• @gravitas_deficiency
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    922 days ago

    Kinda crazy to me that he first pulls out the stops to block FN (their alt-right party), then later made overtures to them instead of the left wing. Like… fucking what.

    • @[email protected]
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      242 days ago

      Macron needs the electoral threat of a fascist majority to spur people towards his lukewarm liberal En March. He didn’t anticipate that Mélenchon would command such a popular turnout. So now he’s scrambling to reinflate the fascist boogeyman in hopes of pitting the far-right against the center-left. And, in the process, he’s turning everyone against him.

    • @[email protected]
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      352 days ago

      Macron et co hate the far-right more than the left, but only barely. Once the far-right was no longer in danger of being in control, Macron felt safe to fuck over the left by going with a fellow neoliberal shill.

      • @[email protected]
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        362 days ago

        They actually hate the left more than the far right.
        During this springs legislative campaign, they spent more time criticizing the left for being dangerous, proto-fascist and antisemitic than they spent criticizing the far-right for the same things.
        Meanwhile a few far-right candidates were seen wearing nazi symbols or heard saying fascist stuff.

        When choosing a prime minister, Macron chose one that the far right would approve (our National Assembly can refuse a prime minister and it’s government) instead of one the left would approve.

        Macron and his cronies are just simps for our millionaire and billionaire overlords, and they know the far right in France is more than ok with economical neoliberalism.

        • @[email protected]
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          112 days ago

          I really appreciate hearing from someone who is actually in France.

          Also, have the moderates in France completely failed to understand history? Moderates cozying up to the far right is how we got the Nazis running Germany.

          • @[email protected]
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            92 days ago

            Same in France during WWII, centrist and a good part of the socialists gave full power to far-right military dictatorship

            So yeah, some people in France would need a quick recap of the past century history

        • Maeve
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          32 days ago

          Governments the world over. They know who pays them more.

      • @[email protected]
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        42 days ago

        Pretty sure Macron wanted the far right to win to hand over the country to them, even after they fucked up everything as they always do, he could come back saying that he’s going to fix the country. When the left won, he just gave the power to the right anyway.

    • @[email protected]
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      172 days ago

      Classic liberal move, history somewhat repeats itself. They’d rather have fascists than leftists in power.

        • @[email protected]
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          172 days ago

          Oh yeah, because not wanting 90% of my country’s media to belong to 10 people, or have proper taxation for richer folks, or good use of my tax euros for proper free health care and education for everyone make me a Stalinist.

          I’d absolutely rather have billionaire fueled propaganda against brown people and the poor, all the while they eat lobster and literally burn the planet to the ground. At least that’s not slightly leftist, right ?

        • @[email protected]
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          stalin, mao, min, castro …

          Who could forget the time FDR, Churchill, and Hitler met at Yalta to decide what to do with the defeated Soviet Russia?

          And for the love of god, don’t google any pictures of Nixon. Very real chance you’re going to catch him shaking hands with some shady communist characters.

        • acargitz
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          62 days ago

          None of them electoral politicians, like the ones we’re talking about here. Try again.

      • @gravitas_deficiency
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        -222 days ago

        Sounds like you need to read more history, because, like… no.

        • @[email protected]
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          292 days ago

          Like the rich propping up fascists to keep their wealth and power ? That’s completely unheard of right ? It’s literally happening in France right now.

  • @[email protected]
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    342 days ago

    Seriously fuck this guy. He barely holds on against fierce competition from the far right, and his reaction is to install a not-as-far right PM?