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For those wondering why the epicenter of French discontent has coalesced around the education system, I would recommend reviewing the career of Ur-Macronist, Laurent Bigorgne, head of the Institut Montaigne, McKinsey consultant, and a cokehead with an inclination to using date rape drugs.

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I care about polls the same way I care about the grosses to new movies - I'm provided with information that I really don't care about, but become, against my will, addicted to. A real instance of the appetite coming with the feeding.

Macron is going down in the disgrace and ignominy that has characterized his entire reign. The address last night that he deigned to give had zero pertinence to the causes of the protest, but he did his best to put on his indignation act. He's gonna track down the perpetrators!

Mucho ink has been spilled – or whatever we want to call the spillage of pixels across a screen – about legitimation. Generally under the heading of the State’s legitimacy, to reference the ulers. But how about the instruments? Such as our current crisis with the police - worldwide.

The tax cuts on the wealthiest, starting in the Reagan era, have had a huge price - roughly around the 40 trillion dollars in debt that the U.S. now stumbles around with. Good luck doing flimflam Fed Reserve loans in that environment when AI goes South.

I’m not going to do the math on how a 2.1 percent GDP tax cut has ramified over almost 50 years, but look at the wheezing of the American machine as it tries to support its retirees and its billionaires, and you tell me what this looks like.

The tax cuts on the wealthiest, starting in the Reagan era, have had a huge price - roughly around the 40 trillion dollars in debt that the U.S. now stumbles around with. Good luck doing flimflam Fed Reserve loans in that environment when AI goes South.

limitedinc.blogspot.com/2026/10/macr... A centrist hat trick beloved by the media is to mystify the discussion of social democracy to one of budgets. Here's how France's social. sec. works: "... just 3.6% of French retirees live in poverty, compared to the OECD average of 12.5%".

One of the conclusions young people are reaching is that the neo-classical defense of Capitalism is a defense of a system that can’t afford retirement for old people or education for young people. Yet the very folks who write this kind of nonsense about “reforming” the system –

limitedinc.blogspot.com/2026/10/macr... A centrist hat trick beloved by the media is to mystify the discussion of social democracy to one of budgets. Here's how France's social. sec. works: "... just 3.6% of French retirees live in poverty, compared to the OECD average of 12.5%".

1.I always think it is funny that AI freaks like to say that AI is conscious. If consciousness really costs a trillion dollars in energy investment, and we have 8 billion or so humans who are conscious - where are the trillions spent on them?

2. I want my trillion dollars, as a little AI replicant. But the AI freaks aren't really serious. Not one, yet, has said, well, the CEO's job is actually to keep his enterprise in the middle or top of his sector - an algorithmic activity we can hand over to AI

The AI peeps talking about the end of the word are really reacting to the trillion dollars in loans that are out there making a product that has pretty little reak return work. The best economic explanation is that scene in Goodfella where they torch a bar for the insurance money.

HENRY (V.O.) And, finally, when there's nothing 1 left, when you can't borrow another buck from the bank or buy another case of booze, you bust the joint out. CUT DIRECTLY TO: LARGE CLOSE UP OF - HANDS making rolls of toilet paper being kneaded into long rolls with Sterno.

In James C. Scott’s Seeing Like the State, there is an appreciation of Lenin as a modernist figure, in particular like Le Corbusier. Scott takes Lenin’s text, What is to be Done, as his starting point for discussing the organization of the Communist party as a classic modernist project:

Reading the NYT about the American "retreat" in the face of the Iran war, it is striking that both lib and conservative politicos have pretty much the same idea: that America is always right and must always reign supreme - a delusion of grandeur.

Feminism was and is a completely admirable program to create bonds of solidarity between women. However, between the effort and the reality fallls the shadow - and the need for work. As has often been pointed out, the majority of white women vote R. Have since LBJ. But this can change.

I haven't tuned into the NYT gurgling their macronist responses to the police violence against the Lyceens yet. But I have seen a lot of the videos - including a video of an insane police charge at our school, Voltaire

I understand the relic-mania of the Middle Ages, for I like relics myself. Not that I collect them – I don’t really have that collecting vibe in my life. I’m a great thrower-outer, too great in fact. I have regretted certain trips to the dumpster. #Pascal

The psychology of the relation btw Trump and his Maga base is very similar to the Epstein routine of grooming - first compliments then degradation. The AI of Jesus cleaning King Trump's shoes is about a blasphemous image as any in the western canon.

After you suck down this you will gradually learn to accept anything. Myself, who read Sade and Bataille in grad school had little incling that this stuff would become a Republican party norm. It retains the power to shock. The Dada-ists would weep! Their forms appropriated by fascism!

The psychology of the relation btw Trump and his Maga base is very similar to the Epstein routine of grooming - first compliments then degradation. The AI of Jesus cleaning King Trump's shoes is about a blasphemous image as any in the western canon.