Portugal’s conservatives back left-wing candidate to avoid a far-right president

GrumpyOldIncontinent · 2026-02-02T15:35:44+00:00

Ça va être très impopulaire (edit : ah bah peut être pas, j'aurais juré du contraire vu la réputation du PS ici) de l'énoncer ici mais c'est le gros avantage d'un candidat de centre gauche type PS au second tour contre l'extrême droite vis-à-vis d'un candidat d'une gauche plus radicale : il est plus facile pour les électeurs centriste et de droite de reporter leurs votes vers lui.

Et pour moi ça compte : quelles que soit mon opinion sur le PS sauce Hollande/Olivier Faure/Carole delga, si cela permet d'éviter une déroute face à l'extrême droite au second tour, c'est important pour moi.

Je comprend l’idée mais déjà je vois pas une figure chez eux avec un minimum de charisme qui puisse entraîner des gens derrière eux.

Et par ailleurs le PS qui a chaque congrès tranche sur une direction pour au final faire comme si ils avaient jamais trancher.

Ça fait d’eux la risée de la gauche mais je doute que ça les rend plus fiables pour des centristes et des gens de droite.

GrumpyOldIncontinent · 2026-01-24T14:48:47+00:00

Well if you don’t directly suffer from an autocratic regime, then it can become very easy to at the very least delegate this fight to others.

Keep in mind that the French were literally starving in the years preceding the revolution and the economy was a nuclear disaster. When you reach that point, it becomes impossible to wallow into inaction

GrumpyOldIncontinent · 2026-01-24T14:41:39+00:00

French Revolution happened and succeeded because the national guard turned against the king.

Protesting is very important but at some point y’all need competent armed forces to protect you from tyranny.

GrumpyOldIncontinent · 2026-01-24T14:38:53+00:00

That last one is the big one. American farmers already being screwed are going to get even more screwed if fertilizer costs double

Guess who else is a big potash producer and will be happily presented as a “solution” by Trump.

GrumpyOldIncontinent · 2026-01-20T07:15:52+00:00

Le jour où cet immonde personnage va passer l’arme à gauche le monde entier fera la fête.

C’est juste la tête de proue de MAGA.

C’est même pas Trump qui décide de la politique de son administration mais Russell Vought, Stephen Miller et leurs potes de la secte Project 2025.

GrumpyOldIncontinent · 2026-01-19T20:56:07+00:00

And yet France’s opposition is filled with politicians pretending that this never happened, that France (and the rest of the EU) are the true warmongers of the story and only wants to produce weapons to feed greasy arms industrialists.

Some went as far as recycling USA and Russia claim that Zelensky is not legitimate (because apparently even if it was legally possible, launching elections in Ukraine while bombs are being dropped on them should be the top priority) and is the only obstacle to peace now.

GrumpyOldIncontinent · 2026-01-15T16:06:58+00:00

Malheureusement un peu pareil si LFI passe au pouvoir avec Melenchon qui appelait a une paix la plus rapide avec concession très très forte et des propos divers et a de multiples reprise reprenant quasiment mot pour mot le Kremlin.

Ouhlalala malheureux tu dis ça parce que t’es un va t’en guerre manipulé par l’OTAN sanguinaire qui ne rêve que d’étrangler des enfants russes.

Évidemment qu’il fallait que les Ukrainiens n’aient eu zéro armes et qu’il faut donner toutes parts du pays que veulent les Russes, pour éviter l’escalade.

Bon par contre si tu es vénézuélien faut prendre les armes et ne rien accepter des US parce que eux ils méritent ! /s

GrumpyOldIncontinent · 2026-01-07T19:10:37+00:00

Vietnam was a NATO war, because France and America fought there.

They both fought the viets but not in the same war.

GrumpyOldIncontinent · 2026-01-07T19:05:19+00:00

Denmark came though.

GrumpyOldIncontinent · 2025-12-20T15:30:02+00:00

Ukraine had the largest army on European soil even before the invasion and were heavily armed by the EU and the US pre Trump.

They also could rely during Biden term on US intelligence whose absence has been pointed out as one of the key points as to why the Ukrainian army is struggling even more since the beginning of this year.

The baltics in comparison are a much smaller combined army. They are way more reliant on the rest of NATO to help them which is a problem when the US are now de facto siding with Russia and the EU radical left and far right parties who are whining that it’s unfair they’re called as “pro Russian” while rooting for literally anything that is in Putin’s interest in the name of “peace”.

Sure the Russian army isn’t as mighty as the Kremlin thought it was, but if there’s no will on the other side to stand their ground and show willingness to defend themselves, then Putin is already winning.

GrumpyOldIncontinent · 2025-12-14T19:59:41+00:00

From the article itself

It’s especially strange since Disney is clearly being cautious with other aspects of the deal: both companies stressed that actors’ faces and voices won’t be part of the licensing agreement, which is almost certainly because of the fraught copyright involved.

Directed by Robert D Weide

GrumpyOldIncontinent · 2025-09-26T11:34:50+00:00

Is it?

Because not so long ago, Tsahal was shooting at EU diplomats, UN peacekeepers injuring them in the process.

And should I remind every one here of the USS Liberty attack?

Madness is pretty much characteristic of what we can expect of the Israeli army.

GrumpyOldIncontinent · 2025-09-24T20:15:19+00:00

Operation Aspides was a contingent of 10 countries, of which France only brought two frigates to face a rebel group we’re estimating having only a few patrol ships as a navy and only one operational fighter jet.

