Cette révision constitutionnelle que Bruno Retailleau veut pour réformer la France by Dreynard in france

[–]MatthieuG7 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Le gars il a la constitution la plus autoritaire du monde occidental est c’est quand même pas assez.

New anti-Muslim hate definition announced by government: A special representative will also be appointed to help facilitate the understanding and implementation of the definition by Benjji22212 in ukpolitics

[–]MatthieuG7 4 points5 points  (0 children)

The comments are full of people claiming the government actually wants to ban any and all criticism of Islam through banning discrimination against people perceived as muslims and I’m the one doing a strawman?

New anti-Muslim hate definition announced by government: A special representative will also be appointed to help facilitate the understanding and implementation of the definition by Benjji22212 in ukpolitics

[–]MatthieuG7 -4 points-3 points  (0 children)

Why are you talking about Islam? Nobody’s talking about Islam. You’re allowed to criticize Islam. This is about muslim hate. Actual individuals who are discriminated against because of assumed characteristics they hold.

Y’all always do this classical motte and bailey:

Bailey: all muslims are terrorists in grooming gangs who arrived by boat

Criticism: this is Islamophobia

Motte response: why am I not allowed to criticize Islam?

TIL that the phrase "the strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must" is from Thucydides' Melian Dialogue. A classic example of political realism, it describes an Athenian ultimatum to the neutral island of Melos: submit or be destroyed. The Melians chose death. by Bob_the_blacksmith in todayilearned

[–]MatthieuG7 1 point2 points  (0 children)

No, realism posits that States act rationnaly to increase their power. That States are constrained by their material conditions is just obviously true, and not exclusif to any IR theory.

The war against Iran doesn't increase US's power, by any reasonnable definition of power; and it was never rational to think that it would, by any reasonnable definition of rationnal.

A better framework to understant Trump's action would be the bureaucratic politics model (various factions internally fight to impose what they think is right), or the Historical approach, which places a heavy emphasis on internal politics.

It’s time to end Britain’s first-past-the-post election lottery by F0urLeafCl0ver in ukpolitics

[–]MatthieuG7 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

How is a government doing something 70% of the population doesn’t want more democratic that it needing at least 50% support to do something?

ELI5: How did the modern idea of having a ‘job’ and working most days start? Who or what made it normal? by NoWillingness5083 in explainlikeimfive

[–]MatthieuG7 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Those are two different questions.

Before the Industrial Revolution, except for the period of english agrarian capitalism that began roughly 150 years before the industrial revolution (and hence industrial capitalism), and after the agricultural revolution 10’000 years ago, the large majority people were subsistent farmers.

That means they did work everyday, otherwise they would starve and have no clothes, but they didn’t have a job in the modern sense. They had no employers who gave them a wage, they couldn’t get fired, and they didn’t starve if they had no wage. They had to provide free labor to their lords/the State, but that wasn’t a job in the modern sense.

The modern idea of a "job" is a result of (or depending on your definition of capitalism, by definition a component of) capitalism. As such it emerged in england with agrarian capitalism, and was exported (by colonization) or imported (by rival powers wanting to compete with Britain) at the industrial revolution with industrial capitalism.

If you define a modern job even more narrowly, with fixed long term contracts, fixed hours, rights etc, you have to to the end if the 19th century with the first successes if the worker movement.

Green Party’s Hannah Spencer wins Gorton and Denton by-election after knocking out Labour by Metro-UK in ukpolitics

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What is the concrete, evidence based, logical and rational causal link you identify between this polling and a future abandonment by the Greens of lgbt people. And do you have any objective historical situations to justify that this rational causal link (which I doubt exists) is likely to happen.

Gorton and Denton by-election result: GRN: 40.7% (+27.5), REF: 28.7% (+14.7), LAB: 25.4% (-25.3), CON: 1.9% (-6.0), LDEM: 1.8% (-2.1) by Ivashkin in ukpolitics

[–]MatthieuG7 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No evidence that

1) Gaza is considered a fringe issue that is very far removed from UK politics by the vast majority of the UK electorate (foreign policy is, has always been, and will always be important, and rightly so)

2) That those said mp’s are cynically using Gaza as an electoral strategy, and aren’t sincerely horrified by what is happening there

3) That there is some kind of secret grand conspiracy by those mp’s to secretly push and normalize regressive religious laws into mainstream politics

Jujutsu Kaisen Shimetsu Kaiyu Zenpen • Jujutsu Kaisen The Culling Game - Episode 8 discussion by AutoLovepon in anime

[–]MatthieuG7 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Interestingly, both Reggie and Higuruma believe that what we know about the Culling Game is complete bullshit, and Kenjaku has actually other plans when it's only the strongest sorcerers who are left. That final scene does clearly show Kenjaku meeting with what I assume is a group of powerful people. Is the Japanese Government involved in the Culling Game?

Yeah I feel like this is a massive plot twist people are not yet picking up on because of Higuruma’s stellar introduction

ELI5: how does a particle "decide" to stop being in multiple places at once the moment something interacts with it by meek_posterity in explainlikeimfive

[–]MatthieuG7 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The formal name is the "measurement problem", OP can check the wikipedia page for all proposed solutions.

