Roland Barthes
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Hmmmm i don't know. I love the idea of EU (but without the UK in it it's now meaningless imo). On one hand being together makes us stronger (wars, borders, an economic force...) but on the other hand it makes us weaker too (if somebody decides to attack the european economic system every country in the union will be impacted...it's harder to fuck one country after the other when they are on their own).
Even if they change things, every system can be perverted. Since they apaprently don't want to change anything (according to the latest reports president Hollande don't want to end the Lisbon treaty and is only doing minor changes to calm public opinion) i don't know what the future holds and no one is coming out with a good alternative. If you want out you must have a great plan to avoid chaos, so far no one has one.
So i don't know what's worst staying or leaving without a plan ?
I still don't know who i'm gonna vote for next year. So far i hate every single candidate and since we elected Hollande to get rid of Sarkozy but we ended up with his twin...i'm not the only one who is totally deceived by our politics. I probably vote for whoever will be against Marine Le Pen but without conviction. As usual.
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People who want to do something leave France because the system is so heavy and ancient here that you can't create something without having to go through a nightmarish process of paperwork with administration and the taxes you must pay when you start your own company help you from making a profit. The majority of start-ups close down after two years because of this.
France wants to be economically Ultra Liberal now but it clashes with our system, history and identity. So we are stuck between a rock and a hard place. The new work law does not help either, instead of balancing things it makes them worst.
Jobs are a few and overqualified people end up doing shitty ones because we have a great school system but it's too general, you learn a lot but nothing that helps you in real life especially Universities that need to be completly reinvented. So you end up being a scholar on philosophy or french litterature from the 16th century but there are no jobs available for that.
In France most billionaires have all inherited from their parents. That showcases how our society works. The elite reproduces itself, nepotism is alive and well in every aspects of our society. It's like Revolution never happenned. We replaced Royalty by old money.
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No it's not. The far left (Melenchon) is also against Europe.
I don't think people are against Europe per say but against THIS Europe, what it has become, what lobbies and bankers made it.
In 2005 we voted against the european constitution which two years later Sarkozy via Parliament ignored and agreed to ratify.
This was a major turndown in public opinion about elections in general and made us not trust our leaders.
The turnout for the vote was massive (69%) and the NO won by 55% of the votes. Not taking into account what the people voted for was a terrible mistake.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_European_Constitution_referendum,_2005
Even people who are devasted by the Brexit don't trust or want THIS Europe. We are all aware of the manipulations and lobbies running it for their own sake.
That said what Cameron did was completly amateur and not well thought.
He gave power to another bunch of assholes. Brits will no longer be fucked by the european parliament but by the brit far right and establishment. I don't expect things to get better for people outside of the big cities especially London. There's a huge class divide in England and the class that will most likely run the country is not the lower class that voted massively for OUT.
They used immigration to rally people but now there are talks of renegociating the contracts between France and the UK that put France in charge of protecting the UK borders. If that happens, England will be on its own to stop immigration. People in Calais are so fed up and organized that they'll probably pressure the government about it and the government already started talking about it days before the Brexit results.
I personally think THIS Europe is bullshit but getting out of it will be complicated since we have the euro. But all the major candidates for the next presidential election have expressed their will to renegociate our agreements with the EU.
I can see France and Germany making a bilateral deal in the future and slowly let go of the EU as it is.
The Brexit in England planted seeds in people's mind who think that the Euro fucked up their purchasing power more than immigration. That will be a major thing during the presidential campaign that has already unofficially started (election is in may 2017).
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I'm still completly amazed by this :
https://www.facebook.com/TheIndependentOnline/videos/10153751384736636/?pnref=story
They lied to people to make them vote leave. Every politician does in every country but to backtrack as soon as people voted in your favour...
(and that Pig Moron on the left)
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She used to be my neighbour in Redcliff Square, always parking her fucking Jaguar ON the sidewalk close to her backyard's wall. What's her "career" since Hugh Grant left her by the way ?
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Cuz people in my profession aren't supposed 2 b 'qualified' anymore, & those who r, r not being payed correctly.
& Cuz major corporations r only interested in catchy clickbait shit that fancy people use on their app 4 their digital subscription.
I'm so tired of these '5 Things U Need 2 Know About....*insert cunt word here*'-articles
on newspaper sites, that then make the rounds all over the internet...
Yeah another Journalist here, that makes three of us with Karby
They replaced us with bloggers they don't have to pay. The new work law they passed here has an article that changes our status, making us self employed. Isn't it nice ? By making our job insecure they are muzzling us up.
