Is Macron making France Great Again?
Is Macron making France Great Again?
Liam Lewis
Anthony Reed
You misspelled EU
Connor Morgan
France is great, he's just making it greater
Owen Cook
>EU stars crowning him in the manner of an angel
You know it!
Some surveys just came in after almost a year in office, and he'd be reelected with even more votes if the election were held today.
Adam Parker
>labour laws in france
A few companies that are very unionized that are breaking our balls. It's still ongoing, the SNCF train company actually just invented a new form of strike, a 3 months strike, two days a week. SNCF workers are insanely priviledged, Sarkozy tried to end their special status, he said on TV he had won and we realize now that he had completely gave in like a little bitch. The leftist media is on heavy fake news mode, claiming everyone should support the SNCF (calling them a nickname from the 19th century where they would die young from coal, "cheminots") as a symbol, because they are NOT priviledged (they are).
Macron already gave in, mostly, as he said he won't touch the status of the current employees. He will only end the priviledge regime for the youth getting in. But it's still not enough for the "chemino". Maybe they're fighting for their children who wanted to become chemino.
At the same time, there's a reform of post-secondary education. You may know that for now we have a hypocritical system of equality on one side (free University for losers, no public or private money) and Grandes Écoles (selective studies with lots of public and private money). Free Universities are overcrowded with a coming large age group, to the point that they've had to literally select candidates randomly (for the popular fields, like physical education). Macron wants selection on merit. The left wants no selection at all, just make free Universities even bigger and raise budget. They say that the working class will always be the losers of premature selection.
>cont.
Nathaniel Watson
>cont.
So selection in Uni seems unrelated to your question. But in France currently (with Spring coming, too), students and SNCF and hospital are trying to do a "convergence des luttes" thing, an attempt to unify all struggles.
Macron is trying to say that all those problems are different.
For now he's playing it extremely tough (apparently : I don't follow that closely what happens in closed meetings). And even though he already said he won't touch the SNCF status, for people already in place.
From what I gathered, SNCF is not a public company. But it has a huge debt, and for now it has a duty to play a role of public service / public utility, which explains in part its huge debt. Macron said that in a couple years, the State will bail them out. Which explains why the gov has a say about the status of the workers (there's also a debate on their retirement, which is also a sort of State system in France (the young pay the pensions of the elders))
I'm not a big fan of Macron, but I'm sick and tired of the media telling us that SNCF people are not priviledged. They are.
The working laws have changed again a few months ago, and the Left failed to gather the critical mass of demonstrators to put Macron in difficulty.
Apparently, he's intelligent enough to act quick, in the 1st year of his term. Because it's when he's most legitimate, a short time after his election.
I think that on work legislation, he's mostly right. He's younger than other politicians, so he has the guts to attack the pensioners, and to redirect the money a little more to those who for now were completely deprived of the french "two gears" protection system : everything for the people with the lifelong work contract, and nothing for the temp workers and short-contract workers. Macron tries to acknowledge that short contracts are becoming the norm, and he tries to protect them a little more.
Unions say they want the lifelong contract for everyone. But in fact, want protect themselves
Grayson Robinson
>unionized that are breaking our balls.
Do you own a company yourself?
Lucas Turner
not yet brah. Do you?
Aaron Russell
American lapdog.
Adam Rogers
Do you French really believe in this manlet?
John Young
I'm sorry?
Tyler Howard
only for memes
he's making us more efficient at killing what little we have left of the country
united states of europe, it's coming
Nicholas Miller
Having a Russian lapdog as your leader is any better?
Nathan Green
Good
Jack Phillips
He is sucking hunter dicks like no president ever, just for the sake of having 1-2 million guaranteed votes.
William Carter
no.
It seems you gonna be a despotic boss.
Jaxon Allen
If he can manage to reverse the current trade deficit then yes.
Nathan Bennett
He is a joke compared to Merkel.
Carter Hernandez
fat brown hands
Cooper Powell
i went on vacation to france last month and he fucked my mom
David Campbell
Nope
He's just another establishment cuck
Jaxson Perez
Damn. Your mom must be ancient
Cameron Peterson
Nothing beats having one great Korean emperor as your dear leader.
