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@Valen10Francois "You know things are bad infrastructure-wise in the US when they drool over the UNITED KINGDOM"
X Link @Valen10Francois 2025-10-15T08:32Z 47.8K followers, 318.5K engagements

"Reminder that a majority of French people want a retirement age at. XX. The French electorate and its delusion are crucial players in the current mess"
X Link @Valen10Francois 2025-10-14T14:55Z 47.8K followers, 129.7K engagements

"Im French and I can't see any cheese in that photo"
X Link @Valen10Francois 2025-10-23T12:14Z 47.8K followers, 4.7M engagements

"This is remarkable. There are more retired civil servants in France than current civil servants (1/0.9 ratio)"
X Link @Valen10Francois 2025-10-22T11:48Z 47.8K followers, 49.3K engagements

"I do see some strange looking bricks however"
X Link @Valen10Francois 2025-10-23T12:16Z 47.8K followers, 171.5K engagements

"Throwback to 1795 when the French cavalry captured the Dutch. fleet"
X Link @Valen10Francois 2025-10-23T16:19Z 47.8K followers, 40.5K engagements

"French people don't see pensions as a big issue When you ask them what to cut: XX% mention family benefits (50 bn) XX% digital policy (no idea of the value but single digit billions at most) XX% unemployment benefits (40bn) Only X% mention pensions (400bn+)"
X Link @Valen10Francois 2025-10-14T15:28Z 47.4K followers, 4626 engagements

"Portugal being the first modern European colonial empire despite having a population of X million is seriously impressive"
X Link @Valen10Francois 2025-09-07T11:26Z 47.7K followers, 626.4K engagements

"Yes Boomers are getting a fantastic deal as I have written extensively over the last year. That said the French electorate is not giving our politicians many inventives to change the system"
X Link @Valen10Francois 2025-10-14T15:28Z 47.7K followers, 5832 engagements

"The unions are claiming that staff head count has gone down by XXX. In 2010 the Louvre's annual report claims 2100 employees. By 2015 it has gone down somewhat at 2072 And in 2024 Would it be 1900 Nope. it's even higher than in 2010 at 2242"
X Link @Valen10Francois 2025-10-21T11:15Z 47.8K followers, 24.5K engagements

"The surge in AI-written speeches in Britain's House of Commons visualised:"
X Link @Valen10Francois 2025-09-10T20:29Z 47.8K followers, 1.3M engagements

"French PM has decided to freeze the hike of the retirement age from XX to XX to avoid another government collapse The youngest boomers aged XX will be the last to benefit from France's debt-funded pensions generosity Future generations will work till XX and inherit their debt"
X Link @Valen10Francois 2025-10-14T14:22Z 47.8K followers, 94.5K engagements

"People often assume that French politicians never touch pensions out of fear of the grey vote This is only partially true: Working age Frenchies are also delusional or ill-informed on pensions This is how they end up backing "Turkeys for Christmas" policies A🧵"
X Link @Valen10Francois 2025-10-14T15:28Z 47.8K followers, 37.1K engagements

"To deal with the current pensions mess do you think French workers favour: A) raising the retirement age (one of the lowest in EU) B) cutting pension (pensioners have more disposable income than them) Or C) increasing taxes on themselves (some of the highest in Europe)"
X Link @Valen10Francois 2025-10-14T15:41Z 47.8K followers, 22.1K engagements

"The sad truth about pensions spending in is: A) We spend the most on pensions as a % of GDP B) Our pensioners have more disposable income than workers Yet C) Our pensioners are not even that rich compared to our European neighbors We are becoming poor"
X Link @Valen10Francois 2025-10-16T15:50Z 47.8K followers, 13.1K engagements

"Remarkable blast from the 80s Socialist President Mitterrand admits that his decision to set the retirement age at XX down from XX will make France's pensions model buckle under demographic pressure But: "My successors will have to deal with it""
X Link @Valen10Francois 2025-10-16T15:59Z 47.8K followers, 44.3K engagements

"Really depends what you mean by "English""
X Link @Valen10Francois 2025-10-20T13:35Z 47.8K followers, 37.4K engagements

"To me it's a sign of major civilisational decline that no one has resigned yet for the Louvre fiasco"
X Link @Valen10Francois 2025-10-20T16:42Z 47.8K followers, 219.6K engagements

"In a predictably twist unions are blaming the Louvre fiasco on lack of staff They claim that 100s of jobs were cut in the last 10/15 years. The French press took these number for granted So I did what no one did and looked at the annual reports: The unions are wrong"
X Link @Valen10Francois 2025-10-21T11:15Z 47.8K followers, 214.5K engagements

"Here are the annual reports for 2010 2015 and 2024"
X Link @Valen10Francois 2025-10-21T11:15Z 47.8K followers, 7743 engagements

"The way France is reacting to the heist is very French. It's never about processes failures poor prioritisation. It's always about calling for more funding and hiring more people. And the media in France is not doing its work"
X Link @Valen10Francois 2025-10-21T11:18Z 47.8K followers, 68.8K engagements

"Speaking of which: The director of the Louvre in 1911 resigned after the Mona Lisa was stolen while he was on holiday"
X Link @Valen10Francois 2025-10-21T13:49Z 47.8K followers, 103.6K engagements

"Someone clearly screwed up and needs to resign for this mess But calling the head of security at the Louvre a diversity hire because she's a woman is frankly distasteful Her CV is perfectly suitable for the kind of role she has You can screw up without being a DEI hire"
X Link @Valen10Francois 2025-10-21T15:04Z 47.8K followers, 20.7K engagements

"When the music stops our descendants will be baffled to hear we went on the verge of fiscal catastrophe and sacrificed everything else in the meantime to give boomers an extra 5-10 years of holidays"
X Link @Valen10Francois 2025-10-22T12:12Z 47.8K followers, 29K engagements

"Turns out the viral Louvre "detective" was just a rando walking around"
X Link @Valen10Francois 2025-10-23T11:46Z 47.8K followers, 4.8M engagements

"The side eye game from the cops is immaculate however"
X Link @Valen10Francois 2025-10-23T11:50Z 47.8K followers, 90.5K engagements

"@5tephenRN Your American cousins have a lot to explain"
X Link @Valen10Francois 2025-10-23T17:00Z 47.8K followers, 45.5K engagements

"@Sargon_of_Akkad You're pushing my long established free-speech principles with such a brazen affront 😁"
X Link @Valen10Francois 2025-10-23T17:38Z 47.8K followers, 1028 engagements

"@MetalBreach I could be blind and I would still be able to distinguish plastic from cheese with my nose alone"
X Link @Valen10Francois 2025-10-24T12:03Z 47.8K followers, 12.7K engagements