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[–] [email protected] 38 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

πŸ‡·πŸ‡Ί I want you be miserable.

πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡Έ Already on it.

πŸ‡·πŸ‡Ί That’s a good boy. Now go and get wrecked.

πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡Έ Anything you say.

πŸ‡·πŸ‡Ί Don’t forget to suffer before you die. I want these things to happen in that exact order. Now, don’t screw this up! Oh, and make it quick. I don’t have all day.

πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡Έ Yes daddy.

[–] [email protected] 67 points 4 days ago (3 children)

As if france wasn’t racist/abelist/transphobic enough!

[–] [email protected] 38 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Ikr, they already fucking hate anyone who isn't french. And a bunch who are.

[–] [email protected] 35 points 4 days ago (6 children)

That's mostly just Paris. The rest of the country is much more chill than those Parisian fucks.

Not to say you won't find them elsewhere, but the vast majority are in Paris.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Damned parisians. They ruined paris

[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 days ago (1 children)

You Parisians sure are a contentious bunch.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 days ago

You just made a... ehhh how do you says... Enemy for the life?

[–] [email protected] 21 points 4 days ago

I've been to France many times, and Paris a couple of times, and I don't have that experience at all. Only rude encounters I've had with French speakers were in Wallonie in Belgium πŸ˜‚

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Anyone from any capital city is a cunt. It is known.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 days ago

My Polish mate says there is no regionalism in Poland unlike what you would see in other countries; but said everyone hates the Warsaw people.

[–] heavydust 5 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I confirm this. In the south, working in software development, half my coworkers always come from random countries. Except Americans, I've never seen them and I don't know why. They should come, we have great food, beer, and wine.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Probably the pay, Europe is notoriously lower pay, especially for tech.

Also, the visa process is way harder then just moving within the EU.

Why move halfway around the world when there's a whole content of better pay at your doorstep?

[–] [email protected] 16 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Not technically "pay", but:

  • Healthcare
  • Vacation
  • Employees having rights at all

are pretty good benefits.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 days ago

And France has the most number of public holidays in Europe.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 days ago (1 children)

As a side note. If you are able to negotiate for more pay, you're also able to negotiate for more paid holiday. Just saying.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

That's a massive "if" and depends on many factors. I'd rather have my paid vacation days guaranteed by law.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago

Yeah but most countries have 4-5 weeks and you can negotiate more on top of that.

[–] phdepressed 11 points 4 days ago (1 children)

That's them not considering all the benefits. So much shit we pay for in America that Europe gets through it's taxes, that aren't even that much higher.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Yes lot of people seems to fail to understand that we aren't less paid in France but we have the concept of differed salary where the state taxes the shit of your employeer and you to pay most of the benefit like free health care, public transport, free schools... This is actually just the concept of taxes but instead of getting free health care or efficient public transport the few taxes paid in America go to bombing middle east ..

[–] phdepressed 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

It also goes to subsidizing the wealthy. Can't forget that.

[–] prettybunnys 1 points 4 days ago (1 children)

The bulk of it actually goes to paying for social programs, Medicare and Medicaid, welfare and student loans (though … student loans are bullshit as a concept) and education.

Unless you count the unpaid taxes of the wealthy as a direct expenditure of our budget, then yes in a roundabout way it’s subsidizing the wealthy first then social programs in America THEN bombing brown people in other parts of the world.

We just spare no expense on the last bit, unfortunately.

[–] phdepressed 2 points 3 days ago

Social programs only exist to the extent they do as a wealth subsidy. Paying so low or scheduling hours such that people are on government benefits is subsidizing what the wealthy should be paying people. Medicare and Medicaid are ways to give money to middlemen instead of just directly paying for care. Until Biden they literally weren't allowed to negotiate prices as every other form of health insurance does. All of these are bullshit concepts. Student loans aren't even run by the government just paid by us while a third party servicer reaps the money and as you note shouldn't exist. All developed countries do miles better in all these areas than the US.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago

This isn't quite right. People in Paris are equal opportunities assholes. There are higher concentrations of xenophobes outside of the big cities.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago

And this too is a lazy outdated stereotype.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 days ago (1 children)

i mean France isn’t specifically worse than other western countries, like Australia, the UK, or Austria.

The point is all of them are still holding on to racism, ableism, xenophobia. We aren’t past it yet.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 days ago

One could argue France is getting notably worst about these. But well, other European countries too, it seems.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Are the French particularly transphobic?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 days ago

Nah, but it's France, it's cool to hate on France because somehow they've got this reputation for being assholes. And sometimes they are, but there's assholes everywhere. Even in Thailand, the land of smiles, I've had bad experiences with people.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago

I thought that was the joke. Is there another interpretation I'm missing?

[–] [email protected] 62 points 4 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 35 points 4 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago

That's a fancy french word for "trumper"

[–] [email protected] 30 points 4 days ago

Mission failed successfully πŸ’ͺ

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 days ago

πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡Έ I want your land, too!

πŸ‡¨πŸ‡¦ Fuck you, eh!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago

The creater forgot to make the USA morbidly obese