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@pavelreplies @MichaelAArouet You're of course entitled to your (strong) value judgments - and unilaterally biased suggestions. Thanks for a polite debate. Time to sleep, bye.

And that is Mitterand's biggest victory and most impressive political legacy (for the better of the worse). It effectively neuters political opposition, without having to physically exterminate them (which many other left-wing politicians in many countries have had to do to stay in power). It's impressive, actually, even if I don't like it.

France was a really great country. It all ended though, when the far-left Mitterrand was elected president. The only thing really growing in France since then has been debt/GDP: from 22% when Mitterrand was elected to 116% today. Don’t be like modern-day France.

@pavelreplies @MichaelAArouet All "solid-left" policies, nobody can deny it. 🫡

@CryptSoupi there is catch, however: Frequently, the French politicians announce cuts in "spending1", but quietly increase "tax2", and finance new or additional "spending2" with it. Examples: - Cut APL, but increase CSG. - Cut corporate income tax (IS), but implement "temporary tax on large corporate profits" (still in place since 2021) - Limit unemployment benefits to 15-18 months, but index retirement pensions to inflation - Implement pension reform (62->64), then freeze it next year - Raise taxes on gas consumption, then implement an "energy shield" when people are freezing in winter.

@pavelreplies @MichaelAArouet I get it, but from your perspective arguably 90+% of the politicians in France are solid-left or further left. That's not a spectrum anymore, just a big red laser dot!

Depends on whether we analyze social policies or economic ones. Personally, I care more about economics: From that perspective, anybody who maintains the current level of spending and taxation in France is to the left (center left, solid left or hard left), because it doesn't change the dynamic or the trajectory. Anybody who proposes to reduce spending and/or taxation would be center, or right-wing (depending on how much reform they want). David Lisnard would probably be center-right? (I'm waiting for the detailed program for 2027 though). Sarah Knafo probably solid right? (again, only from an economics perspective)

@pavelreplies @MichaelAArouet If Sarko and Marcon are solid left, I'm curious, across your political spectrum, who would fit from center-left to solid-right wing ! 🤣

I never mentioned "extreme left", you did. You never actually asked where I would place them. As for me, I would place them as solid left-wing, without "extreme". They are the spiritual successors of the Mitterand, with a slightly different tool set. Less nationalisation, more helicopter money.

@pavelreplies @MichaelAArouet Your point was, through your question, to induce that both were to be considered extreme left in a political spectrum.

@CryptSoupi @MichaelAArouet ... all made fully irrelevant by the sheer volume (and acceleration) of total spending. Which was my point to begin with.

@pavelreplies @MichaelAArouet Retirement age up; reduction of pension advantages; reduced unemployment benefit duration and tighter eligibility rules; easier layoffs; weaker collective protections; reduction of housing subsidies (APL); tightening of welfare system; public sector downsizing.

@CryptSoupi @MichaelAArouet Did they?

@pavelreplies @MichaelAArouet "which two presidents of the 5th Republic cut the most on social programs"? Try that with your favourite IA, or just read the French news of the last 20 years... Good night.

@CryptSoupi @MichaelAArouet "We listen and we don't judge"

@pavelreplies @MichaelAArouet I checked on X, it seems Macron and Sarko are both revolutionary Trotskyist homosexuals.

@CryptSoupi @MichaelAArouet Sarkozy and Macron both did not reduce the number of € spent on social programs. In fact, they increased it to levels that Mitterrand couldn't dream of. So you tell me, where does that put them on the political spectrum, from an economics perspective?

@JerryTurin @Aboujahjah Okay, targeting an opinion group then, much better.

@Aboujahjah Untrue. It applies to deadly terrorist acts in the West Bank and intentional murders in Israel & East Jerusalem of Israel citizens and residents including with the motive of "negating the existence of the state of Israel". No ethnic distinction involved.

Israel has now become the first state to codify a death sentence that applies in practice to one ethnic group, while another is effectively shielded from it.

@BitcoinMagazine @BitcoinMagPro Funny that you're log-spread ("rainbow" thickness) increases over time while the BTC spread has been factually decreasing all this time. Which induces you only fit your bottoms and not your tops. Pure clownery 🤡

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@CesarCavalhero Financé par le CNC messieurs dames !

La France aurait un soft-power si son cinéma racontait son histoire, ses mythes et héros. Pas en faisant des comédies avec Kad Merad ou un énieme film sur la résistance vu 1000 fois. Qu’on me cite un film financé par le CNC qui en valait la peine, qu’on ramène ça au nombre d’œuvre financées.

@Philipp81346304 @0poulpe000 "The court ruled that it is plausible that Israel's acts could infringe rights of the Palestinian people protected by the Genocide Convention". Vous êtes un débile ou un tocard, probablement les 2.

@0poulpe000 Le droit international est formel: d'après la CIJ et la CPI, seules compétentes en la matière, il n'y a pas de génocide à Gaza Janco veut tjr se faire passer pour un ingé rationnel mais plus personne n'est dupe, ça fait lgtps qu'il ne prêche plus que pour son public décroissant

Jancovici va se mettre à dos la partie de son public qui aime le nucléaire mais pas les arabes : "Il y a un génocide à Gaza"

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@PeterLBrandt @htltimor Try Google Scholar, are you that fucking stupid?

@htltimor Better than the NYT, NBC, CNN, WSL, Wash Post, FT or any mainstream media -- by a country mile