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Cake day: June 23rd, 2023

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  • Yeah french presidents have been able to get elected in those “best of two” presidential elections (you vote twice, the second round is the top two from the first, so very easy to manipulate) by helping the far right getting into the second place (started with Chirac or even earlier) so you only have one reasonable choice (Democracy vs not).

    People got fed up with it, got numb to it, and also the far right have become more of a populistic party too (on the outside at least).

    It doesn’t help Macron seems to believe he’s some sort of rightful heir after those shenanigans too and just brutally impose what he wants without taking into account what the people want (there have been massive strikes and protests, even by french standards, to absolutely no avail).

    Sigh.














  • It’s not worse today IMO, I mean the news, it’s just we’re constantly seing them, because of our smartphones & cetera.

    In the nineties the toral nuclear war was also imminent and we’d not be able to live outside because of pollution @ year 2000.

    To combat all that I’m getting my information myself, so I go to trusted sources and check out the state of the world in that specific matter (I have decided to follow certain topics, because I just can’t take in everything) instead of being bombarded by random clickbait horror stories (remember, news outlets needs to capture your attention Every day even if nothing happens and also gore and hate sells more).

    Cheers and good luck!