• PugJesus@lemmy.world
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    Macron was bailed out by cooperation from the left-wing, and now he wants to play fuckwad games. How predictable. I hope they ream his ass out for trying this.

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      This deserves a riot. Hopefully the public sets him straight. I wish our own public would flip cars over politicians’ lies and anti-citizen rulings.

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        The alternative here would have been to let the far-right win.

        The issue isn’t that the left did cooperate with liberals to prevent fascism. That’s wholly laudable. One simply shouldn’t expect one’s enemies to be anything except temporary allies against worse foes (and I’m not accusing the French left of naivety here, mind, they probably understood and are prepared for this scenario).

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    bullshit : i’m french. there is NO chaos at all. Just political entertainement as usual.

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      I’m amazed that “chaos” there in France is more like “normal”. I remember some riots that happened couple of years ago and one commenter said France might verge into collapsing. I thought to myself that those who think that are not aware how France works, and rioting is a tradition since the French Revolution.

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        riots may happen in france, but for what is mention in the post, there is absolutely no riot, no chaos or anything else. It’s just a political event without consequence.

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          I know. But I mean any political mess in France, riots or not, is seen as severe by outsiders but aren’t aware how things work in France.

          However, I admit that the situation in Mayotte is in a completely different context and unprecedented for overseas French territory.

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          This is a weird thing to not riot over from my perspective. You guys are being couped. But I guess that’s how they can get away with this, is no one really cares who’s in charge. Same thing happened to us in the 2000’s election and as long as the coup is all according to the process or seems legal, or political, no one does anything.

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            When people riot over pensions or living conditions it’s because it affects them directly. Here it’s just squabbling over who gets to sit in the PM’s chair. Not surprising nobody wants to riot over which unlikable politician gets a promotion.

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        Literally every time I’ve been to France there has been a riot. Edit: actually that’s not true, one of the times I was there it was only a riot watch, they were waiting for sentencing in some trial of righty separatists.

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      Not even a crumb of chaos? A morsel of mischief? Perhaps a scrap of sabotage?

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    Hey! It’s the part where the “centrists” betray the left and cede power to the facists! Damn. You’d think someone would write a new script or something.

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    It’s amazing all the credit we gave him for that snap election decision is being completely erased.

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      I thought people credited Macron with the error and poor timing of the election. But credited the French voters with saving the election (against the far right and polling, quickly uniting with a practical strategy).

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    "Chaos in France"

    Just… Can these people exercise any restraint when it comes to sensationalist headlines?

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    I hate headlines like this. There is no “chaos”. A bunch of politicians are arguing and having meetings. Bureaucracy chunters along as usual. Paralympics are happening.

    If the politicians were having shootouts in the Champs Elysées and disrupting traffic then yes, a bit of chaos in Paris. But they’re not. Sigh.

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      Yeah, It’s fucking France. People set fire to police cars because it’s Tuesday. This is not a big deal.

      It’s the Guardian so you get what you expect. Inflammatory headlines for clicks.

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    So he’s pulling a Maduro. No kind of interest paid to the first place party, but I guess we won’t hear any neolibs complain about that.

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      So he’s pulling a Maduro.

      Oh, I didn’t realize he was falsifying elections. You do have a reason for accusing Macron of that, right, and aren’t just throwing around accusations to try to lessen the seriousness of Maduro’s actions, right?

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        He’s straight up ignoring the will of the people, so it’s pretty much the same shit to me. A wanna be dictator throwing rocks in the wheels of democracy just because he doesn’t like the election results. Same thing could be said about Macron.

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      Classic brain-dead centrist perspective thanks for sharing.

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          here are two arguments:

          1. Your stance is based on the idea that both sides have equal merit
          2. You have no principles or independent thought

          you can pick the exact middle

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            It’s hard to judge whether extreme right or extreme left is worse. They are both dangerous for a country, though in a different sense.

            I personally am not in the exact middle but being radical is not a choice.

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                Usually the surreal ones such as extremely high minimum wages, fixed prices for food, state-sponsored housing, etc.

                Basically all actions that look very good on paper but at the same time are extremely expensive.

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                  lol yes ok very dangerous and equivalent to fascism understood

                  my opinion of centrists has completely flipped, I totally get why “spending too much” and “enforcing an ethnic hierarchy” are the same degree of evil

                  snark aside: you should reflect about what exactly money is, what it’s used for and what it represents, and how a government spending its own legal tender differs from household finances.