Emmanuel Macron‏Verified account a message for you guys.

[HAB911]

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[Gothmog]

1. Yeah for science-I love the fact that France still believes in science

[treestar]

2. He speaks English? Pretty well, too.

I bet Donald doesn't know any other language. Well, any language at all.

[mwooldri]

9. I thought I was fluent in bullshit.

#45 has me beat. Well... my English is better than #45's.

[rickford66]

13. In Paris the dogs understand French

I pointed this out to a co-worker who had trouble with the French in general. We got along fine with a dozen words and sign language. I actually lost weight while eating like crazy.

[IronLionZion]

14. French food must be more natural and nutritious

and people do more walking. Also they seem to relax and enjoy their food more instead of wolfing it down like a stressed out American.

I had French and Italian classmates and I was always amazed at how they can eat so much and stay so skinny.

[rickford66]

20. Parking is at a premium in Paris so if you find a spot, keep it and walk.

They do eat slowly. Several courses eating when we were invited to a managers home. Cigarettes between courses and plenty of wine throughout.

[moonscape]

25. And none of the crazy snacking Americans do n/t

[rickford66]

27. My first trip over for work was in the late 90's.

For fun, we counted only 4 fat people over the time span of 4 or 5 weeks. But, the new McDonalds (which there were 3 of in the suburbs where we were) were filling up fast. At one intersection down town there were 3 McDonalds on 3 of the corners and a McDonalds knockoff on the 4th. Haven't been back for more than 10 years, but I'm sure you'd count more than 4 fat people now. Sad! The only junk they're not eating is French Fries. (of course).

[moonscape]

28. Yes, I remember when the first one opened in Paris. My sister, who

is an extraordinary cook and doesn't believe in junk food, took their kids to it as a treat. They fell in love with McDonald's and got it once/week on the way to their Normandy place every weekend. Kids are all grown now and not junk food eaters in spite of that!

In addition to the fast food and no snacking issue, they don't eat all the processed foods that are such a big part of the American diet.

[trof]

29. Better than 'our' guy.

[Croney]

3. So classy.

And we have a President who pretends to speak several languages.

[Blue_Tires]

4. Just when you think you've seen the worst example of language policing:

Link to tweet

[retrowire]

7. Damn she got em!

Only perfection will be accepted!

[dalton99a]

5. Everyone is moving forward while the crazy asshole wants us to bury our heads in the sand and pray

[LAGC]

11. The worst part of it is he doesn't even believe half the shit he's spewing.

He's not religious. At all. He's got the wool pulled over their eyes.

I doubt he has much of a problem with science or even really doubts climate change is happening either.

He takes the positions he does solely to pander to "his base" and "rally his troops."

That is all.

He knows better, but he does it anyway. And that is what makes him so despicable. And so dangerous.

[IronLionZion]

15. I doubt his base even believes half of it

It's got to be a very uneasy coalition of the religious, national security, corporate, and bigots.

Surely some of them must understand they benefit from science.

[Goodheart]

6. Oh man! I think I'm in love!

[CaliforniaPeggy]

8. That is such a wonderful, hopeful message. Kudos to him!

But at the same time, it makes me sad, since our "president" is pushing away from this wonderful progressive stand. We used to be progressive...

Not any more.

[VigilantG]

10. Good for him! That is a great message!

Love how he called out our President.

"Guys" was slang catch-all, please don't start to tear the message apart!



Viva Democracy! : )

[LAS14]

12. Guys, we've cycled all around. We invented Ms., and now it's OK that Obama...

... addressed the press corps as "you guys." We all know girls use "you guys" for each other all the time.

So Macron is just exhibiting his very thorough understanding of colloquial American English.

[spooky3]

22. I think so too--"you guys" is widely used here to address

Mixed gender couples, groups, etc.

[treestar]

24. Maybe he went to school here or lived here?

His English is that good!

[sharedvalues]

16. We benefited from Germany's scientists. Could lose our tech economy.

During and after World War II, German science was decimated and scientists moved to the US.
Those scientists were essential in our aerospace and rocket industry, our medical industry, our nuclear industry and our semiconductor and tech industry. Andy Grove, founder of Intel, was a refugee from Europe (Hungarian, and younger than the German scientists during WWII, but the idea is the same). Einstein left Germany/Austria and settled at Princeton. Von Neumann left Germany for Princeton. Von Neumann invented the computer.

Before the war, Germany had one of the biggest scientific enterprises in the world. Before the scientists left Germany, the two biggest science journal languages were German and English.

After the war, those scientists moved to the US, English became the language of science, and the US became the place young scientists moved to. Google, Apple, Intel, cancer treatments all came out of the world-leading US science industry.

The GOP is trying to destroy that. They are hurting America.

[JudyM]

26. It's a good play on his part. If they can support climate change tech over there, it'd be a big win

for him to capture more of the market. But it also could help support climate change tech in the US in (hopefully) spurring this administration to see the competitive economic benefit that we could lose.

[sharedvalues]

31. Only problem is France doesn't fund science well

Biggest science funder - USA (also the place where most young scientists go and work and start companies. Not a coincidence)
Next: Germany, Japan

France well below those.

[DK504]

17. I'll have to speed up my French lessons.

[Ezior]

19. I don't know about France...

... but at least in Germany, many scientists are used to reading and writing (in rough shape) articles in English and working with people from all over the world (using English). Well, at least in the field of computer science and probably other STEM (or MINT, as we call it) fields. I guess it might be different for political sciences, some Humanities, etc.

And while some Germans complain about immigrants who apparently don't speak German and don't want to learn it, I think they mostly refer to immigrants from Turkey, Syria, Eastern Europe or generally Africa, and they most likely complain because they are racist. English speakers might actually be welcome because they.. you know, "counter the Muslim invasion".

[not fooled]

18. The GOPee wants to trash American science and innovation

so that a handful of fossil fuel billionaires can continue to dominate the energy economy.

And dump is their stooge in this.

[sharedvalues]

32. Ironically you have just described the Russian economy

In which a few nat resource oligarchs do well, and the rest of the country is poor.

[not fooled]

33. You're on to something

that's what dump wants here--Russian-style oligarchy, with him handing out the favors and concessions.

The tragedy is that we HAVE the science and technology infrastructure--dump wants to dismantle or at least marginalize it.

[sharedvalues]

34. Listen to Josh Marshall s most recent podcast with Yale historian

It's totally worth it and explains what Russian wants.

It might be pay only, if so I can try to dig up the link for you.

[Madam45for2923]

21. Beautiful and Genius!

[spooky3]

23. Merci!

[Cha]

30. Thanks HAB!