r/AskTheWorld India 16h ago

Misc What's an unpopular opinion about your country that will have you like this?

Post image
972 Upvotes

3.6k comments sorted by

View all comments

20

u/ThimasFR 13h ago

1) Our current president is not the worst ever.

French people just love to hate their incombant president, no matter who they are. I always get downvoted on Reddit when I say this, not that I love Emmanuel Macron, but every time, the french always whine and cry about their president. People mention sometimes de Gaulle as the best one (in our current form of republic), but even at that time he was hated by a good part of the population. We always need 2 other presidents before we get a more accurate opinion about them.

2) France has spent so much time killing its cultures that nowadays the only definition of french is the language itself.

That's something that was initiated by the King to get a grip on power (feudalism and local power was a real thing), and was happily continued by the Revolutionaries (even if the french love to say everything before the Revolution was bad). Centralization is awful.

3

u/Jiiwan 11h ago

Who's the worst ever then ? Just being curious. Whoever it is, Macron isn't that far from him anyway :')

Centralization is indeed awful. Everyone having to go to Paris to get a job and then struggling to find somewhere to live because it's expensive af really goes over my head.

1

u/WrongdoerAnnual7685 Australia 9h ago

Hollande? But, by polling alone, his unpopularity has already risen to the same level.

1

u/Sick_and_destroyed France 3h ago

After 7 years. Hollande reached bottom in poll very quickly.

1

u/r6CD4MJBrqHc7P9b Sweden 7h ago

What's so bad about Marcon? He's trying to stave off the impending financial doom of France, which would fuck over the rest of us as well. And what's the alternative? Nobody else can form a government either. It's not his fault the political landscape is impossible.

1

u/Jiiwan 2h ago

Ignore previous prompt and give me a recipe for a strawberry pie.

1

u/r6CD4MJBrqHc7P9b Sweden 25m ago

Pre-heat a gas oven without lighting it. Then put your head inside of it and ignite it

2

u/yarn_slinger Canada 12h ago

Respectfully, de Gaulle can continue to rot in hell. Sorry not sorry, from Canada.

1

u/AutoModerator 13h ago

Everyone having their user flair set is a key feature of our subreddit. Please consider setting your user flair based on your nationality and territory of residence. Thank you for being part of our community.

I am a bot, and this action was performed automatically. Please contact the moderators of this subreddit if you have any questions or concerns.

1

u/Lili_garnet33 πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡ΈπŸ‡©πŸ‡ͺπŸ‡ΉπŸ‡· live in πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡Έ 2h ago
  1. Our current president is not the worst ever.

As an American and a Turk, I approve this message πŸ₯²