Parker Green
Like la chasse? Interesting... I thought rural types would hate macron
Jaxon Roberts
'no'
Chase Nguyen
You know what the most effective way of reducing the trade deficit is?
Jayden Myers
Is this Reddit?
Parker Kelly
R*ddit is for M*lenchon.
Connor Jones
>a fucking katana
Jason Young
worked with lybia but is failing in Siria. you need new methods.
Juan Myers
No, not at all. Read the end of the second part of my post. Many french people tell their children to try to get in a very big company, like SNCF (trains) or Orange (back then, aka France Telecom), because of all the benefits (like an American working at Ford in 1920).
Why most French are sick and tired of these Unionists who are currently blocking the country, is that they're compulsive liars : look, we're not priviledged, we're just fighting for everyone. We don't want to keep our "piriviledges", we want them extended for everyone.
But the model of the huge state owned company employing people for life and allowing powerful Unions is not something that is going to come back. Might be nice. Not going to happen. Macron acknowledges that.
*They* (those unions) are the bad guys while Macron actually tries to redirect the french protection system for *everyone*. Acknowledging that a run of short term contracts for life is becoming the norm. So the money should not keep flowing to protect the already protected, but to protect the unprotected.
In the small business world, unions is not something that works. The State has to compensate for this, and shut the unionized loudmouths of juggernauts companies who are taking the people of France as hostages, while pretending they're fighting for us. They're not.
Macron is not an angel, but it could be worse. He's criticized on both sides, the Left who sleeps with those famous Unions, and the Right-wing who would want no protection for Labour at all.
Aaron Hughes
I don't like war methods.
Hunter Sullivan
>I thought rural types would hate macron
They probably did, and this is why he is giving them such big gifts.
I hope that it backfires and that there are actually more people wanting to see animals alive instead of dead, but this is unlikely.
Carter Edwards
its just a spoiled little rat who licks american ass, ignore it
Andrew Hall
pls don't tell me you're one of those city soyboys against hunting while knowing nothing about it and your only interaction with nature is you jogging twice a week at the park
Samuel Gonzalez
SNCF is a public company, however it is distinct from the State so its debt is its own. In all cases I actually like how he's trying to move things in France.
Grayson Bennett
>SNCF is a public company, however it is distinct from the State so its debt is its own.
Thanks, it was unclear to me.
Nathan Hall
I went to Camargue, Guadeloupe and Costa Rica where animals are protected.
If you think it is enjoyable to walk into a region dominated by hunters, where it is impossible to see anything alive or hearing any birds singing, then you should try going there.
Jonathan Brooks
>run of short term contracts for life is becoming the norm.
Just enslave people already.
It just gets my attention how people think unions are the devil.
Cooper Gray
>where it is impossible to see anything alive or hearing any birds singing
fuck me you are exactly that
you know nothing about the countryside, hunting, nature in general
stay in your city and don't break our balls
Wyatt Long
What are hunters hunting if there's nothing alive?
John Bell
>unions are the bad guys
Nicholas Gomez
Nathan Walker
macron is cool
france is cool
Jace Anderson
kek
Connor Sanchez
>Just enslave people already.
That's the plan
Hudson Foster
one-liners
Evan Morgan
Sweden is nice and strong. Good job refusing the €.
Carson Nelson
They are trying to stay live by hiding as much as possible you fucking brainlet. When they eventually get out to feed, those egotistical fuckers wait them in pic related.
That 90% of the population who just enjoys walking has absolutely no chance of seeing anything doesn't bother them at all.
Brandon Peterson
In France yes they are. Fucking cancer paralyzing the country, fuck them all.
Parker Williams
breitbart.com
archive.fo
>‘Bombshell’ population growth in Africa means Europe is entering an “unprecedented” age of mass migration, Emmanuel Macron has said, asserting that the two continents’ destinies are “bound”.
>“The migratory phenomenon we are facing will be historic,” declared the French president in a television appearance Sunday night, when he announced that “great poverty”, “climate change”, and “geopolitical conflicts” will see Africans flooding into Europe “for many years to come”.
>Smith, the Africa expert to whom Macron referred during his appearance on BFMTV, estimates that the number of Africans living in Europe will grow from nine million to between 150 million and 200 million within the next 30 years.
