Eh, to be really pedantic, ad hominem is more when you ça point how a person contradict himself in his reasoning.(The coherence of their arguments) Attacking the person itself and not their argument or how they use them is ad personam

Iirc they are thinking about putting some kind of Killswitch collar to their “bodyguards” in “exchange” of a place in the bunker should an event arrive for this reason.

Come on, a Palestinian man preaching love and compassion ? The whole lot of them would call him a communist terrorist…

I personally think that we need a 6th republic, with more direct votes from the citizens. Also, even if I know that it would never happen, I would like to change the current voting method from 2 turn vote with elimination to something else like a rating of all candidates, which would remove the current “1rst round vote strategically, 2nd vote vote against the worst one” Wich gives no room to vote for your convictions for a large part of the voters.

At last, what I would love to see is a parliament made from randomly picked up citizens. We could have professors, students, bakers, masons as well as doctors or architects or whatever other profession as representatives instead of the current politicians. This would obviously require a lot of work, including at least 6 month of training for the randomly selected representatives but I think it is a small price to pay.

These are just ideas and I know this is completely naive to think any of these could be implemented but there is alternatives, there is a whole area of academic studies dedicated to more democratic regimes.

Yeah, and it’s 1800 families. It should be noted that the proposal was rejected, deemed infeasible meanwhile our previous PM was saying that we NEED to remove 2 public hollyday…

We are currently in the 5th republic, Wich was created by Charles de Gaulle during the decolonization of Algeria.These times required a concentration of powers to ensure stability, such as constitutional tools allowing to bypass votes in parliament. We are not AT ALL in the same situation as then.

Yes an no, Macron was elected against LePen. This in itself is a problem but macron himself said he was “obliged to the left”, then he proceeded to name 7 right wing prime ministers, after his party losing all other non presidential votes. So yes, we voted (reluctantly for some) for him, but he kept wanting to push his policies even after the ppl voted against him several times.

You can raise taxes for rich people AND remove public founding for enterprises. LFI ( melanchon) proposes these two :

1. The “zucman tax” aims to tax the 1800 richest french families at a rate of 2%, Wich would bring 40billion.
2. for public founding, a senatorial report showed that 211 billion in tax cuts or direct founding were given ( without any requirements of employment or anything) to enterprises (some of which layer of ppl and gave out dividends while being under public founding). Those could be recalculated.

Same ! I have also setup a KVM switch to keep the same setup when I WFH.

I also want to add, how many of these are bots ?

Authorities were made aware that he was subject to mistreatment at least since end of 2024, when Mediapart (an investigation journal) sent a letter to them along with publishing their investigation. But no response then, and now we have the same ppl who did not take action publicly crying outrage…

Hey, should France join some kind of war to ask for Louisiana ?

Because it isn’t, everyone have sequential thoughts with almost identical “speed”, the difference is that some ppl can focus on their interlocutor and stop their train thought (or fake interest in their conversation), while others can’t

I find it quite depressing, considering that our current PM is exactly what I would call spineless.

Man got some prince vibes

Or better, keep the comic exactly the same, but swap the 2 kids with refugees when he lands back

I use the streaming service qobuz, which have curated playlists and “albums of the week”. It allows me to discover new styles or artists that I never thought much about. Sometimes it’s a miss, but that’s depending on taste. Also, the sound quality is really good if you have the hardware required.

Dear Americans, Idiocracy was not meant as a manual.

Warning, all content below is In french :

• if you like audio adventures, fantasy (and are quite fluent in french) I urge you to try “reflets d’acide”. Imagine that your typical D&D session is narrated, with meta jokes and lots of wordplay !
• Le comptoir Sécu, Which is a periodic review of cyber security news.
• a list of content creators that you can find in podcasts ( or youtube), pretty politicals : clément victorovitch (rethoric analyst, with a heavy focus on french politics, pretty mainstream but hard leaning left. Mathieu burgalassi ( french journalist focusing on fighting fascism and alt-right, everything he does is heavily sourced and he also did some debates)

Did you drop an /s ?