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[anvildragoon @anvildragoon]

@TheUKAr Carrément le Fake. Écrit par un homme bien sûr.

[Arnaud Bertrand @RnaudBertrand]

The ugly truth about France and some of the other European countries currently in turmoil - and which none of the politicians want to admit because it'd be political suicide - is that you can't solve the problem by going after immigrants (as the right asserts) or the rich (as the left asserts), but you could solve it by going after the old.

One extraordinary statistic for you: people over 60 in France, a quarter of the population, own 60% of France's wealth, non-financial and financial (https://t.co/IdJ5X7OO12).

And here is another crazy statistic:
that same quarter of the population, those above 60, receive nearly two-thirds of all social spending by the French government (https://t.co/deNRNevIwq) - which is famously among the highest in the world (France's government spending is an insane 57.3% of GDP).

Last statistic: they make up about 40% of voters because they're a third of registered voters (https://t.co/zTa4RnVOmT), and they turn out far more than anyone else (https://t.co/34V2xzs9jH).

Put our 3 statistics together and there's almost a bit of an apartheid situation here: the old own most of the country's wealth, collect most of the social spending and have the political power to keep it that way.

Which makes them a de-facto rentier class, living off assets and transfers paid for by younger generations.

And, of course, at the risk of stating a truism, the future is built by the young. Yet France keeps effectively taking money away from them to give it to those whose working lives are already behind them - and need the money far less since they already own the country's wealth.

What about inheritance, I hear you ask? That's the funniest/saddest aspect: given that life expectancy has kept rising, the French now inherit a home at 54 on average. The most common case is someone in their 80s leaving it to heirs in their 50s, in effect the very old transferring wealth to the about-to-be old (https://t.co/d2RPAqLJGR).

You can add this to our earlier apartheid statement: on top of all the rest, even when the old finally let go of their wealth, it stays within their own "camp".

That's my personal situation, incidentally: I'm 42, my father is 71 and he is starting to look at ways to pass things on to me and my siblings, when our professional lives are already well settled, so it'll arrive when it changes things the least, which is pretty much the French system in a nutshell.

Now, I get that there'd be some unfairness in going after them: they paid into the system their entire working lives, playing by the rules of a social contract that told them if they paid up they'd collect at the end. Changing the rules now means breaking that promise, which is admittedly unfair.

But there's no magic wealth tree in any society: you can only take it where it is. That's the way most major societal transformations end up happening. They're often triggered by a catastrophic event (the so-called "four horsemen": mass-mobilisation war, revolution, state collapse, plague) BUT what really drives change is a transfer: wealth gets pried from the privileged class who've been sitting on it and handed to those who'll build what comes next.

So, in theory and in an ideal world, you can do without the catastrophic event and directly proceed with the transfer...

The fact that in France, and elsewhere in Europe, it's the youth protesting is probably no coincidence - even though they don't frame it as a generational fight. And even though, cruel irony, the left politicians many of them march behind promise to bring the retirement age back to 60 (https://t.co/WrJOhpWqYR), which would make the situation even worse.

Let's say they understand intuitively that the system is stacked against them, even if they haven't yet figured out how. And politicians are obviously doing what politicians do, meaning pandering to the people who actually vote, while pointing the young towards easier - and politically convenient - scapegoats.

To be clear I'm not saying it's the only problem in France, VERY far from it. I'm also not saying that all old people in France live a lavish lifestyle at the expense of younger generations: there are also plenty of very poor retirees who, if anything, would deserve more.

What I am saying is that it's probably the biggest elephant in the room: everyone can see it, nobody dares mention it - no politician, from any side, wants to run on cutting grandma's pension - and it makes every other problem harder to fix.

[anvildragoon @anvildragoon]

@KateriSeraphina Nous aussi on en a marre que vous traitiez les actifs actuels de fainéants. Vous êtes totalement déconnectés du marché du travail. On peut imaginer que vos parents qui ont connu réellement des conditions de vie plus difficiles vous prenaient pour des fainéants.

[anvildragoon @anvildragoon]

@noarlecougar @Tinaunauka @KateriSeraphina Avec ce genre de réponse on se sent tout de suite moins d'empathie pour les boomers.

