NiiloPielinen
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Emmanuel Macron refuses any renegociations of the Paris accord
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There's nothing stopping anybody from creating threads about Merkel or Gentiloni. The fact is that Macron has had some great speeches lately (which is surprising considering how rather bland his campaign speeches were). I guess he's really feeling the pressure and stature of the function now. His speeches inspire people enough to make threads out of it. It helps that he has been recently in the spotlight due to the French elections and he is also the one who has stand up to both Putin and Trump in a matter of a week or so.
Merkel also got her fair share of threads for almost any of the important statements towards Trump or US, just have a look.
And I would argue that being president of France is a job that includes a lot about handling foreign relations and PR.
Goddamn France you did good making this guy your president.
Captain Smoker
Member
For future use.
ReplacementPelican
Member
With everything happening with Trump and Brexit, I'm glad the world - not just France - has a leader like this.
Hopefully Merkel's reaction will be much the same.
Merkel has been openly critical since Trump's election. Merkel just doesn't communicate that as Macron does. Her Bierzeltrede was Merkel slapping Trump in the face.
FPS murderer
Member
Lol, QFT.
Come over and try to get advantages of the EU as long as you can get. I know that at least germany is currently very generous regarding citinzenships for british people. You wont get one immediatly, but I expect that you will have advantages later on.
Godzilla's Left Toe
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200 pounds?
Cross-posting from the other thread.
Merkel's reaction:
https://apnews.com/023a6f70c7b74386...n=SocialFlow&utm_source=Twitter&utm_medium=AP
Again, "putting it very mildly" does not accurately convey the anger from the original German.
Merkel's reaction:
https://apnews.com/023a6f70c7b74386...n=SocialFlow&utm_source=Twitter&utm_medium=AP
Again, "putting it very mildly" does not accurately convey the anger from the original German.
Baron Doggystyle von Woof
Member
This is why we think USA does not have a real left wing party. By our standards (EU) the democratic party is still very right.
Berne Sanders calling himself a socialist was a fucking joke for everyone in europe
Haha, thanks for the replies guys. I wasn't expecting that big a response
To be exact, Chinese is my mother tongue but I'm mainly speaking in English. So I'll be basing the difficulty of learning new language with it. Currently studying Aerospace, haven't decided where to go afterwards other than "not US or U.K. If possible"
As someone else already said, go to Toulouse. If you can do a semester abroad (or do a masters if you're still doing your bachelor's), check out Suparéo.
To be fair to both 1930s Germans and today's Americans, both Trump and Hitler were elected without a majority.
The US needs some serious reform post-Trump, but unfortunately I don't see much happening once he's gone. It'll just be "let's forget about that".
Macron is center-right too. There aren't many american Democrats that would be considered on the left in Europe, no matter how much people like to say Bernie Sanders is "far left" (a lot of people don't even consider him "left" at all for our standards).
SuperBanana
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No, they didn't actually. He was never democratically elected into power.
Frankfurter
Member
He was.
Yeah the democratic scale is skewed super hard right in the US compared to EU standards lol.
That's funny because compared to Swedish, English is a structured language lol, our language breaks rules constantly.
Bullshit. Educate yourself.
omnislayer
Member
That moment when you respect France and her President far more than your own country and that orange piece of human waste running it.
Jesus christ America.
Make the Earth great again!
Jesus christ America.
Make the Earth great again!
Yeah what the hell lol. The fact that Hitler was democratically elected is what makes it so scary when we get loons like Trump spouting racist bullshit to win.
What actually scares me more is the ammount of people who come up with that shit recently. Lack of Education seems to be a bigger problem then I expected...
yeah me as well. Also Hitler was a well respected leader who actually did help germany grow stronger. That it was in preparation for a great war was not foreseeable for most at that time. Only after the invasion of poland and the systematic eradication of the jews started people saw his true face.
Edit: I know that he started from the beginning to undermine and disable the democracy and got rid of any political opposition. what i am trying to say is that he managed to keep all this under the rug for most of his early years and was seen as a competent leader.
ShironRedshift
Member
Yeah. As an ignorant Yank, I have no idea about this guy's domestic policies, but at least in terms of diplomacy, he's really killing it so far.
