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Cake day: June 23rd, 2023

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  • Yeah french presidents have been able to get elected in those “best of two” presidential elections (you vote twice, the second round is the top two from the first, so very easy to manipulate) by helping the far right getting into the second place (started with Chirac or even earlier) so you only have one reasonable choice (Democracy vs not).

    People got fed up with it, got numb to it, and also the far right have become more of a populistic party too (on the outside at least).

    It doesn’t help Macron seems to believe he’s some sort of rightful heir after those shenanigans too and just brutally impose what he wants without taking into account what the people want (there have been massive strikes and protests, even by french standards, to absolutely no avail).

    Sigh.
















  • Lots of good advice here, I’ll add one that I haven’t seen ;

    I go to a good book shop and say I’m into polars, so I just go to the polar section and take books that I feel might be interesting, there is a lot of information just by looking of the outside of a book (large book with gold title vs thin dense monichromatic…), then I open it some 10-20 pages in (the first page is often extra handcrafted to draw you in and might just be a cheap trick, or not of course) and read half a page. Usually the style just puts you off or makes you want more right away.

    Another is just ask for recommendations, I bet we can find you a couple of good ones if you are interested :-)