Pretty much. The whole peace process is just a way to string it out longer, as far as he’s concerned.

If he goes for Lebanon and the US doesn’t stop him, Iran probably should just go for broke, strategically speaking. There’s no way it stops there.

Man, I wish I had that many dicks.

What are the extra “dicks” for, exactly?

No. The party that runs it might be, and definitely was once, but AFAIK has made no moves towards anything democratically questionable.

Then again, I don’t follow Italian politics closely.

Ever wanted to afford a house? Oh wait, we’re shitting on Edmonton, so I won’t mention the one big advantage.

Ever wanted to live in Calgary, but without the spectacular scenery and happening social scene? And WTF is up with that road system?

What I really need is a breakdown of seats within Ensemble. That’s where Melenchon (edit: or the Socialists?) would be looking for partners.

Assuming that’s allowed, anyway. The parties within parties within parties thing is confusing.

As an American, maybe you know, but I should explain just in case: This is called a minority government, and it’s standard in many democracies around the world. Multiple parties will have to work together, and form a majority that can build a government. Or fail, triggering another election.

In this case, NFP will be looking around for people - independents and parties that are a part of Macron’s coalition - who would support them in exchange for goodies, like specific policies or being put in cabinet.

Flocons de mais, tabarnak…

As is tradition. (Only sort of /s)

I’m impressed you can read it at all. I’m not only unsure what OP is saying, but which side they’re on. The beginning sounds pro-Russia, but then at the end it’s the West that’s sending missiles.

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I mean, “woke philosophy” isn’t an official, unified thing, but there is a school of thought that says that, yes.

I’d say if it’s a story about going on a bender or working an office job, you probably could do it this way. If it’s a story about racism in the US it obviously wouldn’t work. You can add flavour to the story after the fact too, for realism. Like, if a character in the bender story gets thrown in the drunk tank, and this is set anywhere like America, it should be written very differently if they happen to be black.

I’d also emphasise using demographics numbers that are as targeted as possible. A story about an American prison where only 15% of inmates are black would still be problematic, just in a different way, because you’re artificially erasing one of the most obvious examples of modern systemic racism.

You’re right, I wrote that more like a German. /s

I would have gone with my epic Canadian cereal box French, but I think bad French is probably worse than no French.

Lol, from the AP.

Some big-name stores in Paris are protecting their windows in case of unrest as results come out, but that’s a pretty common precaution.

They party like it’s 1799, guys.

Well shit, then yeah, we get another election, and RN might win this time. He’s not about to buddy up with the conservatives, after all.

Is it possible he’s talking out of his ass? I don’t know why you’d kill your only option out of the gate like that.

Edit: Source, with specific place since it’s scrolling coverage.

Also an interesting tidbit:

This is uncharted territory for France. Unlike other countries in Europe that are more accustomed to coalition governments, France doesn’t have a tradition of lawmakers from rival political camps coming together to form a working majority.

Edit again: The seats in the diagram are themselves coalitions of some kind. I’m not actually sure how it all works, but some of those seats will end up belonging to parties other than Macron’s own, so maybe they could cross the floor and support Melenchon’s government.

He thinks he’s still on Imgur.

Hopefully Macron will play ball. He basically got exactly what he asked for, right?

Today, in my heart I am French.

Hmm. Well, I haven’t gotten any invites to orgies. The only possible, logical reason is that it’s a plus-premium thing.

On a serious note, if anyone’s an American who’s serious about moving to Canada and not just memeing, I’d get moving on it now. We have a massive housing shortage, and things would sticky politically if there was a big wave of people pushing prices up even more.

If only. No, they’ll make up something vague on the spot with a few buzzwords, and then it’s on you to debunk whatever garbage they said, and YOU look like this guy.

If you actually end up debating someone like this, it’s far better to propose something specific, and then leave them to to struggle to tackle it using their own, poorly defined ideas.

I’d suggest you make the characters, and then generate racial background at random to be representative of the population where the story is set. Then, if anyone makes a stink about it, you’ll be able to objectively skewer them for being full of shit.

I don’t know if you’re actually making a story or just wanted to vent about right-wing cancel culture (which, fair), but there you go.