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Yeah, interesting idea, think Piketty himself mentioned it somewhere. Still wouldn't put it as mono-causal and pessimistic as he does, and despite them being only groundbreakingly successful in wartime, without labor movements & co. social rights & more equality still wouldn't have transpired...

Ethnicity ain't race though

One thing is for sure, the Spanish government isn't exactly convincing many Catalans to stay with what they're doing right now. Absurd scenes happening atm - - - Updated - - - They said already that Barca could stay in La Liga.

After all he did for him before the election

First of all, a lot of the voters voting for the ban probably didn't care much for the animals here. But that does not mean that there aren't legitimate reasons for the law. It's a trade off between religious freedom and humane treatment of animals for sure, but if those slaughter rites are...

Probably to some degree, yes. But looking at the entire passage, I still don't see anything wrong with it. “Our culture can no longer wall itself away from other cultures, as if under voluntary house arrest. We would not have the multiplicity of cultures, this amazing French cultural richness...

But culture in France is diverse, as it is in any slightly larger country.

“French culture doesn’t exist in and of itself; there is no such thing as a single French culture. There is culture in France and it is diverse” Nothing wrong with that.

Nothing but sugar with shittier texture

Not sure if serious Those things are probably the worst piece of confection in existence. - - - Updated - - - And of course great to see Macron winning, even if it was basically a formality.

Oh, but it's still much more important than most of these actual & supposed terrorist attacks, and I for one would like to see much more coverage of it.

I'm afraid you're gonna need to elaborate further on that :D

It's fucked up that until today, a guy in London with knives got more attention than this. Like, I get all of the media attention in case something like Bataclan happens, but a lot of times the amount of airtime terrorist attacks get is truly disproportionate and entirely counterproductive...

Nah, Macron is much more of a liberal (in the European sense of course).

Hollande, Macron and Sarkozy are a very different case from Fillon. The former just have a weird private life, but that's purely their and their spouse's business. Fillon has blatantly abused his public office for personal gain, that shit should get him arrested, baffling that he was...

Ah okay, yeah I haven't it heard in the radio either, but most longer newspaper articles & especially magazine features talk extensively about it, or at least mention it somewhere.

Really? I've heard it a couple of times already. But honestly I couldn't care less. I mean sure, it's weird af, but not something that should even remotely influence your voting decision (not that you were implying that). In that sense I actually really like the French political culture.

Yeah, but the main problem is that there are too little (well-paying) jobs. Raise age of retirement without doing much else and you'll just get more unemployed people, which are pretty damn expensive for the state too. And higher wages, even without additional people in employment, would be...

Yeah, those are the parts I kinda like about Le Pen :P At least the 35 hour week, retirement age being raised I can see being sensible depending on the context, but you'd need a proper employment program otherwise you're just gonna end up with lots of unemployed youth + older people losing...

Says the guy watching Real-Barca instead :baus: