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I always enjoy watching the French get hoisted by their own petard. The low retirement age was a bribe to get the unions on board with centralizing power for the government. Now the bill has come due and the unions are suddenly realizing that the wolf has arrived to eat them too.

The entire French empire has always been explicitly designed to serve the interests of the metropole. Their elections are designed to weed out undesirables and their soft institutions protect their own no matter how many proles burn cars in the streets. There's a reason they were so cozy with...

Antisemitic memes are almost universally cherry-picked bullshit, but I know even Israelis that think the Jews (meaning in their case the specific tribe of Judah) are a bunch of elitist assholes. The whole "To learn who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize" thing...

I think the French call this 'regular maintenance'.