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Damn France, get it
In the US he'd be elected as a dictator instead. Bad luck being born in France.
I am the downvote.
Can we for once not talk about the US?
You are even from the EU, what the fuck.
If there is something I don't miss from Reddit is circlejerking.
Thank you, I felt the same thing. I get that Americans are just venting, but it's beginning to border on narcissistic. Not everything is about the US.
Upvoted because I was always curious where that one downvote comes from.
And you get an upvote for this reply.
Alas, the same forces are at play in France too, they're just meeting a less favorable pre-existing terrain. But the billionaire-owned media have been carpet bombing the country with the message that holding the executive accountable is dictatorship, and Sarkozy is innocent and basically a saint, and this is all a conspiracy by the far-left judiciary, etc
And most people don't know better because knowing better takes exhausting amounts of paying attention, and little by little, the messaging is working.
I wouldn't be surprised if the Republicans ally themselves with Le Pen's National Rally and sweep an RN candidate into the presidency and then they pardon Sarkozy. It seems to be the way of things.
That's really discouraging to read... France has had me thinking it was far closer to a utopia than most countries. I guess I shouldn't ever get my hopes up.
Sorry to disappoint. :) France really has had fashy inclinations for a long time, if we're being honest. A lot more people were plenty happy to have the Germans over in the 40s than pop media created afterward tended to willingly show. For some reason.
The food genuinely is great though.
There's no such thing as a utopia but there are definitely some countries that have their shit more closely together than others. So don't lose hope!
Hot take, but French people have an inflated opinion about their food. It's good, but they're in Europe surrounded by German and English fare so it seems mind blowing to them.
Check out Asia, Vietnam did wonders with whatever the French introduced and that's like a few decades of guys in street stalls while France has entire institutes dedicated to this stuff.
There are a fair few countries with amazing food, yeah. Italy, to start with, without even leaving Europe, and yeah, I'm a huge fan of India and much of China in that respect too, particularly Sichuan cuisine.
This thread was however about France specifically, and your comment reads like a fairly gauche non-sequitur.
Hot take is pretty much a synonym for a gauche non-sequitor, but point taken.
Fair point. XD
It's France.
What does that mean?
They are awesome people who tend toward a humanist social justice and tolerant society where no one is above the law?
It means that it's France. Ask Africa about it.
So, Gaddafi gave money to Sarcozy so he'd be elected. Then Sarcozy attacked Libya to take out Gaddafi.
That sounds like bad investment. I know they say you should only invest what you're willing to lose, didn't think that could include your own life.
You mean it's actually possible to prosecute former presidents in civilized countries?
Italy and South Korea think so.
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