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世界人民大团结万岁！

Neat, how was it?

Donkey spinoff movie

oh no

Sadly I believe he is still alive

中国共产党万岁！

My father was a pervert towards my sisters, not only saying questionable sexual-related things but also on multiple occasions having very questionable physical contact with them (mostly this past year, though they have since told us that this sort of thing had happened earlier too on infrequent occasions, including when they were very young (they are still underage)). I don't know the full details of this (I am unaware, for example, if anything happened that could be considered rape), and I was only aware of this after our mother became aware of it too, but we have cut contact with him when this came to light earlier this year; and given how deep a hole he's dug for himself financially speaking (which also escalated to a breaking point this year) in the years following my parents' separation, I don't doubt that he is having the shitty time he deserves. I guess a slightly amusing thing in retrospect (in the fucked up way that any bit of this could even attempt being amusing) is that I remember him saying many years ago that when he was younger he considered becoming a catholic priest (which I always found strange since he isn't religious, at least he wasn't in the time I've been alive).

Meanwhile my last psychiatrist was like "Yes you do show many symptoms of ASD, but I do not believe in the usefulness of the medical criteria of the DSM-5 [proceeds to speak about Freud for 5 minutes]"; from what I've heard Freud is still a massive problem for psychiatry in my country (France).

Congratulations comrade!

My (source: am Fr*nch) reasoning is this: the reason why Macron lost many seats to the left in 2022 was because they rallied around a clear leader, Mélenchon, whose programme clearly answered some "radical" demands, and who had won so much votes in the last election compared to other candidates on the left that no one could credibly oppose his NUPES election agreement. The reason Macron is dissolving the National Assembly now is because it is the Socialist Party (PS) that won more seats than LFI (Mélenchon's party) in the EU elections, while lacking the clear leadership Mélenchon had and likely not being willing to concede to the more "radical parties" like Mélenchon could towards the more traditional socdem parties like the PS in 2022. In other words, Macron knows the left is divided, and that its presumed leader, for the time being, is a neoliberal type from the party that gave us François Hollande, that is: someone he could work with. On the other hand, the far right winning big is not as big as a concern for Macron as prevening LFI from staying the major playor on the left in the next elections, since he knows he can work with the far right (hell, he kinda already does, just not officially) but not with LFI. So, in short, my belief is that for him it is worth the gamble of maybe having to concede another victory to the far right (also, since the legislative elections are in two rounds, he's probably still banking on the "beavers" voting as a barrier the far right on round two like they've done until now) in order to contain the left.

I am an assessor at my local voting office, staying there from 7h30 to after the votes are counted (polls close at 20h00, it is only 11h20 right now). Making the most of a useless election...

Maybe the Communist party will suspiciously win 99.999% of the votes only at my voting office and nowhere else

I guess I have three main groups of friends depending on where I've met them: at school, uni, or my local conservatoire (I guess friends from the Party count but I'm not really close with any of them yet). Although I'm less close to my friends from uni mostly because I don't see them outside of uni (but I'd still say I have at least one close friend there), and have grown less close to my friends from school because we don't get to see each other too often, so I guess my friends from the conservatoire are by defaut my closest since I see them multiple times a week every week, both at the conservatoire and elsewhere.