They’re not very good at it, are they? :D

Russia on its quest to find something it can fight and win against.

Physicists are warry about splitting atoms; historians are warry about splitting Germany.

“And now, I’ll make these allegations disappear!”

Kids don’t get addicted to sugar much if there isn’t much sugar intake occasion. I’m sure they checked the market and found that they could sell more sugar-based product later with this initial push.

This is the main point : the breach of the trust we could have in state agencies and doctors. Hopefully the lesson stick this time.

Given what transpires about the US on the international news scene, I’m not sure putting that to a democratic vote would yield the result you expect, sadly.

Nobody in his sect is paying attention. The rest of the world is looking at this with anxiety.

If your only goal is that most people can live decently and reduce exploitation, abuse, and such, yeah, sure.

But if you just want to amass money, then, no.

A choice was made.

I did not know this was a competition where only one could “win”.

I remember when these were introduced on cigarette packs. For a while there was a trend of “collecting all the pics”, while other found a nice business in selling “cigarette pack holder” that would just mask the pictures. I’m not sure any of that was the initial goal.

I wonder how applying this to food would turn out, seeing that a fair share of people are well informed of the effect we have on the climate already but simply don’t care.

Far too many people seem to be itching to find an enemy, all so they can justify their desire for vindictive bloodlust.

Finding an enemy, anyone, to rally angry and hate-fueled people has been a solid political staple for at least the last decade or so. The only “new”-ish part is that a lot of people are dying as a direct result of that now.

People disliking having tourists around does not mean they’re happy to burn their place down to prevent tourism.

Except it’s been extended beyond religious clothing. An abaya is not specifically a religious clothing or something mandated by a religion, it is something worn in some places where people happens to be of that religion. No religious texts calls for it, where other things like burka and headscarfs where more directly linked to islam. Here, it’s a dress, that people in arabic countries wear. It’s literally fashion police.

Hmm no? Please tell me how to distinguish a “regular” dress from a “religious” dress, when they have roughly the same coverage and no specific patterns. That would be helpful to enforce this new restriction without relying on the wearer’s religious belief.

Because it is not particularly religious clothing? It is not exclusively used by religious people, it just happens to be mainly used by one group of people. Also, please, “no one in France is allowed to wear religious iconography”. Tell me you didn’t go to school in France without telling me you didn’t go to school in France. Some religion are overlooked quite often.

I’m all for banning religious iconography from schools; but if that was the real goal (hint: it was not), do it fully, and only do it for actual religious stuff. This is about banning a sleeved dress that have little to no connection with religion except that “some people off said religion sometimes wears it”. I’m sure they sometimes wear snickers too, should we also ban them?

Funny how no one cared about teachers having a cross around their neck when I was in school. I guess it wasn’t for religious reasons, right?

Yes, because turning them away is such a good way to give them a chance to enjoy school life. You know what would have been good too? Let them in the school instead of putting them in the light like this and refusing entry for some of them.

But, I suppose we have a different view of “enjoy a school life”; my vision happens in the school, yours happens in the school without some people.

Very good

Before this made the news, barely anyone knew what it was. The most prominent people in favor of this could not distinguish an actual fashion dress from an abaya on a picture. Stop pretending it is to help integration; it’s just harassing a very, very small minority of people, because it’s easier than address issues.

Consider that the kids that got trouble there were actually going to a public school, and were turned away. Please tell me how that helps them integrate.