this post was submitted on 21 Sep 2024
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Thanks to France we can finally put to bed the notion that people just need to vote harder.

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[–] [email protected] 98 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

lol leftists won the vote but macron was like "no" and put in a shit ton of fascists instead, lmao. Cool "democracy" mind if I fart on it?

[–] [email protected] 55 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

The alliance between centrist and conservative parties in the cabinet is not enough to pass legislation on its own.

dean-neutral

It will depend on others, such as Marine Le Pen's far right National Rally to stay in power and get bills into law.

dean-malice

[–] [email protected] 40 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

God I hope she makes his life a living hell

[–] [email protected] 49 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

He has outflanked her to the right and chastised her on several issues for not going far enough.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 3 weeks ago

The ~~Aristocrats~~ Liberals!

[–] [email protected] 17 points 3 weeks ago

I’m not even talking about policy. He made a bullshit alliance with the NPF to keep her out of power, she has every motivation to make him look pathetic when he comes begging her for votes.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

thought you were talking about kamala for a second

[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 weeks ago

It's a real (French word for potayto),(French word for potahto) situation.

[–] [email protected] 49 points 3 weeks ago

Liberals and allying with fascists

Tale as old as time

[–] [email protected] 40 points 3 weeks ago
[–] [email protected] 37 points 3 weeks ago

You know those Hoi4 mods that have some milquetoast leftist like Bernie or William Z Foster as some sort of fascist or totalitarian communist?

Macron is the real world version of that.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 3 weeks ago

France's public-sector deficit is projected to reach around 5.6% of GDP this year and go over 6% in 2025. The EU has a 3% limit on deficits.

This is why the EU has to be destroyed. These insane austerity freaks literally never learn no matter how many times austerity fails.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 weeks ago
[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 weeks ago

Hi dunk crew, before seeing this thread I didn't realize 'globalist' was specifically seen this way. In terms of referring to the global north extracting resources from and generally exploiting the global south, what's an easy to use and understand term besides settler/colonizer?

[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 weeks ago
[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 weeks ago

yeah my dad ranted to me about it

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Nothing to add to the macron discourse except when I saw the post title I thought it said "Marvel Unveils New Right-wing French Government"

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 weeks ago

So THAT just happened