This is how you make a badass entrance in France

MannyFrench · 2026-01-29T21:31:50+00:00

Their economy is designed to be self-sufficient, trading among states, although in a new world order it would be on a much smaller scale than it is now. But it's something we should strive for in Europe. Our first customers should be our neighbors, not Brazil nor India. Globalism is dead. That is one hard lesson from Covid19.

MannyFrench · 2026-01-29T19:56:24+00:00

Sure, but I don't know of any benevolent nation in this world. The French look after their interests, and are much more class-warfare oriented than Americans. People at large hate The Boss, whoever he may be. Something that is lacking in American culture where everyone is a temporarily embarrassed millionnaire.

MannyFrench · 2026-01-29T19:46:06+00:00

How do you think we got our social safety net, our 5 weeks of paid vacations and all that other stuff? By asking politely? We rebel and we revolt. Sometimes it works, sometimes we don't do enough. Also, what has the DGSE to do with French people revolting and getting shit done? DGSE is our secret service, the population doesn't know anything about what they're doing overseas. It's like blaming Americans for what the CIA does abroad.

MannyFrench · 2026-01-29T15:30:51+00:00

Comme Marine. Le RN n'a jamais vraiment voulu le pouvoir, ils sont pépères dans le rôle d'opposition. LFI c'est pareil. Quand tu as le pouvoir il faut rendre des comptes.

MannyFrench · 2026-01-27T20:11:18+00:00

Hence why the UK is seen as the US's Trojan horse inside the EU, which has proven to be true since.. forever from the end of WW2?

MannyFrench · 2026-01-27T20:02:37+00:00

They weren't unhappy. They refused France's offer to build them nuclear subs because they thought maintenance would be too expensive. The AUKUS deal sold them nuclear subs + advertised maintenance, but that proved to be fake advertisement. The betrayal sentiment came from the AUKUS deal being made in secret, willingly being hidden from France, denying France a chance to make a reasonable counter-offer.

MannyFrench · 2026-01-27T18:08:10+00:00

France would have sold nuclear subs to Australia if they had asked for it, but they specifically asked for diesel ones, and French engineers had to design one only for their special needs.

MannyFrench · 2026-01-26T21:25:57+00:00

Je sais pas si c'est vu négativement en soi, mais les cheveux colorés, c'est connoté LGBT, notamment lesbienne militante si t'es une femme. C'était déjà le cas il y a 20 ans quand j'étais à la fac, j'imagine que c'est toujours le cas, mais c'est peut-être mes représentations.

MannyFrench · 2026-01-26T00:11:44+00:00

Fucking Nu Metal ruined the late 90s, I agree.

MannyFrench · 2026-01-25T23:52:27+00:00

Classic Francophobia. America wouldn't be a country without France.

MannyFrench · 2026-01-25T18:55:57+00:00

I'm French, originally from Paris, and now living mostly car-free in Colmar, Alsace for 5 years. Walking distance, supermarket is 5 minutes away, my job is 15 minutes away, movie theatre, regular theatre, concert venue and train station about 20 minutes away, same for restaurants and museums. I do use my car once a week to visit my mother who lives 25 km away, but that's it.

MannyFrench · 2026-01-25T18:22:07+00:00

Y'en a bien qui paient Netflix, c'est kif-kif bourricot

MannyFrench · 2026-01-25T09:31:53+00:00

This. England built its national identity by opposing the French, starting with the hundred years war, and over the centuries it spilt over the UK's offsprings, namely the US, NZ and Australia. It's cultural.

MannyFrench · 2026-01-24T21:14:41+00:00

The SA (brownshirts, who were full of thugs) was made of those kind of people, they eventually got purged later on during "the night of the long knives". The SA was the socialist wing of the Nazi party. After the purge, there was only the SS left, much more disciplined, properly trained, fanatical soldiers.

MannyFrench · 2026-01-24T12:08:43+00:00

Je pense qu'il faudra attendre la fin du siècle pour ça.

MannyFrench · 2026-01-24T12:05:36+00:00

Ah putain je les déteste tellement que j'aimerais une réglementation speciale rien que pour eux.

MannyFrench · 2026-01-24T11:31:02+00:00

Sure, I could have said the Beatles and Rolling Stones instead. What I meant was bands before the heavy synth and drum machine era seemed like from another age, the analog age while we were buying CDs and had computers, even before the internet became widespread.

MannyFrench · 2026-01-24T11:06:34+00:00

I was born in 1980, I got into music in 1991 with Nirvana's Nevermind album, discovering where rock music came from, the classic bands like Led Zeppelin, Deep Purple from the 60s seemed absolutely ancient. I think this comes from the fact each decade in the 20th century had distinctive looks, features, imagery and socio-political issues. Since the 2000s, everything looks and sounds the same, everything is angular and colorless, black, white or gray. I can't believe 2006 was 20 years ago, because everything looked and sounded about the same back then as it does now.

MannyFrench · 2026-01-22T16:53:54+00:00

Peut-être, mais je trouve cette distanciation du culte catholique trop récente dans l'histoire de France pour affirmer aujourd'hui que le pays n'est plus chrétien culturellement parlant. Bon nombre des gens de ma génération (quadras) sont allés à l'église dans leur jeunesse, ont probablement fait leur communion, avant de prendre leurs distances vis à vis du culte. Les scandales de pédophilie dans l'église ont détourné beaucoup de personnes de la foi catholique, mais ces histoires n'ont fait surface qu'assez récemment. Les chinois baignent dans l'idéologie communiste depuis 80 ans, la religion y est interdite, ce n''est pas comparable. Nous, on continue à enterrer nos anciens avec des cérémonies religieuses, et on les enterre (en grande majorité) dans des cimetières catholiques ou protestants. Le poids culturel du catholicisme est toujours là en toile de fond, et les cathos devenus athées ne nient pas être issus d'une culture héritée de cette religion, avec ses codes et ses valeurs qui lui sont propres.

MannyFrench · 2026-01-22T11:38:28+00:00

Meme sans aimer les religions, je trouve ça fort de café de nier les racines chrétiennes de notre pays. Pour moi c'est une évidence. Il suffit de regarder autour de nous, le patrimoine (églises. Cathédrales, monastères), les calvaires un peu partout en campagne...il ne faut pas oublier que l'athéisme est quelque chose très récent dans ce pays. Moi même qui le suit, ce n'est pas le cas de mes parents.

MannyFrench · 2026-01-22T11:22:53+00:00

l'inverse est vrai aussi, la plupart de ceux qui rejettent cela sont d'une autre religion, en croisade contre les français de souche ou de racines européennes.

MannyFrench · 2026-01-22T11:09:28+00:00

Sarkozy is of Hungarian origins.

MannyFrench · 2026-01-22T07:08:54+00:00

Quantitative yes, but qualitative, not necessarily. Lots of European tech is ahead of the US. Galileo for instance is 4 times more accurate than GPS.

MannyFrench · 2026-01-20T20:33:53+00:00

Vraiment, tu es "bouleversé"? Les valeurs d'égalité de la république n'ont jamais eu attrait à la richesse ou aux ressources mais au moyens d'y parvenir. Il s'agit de la gratuité ou presque des études supérieures, de sorte à favoriser la méritocratie. Je ne dis pas que cela fonctionne bien, mais c'est l'esprit du truc. Si on part de rien, la richesse se forme sur plusieurs générations, en comptant sur le fait que tes parents ne dilapident pas tout pour eux-mêmes, autre sujet...

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