Opinion of Nicholas Sarkozy

[Antonio the Sixth]

Despicable.

[Antonio the Sixth]

He says burkinis are a provocation. He is right. They provoke dimwit politicians to pass laws against them, which provokes greater antagonism in the society and threatens to become a recruiting tool for militants. Therefore we must stand with the dimwit politicians in their fight to stop them.

Sarkozy is an FF for standing up to the menace of supererogatory fabric against French values of Continental philosophy, smelly cheese, and ennui.

Has the word taken on a different meaning in English? Because it just means boredom (not to say it wouldn't work as such).

[Antonio the Sixth]

He says burkinis are a provocation. He is right. They provoke dimwit politicians to pass laws against them, which provokes greater antagonism in the society and threatens to become a recruiting tool for militants. Therefore we must stand with the dimwit politicians in their fight to stop them.

Sarkozy is an FF for standing up to the menace of supererogatory fabric against French values of Continental philosophy, smelly cheese, and ennui.

Has the word taken on a different meaning in English? Because it just means boredom (not to say it wouldn't work as such).

Yeah, i guess so - sort of an existential boredom, a pervasive sense of futility.

Weirdly enough, the word in French literature that I think approaches this definition best is an English one. It would be spleen, as used by Baudelaire.