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[NOTE: these terms are weaponized language, & meant to give offense. Which is the whole & compleat point of insult & invective, obscenity & blasphemy, & other political speech.]

FRENCH:  “Liberté, Egalité, Fraternité”  ‡

FRENCH:  “T. F. P. / Travail, Famille, Patrie”  ‡‡

FRENCH:  “Révolution c’est l’ opium des intellectuelles...”  ‡‡‡

FRENCH:  1 milliard pour Notre Dame! Zero pour les sons logis!  ‡‡‡‡

    

‡)  “Liberty, Equality, Fraternity” 

—  French Nat’l motto, dating fr. the French Revolution,  & conceptually embedded in the French Constitution  ;  

‡‡)  “Work, Family, Fatherland” 

—  Nat’l motto of the Vichy Regime, the fascist fuck-puppet govt. of the Nazi occupation ;

‡‡‡)   “Revolution is the opium of the intellectuals...” 

—  Popular Post-May ’68 Situationist graffito that sprayed its way across European & US campuses, & eventually found its way into Lindsay Anderson’s O LUCKY MAN!

‡‡‡‡)   “Millions for Notre Dame! Zero for the homeless!”  /  “Millions for Notre Dame,  nothing for Les Misérables”

NOTE: Yellow Vest protest signs during Paris demonstrations regarding a billion in billionaire donations to rebuild Notre Dame cathedral after the Apr. 2019 fire,  even as the French govt. slashes social services,  thus increasing poverty.  Les Misérables is of course Victor Hugo’s classic French novel about social injustice,  poverty & the 1832 Paris rebellion. 

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