• protist@mander.xyz
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    4 months ago

    Check out this hot take from Politico:

    Their initial aim was to stop Le Pen’s party winning an outright majority, which seemed a likely outcome a week ago. It seems instead their efforts may have handed the initiative to the other extreme of French politics, the far-left.

    Mélenchon said the New Popular Front would want to implement its manifesto, including revoking Macron’s controversial pensions reforms and introducing big hikes in the minimum wage.

    The extremism is horrifying!

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      4 months ago

      Never mind the Holocaust-denying public media-disbanding police-empowering Putin-asskissing Right, the real threat is the pension-giving, minimum wage-setting Left!!

      They’re EXTREMIST! Both sides!!

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        4 months ago

        This false horseshoe is so dumb. Although Melanchon has some problems, especially his views on Ukraine and Russia :/

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          No doubt, fuck Melanchon and whatever horse he rode in on. I don’t understand how they haven’t gotten rid of him already.

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      Disappointing from Politico, I thought they had a good read on politics but it seems they’re incompetent enough to not be able to understand the french political landscape: the far left is mostly composed of NPA and LO who are trying to gain power through revolution, not the classic socdem parties playing by the elections rules

      Edit : wow thanks for the context, friends, didn’t know they had changed owners

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        4 months ago

        Politico is owned by Axel Springer, who publishes the BILD yellow paper in Germany.

        I would not expect anything from them TBH.

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        Politico was bought years ago by German Axel Springer SE, the producers of trash like BILD and WELT (also a short-lived BILD TV that was designed as a best-of between RT and Fox News). They don’t have a clue about french politics, just like they don’t have a clue about anything else. All they got is a right-wing desinformation agenda.

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      They’d be wise to not have Melenchon to be a candidate for Macron’s position though, because he still has some actually extreme views. If they can present a more moderate option then that’d be a good step though. Either way, Le Pen lost again, and that’s the main goal here.

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        4 months ago

        This was just an election for the French parliament. Macron is president, who is directly elected by the French public. However the next presidential election is in 2027.

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        That’s the biggest issue with the left right now, we need someone sane so not melanchon