Liberation (one of the biggest lefty daily here) has apointed an ex blogger co-editor of the paper.
Look at the Daily Mail : it's 50% racist articles and 50% about Kim Kardashian's sweat marks on her clothes. Every billionaire in the world owns a media group ans it's not for philantropic reasons....
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What really irks me is the poor service media is doing. This world is so complicated and media could help people understand. But most of them are poring shit. I just heard in Spanish radio some worries about what will happen to the eurotunnel. Like WTF?? Are they stupid???
The media are doing a nasty job for some time now. Here in France we have weekly front covers of news magazines blaming migrants and immigration for everything It plants seeds in the public opinion minds in the long run. By doing this we just avoid looking at the real problems and culprits who are impacting people's everyday lives with consequences like Brexit and the high possibility the far right wing to win presidential elections in major countries.
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In the end it was just a joke. Remember what Madonna said
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The BBC is in panic mode
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I could never move to Australia. Beautiful country and people but too many deadly animals and insects. I'm scared :/
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Wait if British (and world economy) will suffer due to a Brexit why would the people who have the most invested in the financial markets support the "leave"?
Because to finance the public services and the system without raising taxes for the rich, the UK will have no other choice than to sell the public services to private companies. Investors see this as a big cake they are going to share without any EU regulation. Of course the poor will be impacted more.
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The media in the UK (and all over Europe in fact) are playing a nasty game of blaming immigration and poor people on benefit for everything that is wrong, the same media owned by nasty populist billionaires who are part of the people who fucked the economy for their own benefit plunging the world into chaos. Everytime we went through an economic crisis, populism won, that's what happenned in the 1920's and before WWII.
I was shocked at that program on Channel Five last winter http://www.channel5.com/show/the-great-british-benefits-handout
It was insuinating that poor people were poor because they did not know how to handle money and they were living large on the back of other brits.
We don't have that kind of programs here, not as in your face as this one but the undertone of many tv programs and papers are quite similar.
Everything is done to not point the blame on the real fuckers (that's why they all own a media empire).
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What's going on here now ? We are booting the brits out of Mnation ? Calm down everybody, it's just an internet discussion. It's just opinions.
Has Gaga instagrammed about it already ? Crying; rolled up in a union jack flag ?
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Next time Joan collins wants to spend time in Nice i wish she'll be stuck in immigration for 14 hours and sent back.
It's terrible news. I don't know how the UK will cope. They can't raise taxes for the rich otherwise they will leave so they can only sale public servicesto private companies (which is already happening) with bad consequences. They are gonna make big cuts on the NHS. Poor people will be affected more.
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Even though UK stays in the EU, there are still things that need to be fixed. The EU we have today is not the one we voted for. It's completly controlled by lobbies and banks (even more than our governments are).
I predict other polls in other EU countries to follow very soon.
Sadly for the last 6 or 7 years every election in european countries (and in the US as well) have turned into polls on immigration. French presidential election is next year, the last one was already all about immigration but the one coming up will be terrible.
The economy is not a person you can point your finger at and blame, it's an anonymous nebula so people turn to migrants when they need somebody to blame for how fucked up things are when it's all about mega trusts, banks and mega corporations who are playing with our lives to get more rich by the minute. We saved the banks asses when the economic crisis hit them but now they are absolutely not paying back and they did not even change their ways.
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I was just looking at the titles of all the threads in our world & politics events section and OMG, it's so depressing. It's like one major atrocity after another one.
I agree Jonski, mental illness is not being taken care of the way it should be but that's not only a problem in the UK but everywhere. Two days ago a bi-polar man did not take his mediction and stabbed 3 times a 19 y/o girl in a bus in Rennes, France.
The main problem is that mental illness is still not regarded as a major health crisis like cancer or aids, some people don't even believe in mental illness or mock it (look at the comments regarding Sinead O'Connor). Hospitals cannot retain people with mental disorder against their will if they don't look like they are being a direct threat to themself or others, ususally they see them when they are down but when they get high (bipolarity is having big highs and big lows...usually they are on big highs when they attack others and on big lows when they hurt themselves) they are already out in the open, on their own.
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Any one of US could leave tomorrow and go and live in Poland (however unalluring the prospect) Sounds like the issue of REFUGEES is being mixed up with EU immigration again. And no, Britain is most certainly NOT taking in it's fair share of refugees and should hang its head in shame.
On the other hand you surely are taking your share of french people especially in London
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the world's gone mad
So sad.
