J’ai Vu Always Human Et M’ai Eu Un

How the French react to gossip *gasp*

Mais non??? - No way

Mon dieu - My god

Oh mon dieu - Oh my god

Sérieux?? - Seriously?? 

Mais wesh - No way (that’s so informal lol use it with besties)

Incroyable - Incredible

J’ai pas les mots là - I have no words

Choqué(e) - Shooketh 

Oh la la - speaks for itself

C’est dingue - It’s crazy

C’est fou - It’s crazy

Anyway, on fera jamais mieux que ce graphique du LA Times.

I see a lot of incomprehension online about our pension reform and the anger it generates in France, and what it often boils down to is "why are they so angry, 64 is plenty young to retire?"

I don't agree, but even if I did I would still oppose the reform. Here are some of the reasons why:

We already need 43 full years of work and tax contributions to be able to retire. Which means college-educated people were never going to retire at 64 anyway, let alone 62. This reform is aimed at people who start working early, mostly in low-paying jobs.

There's very little provision made in this law for hard/dangerous/manual labour.

There's no provision made for women who stop working to raise their children (51% of women already retire without a "complete career," which means they only retire on a partial pension, vs. 25% of men).

At 64, 1/3 of the poorest workers will already be dead. In France, between the richest and the poorest men, there's a 13 years gap in life expectancy.

Beyond life expectancy, at that age a lot of people (especially poorer, non-college educated) have too many health-related issues to be able to work. Not only is it cruel to ask them to work longer, if they can't work at all that's two more years to hold on with no pension

Unemployment in France is still fairly high (7%). Young people already have a hard time finding work, and this is going to make things even harder for them

Macron cut taxes on the rich and lost the country around 16 Billions € in tax revenue. Our estimated pension deficit should peak at 12 Billions worst case scenario.

While I'm on wealth redistribution (no, not soviet style, but I think there should be a cap on wealth concentration. Nobody needs to be a billionaire.): some of the massive profits of last year should go to workers and to the state to be redistributed, including to fund pensions. The state subsidized companies and corporations during the pandemic, Macron even said "no matter the cost" and spent 206 Billions € on businesses. Now he's going after the poorest workers in the country for an hypothetical 12 Billions??

Implicit in all of this is the question of systemic racism. French workers from immigrant families are already more likely to have started their careers early, to have low-paying jobs, are less likely to be college-educated, more at risk for disabilities and chronic illnesses, etc., so this is going to disproportionately affect them

This is not even touching on the fact that he didn't let lawmakers vote on it, meaning he knew he wouldn't get a majority of votes in parliament, or that 70% of the population is against this law. Pushing it through anyway is blatant authoritarianism.

TL;DR: This is only tangentially about retirement age. The reform will make life harder for people with low incomes, or with no higher education, for manual workers, for women—mothers especially, for POC, for people with disabilities or chronic conditions, etc. This is about solidarity.

Hope (sincerely) this helps.

Un sommaire de mes messages à autres aujourd’hui:

-*quelque chose sur tumblr*

-Aussi Joyeuses Pâques

Sur ces mots Joyeuses Pâques à tous qui la célèbrent.

Sophocle: Antigone a violé la loi de la polis pour enterrer son frère? LA MORT

Euripide: je comprends qu’elle a tué quelques gens mais écoutez; Medea est mon petit miaou miaou modeste

Petard mais Euripide a un problème de fanservice tel que les ewoks de Star Wars c'est rien a côté.

Si on écoute les headcanons du mec

- en faite Hélène n'est jamais allé à Troy. c'est une image d'Hélène créée par Zeus qui a été emmené la bas. Donc les autres tragédiens rageux vous êtes prié d'arrêter de la cancel.

- Iphigénie ? la best girl? sacrifiée sur un bûcher par son père ? En faite Artemis l'a sauvé et l'a remplacé par une biche. Et du coup son frère Oreste la retrouvera plus tard en vie. Et avec Electre, ils auront donc le droit à un happy ever after, parce que c'est comme ça que se terminent les tragédies grecques normalement. Tout est logique ya rien a voir merci. 

T'as du bol d'être un tragédien grecque frérot, parce que que si tu écrivais aujourd'hui, tu te ferais roast sur les réseaux sociaux.

Une question pour les françaises (French side of tumblr):

Salut! Je sais que la France est la deuxième plus grande consommatrice du manga au monde derrière le Japon. Quelqu’un peut si-vous-plaît expliquez la connection entre la France et le Japon pour moi? (Ou la connection française avec l’Asie de l’Est en général).

En anglais:

Hi! I know that France is the second biggest consumer of manga worldwide behind Japan. Could anyone please explain for me the connection between France and Japan? (Or the French connection with East Asia in general)

Merci!

Un des problèmes d’aimer le STEM et d’être en ligne chroniquement c’est que mes profs mentioneront les alpha, beta, et sigma et je passerai aux tous les cinq stades de deuil

L’un bienfait pour Saiki c’est que Light et L sont les deux tellement bizarre donc il semble sans intérêt en comparaison

J’aime l’idée d’un crossover entre Saiki K et Death Note parce que j’imagine une scène avec Light et L à l’université dans un cours fairent leurs monologues longs sur si Light semble comme Kira et la caméra faire un zoom avant l’arrière de l’amphi où Saiki à dit mentalement «TAISEZ! VOUS!»

You may think a single egg isn't a lot to have for breakfast, but for a Frenchman, it's just un oeuf

Forgive me if these are inaccurate, it’s been a minute since I’ve re-read Devils and Realist in its entirety but I felt the urge to make this meme