French president Macron and his wife sue rightwing influencer Candace Owens for defamation (www.theguardian.com)
from Davriellelouna@lemmy.world to world@lemmy.world on 23 Jul 21:10
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Pudutr0n@feddit.cl on 23 Jul 21:22 next collapse

People call me a man all the time and I don’t go around suing for defamation.

floo@retrolemmy.com on 23 Jul 21:27 next collapse

Clearly, you’re not a republican

Pudutr0n@feddit.cl on 23 Jul 21:40 collapse

I’m not. I consider myself a reasonable person. Everyone disagrees, though.

tacosanonymous@mander.xyz on 24 Jul 01:32 collapse

I’ve read through this thread and you seem pretty amicable and able to recognize your mistakes.

It made me wonder if you just jumped the gun or if you did it all bc you were bored.

Pudutr0n@feddit.cl on 24 Jul 12:12 collapse

Well, the people answering had valid points and good reason to be upset.

Folk around these corners of the internet seem to generally have good intentions and I didn’t want to be disruptive. I appreciate you taking the time to look at the full picture and remain compassionate.

I’d love to tell you there was a bigger plan, but the truth is I just wanted some attention, attempted to be funny without going through the content to a responsible degree and made a cheap thoughtless jab.

I make my mistakes but always try to admit them, despite sometimes begrudgingly.

Once again, thank you for ykur kindness.

Eheran@lemmy.world on 23 Jul 22:08 next collapse

So you did not read the article? But still felt the need to make your opinion public that is based on… yes.

Pudutr0n@feddit.cl on 23 Jul 22:16 collapse

To be honest, i read the gist of it. Not the full thing. And to be fair, i wouldn’t consider my comment an actual opinion.

ThePyroPython@lemmy.world on 23 Jul 22:44 next collapse

So what is is then? A half-coherent thought slowly working its way from the back of your brain to the front that got beaten by your keyboard fingers?

Pudutr0n@feddit.cl on 23 Jul 22:59 collapse

That would definitely be a more accurate description.

P00ptart@lemmy.world on 24 Jul 02:26 collapse

Upvoted for belated selfawareness.

nokturne213@sopuli.xyz on 24 Jul 00:01 collapse

“These outlandish, defamatory, and far-fetched fictions included that Mrs Macron was born a man, stole another person’s identity, and transitioned to become Brigitte; Mrs Macron and President Macron are blood relatives committing incest; President Macron was chosen to be the President of France as part of the CIA-operated MKUltra program or a similar mind-control program; and Mrs Macron and President Macron are committing forgery, fraud, and abuses of power to conceal these secrets."

Edit: emphasis mine

Pudutr0n@feddit.cl on 24 Jul 00:21 collapse

I may have missed some arguably relevant information.

Emphasis mine.

P00ptart@lemmy.world on 24 Jul 02:21 collapse

Seems you missed it all, and not arguably at all.

Pudutr0n@feddit.cl on 24 Jul 11:53 collapse

It would seem so, yes.

melsaskca@lemmy.ca on 24 Jul 11:55 next collapse

It’s okay to quip. We’re not writing a science journal here.

Pudutr0n@feddit.cl on 24 Jul 12:17 collapse

I just thought i might make someone’s day marginally better, you know?

KumaSudosa@feddit.dk on 24 Jul 21:13 collapse

You’re also not important enough for your name and reputation to matter ;)

Pudutr0n@feddit.cl on 24 Jul 22:07 collapse

I mean, I matter to me.

xc2215x@lemmy.world on 23 Jul 22:25 next collapse

Good for Macron and his wife here.

Buffalox@lemmy.world on 23 Jul 22:28 next collapse

I hope they win big, and bankrupt that disgusting woman.

mateofeo85@lemmy.world on 23 Jul 23:01 next collapse

Wasn’t Klandance accused of being trans not too long ago?

gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works on 24 Jul 00:24 collapse

I’m generally staunchly against leveraging such things as attack vectors, but in this case, knowing her psychology and politics: have at her. Seriously. Drag her through the”mud” and “malign” her as trans. Serves her fucking right if she gets eaten alive by the maga base.

P00ptart@lemmy.world on 24 Jul 02:19 next collapse

As long as that “mud” is at the bottom of a very deep lake, sea or ocean.

dickalan@lemmy.world on 24 Jul 09:51 collapse

I would say that just gives another side of pass to do the same thing, but please don’t encourage this

LuckingFurker@lemmy.blahaj.zone on 23 Jul 23:23 next collapse

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Danquebec@sh.itjust.works on 24 Jul 02:42 collapse

As a French speaker, I never understood what those “hon” used when imitating a French person are supposed to represent.

Djehngo@lemmy.world on 24 Jul 04:10 next collapse

It’s supposed to be the sound French people make when they laugh, despite none of the french people I know sounding anything like that.