>Asserting he set out to provide a “dispassionate” expert view on how Africa’s demographic explosion will affect Europe, Smith in his book has outlined a number of different scenarios he believes could emerge from the situation.
>“The most optimistic” of these — according to Le Figaro — is “Eurafrica”, which would see mass migration create a ‘welcoming’, multicultural Europe, which “would fully embrace being a ‘mixed-race land of immigration and interbreeding’”. (Kalergi plan)
dailymail.co.uk
>He warned Europe not to retreat into nationalism but to build the EU as a bulwark for liberalism against a disorderly and dangerous world.
Daily reminder that if you fell for the "Based Jupiter" meme or the idea that Macron was any good, you were hoodwinked by literal shills.
Ethan Fisher
breitbart.com
archive.fo
>‘Bombshell’ population growth in Africa means Europe is entering an “unprecedented” age of mass migration, Emmanuel Macron has said, asserting that the two continents’ destinies are “bound”.
>“The migratory phenomenon we are facing will be historic,” declared the French president in a television appearance Sunday night, when he announced that “great poverty”, “climate change”, and “geopolitical conflicts” will see Africans flooding into Europe “for many years to come”.
>Smith, the Africa expert to whom Macron referred during his appearance on BFMTV, estimates that the number of Africans living in Europe will grow from nine million to between 150 million and 200 million within the next 30 years.
>Asserting he set out to provide a “dispassionate” expert view on how Africa’s demographic explosion will affect Europe, Smith in his book has outlined a number of different scenarios he believes could emerge from the situation.
>“The most optimistic” of these — according to Le Figaro — is “Eurafrica”, which would see mass migration create a ‘welcoming’, multicultural Europe, which “would fully embrace being a ‘mixed-race land of immigration and interbreeding’”. (Kalergi plan)
dailymail.co.uk
>He warned Europe not to retreat into nationalism but to build the EU as a bulwark for liberalism against a disorderly and dangerous world.
Tyler Cook
Don't care, fuck the SNCF anyway they made me lose precious money and time these last few days
I'm taking a carpool right now, done with trains
Even without strikes it never works properly, I legit don't remember the last time my train wasn't late
Bentley Hall
Fuck off Mélenchon shill, back to Jow Forums you communist.
Gavin Cooper
>quotes Breitbart AND the Daily Mail
>chastises others for being "hoodwinked by literal shills"
Oh dear.
Angel Phillips
Bullshit, Melenchon is stronger than ever
Jaxson Bailey
>taking breitbart seriously
Dumb mutt
Jayden Price
wasn't talking about him
and his "stronger than ever" is not much
the man is a joke, he even got thrown out of workers' protests because they see he's a politician and nothing more
Josiah Jackson
Yeah they hate work and are they go on strike for fun. Don't forget they're also violents.
No one should contest the decisions of the god emperor
Nicholas Thomas
ON TRAINS
Supersonic trains
SNCF (french train company) invests in Hyperloop
>The promise of hyperloop ranks near the top of the spectacular index: a network of tubes that will shoot people and their things from city to city at near supersonic speeds. But even if you never clamber into a levitating pod, the work being done now to make hyperloop a reality could make your future journeys—whether by plane, train, or automobile—faster, comfier, and cooler.
>The hyperloop industry—if you can call a handful of VC-backed outfits an industry—got going in 2013, after Elon Musk published a white paper on his idea of tubular travel and said he was too busy to work on it. (The Tesla, SpaceX, and Boring Company CEO changed his mind this year, and is now working on his own system.)
>The essentials are simple: A bus-sized levitating pod would be propelled down a nearly airless tube.
« En mai 2016, la SNCF contribue à la dernière levée de fonds d'Hyperloop Technologies, la start-up californienne qui développe des trains supersoniques circulant, dans des tubes à basse pression, à une vitesse pouvant atteindre 540 km/h, avec pour objectif d'atteindre ensuite 1 120 km/h.
David Rogers
A joke wouldn't nearly make the second round. Very curious to see how the hard left performs in the next election
Wyatt Cox
t.city boy
I see animals everyday ffs, that's because unlike you, I live in the countryside, grew up in it and know what I'm talking about
you understand hunting is seasonal, right?
should we stop fishing as well in case you want to see some fish the few times you decide to take a stroll?
