Just out of curiosity, is it commonly thought outside of France that Macron is anywhere close to left-wing ?

He’s been campaigning for a week on a plateforme that’s basically just “The left is just as bad as the far right”, several of his ministers have clearly stated that they would vote blank in case of a duel between the left and the far-right in the runoffs, and he’s repeatedly called the left a “danger for democracy”

You seem to be under the impression that Macron is fine with the left winning.

He’s definitely not: he’s been viciously attacking the left for years now, and has just last Sunday accused them of being antisemitic, antirepublican and antiparlentarist.

His Minister of Justice said in an interview that, in case of a duel between the left and the far-right during the election runoffs, he would vote for neither.

His prime minister keeps saying in Interviews that the left represents chaos for the country.

What Mélenchon thinks is of little consequence. All the left parties have put together the baselines of a common program, and supporting Ukraine is a big part of it.

Mélenchon is too disliked by the rest of the left to be considered for PM if it comes to that anyway, and all other potentiel candidates are strongly in favour of helping Ukraine.

Ah. No, what he basically did is gamble on the fact that the left couldn’t unite and that his candidates would face against the far-right, so he could once again campaign on the platform of “The only two options are me or the fascists”.

The fact that the left managed to put aside their differences and unite completely took him by surprise and he now has to actually campaign. His main argument now is that the left is just as bad as the far-right and that he’s the only reasonable person in the room.

You were right to think he didn’t have it in him, because he definitely doesn’t.

It’s probably less optimal than walking since I seem to get less steps in when I bike, but I can confirm it works

I tried the beta a few months ago and it was great! I kinda lost interest when I struggled to find a city with the workshop I needed at the time, but I’ll try again now that a few updates have come out!

Sure, not trying to tell you how to enjoy your games at all! I was just explaining why people would want to play this specific game closer to launch rather than later

I’d agree with this statement for most games, but the best way to enjoy Helldivers 2 specifically is to play it when the playerbase and the hype is at its peak. The gameplay will still be just as good a year from now, sure, but you’d miss the emergent story being built right now

Thank you for that, my brain was stuck on “Chupacabra”

Very rough translation :

In the center : “How to enjoy the banana? (…and it will provide sweetness and exquisite consolations)”

From top left to top right : “At 18 yo … At 20 yo … At 23 yo”

From bottom left to bottom right : “From 30 to 35 yo … From 40 yo and above”

I’m mostly using my bike for my daily commutes these days but this looks super interesting. I’ll give it a look !

Too late, I’ve now gotten 20% more obnoxiously french

It’s very reminiscent of the Paris commune, where Parisian pre-marxist socialists were killed almost to the last by the french army after they’d built a short-lived commune. It was basically the end of the Proudhonist idea of socialism (no gods, no masters), which provided space for Marxism to take over in France and particularly in Paris.

No offense intended since I’m fully incapable of pronouncing tons of English words properly (fuck “squirrel” specifically), but as a Frenchman who has lived near Mulhouse for a few years and interacted with a lot of foreign students, what you said probably wasn’t close to being the exact same as that guy

If they were consistent with their beliefs then yeah, but that’s a big if

I always wonder what people doing this are expecting to happen in the minds of the rest of the audience. Do they really expect people to think “Wow, such an eloquent and well-thought comment, I’m sure glad I spent 10 minutes listening to this random guy instead of the actual expert I was here to listen to!” or are they just so oblivious that they don’t even consider that other people are in the room with actual questions to ask?

That is the face of a man 1 BJ away from passing out

As a European living in a big city I never quite understood just how huge these things are until I finally saw one stuck in traffic in a tiny Parisian street. These things are massive!

From context, Behind The Scenes I guess