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Impact reported, citing witnesses, that clashes were taking place between a group of people and the police, with fireworks being fired, at the intersection of Voltaire and Richard-Lenoir boulevards in the 11th arrondissement of Paris. https://t.co/iF1ZP03UOm #Paris #Manifestation #Actualités (translated)

Little Think Tank wrote that, according to Le Parisien, the specialized shops selling retro video games, merchandise, and trading cards on Boulevard Voltaire in Paris were at risk of disappearing after the looting. It stated that at least four businesses had been completely emptied, with losses potentially exceeding 500,000 euros, and that some owners already knew they would not be able to reopen. #Paris #jeuxvidéo #commerce (translated)

Conkerax indicated that video game stores and other businesses had been looted or damaged throughout France. He mentioned the independent stores Trader Games and Sat Elite, located in République, and lamented the destruction of old stock, notably of games and consoles that he described as an irreplaceable video game heritage. Saying that he regularly visits these stores and supports the merchants he presents, he emphasized that families and businesses unrelated to the claims had also been affected. He referred to a video showing a person being struck in the back in front of a Micromania store and estimated that this violence harmed the cause of the demonstrators, whose demands he believed could be overshadowed by the damage. Conkerax said he was thinking of the businesses that would have to completely rebuild or even close, and shared a fund dedicated to Sat Elite. https://t.co/Yq0xbgTmLz #soutiencommerçants #jeuxvidéo #France (translated)

Carole Quintaine wrote that she was thinking of the victims and her friends on Boulevard Voltaire, some of whom, according to her, believed they saw their lives flash before their eyes that night. She expressed her affection for them and mentioned lives destroyed and reduced to ashes, before expressing her disgust for the country in very virulent terms. #Solidarité #Victimes #Injustice (translated)

At 10:15 PM, Gaspard Glanz wrote that he was stopping his follow-up. He indicated that there were still people in Paris, scattered throughout the city, and that he did not know where the police were, who, according to him, were no longer present between République, Nation, Bastille, and Boulevard Voltaire. #Paris #Bastille #Ville (translated)

Amjad Taha wrote that students and young people in France had, according to him, lost sense of their identity, despite their French nationality, and that some were waving Hamas flags. He also accused them of having celebrated October 7. He criticized Emmanuel Macron for not making the fight against anti-Semitism a priority and for stating that there were no members of Hamas in the West Bank. According to Taha, the president was more concerned with Gaza, Iran, and other international issues than with Paris. Taha also mentioned looting, drugs, disoriented students, and networks of the Muslim Brotherhood in Paris. He claimed that French citizens no longer felt safe there and questioned France's appeal to visitors. He called on France to defend the values and areas that, in his opinion, had contributed to its prestige, including liberty, equality, fraternity, the Enlightenment, the arts, literature, culture, republican secularism, and the defense of French civilization. He cited Voltaire, Victor Hugo, Molière, and Monet, and wished that the country would once again give its inhabitants reasons to be proud to be French. #France #Identité #Culture (translated)

Carta aberta ao ministro @MinAMendonca, Caro ministro, Pelos relatos que recebo, o vídeo abaixo, de minha autoria, foi censurado. Ou por ordem sua, ou pelas plataformas, a quem o senhor entregou a tesoura para apagar, por conta própria e sem nova ordem judicial, qualquer "narrativa equivalente". Isso tem nome: censura prévia. A Constituição a proíbe duas vezes, no art. 5º, IX, e no art. 220, § 2º, que veda "toda e qualquer censura de natureza política, ideológica e artística". O senhor sabe disso. Parece ter decidido esquecer. Esqueceu também regras do tribunal que hoje vice-preside. A Resolução TSE 23.610/2019 determina que a atuação da Justiça Eleitoral sobre conteúdos na internet se dê com a menor interferência possível no debate democrático (art. 38) e exige, sob pena de nulidade, a indicação da URL específica de cada conteúdo removido (art. 38, § 4º). O Marco Civil da Internet segue a mesma lógica (art. 19, § 1º). Uma ordem genérica, que transfere a empresa privada o juízo sobre o que é "equivalente", não é tutela jurisdicional. É terceirização da mordaça. Todos os trechos do meu vídeo foram extraídos de reportagens e apresentados no contexto em que foram ditos. Não há ali ilícito eleitoral nem penal. Há fatos de notoriedade pública. Pergunto, então: o que exatamente o incomodou? Terá sido ver autoridades evangélicas ofendendo autoridades eclesiásticas e símbolos católicos? Pegou mal para a denominação da qual o senhor é pastor? Acaso não existiu o projeto que alterava a Lei 6.802/1980 para transformar a Padroeira do Brasil apenas em padroeira dos católicos apostólicos romanos? Acaso Flávio não diz, em trecho do vídeo abaixo, que a primeira coisa que fará, se eleito, será "consagrar o Brasil a Nosso Senhor Jesus Cristo"? Num Estado que o art. 19, I, da Constituição declara laico, a promessa já é discutível. Criticá-la é dever cívico. Acaso aquele deputado evangélico no vídeo não chamou o arcebispo e o papa de "vagabundos"? Acaso aquele pastor de Bastos (SP) não chamou a Padroeira de "diabo fantasiado de azul"? Acaso é invenção o vídeo de bolsonaristas tumultuando e tentando agredir funcionários da TV Aparecida no dia da Padroeira? Acaso é mentira o texto, reproduzido abaixo, daquele que a imprensa aponta como pastor de Flávio, convocando o rebanho a liquidar a autoridade da Padroeira? Diante desse conjunto de evidências, é crime perguntar se Flávio fará o que ele próprio promete no vídeo abaixo, algo que muitos brasileiros entenderiam como rebaixamento da Padroeira? A Corte que o senhor integra já respondeu que não. Na ADPF 130, afastou qualquer controle estatal prévio sobre o que se pode dizer. Na ADI 4451, garantiu o direito de criticar e satirizar candidatos em plena campanha. E um candidato se reconhecer numa crítica não transforma a crítica em mentira. Transforma, no máximo, em diagnóstico. Não lhe parece que o senhor foi muito além dos poderes de juiz, que não são os de pastor, nem de Deus, ao mandar derrubar posts que diziam apenas "Nossa Senhora Aparecida, rogai por nós"? Há dois mil anos alguém já separou as jurisdições: "Dai a César o que é de César, e a Deus o que é de Deus". O senhor conhece o versículo melhor do que eu (acho). Parece ter confundido os balcões. Voltaire escreveu o Tratado sobre a Tolerância depois que um tribunal católico, em Toulouse, mandou executar um protestante, Jean Calas. A história tem senso de humor: agora é um juiz protestante quem manda apagar preces católicas. O mesmo Voltaire ensinou que o fanatismo está para a superstição como o delírio está para a febre. Montesquieu advertiu que todo homem que detém poder tende a abusar dele, e vai até onde encontra limites. O senhor pode muito. Não pode tudo. Confio que seus pares reverterão essas decisões autoritárias e esdrúxulas, proferidas a pedido de Flávio, o filho do homem. Do homem que o indicou à Corte. Reflita, ministro. Não vivemos uma guerra santa, embora talvez exista na sua cabeça. Não me intimidarei. #Censura #LiberdadeDeExpressão #Democracia

