I guess it matches Aisha’s age in the Qur’an

Yeah but on the other hand, big numbers on a screen.

Even a 1 or 2% per trade would bring massive amounts of money, not even trying to make it progressive or anything.

That we know of, I guess. Would be pretty fun to have an afterlife similar to the Good Place.

Now watch the effects ripple through the world. Now that a guy like him can be elected, politicians around the world will take note and use the same playbook. And it will probably work.

We already felt it in France with the 2016 US election, I can’t imagine what the next decade will be like…

Given the number they supposedly have, even if only 1% of them actually work, that’s way more than enough to blow up the world.

Yeah I had the opportunity for that recently, completely unmasked in front of someone I didn’t know. And holy crap it feels strange…

I use both depending on the mood, but I noticed that baking soda neutralises the taste of tomato whereas sugar neutralises the acidic taste.

Yeah, because of US interference and the EU complacency on having a unified army/defense system, we’re absolutely not ready if the US went rogue with a guy like Trump.

It’s very worrying for the future …

It’s something we should have done back in 2016 already, heavily reducing our reliance on the US in cases like that. Be it militarily or economically. The EU can’t keep being the third player in whatever world we are heading right into.

Yes but not necessarily in the way you think. “Bad” posture is usually linked to weak muscles and lack of mobility/flexibility. If you strengthen/stretch your muscles and connective tissues, eventually it should help correct your posture.

Turns out they had a lot to lose. Who could’ve seen this coming? I can understand the despair of Argentinians but that was just accelerationism.

Lebanese civilians and Lebanese homes are Hezbollah. It worked in Gaza, why wouldn’t it work in Lebanon.

I’d say we’re still far from it, but that’s definitely where we’re headed full steam

They could but they won’t have enough votes to go through with it unfortunately. The assembly is roughly 33% of the three big groups, the united left, Macron’s party and the far right. With the united left having slightly more seats than the other two.

To be fair we’re pretty tired and hopeless, most people are apathetic now because nothing seems to be working.

Strikes and demonstrations are vilified by the media, the left is not united enough to hit as hard as they should, the president is a child throwing tantrums to have it the way he wants, the media is owned by very few people so they control the narrative, etc.

It honestly feels hopeless, most people want change, but to a lot of people the demonising of the left has worked and the far right seems to be a reasonable option now.

It’s gonna get a lot worse before it gets better unfortunately…

As far as I know, by tradition, Macron should have taken the NFP’s candidate as prime minister even though they only had a small majority. Then the assembly could have censored the government or not, basically triggering a new election if they did.
Macron, knowing what we want better than everyone else, took a shortcut by making shoddy alliances with the traditional right and the far right to name Barnier.

The only reason he refused to name Castet was because she wanted to reverse his retirement reform (which was also rejected by the far right, so it could have actually been removed). But the official communications were all about “nobody really won the election” or “it would be ungovernable”.

Macron is a child throwing tantrums because what he wants is best and he knows better than us peasants, he sees himself as a benevolent dictator, as in, he is making the tough decisions because he knows he’s right. And in our constitution, the president has extensive powers that allow him to act in such a way if he wants to, with basically no checks and balances but honesty and tradition.

And in all that, some members of his former government won seats at the assembly, and kept their positions as ministers too. So we had deputies-ministers, wrapping up the “urgent matters” and setting themselves up for their next jobs. They effectively wrote budgets that, they themselves will vote for in the next few weeks. That’s effectively breaking the separation of power

This is a counter argument to having a constitution that allows the president to do what Macron did. There are basically nothing stopping him besides tradition and good will.

The defense lawyers also tried the “rape” and rape defense bullshit. Arguing that if you’re not intentionally raping someone, it’s not rape.

I guess it’s their job to defend their clients but what the fuck is that kind of argument…

Oh yeah, because not wanting 90% of my country’s media to belong to 10 people, or have proper taxation for richer folks, or good use of my tax euros for proper free health care and education for everyone make me a Stalinist.

I’d absolutely rather have billionaire fueled propaganda against brown people and the poor, all the while they eat lobster and literally burn the planet to the ground. At least that’s not slightly leftist, right ?