Jons Mostovojs @jonn@social.doma.dev

@Whidou I wanted to, but forgot.

@Whidou oki

https://www.twitch.tv/imposterkings

@julienmalka I honestly don't "like" anything about it. My heart aches both for the people of France who had to live under harsh occupation (just like us in Latvia), and for the fuck-up near Sedane which made the occupation a grim reality, and for the resistance fighters who got treated poorly during D-Day (because of stupid assumptions by the foreign infrantry that all the French are collaborationists), for carpet bombings which were conducted prior to and during D-Day...

Thinking of it makes me cry, literally. So I would really like for this not to repeat and... idk how dramatic you think I am, but I am convinced that Le Pen is not acting in the best interests of **independent France**, whereas Macron (at least in the way that we perceive him) would not joke around when it comes to threat assessment.

After #Trump wins in the #USA, security situation in #Europe shall degrade even further and we really don't need Le Pens, Ficos and Orbans running rampant, sabotaging our union that was built in such a difficult labour to live in peace and prosperity.

@julienmalka so basically what you're saying is that the only chance for the meme is

@julienmalka and conversely based on you saying that Macron's force shall be 3rd, I thought that the united left will get through universally haha. "Not that simple" after all.

@julienmalka I know how these elections work (which is the same as those here in the #UK and completely different from the way it's handled in #Latvia and #NewZealand, where we vote for global parties and local reps).

I didn't know that the left didn't scoop to Macron though...

@julienmalka haha, this ruse is working really well because that's how foreigners perceive Macron!

@julienmalka basically the point I'm trying to make with the meme is that de Gaulle wasn't some sort of super-popular person who was making popular decisions, he was a person who stood up for France when France was struck down by nazis.

Similar thing is getting slow-rolled now across Europe and it can well be a repeat of a dictator who switched their country to war-time economy is attacking an underprepared Europe encouraged by American isolationism.

@julienmalka oh shit, so like how do I fix the meme?! I honestly am worried about a simple thing: being on the opposing sides with Hungary, Slovakia and now France during wolrd war 3 haha.

@ChrisO_wiki @richlv (in #ruzzia one of the most popular food delivery service is called "samokat", which is "a scooter", but I figured it'd be too obscure of a reference, so I swapped it with #Yandex, but then I realised that I simply added a layer of indirection potentially causing further confusion, so I ended up explaining the joke anyway 🤡)

@ChrisO_wiki @richlv this is #Yandex food delivery that went too far!

@julienmalka tl;dr -- when the war is looming, comfort-policy don't matter.

Vote for those who will make sure you retain freedom.

@julienmalka you have to cast protest vote against Le Pen. 🤷

It's not like people were like "yeah, de Gaule is the people's candidate". He was just a guy ready to stand against collaborationism with dictators, which, in modern France Le Pen represents.

I think that Macron has clearly demonstrated that when the war starts, he and his government will fight for the country.

Hence the parallel I draw between modern history of France and the current interesting situation.

@RickiTarr oh my, literally crying happy tears now. ❤️

@anderspuck btw, remember when I reached out to you in regards to IT-related volunteering for European defense? What ended up happening is that I found some options where (sadly) they ended up not needing my services, but that organisation had a vaccancy which I have advertised to my friends whose profile is more in line with what they're doing and one of my friends ended up getting hired on a full-time basis! 🙏

If something changes and someone you know who's working towards tightening European defense needs competent software engineers / automated OSINT / data engineer, remember that I'm still eager to help out :)