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Last day to sign a European Citizen’s Initiative to tax the rich.
Not looking good.
*sigh*
Thank fuck the French Revolution didn’t require people to sign an online form or it might have all been just too much effort for some folks.
@aral I'd sign it, but you know, we got confidence-trickstered out of *those* rights
@rgarner Tell me about it: my partner is British and we used to live in the UK. It’s the reason we’re not any longer :(
@aral I stand a chance with a Greek partner under "reconciliation in a third country" rules, were we to move anywhere other than Greece
@nachtet she's at work :)
@aral@mastodon.ar.al “Look I came here to cut off heads, not to do paperwork, bonjour!”
@aral Ah but back then it was more difficult for the rich to convince people that the *real* source of their problems was Joe, from 3 doors down, who is demanding a pay rise so he can afford food.
@aral I would sign if I lived there and could do so. You have my sympathies. Maybe you can answer a question that comes up from my son on our show #GishgallopGirlPodcast a lot, though: Considering the tax breaks Macron has pushed for the wealthy, why would wealthy American grifter #CandaceOwens despise him as much as she does? She isn't the only one, but her work is the focus of my study, so do you have any idea?
@GishgallopGirl @aral Indeed, although France reached the threshold. It needs to be pan European, each EU country has a different threshold.
@onepict @GishgallopGirl This is true – they even doubled it. So, yeah, maybe there’s a reason the French Revolution happened in France :)
@onepict @GishgallopGirl (Being a French citizen, I’m a tiny part of that statistic.) :)
@aral @GishgallopGirl working slowly towards it myself 
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@GishgallopGirl You mean apart from the fact that she’s batshit crazy? She’s about as far-right as they come (or, at least, that’s her grift). Macron is neoliberal. While that means that he will always pick the far right over the left – as demonstrated recently in his overturning the will of people to get into bed with the far right after the left won the last election in France – he’s still a “liberal” as far as MAGA folks like Candace are concerned.
@aral oh, I refer to her as "Alt-Reich" on our show. She knows where and how her money is made. Episode 19 of our show is my favorite, "Poussard the Coward". Wherein she speaks with Xavier Poussard (via translation) about his Fascist publication fates et documents, about their defaming stories about Brigtte Macron and Jean-Michel Trogneaux. She otherwise enjoyed a pilgrimage she went on to Charteres, so I can only assume her hatred is because Macron ain't Fascist enough for her.
@GishgallopGirl @aral But in terms of Candice Owens, perhaps we need to look back to the presidential visit to France by Trump.
Outside France, Macron was being touted as somehow standing up to Trump with handshakes 
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But there's also the fact that so far, France hasn't fallen to Le Pen. Although that's nothing to do with Macron.
Macron is very neo liberal.
@onepict @aral oh, definitely Neo-Lib. But to be fair, Candace ropes the Neo-Libs and Neo-Cons together, so maybe that's part of the issue. I've suspected for a while now that if LePen had ever achieved the highest office there, Candace and others in her orbit would praise France, and the next steps would likely be pushing for monumental reforms in France including probably some stupid shit like a #Frexit from the EU.
@aral While comparing the guillotine to a paper cut, I thank you for your effort.
@aral @blogdiva It’s been really disheartening to see the signatures stall at roughly 300k for weeks. Are people really so indoctrinated, they won’t even sign a petition that would improve their quality of life, if the wealth tax came to pass? Do people who saw the petition think a wealth tax would apply to them, if they just work hard enough?
In a way, you're too optimistic. I believe that what kept many people from signing was not the effort, but rather the belief that they're simply not wealthy YET (and don't deserve to be, should they not be able to make it, on their own).
@katzenberger Or, more optimistically, because they hadn’t heard.
@aral Can't you skip the petition and just drag out the guillotines into the town squares?
@aral I wonder if this result correlates with English speaking/reading social network users by country.
@aral@mastodon.ar.al For the master’s tool will never dismantle the master’s house. They may allow us temporarily to beat him at his own game, but they will never enable us to bring about genuine change. And this fact is only threatening to those women who still define the master’s house as their only source of support.”
Audre Lorde
The failure of this initiative is unsurprising, really.
@aral Perhaps if you had to go out into the street and build a barricade out of wagons, furniture and debris people would get more excited about it.
@aral No surprise if people aren't signing an on-line form: with all the scams going around, it is more likely that I'd ignore one based on the idea that it is better to be safe than sorry.
Maybe it is better in Europe, but it is so bad in the U.S. that I'd quip that our national motto should be "Scams R Us" given the texts and emails I get.
@aral UE has no authority on tax systems. They are national.
@aral
But look at what france became nowadays 