French political discussion megathread: Yellow Vest Redux

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Living in Grenoble for a few months i could follow it a bit closer, im not sure Piolle is trying any kind of 'gain' here, im not particularly a fan of the guy at all levels but i pretty much like how he handles it in a very cool and simple manner

Everybody should bath the way they wish as long as security is concerns

As he said, come topless, come covered, whatever ur concern is, personal, medical, religious, else

And such a peacefull way to put it and not to bend about it in the total cultural insanity we are crossing feels gooooood, yeah

Also, official debate took place few days ago here, he broke his majority amongst Greens on this, approval was short

Whats utterly astounding is that...THAT...became the biggest topic of this campaign so far, along with how Mélenchon would in fact be worse than Le Pen, worse than Putin too maybe? Nothing else matters apparently

And to be fair, besides Mélenchon and friends, nobody is really campaigning

Oh, and, if u like signs, here are the new ones in Grenoble:

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https://twitter.com/BFMTV/status/1527652061608923143?s=20&t=BZgFl-D4HcovR1b_...

Macron replaces minister of Edu. Previously occupied by a 'anti-woke' rightist, now the position would be held by a historian who is a expert on racism in the West.

Thats effectively the main shift in this government, rest is mostly continuity, still more classissism Macron style

Choosing a guy like this in our insane cultural inflamable context is kind of like throwing a glass of water in a pan full full of hot oil

Not sure yet if it's a matter of conviction, it would be a 180° compared to Blanquer, so quick change of convictions, something to make the 'Right' mad and always further than far, maybe making them lose their mind, trying to annoy a bit NUPES, picking someone they wouldnt really oppose

Also, the new spokewoman doesnt look like the most diplomatic person, which can be important when u had a look at last years here, but well, let's see ^^

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Solidarities and autonomy: Damien Abad (ex-LR), the latest guy poached from LR: was deputy for Ain-5 since 2012 and president of the LR group since 2019. Was widely expected to join the government.

Looks like he is already on the way out as Mediapart has revealed two women have accused him of sexual assaults that took place respectively in 2010 and 2011. Two complaints have been filed against him on 2012 and 2017 by one of the women, who also claimed having been drugged during a drink with Abad in a bar. Both complaints were however shelved. A report on Abad’s presumed rape acts has been sent to LR and Renaissance on mid-May by the Observatory for sexist and sexual violence in politics, an organization born out of the French #MeToo. Neither LR nor Renaissance bothered to answer and so was Macron who has, remember, made gender equality a ‘big cause’ of his presidency.

Abad is denying the accusations but the general secretary of LR is now admitting Abad had ‘a strange behavior’ with women and having discussed with him after testimonies of improper behavior with female collaborators.

Suffering from arthrogryposis, Abad is wrongly presented in most French medias as ‘the first disabled deputy’ (Georges Couthon and Élie Bloncourt beg to disagree) but highlights his disability to dismiss the rape accusations.

This came a dozen of days after the criticisms against LFI coming from both LR and Renaissance about the candidacy of Taha Bouhafs who had to withdraw over allegation of sexual assault (in that same constituency, Renaissance however renominated the incumbent deputy, Yves Blein, himself investigated for sexual harassment). Well at least, TV pundits will now something else to discuss than the alleged 'wokism' and 'racialism' of Pap Ndiaye.

Apparently they are keeping him as long as Justice doesnt come with something, thats weird that he wasnt at least privately asked to withdraw in order to 'make the light on it' instead of throwing the dark on the new govt

Also, checked a bit the 1st intervention of the new spokeswoman, as appealing as a jail gate, and i dont mean physically at all, fully old school UMP style, im not even blaming her, it was her 1st, and that would just be her style, just not really sure it was the best choice to make nowadays...

Dunno what this govt will be able to manage, but clearly doesnt start on the best notes

Shall we start at the beginning. Éric Piolle, mayor of Grenoble, allows women to go to to public swimming pools wearing a burkini. The political-media class has a meltdown; the LR Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes president Laurent Wauquiez announced the suspension of all funding for the city of Grenoble.

But also, the French actually put signs like this up at their swimming pools


why are they like this??

i'm surprised they allow trunks, I thought France was a speedos only land.

Oh, whats the reference about it?

The speedo was already a shame at least when i was in high school, and well, thats some tiiime now already

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I dont know if that's the pretty hot weather here, and still more in Grenoble, but the news are really 'swimmy poolie'...

https://www.franceinter.fr/societe/mal-a-l-aise-dans-les-piscines-municipales-ces-femmes-musulmanes-choisissent-de-louer-chez-des-particuliers

It's about a trend showing that more and more Muslim women rent some private swimming pools cause they dont feel comfortable in public ones

Besides the fact that it's cosier, and well, a bit more expensive as well, then maybe not for everybody, thats what u could get in bigger numbers if u increase the cultural restrictions and discriminations for no actual reason besides, well, discrimination

U want everybody the same then u'll force people to separate still more, congrats to all those who do it for the 'unity of the nation'

We'll just have to wait to see some professional/clandestine but anyways private Muslim pools to pop up now i guess...

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Just a little thing since the whole govt has been posted here, it's something that was underlined by an economical journalist that hadnt even striked me nor a lot of other journalists since i had never heard it being mentionned, but, in this whole govt, and unlike in most if not all preceding govts during the, maybe the 2 to 3 last decades, there is just...nothing dedicated to...Housing!!

Which is terrible when u see that mostly the whole political debates very recently were about 'level of life'/'buying power' (i dont remember the usual terms in English, but u would get the point) and that Housing, both public and private is a very big issue in France and is by far what takes the most place in the 'cost of living'!

And i dont even speak about the conditions to access to it, both for renting and buying which are becoming always more insanely complicated

They focus on trying to distribute whatever checks they can imagine against inflation to deal with that issue of cost, since they cant do much against inflation anyways, this would mostly take place in Frankfurt if anything, and planning nothing significant to deal with the one major cost issue on which they could actually do something!

It's like u have an elephant wandering in a porcelain shop, destroying here and there, nobody in charge in the shop caring about it, but that shop would have the generosity to give u a bit of glue with ur porcelain, great ^^

They might correct it after elections, but the 'Great Plan for the Cost of Life' was supposed to take place as soon as now, in order to, well, prepare elections...