You have to love that almost instinctive and very persistent Gallic resistance to the American cultural monster. It's fantastic and it's a justified chauvinism that, nearly uniquely in the world today, seems as prevalent on the left in France as on the right.

(At lest that's how it seems from the outside apologies to any French readers who are tearing their hair out at my ignorance!)

It obviously has a lot to do with our shared language but I can't even possibly begin to explain just how Americanized our bourgeois in Australia is. Not only are they Americanized they actually spend most of their time shitting on America -- the gun toting, bible thumping 'evil' part of the country of course -- which is why I've long called America bashing our 'National Sport'.

It's also amazing just how little attention the Yellow Vests -- which is probably one of the most important labour protests in my lifetime -- have gotten over here. I was talking to some semi-acquaintances the other day who are very liberal and Navalny and the Russian protests came up and I tried to sort of scoff at the Russian thing by comparing it to the Yellow Vests and two of the people hadn't EVEN HEARD OF IT.

As always fuck all Conservatives who love to laugh at France and say stupid shit like 'Cheese eating surrender monkeys.' The French right in terms of history and sophistication makes the Conservative movement look like a children's tea party by comparison.