law for hard/dangerous/manual labour.

There's no provision made for women who stop working to raise their children (51% of women already retire without a "complete career," which means they only retire on a partial pension, vs. 25% of men).

At 64, 1/3 of the poorest workers will already be dead. In France, between the richest and the poorest men, there's a 13 years gap in life expectancy.

Beyond life expectancy, at that age a lot of people (especially poorer, non-college educated) have too many health-related issues to be able to work. Not only is it cruel to ask them to work longer, if they can't work at all that's two more years to hold on with no pension

Unemployment in France is still fairly high (7%). Young people already have a hard time finding work, and this is going to make things even harder for them

Macron cut taxes on the rich and lost the country around 16 Billions € in tax revenue. Our estimated pension deficit should peak at 12 Billions worst case scenario.

While I'm on wealth redistribution (no, not soviet style, but I think there should be a cap on wealth concentration. Nobody needs to be a billionaire.): some of the massive profits of last year should go to workers and to the state to be redistributed, including to fund pensions. The state subsidized companies and corporations during the pandemic, Macron even said "no matter the cost" and spent 206 Billions € on businesses. Now he's going after the poorest workers in the country for an hypothetical 12 Billions??

Implicit in all of this is the question of systemic racism. French workers from immigrant families are already more likely to have started their careers early, to have low-paying jobs, are less likely to be college-educated, more at risk for disabilities and chronic illnesses, etc., so this is going to disproportionately affect them

This is not even touching on the fact that he didn't let lawmakers vote on it, meaning he knew he wouldn't get a majority of votes in parliament, or that 70% of the population is against this law. Pushing it through anyway is blatant authoritarianism.

TL;DR: This is only tangentially about retirement age. The reform will make life harder for people with low incomes, or with no higher education, for manual workers, for women—mothers especially, for POC, for people with disabilities or chronic conditions, etc. This is about solidarity.

Hope (sincerely) this helps.

[elmaxlys]

Ah yes, French tags:

Philosophy

Romance

The One Phrase Foreigners Know For Some Reason

Poetry

LET'S FUCKING SHIT IN THE SEINE

[eeios]

First Dinoël posting ! Those are illustrations i made for my first creator's market, centered around dinos and popular science ...

The Thylacine, or tasmanian tiger, is an extinct marsupial from Australia. For the frame, i was inspired by aboriginal art.

The Quagga was a species of zebra from South Africa.