fredfertang
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Tricky, unless you use the stairsHow the **** does someone climb to the top of the Arc de Triomphe?
Tricky, unless you use the stairsHow the **** does someone climb to the top of the Arc de Triomphe?
Oh yeah. I had the impression they climbed the outside of itTricky, unless you use the stairs
https://t.co/o3684g4w4n yeahhttps://twitter.com/NYTScience/status/1043747667933839365?s=19
Italy I think is just a broken country. Remember when they tried to jail seismologists for not predicting an earthquake?
I'm not sure. France places great importance on holding politicians to account in representing "the people" so to speak, for obvious historical reasons.Was Macron withdrawing the diesel tax a bad precedent? Like by doing that, he's implied (unintentionally) that these protests can work.
It's a good underlying culture to have given that it means the masses aren't simply apathetic and are willing to do something if things go badly. The current situation will eventually calm down and that culture will remain, although the tax being put back may still prove to be a bad precedent depending on how things go in the short and medium term.I'm not sure. France places great importance on holding politicians to account in representing "the people" so to speak, for obvious historical reasons.
The trade off is populism as seen here but I think that's the trade off that they're willing to make, in contrast with, for example, the US culture of simply accepting that certain figures such as the president can make decisions un-democratically without expecting rebuff.
When did this train fall off the rail?
I think one has to go back to the principles of the French Revolution which are equality, liberty, and fraternity. They have led to the two major emancipation movements — socialism and liberalism — and both are fundamentally flawed. The derailment, in turn, has come in waves. Modernism, a renewal of the radical elements in the French Revolution, which kicked in right after the First World War, set in motion yet another wave of mistakes. And then came the '60s. So, there have been several moments in the past two centuries.
No, his whole appeal is badly mangled Greco-Latin.Could they have thought of a better word for the phenomenon that oikophobic? Sounds like a something related to a farm animal.
He basically sounds like he really, really, really wants to be an absolute monarch.No, his whole appeal is badly mangled Greco-Latin.