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From my experiences in South of France and Spain...the police do jack shit about illegal immigrants. Like 'oh well' and that's why there's a problem.
South of France is whole other country in itself
From local politicians to the huge immigration they have. Beautiful place but between corrupted politicians to insecurity (car jacking, mugging....) it's no wonder in the Ab Fab movie trailer Edina says "We're in south of France sweety ! Everyone's a criminal here". It's very true. My cousin got the hell out of there after 5 nightmarish years in Nice. Her employer was a crook and she got mugged twice and car jacked once. -
We're singing from the same hymn sheet Kim. My point was in response to UK having an immigration issue and the point that we "don't take in enough migrants" the fact that there are EU migrants in this country sleeping rough due to low housing, camps in central London of people from Romania, Estonia, Bulgaria etc all EU states, what are we doing for those EU members? How could we bring in more if we can't even sustain the ones we have already? That alone shows we have an issue. The country needs a whole overhaul. More social housing, more money for public services, SAVING THE NHS, more schools. The complete opposite of our current government. The country is not fit for natural population growth let alone chavs popping out 15 kids and 20,000 Syrians. Leaving the Eu Is not the issue which is why I'm voting to stay in. However this whole referendum is getting a lot of people thinking which is a step in the right direction.
To me, the main problem with England is how much everything is concentrated in London especially the wealth. Londoners are having a hard time surviving in a city that is slowly transforming into an exclusive one for the super rich. Those foreign billionaires are responsible for the housing market gone mad. So it's no surprise that migrants end up on the streets when londoners are already struggling themself.
The London dream was sold to these migrants, that's why they all wanna go there, they speak the language but they also see the incredible wealth flashed on tv worldwide...England should start showing the world a more realistic image of the country outside of the west end.
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If England leaves the E.U it will be a terrible blow for the country. Countries within the E.U receive massive donations in agriculture and for hospitals etc....i fear a huge clivage between the rich and the poor in England, something you can already witness. And a massive concentration of wealth in the London area, even more than it is now compared to the rest of the country especially northern cities.
I understand why one would want to leave the E.U since it is run by lobbies and mega companies but i don't expect this to change if England goes on its own since it's already run by the huge corporations in the city.
If England leaves it's gonna open the doors to polls in other countries to do the same.
I don't know.
I hope everything goes well for the common brits because they are the ones who are gonna pay the price.
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I wasn't there, and I've been going in an out of depressive episodes since Saturday night. The constant feeling of dread and bleakness has not left. I really had no idea how bad this can make a community suffer until this happened right in my backyard. The worst mass shooting in US history happened a mile from my apartment, in a nightclub I frequent, where dozens of gay men and women were murdered, the vast majority of them hispanic. It's eating me alive.
So if I feel that way, how does Axel feel? Kate? Juan? Gypsy? Josh, my friend who escaped? The mourning families? It's unthinkable. I go from wanting to talk about it to not wanting to talk about it. Trying to focus on other tasks, to obsessively scouring the internet for news. It's following all of us as we grieve.
It's bad.
Something must be done by the city hall or the state to provide a psychological support to people who are in aftermath shock. Fear is a devil in itself, it eats you alive. Your reaction is normal but maybe you should find a professional to talk to because it's gonna haunt you. Even if you don't seek a professional for help, you need to find people to talk, talk and talk again about it because that's the process when you're in a state of shock.
Of course we are here for you too.
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A couple of police officers were killed at their home in front of their 3 y/o son by a bastard saying he was doing it for ISis/Daech....he filmed the whole thing and posted it on FB.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/jun/13/french-policeman-stabbed-death-paris
Thing is now every bastard that wants to act for personal reasons will claim it's for Isis and Isis always says they are involved because it makes them exist and feared.
Policemen are now marching all around Paris (they are not allowed to go on strike so this is huge)
How do other residents of EU countries feel about potentially leaving the EU?
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More than asleep we are Knocked Out...."Tout est K.O OOOO à côté...." We are desenchantés
So much shit happenned : Sarkozy years...anti gay rallies, Valls, terrorist attacks, work law....Now the Brexit that jeopardize everything even though everyone in Europe try to say the contrary. I'm not sure people in France would vote to stay. Like i said earlier remember 69% of french people turned up in 2005 to say no at 55% to the european constitution and two years later Sarkozy told us to fuck off and agreed to the Lisbon treaty.
So i'm not so sure french people would vote remain....Especially since populism is so strong (like everywhere else in the western world).