Shootings and explosions in Paris

[The Brain]

Capetian Mihali convinced me that socialism is a disease.

A social disease?

[Eddie Teach]

The problem is he's lazy.
The problem is he drinks.
The problem is he's crazy.
The problem is he stinks.

[Duque de Bragança]

What the hell does "macquée" mean, anyways?  I'm gathering it's crude slang meaning "mated with" or "taken (sexually) by" since I'm only seeing it on Francophone how-to-get-the-ladies à la Legbiter boards.

Very colloquial for a woman in a relationship or a marriage. Bad connotation since maquée means also pimped (woman) in French slang.
What's with the seduction community meme? 

[Capetan Mihali]

Maybe they're the only ones who thrown in the "c"?  (I only searched "macquée," which to me has a further bad connotation of being "mated" or something subhuman because of the similarity to "macaque" monkeys, like when that Virginia congressman called a campaign worker of his opponent, of South Asian descent, a "macaca" some years back...

The French seduction community (sad that such a thing even has to exist, from an Anglo-American "Pepe-Le-Pew"- influenced perspective) was using the term (with the "c") to debate whether it was ethical or sensible to pick up a woman in a relationship...to "cuckold" another man, I guess, just to bring it all full circle.

EDIT:  Ah, I just remembered the word "maquereau," the only slang word I know in French for "pimp" (probably from footnotes on Genet or the description of a Brassaï photo book).  That makes sense.

[Capetan Mihali]

Great comments on that Marchais video you posted, Duque.

ce n'est  plus le  même  parti .Comparer le PCF de MARCHAIS avec le PCF de la salope BUFFET c'est comme comparer le FN de LE PEN  père avec  le FN d'aujourd'hui infesté par la francmaçonnerie et  la  pédérasterie sodomite ,celui  de sa  fille macquée à  un  juif....

So my rough translation of this comment is: "It's not the same party anymore.  Comparing Marchais's PCF with that whore Buffet's PCF is like comparing Le Pen's FN to today's FN, which is infested with Freemasonry and homosexual pederasty, the FN of his daughter, pimped out to a Jew...."

It's nice to see the anti-masonic sentiment is still alive in some quarters.  Freemasons, Protestants, and Jews. The unholy trinity of French destruction c. 1900.

[Crazy_Ivan80]

http://www.brusselnieuws.be/nl/nieuws/jongeren-gooiden-stenen-naar-agenten-ambulance-en-pers

during the actions stones were thrown at the police and ambulances, no wounded though.

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Abdeslam was found at about 300m from where he fled a few months ago.
Must be quite a network of supporters there, if he was able to hide for that long.

[Duque de Bragança]

Great comments on that Marchais video you posted, Duque.

ce n'est  plus le  même  parti .Comparer le PCF de MARCHAIS avec le PCF de la salope BUFFET c'est comme comparer le FN de LE PEN  père avec  le FN d'aujourd'hui infesté par la francmaçonnerie et  la  pédérasterie sodomite ,celui  de sa  fille macquée à  un  juif....

So my rough translation of this comment is: "It's not the same party anymore.  Comparing Marchais's PCF with that whore Buffet's PCF is like comparing Le Pen's FN to today's FN, which is infested with Freemasonry and homosexual pederasty, the FN of his daughter, pimped out to a Jew...."

It's nice to see the anti-masonic sentiment is still alive in some quarters.  Freemasons, Protestants, and Jews. The unholy trinity of French destruction c. 1900.

That's the gist of it, the etymologic analogy through maquereau is not certain but possible, though in this case Marine is not working for the "Jew" Louis Alliot since he as Jewish grand-parent(like Sarkozy the Jew for the banlieue) , but the Jew is working for her and he's Marine life partner Though anti-protestant sentiment was abandoned by Pétain already, despite Maurras' objections. 

As for Pepe Le Pew/Putois, I remember the French dub giving him a thick Marseille accent and/or an imitation voice of Yves Montand to make it more of a specific case. 

[Duque de Bragança]

http://www.brusselnieuws.be/nl/nieuws/jongeren-gooiden-stenen-naar-agenten-ambulance-en-pers

during the actions stones were thrown at the police and ambulances, no wounded though.

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Abdeslam was found at about 300m from where he fled a few months ago.
Must be quite a network of supporters there, if he was able to hide for that long.

Attacking police and even ambulances or firemen happens a lot in those neighborhoods, "stigmatising" ant-terrorism or not, they had a more PC reason than usual I guess. Alles in Ordnung.

[dps]

And if you pay people instead of using slaves, you'll never make a profit.

Actually, paying people wages is more profitable, 'cause you don't have the large up-front capital investment in wage laborers you have to put into slaves.

I do not believe that is the case.  I think there was some studies done seeing if slavery in America was more profitable then say sharecropping.  Turns out slavery is more cost effective in the long run.

Well, sharecropping isn't exactly wage labor, either.

And I doubt that one or the other is more profitable under all conditions.  For example, at a guess, I'd say that chattel slavery was relatively more profitable on plantations in the 18th Century than in the 19th.

[Capetan Mihali]

  I thought the invention of the cotton gin radically increased the profitability of slavery.

[Oexmelin]

Yes. Current data suggests slavery was becoming increasingly profitable as the US neared the Civil War, outperforming many other available  investments .

[Valmy]

  I thought the invention of the cotton gin radically increased the profitability of slavery.

Eh it is more complicated than that.

First the Cotton Gin was a pretty simple invention. It was actually a total flop as an invention because once the word got out about it everybody just built there own homemade ones that worked fine. Also it was invented decades before its impacts were really felt. The frontier for cotton also needed to be opened so even though it was invented in the 1790s it did not really have a huge impact until after the War of 1812 opened up all the land in the future cotton states. So the boom it participated in took place nearly 20 years after its invention.

Second slavery was doing really well in the 1790s even before the Cotton Gin was invented. I have not seen any data suggesting the supposed "decline" of slavery. It survived some pretty big attacks on its existence during the fervor of the Revolutionary era for a reason.

So I have always been skeptical of the story that slavery was struggling and then the mighty Cotton Gin saved it. The Cotton Gin was invented almost immediately after the need for it was discovered and, as I previously stated, it was reproduced really easily simply when people heard of its basic principles. Hardly a revolutionary moment in agricultural engineering.

[Valmy]

Yes. Current data suggests slavery was becoming increasingly profitable as the US neared the Civil War, outperforming many other available  investments .

Oh yeah. Nothing in American History boomed quite like Cotton. And its best year ever was 1860. It was producing billions in 1860s dollars.

[Razgovory]

Yes. Current data suggests slavery was becoming increasingly profitable as the US neared the Civil War, outperforming many other available  investments .

Yep.  Slavery "worked", which is why I brought it up with Yi statements on only adopting what "worked".  If think solely on what "worked", then we should consider slavery.  Of course other things besides Yi's neoliberal stance "worked".  The world economy wasn't constantly spirally down with negative growth before the 19th century and America isn't pinning for the economic heyday of 1936 the year before we instituted a minimum wage.

[barkdreg]

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Abdeslam was found at about 300m from where he fled a few months ago.
Must be quite a network of supporters there, if he was able to hide for that long.

I'm quite sure I could have hidden him that long without a network. I would be more convinced he has many supporters if he had managed to flee the country.
The fact that he had to stay in his old neighbourhood convinces me that ge was basicly abbandonned by the terror network.