Indeed. This is very true. France was a key ally for the United States during the Revolutionary War and they provided a lot of invaluable help against Britain to the young nation. If it weren't for that assistance, it's extremely unlikely the US would have been able to win some key battles and the war would have likely taken a very different turn as a result. France was one of our very first allies, and facts such as that should not be as easily tossed aside or forgotten as they are. Much <3 <3 <3 for France!
nvm, I have seen your edit
KillerMan91
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Last German elections (before Nazis ending elections) were not free elections. There was already huge amount voter suppression by Nazi stormtroopers. In last free elections Nazis got 33% of votes and actually their popularity decreased compared to previous elections.
Really like this newfound resistance against America. The world leaders used to just follow America almost blindly and didn't dare to criticize them, but now with Trump the rest of the world has seemingly woken up a bit and are pushing back! This is great to see. I hope this keeps up and isn't a one off thing.
Polioliolio
Member
Holy Macrony!
Then the NSDAP had a coaliton with the conservatives and Hitler became Chanchellor perfectly in the ways how the the democratic system of the Weimarer Republic works.
Angela Merkel had never a 50% majority, too. She always relied and other parties to make a coalition with her. And its perfectly democractic, its the way our system works.
darkinstinct
...lacks reading comprehension.
He doesn't have balls of steel, he just talks like everybody should talk to the giant man-child that calls himself POTUS so he would finally be exposed for what he is, a giant egomaniac bully.
His tough guy performance may have worked in his TV show and to a point for his company (let's just ignore the 1.8 billion $ the Trump company has in debt to Russian and German banks) but it doesn't work in the real world where the people you want something from are not paid by you.
The whole thing is so crazy, the Paris Accord is neither legally binding nor does it set fixed results the countries have to achieve. He could've just said "we will not reduce CO2 emission by that much %, we will just do y %. There's nothing to renegotiate because there was never anything negotiated, it was and is always the free decision of any country to do as much as they want to do.
KillerMan91
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Edit. My history knowledge is rusty.
Snowman Prophet of Doom
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Shit-tons of American exceptionalist conservatives would love this.
TheOfficeMut
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Until the price of commodities double and business stalls. That's when they'd give a fuck.
Lord Frieza
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Wasn't the actual election that Hitler won generally considered a sham due to massive voter intimidation the Nazi party carried out?
No, the elections leading to Hitler's election as chancellor were generally considered fair. But during that time, most parties had actual goon squads that either brawled with squads from other parties or just wrecked different events, e.g., theatre plays.
The Nazis' goons were probably the worst, but even the social democrats had a squad during the Weimar Republic.
You're probably thinking of the elections in March 1933. There, Nazis did indeed intimidate much more than before, but even then, they didn't get an absoluty majority.
Imp the Dimp
Member
No he wasn't. Stop this revisionism.
I'd say French is probably easier, at least for english speakers. According to the US Foreign Service Institute (FSI) you need less than 600 hours to become fluent in french, whereas german demands 750 hours, which makes french one of the easiest languages to learn. Maybe there's something like the FSI in China with a similar list so you can base the difficulty according to chinese as well.Haha, thanks for the replies guys. I wasn't expecting that big a response
To be exact, Chinese is my mother tongue but I'm mainly speaking in English. So I'll be basing the difficulty of learning new language with it. Currently studying Aerospace, haven't decided where to go afterwards other than "not US or U.K. If possible"
Here's the ranking of hardest languages and the time needed to learn:
http://www.effectivelanguagelearning.com/language-guide/language-difficulty
And to those who might want to learn a foreign language, some FSI material has become public domain. The courses are somewhat outdated as they are from the 50s, but there are many different languages available. You can find the courses in websites like this:
https://www.livelingua.com/fsi-language-courses.php
John Caboose
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Hitler was elected. He was not democratically elected. A huge difference.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_federal_election said:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_federal_election said:
LegendofJoe
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If France can help us defeat the far right I'll spend the rest of my life pushing for us to return the favor and build a monument to the French people. And call it the Statue of Egalite and Fraternite or something.
Edit: Now that I think about it more, two statues would be better. The Statue of Egality and the Statue of Fraternity.
Edit: Now that I think about it more, two statues would be better. The Statue of Egality and the Statue of Fraternity.