Juan Long
France was never great
Matthew Jackson
>A joke wouldn't nearly make the second round
in this country, it would
Mélanchon was hyped by media while Le Pen was demonized even though they were both pro Frexit, anti globalisation, anti finance.
He lost to a party that has been associated with nazis, racism and all the good stuff for decades.
There is no serious opposition to Macron.
Caleb Nguyen
Macron is indeed a seducer.
Before the election, /fr/ was making fun of Macron with his plans of getting France in the starting blocks of mass-migration 2.0 and his "highway from Africa to France".
After the election, stupido /fr/ changed his mind. Stupido /fr/ are always winners. Now stupido /fr/ makes fun of anti-Macron, because Macron is "based" with his strong words against illegal immigration.
But the radical right wing parties (FN...) looked at the figures, they say that legal immigration is actually on the rise.
But Macron is bright, he sees what's happening in Poland, Hungary, Austria, Czech Republic. So he plays the "bad guy", extremely tough on immigration.
I wonder if the media does 4D chess, as they portray him as the bad guy who is against immigration. The interior Minister Gérard Collomb (socialist) says he's tired of being portrayed as the government's fascist.
This is a twisted summary of what he said the other day. He still talks strong against illegal immigration. He was questioned about his (so called) tough politics on refugees. He was also questioned about CHILD refugees, and there, true enough, he said child refugees would have all guarantees and would never be detained in "centre de rétention".
Landon Gutierrez
Mélenchon was demonized the same way, dumbo, it was all about him being a dangerous angry commie wating France to be like Venezuela. Macron is the one that has been hyped.
Connor Green
>Now stupido /fr/ makes fun of anti-Macron
congrats, you've been memed
I may shill him for fun, I still don't trust him and wouldn't vote for him
no, Mélanchon was the "tribun", the exceptional orator voice of the people while Le Pen a filthy populist
Xavier Thomas
I hope he's working behind the scenes to gather backing in the south because the germs will be stubborn as donkeys on eu reforms and they have a flock of northern countries that would back them.
Benjamin Bailey
What EU reforms to you especially oppose?
Easton Miller
I love him for everything except his EU worship. I wish he was president of the UK.
William Fisher
He does look good as Emperor Bonacron.
Dylan Cook
the man is pure memes
/fr/ also loves Manuel Valls but it's all ironic
Sebastian Russell
Continuous posting of macron on int is convincing me of his greatness.
Jupiterean politics is very effective wtf. Imagine we had an equivalent of macron in England, I can only dream.
Daniel Nelson
>breitbart
>daily mail
>trustable sources
>only sources
so this is the critical thinking you learn in ameriburger schools?
Jacob Kelly
I watched the whole interview on Sunday.
At times I found him far too aggressive, at times convincing.
But what troubled me were the last minute, during the final banter when Bourdin told him that PSG had just won the football Coupe de France, that Marseille's OM (the team the President is rooting for) wouldn't get.
I was deeply troubled by the sudden change of manners in Macron. He suddenly turned from CEO to total brat.
I don't know if what troubled me most was that I may have seen his true self (the brat), or that I saw how chameleon like he could be.
youtu.be
Mason Ward
Bullshit, all the media I see smears Melenchon as a Stalinist, a nationalist, an anti-Semite, a nativist, or even an Islamist.
The French and international press want to preserve the current status of French politics and insulate the EU from criticism. They see both Le Pen and Melenchon as potential threats. Should they ever be put against each other in the future, I'm certain the international community would support Le Pen against him.
Connor Gomez
He's being held back by others. Germany stop dragging your heels.
Landon Walker
Power broker is a good thing ? Americans don't know how to speak english, broker is a job in financial sector
Elijah Butler
Him being invested in his sports team is better than him pretending to care about football.
Jaxon Perez
We dont fall for charisma since blair, we want someone robotic cold like may
Ian Nguyen
Yes, but something about the chameleon or the brat disturbed me. Or maybe about pretending to confess something, while he clearly talks about football to be popular.
This. New Tony Blair.