The walking TED talk as president: Macron

[mather]

Any news on any working class fightback to Macron's neo-liberal agenda of gutting workers rights and austerity?

Strikes? Occupations and Protests? What is Melenchon up to?

 

[Casually Red]

Yesterday's news:

That would mean Vichy was the legitimate French government afterall and the French republics government in exile ...and the free french forces..were illegitimate and didnt actually represent France . What a fucking twat .

 

[mather]

That would mean Vichy was the legitimate French government afterall and the French republics government in exile ...and the free french forces..were illegitimate and didnt actually represent France . What a fucking twat .

He is not a twat, us simpletons simply cannot comprehend his complex thoughts.

 

[agricola]

That would mean Vichy was the legitimate French government afterall and the French republics government in exile ...and the free french forces..were illegitimate and didnt actually represent France . What a fucking twat .

An image of some of the legitimate forces of the Republic has been released:

 

[Idris2002]

An image of some of the legitimate forces of the Republic has been released:

Les poilus don't look too convinced.

 

[J Ed]

An image of some of the legitimate forces of the Republic has been released:

Maybe one day you can get a nice suit like me if you work hard enough you poor cunt

 

[agricola]

Les poilus don't look too convinced.

Nor do the crew of the Terrible -

 

[Idris2002]

Nor do the crew of the Terrible -

Quel le fuque?

E2A: I looked this up, it's not a scene from a new sci-fi dystopia, it's an actual real shot of M. on a French nuclear sub.

 

[kabbes]

I think the thread title is well harsh, actually. TED talks are frequently very interesting and inspiring nuggets from people who have achieved some great things -- scientists, artists, humanitarians. This Macron is none of those things.

 

[mather]

I think the thread title is well harsh, actually. TED talks are frequently very interesting and inspiring nuggets from people who have achieved some great things -- scientists, artists, humanitarians. This Macron is none of those things.

TED talks aren't any of those things.

 

[kabbes]

TED talks aren't any of those things.

Yes they are. I listen to one every day. Some of them are capitalist propoganda (which is still worth knowing about) but most are precisely what I describe.

 

[mather]

I would say the opposite. I once saw an interesting talk on the renovation of the ancient Fez medina in Morocco and it lacked all the pretentious and preachy crap that usually comes with TED talks but such presentations are rare. Most talks simply conform to the dominant way of thinking that exists in Silicon Valley, neo-liberal and techno-utopian and that you don't need politics or struggle to change things, that every socio-economic problem we face is merely a technical problem to be solved by more technology which of course means using more of their products so there 'solutions' end up being nothing more than marketing.

 

[mather]

Plus TED talks are big on 'mindfulness' and 'positive thinking' which makes them even more crap than they are.

 

[mather]

An image of some of the legitimate forces of the Republic has been released:

Macron is the first French president to have never done military service so this pathetic Top Gun cosplay is just outright embarrassing.

 

[kabbes]

I would say the opposite. I once saw an interesting talk on the renovation of the ancient Fez medina in Morocco and it lacked all the pretentious and preachy crap that usually comes with TED talks but such presentations are rare. Most talks simply conform to the dominant way of thinking that exists in Silicon Valley, neo-liberal and techno-utopian and that you don't need politics or struggle to change things, that every socio-economic problem we face is merely a technical problem to be solved by more technology which of course means using more of their products so there 'solutions' end up being nothing more than marketing.

Plus TED talks are big on 'mindfulness' and 'positive thinking' which makes them even more crap than they are.

Most TED talks are nothing to do with any of those things and given by people that have never set foot in Silicon Valley in their life. The one I was listening to yesterday, for example, was from a woman whose parents had been refugees and who then who had to seek political asylum herself as an adult; she was appealing to people to treat refugees with respect rather than treat them as enemies. The day before it was a geophysicist who had tracked down a river that boils in the Amazon.

