There is no intellectually honest comparison between French and U.S. protests that does not begin with the fact that in 2025 French police were responsible for 49 deaths and American police who have qualified immunity were responsible for 1,314.

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If ever anyone was flying by me on I-10 in Florida, it was a sure bet the car had an Alabama license plate

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A rumour is going around African social media that a president has died in a foreign country and it’s being kept under wraps. That in itself is not the interesting part - both Pierre Nkurunziza and John Magufuli died of COVID at the Nairobi Hospital in 2020. What’s interesting is the number of folks

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Publicly praying on social media that the deceased was their President - of various nationalities. Cameroon is in the lead because Biya is 93. A secondary impact of social media is it decimated the hierarchy and respect cultures that create a buffer for authoritarians to extend their rule.

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(Now there IS a point to making jokes like this and of course it’s all masculinity so anyway go subscribe to my substack, link in bio, big thoughts coming.)

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