French & Canadian not French-Canadian. Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon 🇵🇲 France in North America. Ancien élu des Français de l'étranger. Passionné d'histoire.
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Seriously? You’ve got to be kidding. As a card carrying Frenchman, trust me, we mock all our present and former presidents, kings and emperors.
Except of course René Coty. He is OFF LIMITS. Got me?!
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A truly confident superpower could easily have ignored an offhand remark by a footballer reacting to an internet meme. Left alone, the clip would have vanished into the ephemera of social media within hours. Instead, because the CCP is structurally obsessed with absolute narrative and thought control, it proved incapable of brushing off a perceived minor slight.
By mobilising state media, diplomatic channels, and corporate boycotts to demand penance for the word “dictator” (remember, Mbappé didn’t even utter Mao’s name), Beijing inadvertently validated the very characterisation it sought to refute.
Read:
Brittle superpower: What the Kylian Mbappé meltdown reveals about Xi Jinping’s China
firstpost.com/opinion/brittl…
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Mao Zedong was certainly a dictator, French footballer Kylian Mbappé was right about that, but the label still feels inadequate for a man who was responsible for the deaths of tens of millions of Chinese.
He was a mass murderer, one of the worst tyrants of the twentieth century, in a super-league alongside the likes of Hitler, Stalin and Pol Pot. When he died in 1976, after endless and barbaric campaigns and purges, his legacy was a traumatised and impoverished land of fear and paranoia.
Mbappé's jokey comments were not about this brutal history, but the result of an internet meme, a video circulating online that placed his face on images of Mao.
'[The meme] that makes me laugh the most, it's the one where there's a video of a guy, I think it's a Chinese dictator,' he said on a podcast interview.
✍️ Ian Williams
Article | spectator.com/article/why-th…
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Vous les avez entendu chanter, maintenant regardez-les danser. La soirée canadienne est le plus grand réconfort qu'on puisse souhaiter.
#Quebec
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When you tell a Quebec Foid that your family first traces your Canadian ancestors to the "south shore" and that "you remember"
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Everyone seems to be talking about these fun Quebec chansons à réponses from Soirée Canadienne in the 70s.
To Québecers: English Canadians are not mocking this tradition, but admiring it.
I think the fascination is that in our fractured, atomized society, we can see a beautiful expression of real community. Everyone, from kids to grandparents, knows the words and sings them together.
The joyfulness of the tradition is also a wonderful antidote to our hyper cynical age.
And the authenticity of the music itself is a beautiful contrast to the auto tuned and hyper engineered noise that passes for a lot of today’s popular music.
It’s obvious these songs were passed on from generation to generation, and represent a sense of shared culture and love of home. They make us nostalgic for a simpler time of shared meaning and identity.
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Not to pit two Québécois queens against one another but that little fat kid will NEVER be him
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I don't know why Quebec folk songs are going viral on X but they're irresistible. Vive le Québec libre !
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Oh these Quebec folk songs keep getting better and better! Who could have imagined Québécois music going viral on the X timeline?
This beautiful kind of rustic village music is well overdue for a comeback!
Monsieur @WabKinew - vous êtes une inspiration pour tous les francophones du Canada !
Je viens de rejoindre le club des "bannis par Fabrizio Bucella" @FabrizioBucella pour l'avoir questionné sur son apologie pour les pseudo-sciences ! #banniparbucella #Salukes
Hey @Hostinger - You're supposed to be the cool guys from Europe !
Why on earth would you do this ? Nobody is calling it 'Super Intelligence' except for one profoundly pathetic and incompetent narcissist.
Un article de mon ami Nicolas Garon dans le Foreign Policy in Focus, un blog du Institute for Policy Studies. fpif.org/will-trump-grab-a-f…
