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  • If you’re out of the loop with French politics, the wiki entry for Bayrou is worth a glance:

    73 years young…

    On 21 June 2017, he resigned from the government amid an investigation into the MoDem’s allegedly fraudulent employment of parliamentary assistants, initiated earlier that month.

    Bayrou resigned [as Minister of Justice] several days before the 2017 legislative election, only 35 days after he had taken the post.

    Since September 2020, Bayrou has been the haut-commissaire au plan (a high commissioner of planning). In 2024 he has published a single note. It was in January. Nothing since. Nada. Since taking the position, the high commissioner has published a total of 17 notes.

    I live in France and thought this guy was retired for some reason.


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    I have nothing to defend or of which to be the victim?

    I’m not a fan of the NP or the Globe, but I still read the news. Sometimes I’m disappointed with the CBC. I like seeing other ideas, though. I like seeing how the news can spin and slant things. It is part of my work.

    I didn’t mean to come off as a c-nt and make you waste you time with this long response.


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    I haven’t lived in Canada since around 2006. I try to keep up with the news because my family lives there and the talk about this all the time. I don’t use Google News, I don’t go on Reddit, and this article managed to make it’s way through the digestive track of the Internet to land in my feed, maybe on Mastodon.

    So, I read it, and I was a little irked by the numbers. I shared it here and now I have the feedback I want.

    It is heartwarming to be judged so immediately based solely on the source of something I shared. Lemmy is truly becoming Reddit.








  • I am leery.

    Every single thing I’ve learned about it or experienced has strengthened that point of view.

    I took comparative religion as a class at uni, it opened my eyes. I remain tolerant because most religious people I’ve met are not, no matter how much they preach it.

    I feel like most religious teaching is for people who want to be told what to do, like a child. They want those simplistic explanations, and they want a reason to be intolerant and discriminate.

    Still, I try to be tolerant.

    It all seems like a cult, no matter how organized or recognized the religion is: Protestant, Catholic, or Muslim (sorry, I don’t know any Jewish folks).

    I came to the same conclusion as Gene Roddenberry about 4 or 5 years ago.