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The French model is how all governments should be.
Humans are dynamic evolving creatures. We keep changing how we operate, believe, function, accept or don't accept. Government should be written and then placed on a 100 year limit. After that, everything should be rewritten and reorganized to adjust to a newer or different age. Rather than waiting for the aging system to fail because it is outdated, change it peacefully by placing a time limit on everything.
It's a pipe dream because everyone knows that wealth loves keeping the status quo for as long as possible. The wealthy also know that peaceful transitions would slowly erode generational wealth and power. While at the same time, violent changes usually pass wealth onto the same group of people who go on to cement the status quo for as long as possible all over again.
I'm French and I consider that the fifth Republic lasted too long. We need a new (Republican*) system!
*: Of course not Republican in the American sense.
We need a new (Republican*) system!
I don't know, isn't it about Conquer Europe o'Clock? Haven't you let the Germans have all the fun this past century or so?
Does Bonaparte have any descendants that would look cool in a greatcoat and tall bicorne?
We just have to wait a few years for Germany to fall apart due to their neoliberal reforms and shrinking demographics.
We made the same shitty reforms and our demographics is shrinking too, but less than them and later, and that's all that matters.
Then it'll be time for Zloubida the First to take things into his own hands.
I would follow you to the end of the world, mon empereur, or the Channel, whichever comes first.
Arise, arise, Riders of Zloubida! Fell deeds awake: fire and slaughter! Spear shall be shaken, shield be splintered, a sword-day, a red day, ere the sun rises! Ride now, ride now! Ride to Britain!
(Drowning horses noises)
No love for a Reformation and Reestablishing of ONE carolingian empire, finally reuniting Germany and France?
Conquering Europe has been tried and failed so many times at some point you just gotta move on you know.
Can you guys go Napoleon 2.0 and help us push Russians back to Moscow? You can have everything from 1991 border onwards.
Please don't, there's enough dictator wannabes as it is...
At least we'd have one with a funny accent for some variety
Ya, the president really has too much power and there can't even be public referandums (practically speaking). 6th republuc 💖!
A new way of counting votes, removing the ability to accumulate mandates would be good starters, and a constitution agreed upon by people from all walks of life instead of the elite. Maybe also some restrictions on the president's powers.
Otherwise there might be beheadings again.
Idem, on tourne juste en rond là. En espérant moins d'emphase sur le rôle du président et plus sur l'Assemblée pour la 6eme république
Sometimes I wonder if all the anti French memes on the Internet are planted to keep citizens of other countries from realizing all of the things France is just objectively better at.
Aren't they a result of the French opposing the Iraq war? Which is one other thing they're objectively better at.
Plus saying NO to the USA in the fifties/sixties, leaving NATO (which the USA didn't like) and so on.
We didn't fully leave Nato, we just left the full integration, and mostly the being dotted with US military bases. But we were still in Nato, but also more independent. When the US got more tame vis à vis the whole cold war hysteria, we integrated a bit more tightly.
At lest that's how I remember it (reading about it, really). I may have gotten details wrong.
Well France wasn't in nato, didn't abide to the famous article 5 for all that time.
And yes, they kicked out the american bases, which obviously the USA disliked.
Did anyone actually invoke the article 5 during that period?
The one time anyone invoked article 5 was the USA after 9/11 in 2001 for what I know.
But that does not make any difference?
No it's North American bigotry, I've heard the term surrender monkeys and other slurs my entire life so it well precedes iraq
Does that imply that France is objectively worse at PR than the rest of us?
Because, I mean, that tracks
Or it just means they're better at not giving a shit, which I suppose could mean the same thing.
The French model is how all governments should be.
Minus the fantastic dysfunction
Ahem.. some of us are here for the disfunction.
Sounds like most governments everywhere, really.
I just read a blog where so done was expressing satisfaction that government was being scaled back to what was listed in the constitution, and encouraged people to take the 80k (which I assume is referring to the downsizing Trump is trying to do). Putting those two statements together, this person just effectively said that the FAA needs to be removed since it isn't enshrined in the constitution.
This is just to point out that some people vehemently disagree with you and France, no matter how absurd that may sound to us.