 

[mather]

Most TED talks are nothing to do with any of those things and given by people that have never set foot in Silicon Valley in their life. The one I was listening to yesterday, for example, was from a woman whose parents had been refugees and who then who had to seek political asylum herself as an adult; she was appealing to people to treat refugees with respect rather than treat them as enemies. The day before it was a geophysicist who had tracked down a river that boils in the Amazon.

I'm not saying every talk is like that and every now and then you get presentations which are interesting and make you think. Just saying the stuff I listed in my previous post seems to be the dominant narrative in TED talks. What you won't get in TED talks is anything to do with collective social and political struggles, everything boils down to the individual and individualistic solutions to problems.

Also certain topics are not tolerated by TED talks such as Nick Hanauer's talk that rich people don't create jobs:

Was Nick Hanauer’s TED Talk on Income Inequality Too Rich for Rich People? | TIME.com

It seems not all ideas are worth spreading, especially if they go against the neo-liberal narrative that TED talks propagate.

 

[Idris2002]

Macron is the first French president to have never done military service so this pathetic Top Gun cosplay is just outright embarrassing.

By 2022 he'll have reached full trainwreck status.

 

[mather]

By 2022 he'll have reached full trainwreck status.

That's being generously optimistic.

 

[stavros]

Macron's official portrait, which I think has to be on display in every mayoral office in the country, has just been issued and is 5cm longer than all previous presidential portraits, meaning mayors can't just replace the Hollande shot with it in the same frame. Fausse polémique sur les « millions » que coûterait le portrait du président Macron aux mairies

 

[Casually Red]

Macron is the first French president to have never done military service so this pathetic Top Gun cosplay is just outright embarrassing.

He was too busy being molested by his weird pedo wife .

 

[Idris2002]

Latest polling shows Macaroon 10 points down after budget cuts:

French President Macron’s popularity plummets amid cuts uproar - France 24

 

[stavros]

I suppose it's inevitable that after the honeymoon, when he has to actually govern, people's rose-tinted glasses will start to slip. I'm sure it happened here in 1997, in America in 2009, and doubtless previously in France.

 

[stavros]

He's taking a leaf out of the Tory book and cutting local authority budgets quite severely.

 

[Casually Red]

It's just Hollande with a makeover . With gloss . hell be just as despised soon enough .

I thought the French had a bit more cop on tbh . How did they fall for this shit in such big numbers ?

 

[stavros]

In the final round, I don't blame them for voting for Macron. Had he been against Mélenchon I might be saying something different.

 

[stavros]

200,000 have signed a petition to stop Brigitte Macron getting the official new title of "First Lady".

 

[butchersapron]

Latest polling shows Macaroon 10 points down after budget cuts:

French President Macron’s popularity plummets amid cuts uproar - France 24

He's dropped another 20% since then. The twat.

 

[Idris2002]

He's dropped another 20% since then. The twat.

Roger that. Good NYT piece on his plummeting popularity here:

Macron’s Honeymoon Comes to a Halt

The best bit is at the end, when they quote a deluded true believer in Macron and all his works.

 

[J Ed]

Will take a while for Macron to reach Hollande levels of unpopularity but I think he will do it.

 

[J Ed]

Emmanuel Macron's popularity falls faster than any French president ever

Emmanuel Macron’s popularity has dropped faster than any previous French president, according to a landmark poll after his first 100 days in office.

Mr Macron is now more unpopular than his predecessor Francois Hollande – himself very unpopular – was after the same length of time in office.

The French President’s first months have been dogged with allegations of financial irregularities among members of his government, as well as rows over planned cuts to housing support for people on low-incomes.

Just 36 per cent of the French public said they were satisfied with the President’s performance, with 64 per cent saying they were not, according to the latest Ifop poll.

At the same stage in Mr Hollande’s presidency the socialist was satisfying 46 per cent of the French public and lost the support of 54 per cent of them.

According to the same series of polls Mr Macron’s rating was as high as 64 per cent in late June and 54 per cent in late July – meaning the biggest falls in his popularity have come most recently