I think it’s part of this weird cultural stereotyping the internet does where someone posts a funny meme with an inaccurate stereotype in it, then a legion of mouth breathers re-post the same meme whenever the nationality in question comes up, then due to repetition people who have never met that nationality thinks its real.

People stopped doing the fake “Ching Chong” false Chinese accent bit ages ago (thank god) but I guess France and the French are still valid targets.

Velypso@sh.itjust.works on 24 Jul 08:52 collapse

This predates the internet by several decades into the first half of the 20th century.

It’s supposed to be a French mocking/pretentious/overconfident laugh. Imagine a dude wearing a beret eating a croissant and smoking a cigarette out of one of those long cigarette holder thingies from the '60s.

Imagine Lumiere from Beauty and the Beast. In fact, im pretty sure he does it a few times in the movie. I think even The Pink Panther (jacques clouseau) does it in the original movies.

ms_lane@lemmy.world on 24 Jul 07:18 next collapse

It’s just a silly, unfunny joke.

Much like how people joke about Australia being upside down.

themaninblack@lemmy.world on 24 Jul 21:21 collapse

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chloroken@lemmy.ml on 24 Jul 11:44 collapse

It’s more directed at the French than French-speakers. It’s supposed to be making fun of the (exaggerated) way that French people laugh in movies and shows. It has a nasal component to it.

I’ve been to French Canada and France and I can confirm nobody actually laughs like that. It’s just another dumb way people shit on France.

Danquebec@sh.itjust.works on 24 Jul 16:22 next collapse

Yea I’m aware it’s directed at French people. I’m not French but I have interacted with a lot of French people and I’ve never heard a laugh that comes close to that.

chloroken@lemmy.ml on 24 Jul 21:06 collapse

You asked, I answered. I’m getting the impression you’re just here to complain.

Danquebec@sh.itjust.works on 24 Jul 21:11 collapse

Yes, and thank you for your answer.

I have been to France.

It’s only an impression. I’m not complaining and I was interested in knowing what those “hon” are supposed to represent. I didn’t really expect an answer but I’m thankful for all the answers.

mrgoosmoos@lemmy.ca on 24 Jul 22:55 collapse

I live next to French Canada. I can confirm that a not-insignificant number of Quebecois laugh like that

MyOpinion@lemmy.today on 24 Jul 01:01 next collapse

Take every last penny she has.

Alfredolin@sopuli.xyz on 24 Jul 02:04 next collapse

I am not a big fan of Macron (Mr, don’t know Mrs).

But damn do I wish them to win this one hard.

dubyakay@lemmy.ca on 24 Jul 02:36 collapse

Oh boy. You’ll be in for a ride if you look up Mrs.

ArgumentativeMonotheist@lemmy.world on 24 Jul 07:11 next collapse

Candace Owens is unironically a lesser evil than Mr. Macron (and no, just because I hate a ‘Manchurian candidate’ handpicked banker doesn’t mean I prefer the literal Nazis of the FN, lol). That whole “Macron’s wife is a dude” is such a weird narrative though, one that I assume gets pushed on purpose to ignore the truly concerning part: Mme. Macron straight up groomed her underaged student…

KumaSudosa@feddit.dk on 24 Jul 21:16 collapse

Isn’t Macron more of a symptom than the disease? Imo he seems to catch a lot of the - very justified - dissatisfaction and hatred that’s actually meant for the establishment He’s more of a show pig that we get to blame rather than truly evil

ArgumentativeMonotheist@lemmy.world on 25 Jul 02:54 collapse

I guess any corrupt figurehead is more of a symptom than the disease, you’re right, lol. Still a paid agent and not there for the people but that’s nothing new.

KumaSudosa@feddit.dk on 25 Jul 04:25 collapse

I pity him in a way. His bosses get to kick back and enjoy their billions while he has to catch all the hate and defamation, and having to travel around meeting actual diseases such as Trump and Putin, trying to deal with these man babies

ArgumentativeMonotheist@lemmy.world on 25 Jul 13:26 collapse

They’re all in the same place, all of them who take big corpo money, just actors, wrestling heels. But they’re still playing the villain part when they could do otherwise (they just wouldn’t have risen in power, I guess).

D_C@sh.itjust.works on 24 Jul 08:50 next collapse

I’ve not heard of CanDeath Omens since the Herman Cain subreddit.
I think she was the one telling everyone not to take the vaccine…but was selling ivermectin for an exorbitant amount. Truly a ghoul.

burgerpocalyse@lemmy.world on 24 Jul 08:57 collapse

candace will use the gribble defence

topherclay@lemmy.world on 24 Jul 10:43 collapse

As someone who hasn’t watched the show since it aired but who has seen it referenced continually on the internet, I definitely expected pocket sand.

Cort@lemmy.world on 24 Jul 20:59 collapse

Lol he went full sovcit