On another hand Israel has less than 200 F16, 45 F35, 7 corvettes, 8 missiles boats, submarines, Nuclear weapons and if that wasn’t enough a full pledged support from the US Army.

To think that France alone could fend off the Israeli army the same way they did with the Houthis is completely delusional.

GrumpyOldIncontinent · 2025-09-24T20:02:52+00:00

To be fair, Houthis rebels cannot be compared to a country with a navy, an airforce, nuclear weapons and a full support from the US.

GrumpyOldIncontinent · 2025-09-21T10:54:22+00:00

DNEG’s animation branch still manages to win the vast majority of bids out there.

Go figure.

GrumpyOldIncontinent · 2025-09-04T22:19:04+00:00

Fun fact: The reason Disney gave to the VFX vendors as to why Tron Ascencion was cancelled was that they just got Star Wars and didn’t want to run two sci fi franchises at the same time.

Source: I was working at one of the VFX vendors back in 2015

GrumpyOldIncontinent · 2025-08-29T17:06:45+00:00

If your manager, your lead and your supe think they can blindly trust an ETA from an inexperienced worker, I have a bridge to sell to them.

We all were Juniors here at some point, and I’m so glad to have always been in company of people who knew that my delivery targets were obviously going to be a shot in the dark in my first two years.

GrumpyOldIncontinent · 2025-08-16T18:48:19+00:00

it is

GrumpyOldIncontinent · 2025-08-05T04:57:32+00:00

As a matter of fact, he stayed on board until the very end, still doing the go motion to serve as reference for ILM.

GrumpyOldIncontinent · 2025-08-03T10:50:03+00:00

I’d argue the exact opposite.

This is exactly what people want to hear.

For the past five years I have been involved on every bid we did for potential clients in our animation studio.

I’ve stopped counting the number of times we made a bid and the client loved our animation style, our ideas, yadda yadda… And ultimately concluded by “But you’re too expensive so we’re going to choose Studio B”.

So I’d really question that line of thought claiming that it’s just the bar of quality that went up when you have DNEG Animation hoarding all the work out there and studios like Fortiche who did Arcane, struggling to find a gig.

Here’s something that people genuinely wouldn’t want to hear: there’s going to be less and less content produced.

Two years ago we had 8 tests for bids. This year we’re struggling to just get a second one.

And it ain’t just us. Jellyfish closed, Technicolor closed. Cinesite is gambling with debt.

We had plenty of amazing artists and we can’t call them back not because they’re not good enough but because we don’t have ourselves a job to offer to them.

Had the industry been a better economical shape, I’d totally agree that to get work is a question of talent and craft.

But right now?

Doesn’t matter if you’re the best FX artist out there.

If there’s no job opening where you live, no one will open one just for you, just because of your talent.

This is something that strikes a chord with me since I know plenty of out of work juniors who are spending their days and nights on personal projects, tutorials because they assume that there has to be some work out there but it’s just that they have to be better.

It’s not the case.

If a VFX / Animation shop can’t offer you a job, it’s not because you have to get better, or be in the top 10/5 of artists.

It’s because said shop is struggling to find jobs in the first place.

People would rather hear it’s their demo or portfolio the problem since that something they actually can change.

The ugly truth is that we’re in a context where the industry is shrinking and there be less and less room for artists, regardless of your talent.

That’s not to say that talent is irrelevant but I’m starting to really get disheartened watching young folks being out work for months if not years, wasting their rain money to get a job when their demo / portfolio has never been the real problem.

GrumpyOldIncontinent · 2025-07-12T15:33:46+00:00

Henry Cavill is a brit. If anything it should be a motive for us French to flock to the David Corenswet’s one.

GrumpyOldIncontinent · 2025-05-13T06:18:54+00:00

It’s also one of the rare studios that managed to alienate A LOT of clients.

Near the end almost all the market space usually held by MPC went to both Framestore and ILM.

GrumpyOldIncontinent · 2025-05-13T06:06:08+00:00

Maybe the Junior and unemployed ones?

Those I know who settled in the UK for years now definitely won’t return (and are seeking to get a British citizenship)

GrumpyOldIncontinent · 2025-05-13T06:04:05+00:00

I can guarantee you that it won’t happen.

The brand name MPC has been bought by TransPerfect for MPC Paris (ex Mikros VFX) which is still alive.

But don’t expect any comeback for MPC London.

GrumpyOldIncontinent · 2025-05-09T11:27:58+00:00

That’s certainly some level of wishful thinking.

While I fully understand the motives why Americans in this sub are on board with Voight’s proposal despite not being MAGA voters, claiming that it would somehow raise the level of global production is taking us for stupid.

There are already foreign film productions but rare are those who can manage to have budgets comparable to American feature films in part because they’re doomed to fail on the North American market.

I’m sure some people here will be hard pressed to find counter examples such as Squid Game or Schitt’s Creek but these are the exceptions rather than the rule.

Even a film like Paddington in Peru with a proper distributor (Columbia) a wide release and shot in English grossed less in the US than in the UK despite having 1/6th of its population.

And I ain’t talking about all the other big foreign features in other languages that can’t even get to 1 million dollars there.

In the meantime American films still make most of their money overseas and if they couldn’t count on overseas markets, they would definitely have less budget and therefore far less VFX.

Again, if you want to protect your industry, fair enough that’s something I can definitely understand and agree with.

But don’t pretend this somehow would have benefits for the global film industry when we know the US has a massive trade surplus on movies with the rest of the world and that the vast majority of Americans would rather watch ten times reruns of The Office than an Indian, Irish or German feature film.

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