Does Vepres know very little about France?

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

Yeah, things are SOOO bad. I would much rather live in a good European nation like France where everybody holds hands and is happy and gets whatever they want for free

Like I said, he knows about as much about France as he does about global warming if he doesn't thing that cartoon is his sig is retarded beyond words.

[Franzl]

1.) It's Socialist.
2.) The average poor person there has no chance of ever getting out of poverty, in contrast to the wonderful opportunity we offer in the U.S.
3.) They hate freedom.

What else is there to know?

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

You'd think right wingers would realize that France is a mostly free market and capitalist country, from their moronic little boycotts of French goods. All of which sold in the US are made by privately owned or publicly traded companies, not some nationalized company.

Even more amusing is thinking France is some type of pacifist, hippie country. That's too stupid for words honestly. France is arguably the most imperialist country in the world today.

[Lief 🗽]

He should read this article: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/11/opinion/11krugman.html

[Antonio the Sixth]

Yeah, things are SOOO bad. I would much rather live in a good European nation like France where everybody holds hands and is happy and gets whatever they want for free

Like I said, he knows about as much about France as he does about global warming if he doesn't thing that cartoon is his sig is retarded beyond words.

I read the whole post and I must say I'm once again suprised by so much dumbness. I use to have very good relationships with Vepres, and I generally find him rather intelligent. But sometimes he seems to get crazy and suddenly throws the worst sort of conservative bullsh*t.

[Franzl]

You'd think right wingers would realize that France is a mostly free market and capitalist country, from their moronic little boycotts of French goods. All of which sold in the US are made by privately owned or publicly traded companies, not some nationalized company.

Even more amusing is thinking France is some type of pacifist, hippie country. That's too stupid for words honestly.

To be fair, France does have quite a bit of unnecessary government regulation, and I don't approve of it, but that doesn't have anything to do with socialism.

[Grumpier Than Uncle Joe]

1.) It's Socialist.
2.) The average poor person there has no chance of ever getting out of poverty, in contrast to the wonderful opportunity we offer in the U.S.
3.) They hate freedom.

What else is there to know?

4. Great wines.   Man are you a dumb  

[Mechaman]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Union_for_a_Popular_Movement

Very socialist indeed, the dominant right wing party only has a majority in the National Assembly and a plurality in the Senate and has the presidency.....

[Franzl]

1.) It's Socialist.
2.) The average poor person there has no chance of ever getting out of poverty, in contrast to the wonderful opportunity we offer in the U.S.
3.) They hate freedom.

What else is there to know?

4. Great wines.   Man are you a dumb  

I'm not really much of a wine drinker.....I prefer Bavarian beer

[Countess Anya of the North Parish]

Well he doesnt live there. So i don't expect him to. but this thread is just to have a laugh at his expense. so it is rather rude.

[Tetro Kornbluth]

For once BRTD and I are in complete agreement.

[Antonio the Sixth]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Union_for_a_Popular_Movement

Very socialist indeed, the dominant right wing party only has a majority in the National Assembly and a plurality in the Senate and has the presidency.....

Should have said it myself.

[segwaystyle2012]

Do we really need threads calling out individual posters like this?

[Bunwahaha [still dunno why, but well, so be it]]

Even more amusing is thinking France is some type of pacifist, hippie country. That's too stupid for words honestly. France is arguably the most imperialist country in the world today.

France may like to play in its former colonies, but, haha, 'the most imperialist country in the world today' is a bit...too much. 1st I'm not sure whether we're the only one in Europe to act like that, 2nd I know a country that can teach things in term of imperialism, that one isn't in Europe, cross the Atlantic, welcome, you're at home.

Concerning the population, I'd say that yes, actually, that's rather pacifist here.

[Bunwahaha [still dunno why, but well, so be it]]

Outside of this, and from what I know of the record of Vepres, it seems to me easy to assume that he was sarcastic here, then thinking the opposite of what he wrote. Haven't seen the smiley? You may try to go further into sarcasm maybe, so that maybe one day you'd come to appreciate South Park.

[Mechaman]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Union_for_a_Popular_Movement

Very socialist indeed, the dominant right wing party only has a majority in the National Assembly and a plurality in the Senate and has the presidency.....

Should have said it myself.

I couldn't resist.
Also, I thought this thread could use a libertarianish (I'm starting to reconsider that label considering my expanding views on stuff like environmental legislation and healthcare) poster to point out how ridiculous Vepres post was. And Bon, I think he may have been implying that France is totally screwed up, so yeah sarcasm was implied, but not as friendly as you would like to think.

[Bunwahaha [still dunno why, but well, so be it]]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Union_for_a_Popular_Movement

Very socialist indeed, the dominant right wing party only has a majority in the National Assembly and a plurality in the Senate and has the presidency.....

Should have said it myself.

I couldn't resist.
Also, I thought this thread could use a libertarianish (I'm starting to reconsider that label considering my expanding views on stuff like environmental legislation and healthcare) poster to point out how ridiculous Vepres post was. And Bon, I think he may have been implying that France is totally screwed up, so yeah sarcasm was implied, but not as friendly as you would like to think.

euh, I got very much it wasn't friendly, since it seems it was sarcastic.

[Hash]

Yes, but he certainly isn't alone. People who think that France is a communist country full of hippies and evil left-wingers should get some education instead of saying such stupidities. Come on.

France is so hippie and left-wing that women didn't vote until 1945.

[Bunwahaha [still dunno why, but well, so be it]]

Well, now, that the hippie stuff is brought on again, I have to give 2 words about that. Because, along with the fact the ambiance is rather pacifist/non-interventionist here, here is something of 'hippie' in the collective culture.

I mean, the Mai '68 aura has been very strong here, and we haven't had a big conservative wing to give a lot of voice against it, unlike in the US. It had been pursued with the election of Mitterand in '81, psychologically, it was a continuation, one which then gave disappointment but which had been carried with a lot of hope and with the spirit of Mai '68. And no matter the political outcomes, it continued to be present in the culture, to be seen as something positive, as something it is politically incorrect to be against.

Though, I'd say it was really the case until one decade ago. There it began to be put in question, to be relativized, to be overcome, and it reached a top when Sarkozy proposed to 'wipe out' the heritage of '68 in 2007 (haha, he is a fruit and a representation of it), the fact he had been elected mainly with voices of olds would show that there wasn't an adherence from the whole population to this. Though it is less and less trendy, seen as something that partly caused the current problems of the society. But it remained present in the cultural background during a long time and partly still is.

[Хahar 🤔]

Indeed, which is why it surprises me that he keeps talking about it.

France is the most right-wing real country in Western Europe.

[Gren]

He knows little about France, yes, but I wouldn't blame him. Some people out there in my country think that Americans are all a bunch of hamburger-eating obeses, god-fearing fanatics, blooody imperialists who are so stupid that even oppose universal healthcare.

[Lief 🗽]

Indeed, which is why it surprises me that he keeps talking about it.

France is the most right-wing real country in Western Europe.

Germany? Switzerland? Ireland?

[Хahar 🤔]

Indeed, which is why it surprises me that he keeps talking about it.

France is the most right-wing real country in Western Europe.

Germany? Switzerland? Ireland?

France is more right-wing than Germany. Switzerland I'm arbitrarily discounting. You're right about Ireland.

[Bo]

Yes.

[Stranger in a strange land]

most Americans know very little about France.

He knows little about France, yes, but I wouldn't blame him. Some people out there in my country think that Americans are all a bunch of hamburger-eating obeses, god-fearing fanatics, blooody imperialists who are so stupid that even oppose universal healthcare.

Similarly, most French know far less than they imagine they know about America.