lowtax speedrun enjoyer: france, currently on its 86th republic or whatever, renowned for its governability

france, currently on its 86th republic or whatever, renowned for its governability

France: Defeats fascists. NYT:

"new word" lol

incredible

It's France. They hate three things: Nazis, functioning government, and the English. Probably in that order.

Would it kill these pricks to have one (1) historian on speed dial

i used to mock france for getting a new government every week but it seems to mostly be working for them

"How can you govern a country which has two hundred and forty-six varieties of cheese?" - de Gaulle

Belgium has 1600 different beers. We manage…😎

Belgium is lovely and the beers are excellent, but it is utterly ungovernable (laudatory)

It’s difficult I agree but we manage … so far. 🤞

Oh and we only have 6 governments with 3 different languages. And we were created to be ungovernable nearly 200 yrs ago. Our resilience must be in the beer.😎

Paris has a sewer museum. A country that honors how it handles poop is a country that gets things done.

france: we sometimes just say fuck it and appoint an emperor. don’t think we can’t do it again. how will our institutions recover from this

The Fifth Republic, conceived in a highly undemocratic manner by de Gaulle, is so tightly locked down that it makes the country very governable, allowing almost everything to be pushed through by decrees.

The people who literally spray their government buildings with shit when they have a beef with their elected reps.

Also as eye-rollingly parochial as the NY Times' incredulity as Germany peacefully transitions from one fully-functional coalition government to the next. Despite the simple historical fact that has been in the norm in post-war Germany, except for one spell from 1957-61.

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