A decadent dinner costing nearly €475,000 for the U.K.’s King Charles III helped push France’s Élysée Palace — the office of President Emmanuel Macron —to a record high deficit last year.
France’s love for grand gestures and opulent dining are fully in evidence in the pages of a damning yearly audit of the Élysée’s budget, released on Monday by the Cour des Comptes, France’s top audit court.
The Élysée’s spending, which includes costs related to the president’s diplomatic and presidential duties as well as administration, personnel, security and estate management, reached a whopping €125 million, plunging the books €8.3 million into the red.
Among the biggest deficit drivers were two luxurious state dinners, with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and King Charles III.
I think it rated a news outlet as “moderately credible / left bias” causing some to feel attacked.
The usual complaint that I see people bring up is that the people behind it have a pro-Israel bias. But for a quick glance, it’s fine. The issue is that on Reddit, you’d have like 5 bot replies for 1000 human replies, and on Lemmy you’ll have 3 for 15 of the same, so they stand out more. In my opinion, anyway.
My complaint is kind of in this vein. I joined Lemmy to get away from this kind of bullshit. I go to comments to read what other people are saying, not to have a bot shove it’s opinion in my face on literally every fucking thread. Especially if the article has 1 or 2 comments so you go to the comments to see what people are discussing just to find it’s 2 fucking bots, so no discourse is actually happening.
The bullshit response of “well block it” is actually worse… Cause then you miss any responses made under it. So every time I see it, I just downvote it and move on. I do this with basically every bot I run into on here.