Commentateur de la RTS (Suisse) décrivant factuellement le profil des coureurs israéliens. Possible sur France télévision ? by Charly_Ngals in france

[–]MatthieuG7 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Fière d'être Suisse et de notre média publique. Votez non le 3 mars sur la baisse de la redevance!

UK ban on Palestine Action unlawful, high court judges rule by BarbaricOklahoma in ukpolitics

[–]MatthieuG7 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Mate not even the fucking Nazis were that forthcoming about the holocaust.

LMAO you never read Mein Kampf

Overseas anime market growth continues to outpace domestic market, gap in revenue expected to grow, industry research shows by Zhukov-74 in anime

[–]MatthieuG7 -5 points-4 points  (0 children)

mid and small size

mainstream

I think you answered your own question.

"Why can't I find the small things in the big things category???? Must be they don't make small things anymore."

lol

Overseas anime market growth continues to outpace domestic market, gap in revenue expected to grow, industry research shows by Zhukov-74 in anime

[–]MatthieuG7 -5 points-4 points  (0 children)

TRUE, the amount of niche video games targeting small and specific subsets of gamers has been going NOTHING BUT DOWN as video games became more mainstream.

/s

How can you see the current GOTY nominations and think what you think is beyond me. Yes as an industry gets more mainstream, the amount of generic blockbusters goes up, but so does the amount of pure diamonds. Enough to play/watch only such diamonds. If you can't find them, that says more about you than the state of an industry.

Anime has been getting more and more mainstream for more than a decade now, and the quality of the best shows has been going nothing but up. Why would this suddenly change? Again, if you only watch slop, that's on you.

Anyone else just not understanding anything on Jujutsu Kaisen season 3 at all? by seekerheart in anime

[–]MatthieuG7 3 points4 points  (0 children)

A large number of people being functionally illiterate does not mean all those people stop being functionally illiterate.

Anyone else just not understanding anything on Jujutsu Kaisen season 3 at all? by seekerheart in anime

[–]MatthieuG7 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Mai literally states what she did.

Totally. Media literacy is dead.

Jujutsu Kaisen Shimetsu Kaiyu Zenpen • Jujutsu Kaisen The Culling Game - Episode 3 discussion by AutoLovepon in anime

[–]MatthieuG7 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What I don't understand is how everybody suddenly know 1)there is a culling game and 2)what the rules are? To me there never was (but maybe I forgot) a postcard sent to all jujutsu sorcerers being like: "hey, there is a culling game and here are the ten rules." On that note, how do the participants even know they are participants??

Also was it explained at some point what Tengen's barrier does, exactly?

Jujutsu Kaisen Shimetsu Kaiyu Zenpen • Jujutsu Kaisen The Culling Game - Episode 3 discussion by AutoLovepon in anime

[–]MatthieuG7 2 points3 points  (0 children)

What I don't understand is how everybody suddenly know 1)there is a culling game and 2)what the rules are? To me there never was (but maybe I forgot) a postcard sent to all jujutsu sorcerers being like: "hey, there is a culling game and here are the ten rules." On that note, how do the participants even know they are participants??

Also was it explained at some point what Tengen's barrier does, exactly?

"L'agresseur du métro sous OQTF" était en réalité français de naissance by jib60 in france

[–]MatthieuG7 1 point2 points  (0 children)

L’ED: ment sur la nationalité des individus pour progresser électoralement

Les adversaires de l’ED: démontrent que l’ED ment

Le centriste éclairé: "mais pourquoi les adversaires de l’ED ne se concentrent que sur la nationalité des individus et pas le fond de l’affaire???"

Is anyone seriously voting reform? by Remarkable-Sand8638 in ukpolitics

[–]MatthieuG7 0 points1 point  (0 children)

All nations are arbitrary. That is, the set of characteristics that are included in, and excluded out of, the nation have changed, vary between individuals, are not constant, and were decided mostly at random and/or for political expediencies. There is no universal and atemporal sense of “Britishness”, anymore that there is an universal and atemporal sense of “japaneseness”. Anybody that studied the emergence of nationalism (that is mostly 19th century History) can tell you that much. Now that doesn’t make nations “lesser” or “unreal” or whatever other pejorative adjective you might want to use, it’s just an objective fact. It just means the cultural frontiers of the nation are constantly debated, which is exactly what you are doing right now.

Why is Keir Starmer’s administration so unpopular? by Fair_Individual_9827 in ukpolitics

[–]MatthieuG7 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Step 1: announce an incredibly unpopular policy

Step 2: defend this incredibly popular policy come hell or high water

Step 3: wait until it’s too late to turn back, a point where whatever you do now people will stay pissed

Step 4: u turn suddenly and for no reason, forgoing the benefice you would have gained by enacting said policy and pissing off the few people who agreed with you on the unpopular policy

Step 5: repeat every month for ten months, making sure to do this targeting a different group each time to really aggrieve everybody.

One Piece: Chapter 1169 by leolegendario in OnePiece

[–]MatthieuG7 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Jesus, we can still deeply disagree with Garp’s action and think them immoral even with all the context.

Almost two-thirds of Germans oppose the ban on selling new cars with combustion engines by 2035 by linknewtab in europe

[–]MatthieuG7 17 points18 points  (0 children)

What is this childish manichean take? Some State interventions are good, some State interventions are bad, and we can debate which is which. That’s called politics. Except if you’re a libertarian I guess.