ALEXANDER @godysseus - Tumblr Blog

The French government wants to suppress two public holidays and the days they suggested so far are very telling.

Last year when they mentioned it for the first time they were talking about May 8th which is Victory Day in Europe it’s supposed to symbolize the defeat of the Nazis and the victory of freedom and equality*. Wanting to remove it in the context of rising fascism in the Global North is very telling. Last week they talked about removing May 1st. Which is international day for the fight for labor rights and represent the people who fought to limit the work day at 8h. Again in a context where workers rights are going backwards and with a government that wants to make people work more with less rights and without a higher pay, choosing this specific day is very telling.

It’s also very interesting how the country that screams constantly about secularism didn’t think about any of the 6 days (out of 11) that are related to Christianism.

godysseus

It would be so funny if they tried removing christmas as a holiday and then treated any group who complains as just being lazy.

"What are you screaming about ? It's just one day, you can't work for one more day ? What do you mean the symbolics ? You just want a day off."

And then see other countries news headline "France to remove christmas as holiday in the name of economic growth" and suddenly everybody understands perfectly that it's about more than just not working.

I'd still not like it because leave our holidays alone but at least it'd be fun to watch.

Disclose est un média et une ONG de journalisme d’investigation.

Les policiers et gendarmes français ont accès à un logiciel de reconnaissance faciale sur leur téléphone professionnel depuis 2022. Relié au TAJ, le fichier d’antécédents judiciaires, l’outil permet d’obtenir des informations personnelles sur plus d’un quart de la population française grâce à une photo prise sur le vif. Des fonctionnaires ont recours à cette pratique hors de tout cadre légal, en particulier lors de contrôles d’identité, révèle Disclose, témoignages et documents à l’appui. Jusqu’à présent, le ministère de l’intérieur laisse faire.

#france #upthebaguette

my-dailydreams

My lesbian bff regularly uses the concept of castration in the freudian sense so I've taken to it but it sounds immediately suspicious when you're a guy. I've received looks.

#on the other hand psychologists find me hilarious #freudian theory is a GREAT comedic vessel

allsadnshit

Most people's twenties are spent being upset at how other people around them think and feel and it takes like the whole decade to realize you can't control it, shouldn't want to, wouldn't get what you wanted if you could, and that actually maybe get over yourself and then life starts to get really good around there

Very precious kind knowledge to live through

J'ai horreur de ce que me m'apprête à écrire mais j'ai trop de livres. Est-ce que quelqu'un connaît des structures qui les reprennent (à Paris) ? Ça me ferait trop mal au cœur de les jeter.

#upthebaguette #frenchblr

smbc, 13.08.2006

#it's kinda off #but still kinda funny

kropotkindersurprise

wow can you imagine?

#The Berliner Zeitung propaganda is subtly framing Bavaria as a beer-enthusiastic bundesland

cannibal-flowerbomb

"Transandrophobia exists" is a TERF belief. Make no fucking mistake. Sex based oppression at the core of your ideology? You're a TERF.

doingitatmybirthdaydinner

lol

marbleguard

It took about 12 years of gradual erosion of feminist language to get to the “saying it out loud” point, but I’m glad we’re here.

Once a year I delve back into the Marc Dutroux case and the institutional ramifications of the X1 witness testimonial and I get sick for a few days

#i got brought back to it by the lack of judiciary reaction to the epstein case #we live in pedophilic societies no wonder everything is so fucked #as above so below #this is my conspiracy theory and i'm dying on that hill filled with so much fear and anger

dajo42

no, mother... you should have read my supposed "school field trip" permission slip closer.... i foresaw your betrayal a mile away.... im afraid, mother, it is you who has been sold to one direction

andreablog2

I practice mindfulness because I know things are going to get so bad that we will look at today’s day and think it was simpler.

lethe-the-shoggoth

Many people quote Marx having said that religion is "the opiate of the people" as though it were a pithy mockery of religious belief. This is a criminal distortion of the meaning of his words. The quote originates from the introduction of Marx's work A Contribution to the Critique of Hegel's Philosophy of Right and the full passage goes as follows:

"The foundation of irreligious criticism is: Man makes religion, religion does not make man. Religion is, indeed, the self-consciousness and self-esteem of man who has either not yet won through to himself, or has already lost himself again. But man is no abstract being squatting outside the world. Man is the world of man – state, society. This state and this society produce religion, which is an inverted consciousness of the world, because they are an inverted world. Religion is the general theory of this world, its encyclopaedic compendium, its logic in popular form, its spiritual point d'honneur, its enthusiasm, its moral sanction, its solemn complement, and its universal basis of consolation and justification. It is the fantastic realization of the human essence since the human essence has not acquired any true reality. The struggle against religion is, therefore, indirectly the struggle against that world whose spiritual aroma is religion.

Religious suffering is, at one and the same time, the expression of real suffering and a protest against real suffering. Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people.

The abolition of religion as the illusory happiness of the people is the demand for their real happiness. To call on them to give up their illusions about their condition is to call on them to give up a condition that requires illusions. The criticism of religion is, therefore, in embryo, the criticism of that vale of tears of which religion is the halo."

This is not the idea that religion is some symptom of stupidity, but that it is a necessary and understandable reaction to the horrors of the world that, nonetheless, must be abolished to create a real world worth living in. It is a call to forsake the comfort of illusion and wade out into the cold water of the real.

The passage is, effectively, the answer of modernity to the criticism of the medieval.

#i like a good contextualization