[René Chiche 🎗️ @rene_chiche]

Le 5 novembre 2026, ce sera sans moi.
Hors de question en effet que, sous couvert de partager certaines revendications concernant les salaires, je consente à me trouver dans des cortèges où l'on agite le drapeau palestinien, où l'on beugle en français approximatif contre la sélection scolaire pourtant indispensable, où l'on vocifère contre la police et où, in fine, l'on permettra à LFI de se féliciter et aux organisations syndicales qui roulent pour ce parti de récupérer à leur profit la mobilisation de braves gens qui n'en peuvent plus.
Allez vous faire cuire deux œufs !

[anvildragoon @anvildragoon]

@mon_caillou @danseplusfort Bientôt il faudrait se justifier de ne pas manifester... L'enfer est pavé de bonnes intentions. La virulence et l'intolérance de ces personnes donneuses de leçons. La liberté ça consiste aussi à accepter que d'autres aient le choix de ne pas manifester.

[JBG 🇫🇷☨ @j_bg]

La gauche a renoncé à penser le monde réel par paresse : il est plus doux de régner sur un imaginaire où l’on distribue le rôle de victime selon la couleur de peau, l’origine, le sexe, la religion ou la classe sociale.
L’égalité en droit gravée au fronton de nos bâtiments est devenue par lâcheté le droit de chacun à exiger que sa plainte fasse loi, sans jamais répondre de rien.
Ainsi meurt l’égalité, quand la responsabilité n’est plus celle d’un individu devant ses actes, mais celle de la société devant chacun.

[anvildragoon @anvildragoon]

Maintenant. On le sait. LFI ne remportera pas les prochaines élections. 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

[anvildragoon @anvildragoon]

@Decimaitre Bien sûr que non ils ne l'ont pas fait exprès. Toujours dans la réaction rarement dans la prévention.

[Agence France-Presse @afpfr]

🇨🇳 Des robots qui effectuent sur scène des sauts périlleux, manient l'épée et dansent ensemble: le Gala du Nouvel An chinois, rendez-vous familial par excellence, s’impose désormais comme une vitrine de l’innovation, où l’intelligence artificielle réinvente la tradition ⤵️

[anvildragoon @anvildragoon]

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[anvildragoon @anvildragoon]

@grignotages https://t.co/193VypbDPd

[Rudy Portraits @Rudyportraits]

Je suis très heureux de vous présenter mon dernier dessin. 100/60cm. 95 heures de travail. J’espère que vous prendrez 3 secondes pour le partager🙏

[Le Monde de Léo @LeoAuteur]

"Les marchands de bonheur" de #Picasso (1905),

[anvildragoon @anvildragoon]

@alliancepolice C'est de la politique. Les fonctionnaires de police doivent faire preuve de neutralité pendant leur service. Dixit le code de déontologie. Les syndicalistes sont des fonctionnaires de police et qui revendiquent cette qualité.
Ceux là ne respectent pas le code de déontologie.

[anvildragoon @anvildragoon]

@LeoAuteur Je lis "S' il n'en reste qu'une de Patrice Franceschi. L' histoire de 2 héroïnes combattantes kurdes contre Daech. Je viens de le commencer.

[anvildragoon @anvildragoon]

@ybonnel Oui mais tu as le choix de payer en espèces pour rester anonyme dans tes achats en grande surface, en temps ordinaire. La différence c'est le choix.

[Conseil d'État @Conseil_Etat]

⚖ Le Conseil d’État ne suspend pas la dissolution de l’association Génération identitaire

👉 Elle promeut une idéologie incitant à la haine et à la violence

👉 et peut être identifiée comme une formation paramilitaire

➡ https://t.co/6AWVCGEorV

[anvildragoon @anvildragoon]

@PerrineST J' ai fait visionner des films sur le sujet de la mère de famille qui sature et se barre à la fin. Pour l'instant ça marche, les lits sont faits tous les matins, le lave- vaisselle vidé, la table mise et débarrassée. Pourvu que ça dure!