In zijn recente boek The Race Makers betoogt Andrew Curran dat het moderne racisme, en het denken in termen van rassen, een recente uitvinding is die voortkomt uit de Verlichting, met belangrijke bijdragen van denkers als Voltaire en Kant, en dat dit idee altijd al omstreden is geweest. #Racisme #Verlichting #Geschiedenis

Yes ! Lindsey Graham est crevé ! Mais alors le « de mortuis nihil nisi sine bonum » des Romains, qu’est-ce qu’on en fait ? On s’en fout, on applique la ligne Voltaire : « nous devons des égards aux vivants, aux morts nous ne devons que la vérité. » Et la vérité, c’était que c'était une pourriture pédophile et un criminel de guerre. Qui portait le vice et la dépravation sur son visage. C’est donc une bonne nouvelle. Tournée générale ! 🍾🍾🍾🍾🍾🍾🍾🍾🍾 #LindsayGraham #Vérité #Actualités

Cuando los debates políticos acababan en duelos. Le llamó "more despicable" y Burr le retó a duelo por no retirar esas palabras (llevaban 15 años poniéndose a parir, pero con elegancia). Más adelante diría "Si hubiera leído más a Sterne y menos a Voltaire, habría sabido que el #Política #Duelos #Historia #Nocountrycodesarepresentinthetweet.

Durant un dîner avec Frédéric II, Voltaire découvre un billet rédigé par le roi de Prusse : - Voltaire est le premier des ânes. Frédéric II. Le roi lui demande de lire. Voltaire s'exécute : - Voltaire est le premier des ânes. Frédéric le deuxième. https://t.co/EaaHzvqZQ3 #Voltaire #FrédéricII #Humour

François-Marie Arouet, conocido como Voltaire, fue encarcelado en la Bastilla durante casi once meses a causa de sus sátiras ofensivas dirigidas contra el regente Felipe II de Orleans, que se difundieron rápidamente entre las élites parisinas, provocando la intervención de la policía sin un juicio formal. #Voltaire #Bastilla #SátiraPolítica

Indeed. (Read the attached post first, then till the end of this post). Carl Sagan (Legendary Cosmologist) - "The Hindu religion is the only one of the world’s great faiths dedicated to the idea that the Cosmos itself undergoes birth and death in cycles." Neils Bohr (Atomic model) - "I go into the Upanishads to ask questions." Robert Oppenheimer (Father of Atomic bomb) - "Access to the Vedas is the greatest privilege this century may claim over all previous centuries." Erwin Schrodinger (Quantum mechanics) - "Atman = Brahman. The multiplicity is only apparent. This is the doctrine of the Upanishads." Nicola Tesla (Legendary inventor) - "All perceptible matter comes from a primary substance, or tenuity beyond conception, filling all space, the Akasha or luminiferous ether, which is acted upon by the life-giving Prana or creative force, calling into existence, in never ending cycles, all things and phenomena." Fritjof Capra (Particle physicist) - "For the modern physicists, Shiva’s dance is the dance of subatomic matter." Albert Einstein - "When I read the Bhagavad-Gita and reflect about how God created this universe everything else seems so superfluous" Carl Jung (Analytical psychology) - "Our unconscious definitely prefers the Hindu interpretation of immortality." Nietzsche (popular philosopher) - "There are so many dawns that have not yet broken" (from the Rig Veda). Arthur Schopenhauer (pessimistic philosophy) - "In the whole world there is no study so beneficial and so elevating as that of the Upanishads. It has been the solace of my life—it will be the solace of my death." Then there are so many other legends in science, philosophy, and other fields who were highly influenced and inspired by Indian philosophy, like - Mark Twain, Victor Cousin, Alfred North, Romain Rolland, Rudolf Steine, Humboldt, Voltaire, Huxley, Emerson etc. But the average Indian ignorant programmed by communists, imperialists, and racists by education, then thinking they are very educated and smart - "The vedas are mythology, Indian scriptures are religious rubbish, there is no use for them, we need to burn the bhagavat gita and eradicate sanatana dharma." If you are someone still thinking like the above, or asking "what's the use now", first find out for yourself why some of the greatest modern minds read them and swear by them. And they do this even in the age of AI. Ask Sam Altman what he believes is the ultimate truth. -