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The Gilets Jaunes reject Macron's fake olive branch:
Unrelenting Yellow Vest activists have marched in Paris and other French cities for the 24th straight weekend, just days after Emmanuel Macron tried to placate the protest movement with promises of lower taxes.Notice that even France, which is the most civic-nationalist of the European nations, is more aggressively nationalist than the USA. Civic nationalism is literally demoralizing, as it is nothing more than stealth Globalism Lite.
The demonstrators who assembled in Paris, Toulouse and Strasbourg on Saturday appear to signal that despite the French president’s recent concessions to the group, the Yellow Vest movement is alive and well.
On Thursday, Macron held the first major press conference of his two-year presidency, in which he announced that he wanted to implement “significant” income tax cuts. The televised conference, however, was not well received among those who have turned out week after week to demonstrate against Macron’s business-friendly austerity measures.
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When do Macron and his butt buddies get frustrated and lose patience?
Off topic and I apologize for leading off with this but some may find this interesting.
On today CDAN blind item #12 regarding Weinstein getting off, a commenter named Molly provided this voat link regarding an AMA about Pizzagate on what's supposed to be an NSA twitter account.
Here's the voat link:
https://voat.co/v/pizzagate/3183675
Here's the twitter account:
https://twitter.com/NSA_QIL
It's tweets are protected.
Danielle Blumenthal provide a summary of the AMA here:
https://www.dannielleblumenthal.com/2019/04/ama-with-nsaqil-nsa-child-crimes-april.html
Nothing jumps out at me but it's interesting, if it's not a LARP, which it could well be. But it's a crime to impersonate a government agency and the AMA points this out specifically at the end.
It's regarding pedo stuff in general.
Delete this if it's out of line.
I'm surprised to hear that the Frogs are such civic nationalists given their arrogance and sense of superiority.
It's so interesting that Strasbourg is a hotbed of nationalism. Very good sign. Eagerly anticipating spill over, especially if it affects the convention/manufacturing city of Stuttgart not far away.
One of my Indian contacts lives in Strasbourg, works in German and admires the culture, and he reports that they don't have much vibrant activity. Something else might be bugging the bourgers.
@1 Sadly Ohioan and Not Wolverine
When do the entrenched financial powers that control the Macrons pay over the golden parachutes? Hopefully the people snuff them out beforehand and further extinguish the progeny. It's been a long time in working up reassertion of power from the middle. Also it's ripe or justabout.
I'm surprised to hear that the Frogs are such civic nationalists given their arrogance and sense of superiority.
One grows weary of this sort of thing from people who know less than nothing about France, the French language, the French people, their history, etc. It merely puts on display an appalling ignorance, a narrowness of mind, and the bad manners that can't help putting this stuff on display.
Besides which, if the French felt themselves so "superior," then why are they unable to defend themselves, their territory, their culture and history, etc.? Dat don' make no sense.
OT
Look at this audience for "Avengers: Endgame" in Brooklyn, New York (Williamsburg Cinemas, April 25, 2019).
https://nyti.ms/2ZDcstA
This is MCU's customer base.
@6 Well they're the closest to being civic nationalists in Europe but they're still nowhere near American-style civic nationalism.
@6
2003 is calling, it wants its "cheese eating surrender monkey" (((propaganda))) back.
Allons-y, Gilets Jaunes!
Monsieur Darcy est triggered.
Come on, the French are famous for their arrogance.
So is Vox.
Not saying it's necessarily a bad thing.
More and more people are finally understanding Macron's algorithm, which is "spout any bullshit that will serve as a diversion while we wreck the country." His platform is literally a shopping list, with points for each of the identities and groups he wants to pander to. The only group he doesn't care about are the people who actually produce value, ie people with actual jobs that aren't bullshit jobs, not taxpayer funded, not civil servants, not retired, etc, and they're the ones rebelling.
> I'm surprised to hear that the Frogs are such civic nationalists given their arrogance and sense of superiority.
Equalism was one of the pillars of French revolution, and this permeates our culture to this day. Our national motto is "Liberté Égalité Fraternité"... so yeah, civic nationalism is very common here.
"... if the French felt themselves so "superior," then why are they unable to defend themselves, their territory, their culture and history, etc.? "
Look at Canada. We are insufferably smug about ourselves. Our diversity and multiculturalism since Trudeau père. How we are not American.
And yet his son, now also Prime Minister, declares we are the “first postnational state”. That “There is no core identity, no mainstream in Canada.”
That is a complete betrayal of our nation and yet it gets a pass. Nations and cultures collapse from within. We seem to be seeing this everywhere in the West today.
@10 Come on, the French are famous for their arrogance.
Look at the cathedral they built and perhaps arrogance is appropriate!
It ain't braggin' if'n it's true!!!
peacefulposter wrote:Monsieur Darcy est triggered.
Come on, the French are famous for their arrogance.
So is Vox.
Not saying it's necessarily a bad thing.
Vox ... arrogant? What have I missed?
/snark
Since when is high income tax considered business friendly?
France has had about enough of Macron and the Democrats seemed headset on electing a new one before Geriatric Joe jumped in.
Yeah we will give the French middle class some income tax cuts, that will soften those working class French protesters. It is all to clear what the globalist state does now. It is hilarious.
Macron is a shallow neural network with feedback. He learned only tax cuts so when he gets negative feedback that's what he responds with. Not much different than electing ELIZA the Rogerian therapist for president.
That sense of superiority is a façade covering their very real sense of inferiority.
The tax cut thing still works on the Republican base in the US, so the other Western traitor states have been slow to figure out it doesn't work quite as well on their subjects anymore.
It'll be exciting to see how Quebec goes in the upcoming federal election. Not only because it determines the fate of the election but also the nationalist feeling.
To be honest I haven't accounted for SNC-Lavalin. I can't make head or tails of what it means for Quebec.
If the big C conservativeTM voting French towns in Alberta during the recent provincial election are any indication, then federally there is a good chance at Quebec votes big C conservativeTM.
It's amazing how "the Democrats" can block everything from circuit court nominations to national defense to healthcare reform, but tax cuts sail through the same Congress instantly with no opposition.
I think it's a little odd that Europeans have such high tax rates, given how easy it is to just steal the needed funds from the middle class via inflation.
peacefulposter wrote:I'm surprised to hear that the Frogs are such civic nationalists given their arrogance and sense of superiority.
They channel it into pride in their language, such that they would literally consider a banlieue jihadi more "French" than a Strasbourgi with a "German" accent (actually Alsatian). Correct me if I'm wrong.
Doug Cranmer wrote:Off topic and I apologize for leading off with this but some may find this interesting.
I'm really itching for Socialgalactic v2.0. I need a place to share random thoughts, such as how I just realized that "dilemma" is literally "two corollaries." Whoa.
maniacprovost wrote:I think it's a little odd that Europeans have such high tax rates, given how easy it is to just steal the needed funds from the middle class via inflation.
They screwed that up with the euro. Too many divergent interests are tied together. Specifically, the German creditors control the currency, so nations that were accustomed to balancing things through inflation (such as Italy and Greece) are no longer able to. Huge problem.
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