Dear Americans, Idiocracy was not meant as a manual.

Come on, a Palestinian man preaching love and compassion ? The whole lot of them would call him a communist terrorist...

I also want to add, how many of these are bots ?

You can raise taxes for rich people AND remove public founding for enterprises. LFI ( melanchon) proposes these two :

1. The "zucman tax" aims to tax the 1800 richest french families at a rate of 2%, Wich would bring 40billion.
2. for public founding, a senatorial report showed that 211 billion in tax cuts or direct founding were given ( without any requirements of employment or anything) to enterprises (some of which layer of ppl and gave out dividends while being under public founding). Those could be recalculated.

French here. when sick, I use an app to book a appointment to a medical center I have that's like 5 minutes away by foot ( not typical for all french residents but I am quite lucky with where I live). I usually have an appointment in the next 2 to 4 hours tops. Depending on what it is, I walk away with a prescription and certificate for work stating how many sicks days I have. This costs me nothing, appart from the occasional optional medication that is not reimbursed.

Yeah, and it's 1800 families. It should be noted that the proposal was rejected, deemed infeasible meanwhile our previous PM was saying that we NEED to remove 2 public hollyday...

Yes an no, Macron was elected against LePen. This in itself is a problem but macron himself said he was "obliged to the left", then he proceeded to name 7 right wing prime ministers, after his party losing all other non presidential votes. So yes, we voted (reluctantly for some) for him, but he kept wanting to push his policies even after the ppl voted against him several times.

Quick reminder that we have a military. There won't be a draft any time soon and if there is one, we would have other problems. So unless you are in the army (and if you are, you signed for it) you won't have to "hold the FAMAS"

Oh this one is really something. Even as a clueless teen I still had WTF moments, and I don't even want to read it now, I just know I will be cringing the whole time.

That's depressing, I can only imagine what it's like to ponder wether or not to get checked because you can't afford it...

Because it isn't, everyone have sequential thoughts with almost identical "speed", the difference is that some ppl can focus on their interlocutor and stop their train thought (or fake interest in their conversation), while others can't

I find it quite depressing, considering that our current PM is exactly what I would call spineless.

Iirc they are thinking about putting some kind of Killswitch collar to their "bodyguards" in "exchange" of a place in the bunker should an event arrive for this reason.

Same in France, where it is translated to "pouces"

Seconded, can be quite hard to pick up at first, but developing strategies and learning is soooo rewarding

Ah ! The secret is to use every possible way to avoid free thinking during the day, and do it until you fall asleep from exhaustion!

I use the streaming service qobuz, which have curated playlists and "albums of the week". It allows me to discover new styles or artists that I never thought much about. Sometimes it's a miss, but that's depending on taste. Also, the sound quality is really good if you have the hardware required.

If a 1 is not a fail, why do you roll at all ? I mean if the DC is 5 and you have +15, your DM should just not make you roll (* you pass automatically). So a 1 should always be a fail.

Something to keep in mind while talking about birth rate in France, is that we have a retirement system that is centered around growth. We do not have individual retirement plans, we pay each month for the currently retired people, and the workers will pay for ours when we retire. This creates a problem when the population of retired ppl is in augmentation and the active population ( working and paying taxes) is declining.

For a long time there was way more active pop than retired so we have a safety net, but it will slowly erode. And currently the political "solution" being pushed is not growing the active population (immigration for instance), but shifting the system towards a capitalisation (ie. Simililar to 401k)

Maybe I am assuming a lot of things here but is this your experience with businesses or people in the streets ?

In France we have a totally different approach than Americans for exemple regarding people we don't know. Even between french speakers we will generally not be light chatting with strangers (exacerbated in dense populated areas like Paris/Lyon), as opposed (as I understand) to Americans who can talk to anyone anywhere.

I often wonder if this sentiment of disdain for English speakers is not due to this misunderstanding of our habits.