#whatthefrance
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knuckle tat that says QUOI / FEUR
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france is burning.
667 people were arrested last night. they are curfews in place. public transport is partially closed at night.
nahel, a 17-year-old, was shot tuesday by the police during a traffic stop. he wasn't violent or armed, he wasn't a threat. but he broke the law and tried to drive away, so the cops killed him.
and now france is rioting.
there is a video so the government isn't trying to deny the facts for once. but the minister of the interior (in charge of the police) still insist that the police shot less people since the 2017 law on public safety.
but an analysis of police statistics by Le Monde, the most read newspaper in france, says otherwise. when the police shot on average 250 people each year in the five years prior to 2017, that number became 297 after 2017. for shots fired specifically on moving vehicles, the average used to be 119 and it's now 150. before 2017, there was an average of 0.06 deaths per shot. now it's 0.32.
more than ever, the police shoots to kill.
so france is burning.
#i wanted to write something small because there's nothing on tumblr#but it became longer and longer#i didn't add pictures bc it always seems voyeuristic to me. this isn't click bait. i'm not here to exploit the pain and the anger in any way#but a kid died and hundreds people are being arrested and tumblr doesn't say a word#upthebaguette#whatthefrance#acab#tw death#tw police brutality#france things
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Jamy c'est un seigneur du temps, Fred et Sabine ses compagnons, et Marcel c'est le nom de son TARDIS deguisé en camion qui ne communique que par des bruits de klaxons
#whatthefrance#upthebaguette#c'est pas sorcier#non mais ecoutez moi j'y ait reflechis et tout -ils explorent l'univers et le temps et jamie s'y connait sut plein de choses et -
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This was too funny to not share
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I got really mad and saddened this week at the train station. I was approached by a pretty panicked foreign guy who didn't speak French well, and apparently had problems buying his train ticket (it was early morning so the train station's shop wasn't opened yet). He wanted a ticket for Paris (just a 90 minutes ride in that case), but was thwarted by the vending machines that didn't accept cash. I helped him book the ticket (vending machine operated only in French too, at least I didn't find an English menu) and had to put in
his name and birthdate
a phone number
an eMail address
I paid with my card, he gave me the money back in cash, and then he didn't even get a printout of the tickets but instead they were sent to him via eMail 💀💀💀
So in order to take the fast train for less than two hours in France you got to have
a smartphone that works and won't die on you halfway through the journey
internet access on your phone
an eMail address that works
enough technological competences to download PDF attachments from an eMail
or else someone who prints them out for you if you do it from home
an ID card
a working bank card to pay either online or the vending machine
So there's an entire category of people pretty much unable to take the fancy pansy French fast trains (at least unassisted). Even if you have the money to pay for it, there's still this huge list of criteria you have to fulfil just to take the fucking train. I'm glad I was able to help out this poor guy but I still think it's very messed up that he needed my help in the first place.
So yeah. Go public transports. But please not with so much state control mechanisms, what the fuck
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since everybody on Tumblr currently enjoys Planet of the Bass, I feel like it's time to bring back this absolute gem ✨
youtube
#planet of the bass#dj crazy times#squeezie#time time#music#trei degete#youtube#eurodance#french side of tumblr#whatthefrance#upthebaguette
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Ladies and gentlemen, let me introduce the Gorilla of the Place de la Nation.
Here to cheer up protesters, and be a riot on this tenth day of protests in France.
(Haters will say this is the only way for Macron to go out in public)
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Les potes de la Francophonie vous avez le droit de répondre aussi, je vous fais la bise (chez moi c'est une)
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FRANCE – Protests against President Macron’s controversial pension reform in Paris, Reims, Nantes, Marseille, Rennes, Montpellier, Laval, Bordeaux, Le Havre, Brest, Strasbourg, Lille, Bayonne, Fos-sur-Mer ; March 23, 2023
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Unpopular opinion de ouf mais j'aime trop faire la bise et qu'on me fasse la bise, pas à n'importe qui non plus mais j'aime trop ce moment de ta relation avec quelqu'un où t'es "bon bah j'ai envie de coller ta joue contre la mienne et faire semblant d'embrasser l'air pour te dire bonjour", insane ritual, tu embrasses sans embrasser.
Et j'aime encore plus quand c'est vraiment des ami.e.s/famille et la bise devient de vrais bisous sur la joue, genre allez on arrête de faire semblant, je t'aime trop pour ça.
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J'ai sorti "ça part en cishet" à une réunion queer et ça a tellement faut marrer tout le monde qu'on a pas pu continuer la discussion pendant 5 bonnes minutes.
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LE VRAI DÉBAT !!!
Vous avez une semaine pour vous mettre d’accord !!
Reblog pour plus de votes svp !!
#j’s polls#polls#french side of tumblr#whatthefrance#upthebaguette#tintin#asterix#france#bande dessinée#bd#belgique#franco belgian comics#franco-belge#enfance#europe
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Bonjour le French Side of Tumblr, quelqu'un aurait-il un abonnement Mediapart et pourrait faire tourner la chronique de Mona Chollet ? J'ai très envie de le lire, et je pense que ça pourrait intéresser pas mal de gens aussi.
#french side of tumblr#mediapart#france#mona chollet#i/p#upthebaguette#vivelarepublique#whatthefrance
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Le français n'est plus la langue de Molière
Le français n'appartient pas à la France
Le français n'est pas envahi par l'anglais
Le français n'est pas réglementé par l'Académie Française
Le français n'a pas une orthographe parfaite
L'écriture numérique n'abime pas le français
Le français parlé n'est pas déficient
Le français n'est pas massacré par les jeunes
Le français n'est pas menacé par l'extension du féminin
Linguiste, c'est un métier
Je sais que ça va intéresser les gens ici ça, une tribune contre les réactionnaires face à l'évolution de la langue
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