On this day in 1968, the May 68 Rebellion, the largest general strike in French history, began when school officials shut down the University of Paris after months of student protests, leading to nationwide unrest.
In mid-March, leftist students had occupied an administration building there, although they left peacefully after their demands were published. On May 6th, more than 20,000 students, teachers, and supporters engaged in a protest march. The march was attacked by police and devolved into a riot.
The state repression of protesters caused two major left union federations, the Confédération Générale du Travail (CGT) and the Force Ouvrière (CGT-FO), to call a one-day general strike on May 13th. More than one million people demonstrated that day.
By the middle of May, demonstrations had extended to factories, though their demands were different from the students'. Across France, students occupied university structures and up to one-third of the country's workforce was on strike.
The protests were so widespread and energetic that many political leaders feared civil war or revolution. President Charles de Gaulle secretly fled France to Germany at one point, and the national government at times ceased to function.
Revolution was averted when de Gaulle dissolved the National Assembly and scheduled an election that the left dissidents agreed to participate in. Revolutionary fervor subsided and the government banned a number of leftist organizations in the following months.
In the election, de Gaulle's party won the greatest victory in French parliamentary history, taking 353 of 486 seats versus the Communists' 34 and the Socialists' 57.
1968: a chronology of events in France and internationally :france-cool:
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before this i was on the brink of withdrawing from the class because i was teetering on failing but yeah we're so fucking back
i had a friend in undergrad that was double majoring in chemical engineering and math and he struggled in our intro calculus-based college physics class. shit was baffling to me.
It takes a different mind to do physics.
I agree, and you might be interested to know that the vast majority of people that pursue a PhD in physics don't really have it either. Varying degrees of it sure, but very few can really put enough of it together to push forward meaningfully.
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proud of you honestly
:meow-bounce: i literally have to get a 2% on the final not to pass the class now
The most powerful empire in history has 17 separate intelligence agencies dedicated to the complete eradication of socialism; physically, politically, ideationally....And yet here we are
It's not much, but just existing can be defiance all its own :solidarity:
if it has sentimental value to you, and you don't need the money, then i would say no to selling it tbh
Mike: "Why do we pay taxes, I never get shit in return, where's my fucking health insurance?"
Chatter: "You get an 800 million dollar military"
M: "Well when are they gonna come here and fuckin' suck me off?"
I just had a 1+IRL hour debate with someone in my org who held a very reactionary viewpoint on a current issue. I think we all like gripe about struggle sessions, but seriously there are times they are necessary.
In the end, I told my guy "I know a lot of reactionaries who believe this. I'm not debating them. I'm debating you because I care about you."
the gripe about "struggle sessions" on this site is that they aren't struggle sessions, they are pointless slapfights about things that do not matter
I've never been good around cats and they've never shown much an interest in me either but recently I've been entertaining the idea of getting one out of the blue and I don't know why
Ya got that cat-carried brain parasite in ya :biblically-accurate-kitty:
Probably not the best idea to have both a rodent and a cat though
Oh fuck you're the poster with Biggs!!! Yeah probably not worth it, cats and rodents can be friends with some effort, and it usually ends up fine, but still a risk nonetheless. Biggs must be protected at all costs.
Yeah, I could probably do it if I got an extra secure lid for the enclosure but it's probably best to just not risk it
I was never a cat guy until I moved in with my SO and her cat became our cat. Now we have 3 of them (along with my dog).
They are generally a lot of fun to have around, much less interactive than even the laziest dog but also a lot less needy. All 3 of ours have very different personalities, you should spend some time with any prospective cats before you adopt so you have an idea of what you're going to get.
Words of warning - cats puke a lot, depending on how much hair they have you could be cleaning up hairballs multiple times per week, which is not the best if your place is very carpeted or this kind of thing will bother you. They will also be walking around on every surface of your house and the only truly effective ways to stop them are to lock them out of those rooms completely or effectively render those surfaces unsuitable for human use as well. IMO this is just something you have to accept instead of fight, so we wipe the counters down very well before cooking and we don't keep anything breakable or expensive where it can easily be knocked off a counter or table.
consistent brushing (like once a week) can really help cut down on hairballs
It certainly would, unfortunately our primary puker hates nothing more than being brushed.
I have become 100X more paranoid after reading killing hope and Jakarta Method
like holy fucking shit
learning about the big mac index. that meme about explaining concepts to americans by saying 'imagine a burger' was more right than i ever imagined
Holy fucking shit. I finally have money and I still can't get a house. Public housing has literally thousands of people waiting, renting from a landlord is prohibitively expensive (saw a freak 3k a month for a studio passing by the other day). I literally have no options than to live at home with my mom until my 40s. And around me they keep raising apartment blocks meant for zillionaires. I fucking hate hell world.
It's great isn't it. I remember when I got promoted at my job not long ago thinking that I might finally have a good enough paycheck to rent my own apartment. Then I start checking what the market looks like and... yeah. Not gonna happen without my ending up just barely skating by. I have other reasons why I'm hesitating to move out as well, but the housing market really doesn't help.
:doomjak: one house pls
:porky-happy: unfortunately I own them all, and will continue to extract half your wage forever, eat shit and die
It only just clicked for me that that time when I was a kid and Cartoon Network suddenly got really bad and had a bunch of live action stuff was because of the writers strike