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Cake day: June 23rd, 2024

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  • Despite strong opposition from left-wing representatives, Frédéric Masquelier, the mayor of Saint-Raphaël on the French Riviera, unveiled France’s first monument to the “victims of communism” on Saturday, August 23. Masquelier, a member of the right-wing party Les Républicains, said, “Nazism and communism (…) are two sides of the same tragic coin.” The monument depicts a man pushing back two massive blocks and was placed next to a memorial dedicated to the martyrs of the Resistance, many of whom were communists.

    Other than the obvious “mayor is a fascist” part, why the fuck does a French town need a monument for “victims of communism”? Communist Russia and China were very brutal, but what exactly did they do that directly affected France? Surely the monument is not for the handful of French communists who lived in the USSR and were victims of various purges.













  • AFAIK, the important thing in polyamory is consent. It looks like the boyfriend didn’t consent, so that seems to be a form of cheating, though it’s possible that it’s an honest mistake - maybe it hasn’t been properly established that they have to tell each other first when they want to date someone new. Though it’s also possible that the relationship wasn’t actually open in the first place, or just not in the way “Asher” said it was.

    Bit hard to say who was cheated on without knowing all the facts. Though either way, “Asher” definitely has to figure his shit out before starting to go out with someone.