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Cake day: December 31st, 2023

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  • the police say they are targeting the criminals responsible but cannot “arrest their way out of the problem”. They also say manufacturers and tech firms have a bigger role to play.

    Even though I fully expect the police here aren’t doing as much as they could (I mean come on, are they expecting phones to come with wiimote hand straps?) , I’m at least glad their public rhetoric is that they can’t “arrest their way out of the problem”.

    I imagine that’s poor compensation when you’ve just had your phone snatched, however.












  • The English royal court became french speaking after the normands invaded, around 200 or 300 years ago. Nobles and royalty can afford lavish meals and dishes.

    They can also regularly afford meat, whilst it was the peasants who tended to the animals. Thus pork (from porc) vs pig, beef (from boeuf) vs cow, poultry (from poulet) vs chicken.

    It doesn’t explainall of the gaps, but it’s an important part of the explanation.




  • The background trend, unfortunately, is of the far right slowly but surely gaining votes. We pushed them back to third place today, but they still almost doubled the number of representatives they’ll be sending to parliament (from 89 to the projected ~130 for today’s elections).

    • In 2002, Jacques Chirac won against the far right with 82% (to the far right’s 18%).
    • In 2017, Macron won against the far right with 66% (to the far right’s 34%).
    • In 2022, Macron won against the far right with 58% (to the far right’s 41%).

    IMO it’s largely a consequence of the center-left and center-right (Hollande, Macron) completely abandoning the working class, and demonizing the left whilst cozying up to the far-right (mostly Macron, though Hollande definitely slid right over his term).




  • Tout comme a une époque les portugais et polonais n’étaient pas blancs au meme titre que les français “de souche”, la déclinaison politique et sociale des “races” s’adapte avec le temps et aux besoins de ceux au pouvoir (et notamment des que les anciennes limites entre “races” deviennent un rapport de force trop perdant).

    Le discours du RN c’est clairement “on se permet de faire payer aux non-francais tout ce qu’il faudra pour nous mettre bien”. D’où slogans comme “preference nationale” (tiens donc ca ressemble drôlement a “socialisme national”). C’est de ca dont @peotr26@sh.itjust.works parle quant il évoque le pacte raciale. Donc tes cohabitants qui votent a 55% pour le RN avec en tête “tant pis pour les autres, au moins on va s’occuper de moi” s’inscrivent dedans, peu importe leur couleur de peau ou leurs "origines’. Et il faut soit être ignorant, soit avoir ca en tête pour voter RN aujourd’hui.