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[–] lennybird@lemmy.world 29 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

Ah yes, right-wing authoritarianism that helped cause mass immigration from regional instability thanks to ignoring climate change and sowing global conflicts... Let's just give the fox the keys to the henhouse.

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[–] huzzahunimpressively@lemmy.world 24 points 4 months ago (2 children)

I feel sorry for migrants in general, they are their primary target

[–] Noedel@lemmy.world 15 points 4 months ago

I think a quick look overseas will show you it's migrants, the queer community, women, and to a certain extent any intellectual. Now where have I seen this before.

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[–] Jayjader@jlai.lu 23 points 4 months ago (1 children)

The French political system, casually referred to as the “Republic of Friends,”

Where does the author get this? I'm French and have never heard of our system called as such - especially not by a French person.

[–] Lemmy_2019@lemmy.one 6 points 4 months ago (1 children)

A search returns this article alone. Bizarre. Is he trying to make this happen??

[–] Zron@lemmy.world 6 points 4 months ago

ChatGPT had a fever dream again

[–] FordBeeblebrox@lemmy.world 18 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

There is one and only one way to deal with Nazis

[–] Mango@lemmy.world 16 points 4 months ago (2 children)

How is it France falling to this? Don't they riot every other month about government bullshit?

[–] Biotron1@lemmy.world 18 points 4 months ago (1 children)

We went to the streets for months against the new retirement system and they've beaten the shit ouf of us. We couldn't make us heard by a so called democratic and moderate government. Not a big surprise that a lot of people are trying another way. No excuse for them to be fascists assholes. But Macron is carrying an heavy responsibility for the current situation.

[–] Mango@lemmy.world 4 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Ok so forgive my ignorance but if they're trying to overturn government decisions that are a burden on everyone, why are they fascist?

[–] ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world 6 points 4 months ago

Because people are dumb. A lot of them don't even realize these people are really fascists, because for them fascism was an ideology that did evil things for the sake of evil, and the moment they had a semi-reasonable explanation why they hated minorities, people believed them. Also they're avoiding classic signifiers of fascism, like swastikas, fasceses, and calling themselves fascists.

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[–] VirtualOdour@sh.itjust.works 8 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Yeah but s lot of those are self serving right wing ideals, for some reason everyone ignored this and just assumed the old revolution was ongoing. I guess like people who still talk about Russia as communist

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[–] Got_Bent@lemmy.world 14 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I archived this cancerous bloated paywalled shit show of a website just on principle

https://archive.md/5qN2M

[–] casmael@lemm.ee 8 points 4 months ago (23 children)

Why is so much of the internet terrible now fml

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 13 points 4 months ago

Cory Doctorow can explain it to you. He coined a term for it which has now become widespread, "enshittification." And it's all about money.

https://pluralistic.net/2023/01/21/potemkin-ai/#hey-guys

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[–] veganpizza69@lemmy.world 10 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Thanks to social media, youth unemployment, an uptick in asylum seekers, ballooning energy prices and oodles of nationalist right-wing cash, Macron is no longer the only politician with the regal ability to play Jupiter on TV. There are now a record 4,005 candidates running in the first round, with many fabled divinities to choose from.

There's your problem. Defund the rich.

[–] FordBeeblebrox@lemmy.world 4 points 4 months ago

That’s the problem. When the tech bros have more money than a king, who’s to stop them?

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[–] seliaste@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 points 4 months ago (2 children)

We still have hope this week end for the Nouveau Front Populaire, the left wing alliance. There might still be a chance

[–] bartolomeo@suppo.fi 12 points 4 months ago (2 children)

The author showed his bias when he wrote

Indeed, the polls indicate Le Pen’s awkward and aggrieved racist coalition—along with the inventively loony left-wing anti-Israel alliance dubbed the New Popular Front—is positioned to form a government that could defenestrate Macron’s Ensemble! coalition in the 2027 presidential election.

[–] seliaste@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 points 4 months ago

What a shitty article

[–] Klear@sh.itjust.works 5 points 4 months ago (1 children)

along with the inventively loony left-wing anti-Israel alliance dubbed the New Popular Front

I thought we were the Popular Front?

[–] WhatYouNeed@lemmy.world 4 points 4 months ago

People's Front!

[–] menas@lemmy.wtf 8 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

Whatever the result, what cause the rise of far right will be still there. We have to continue to mobilize after the election this time. Organized for your interest fellows

[–] seliaste@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 4 months ago (4 children)

The rise... Of the far left??????

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[–] Fades@lemmy.world 8 points 4 months ago (2 children)

authoritarians grow stronger every day. God help us all

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[–] JoMiran@lemmy.ml 7 points 4 months ago (1 children)

...the French, in principle, rarely distinguish between fact and impression.

The author comes out swinging and still manages to bore quickly.

[–] tal@lemmy.today 4 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Yeah, I was gonna say, I'm sure that you can find media here in the US that is going to provide useful political coverage of France, but I don't think that this article is gonna be it.

kagis for Le Monde English

Hmm.

https://www.lemonde.fr/en/opinion/article/2024/06/29/french-elections-who-would-don-quixote-vote-for-today_6676135_23.html

French elections: Who would Don Quixote vote for today?

Ugh. This is not really what I was hoping for.

checks the BBC

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c2q0rv05p19o

French PM in final appeal to stop far-right victory

That's better.

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[–] theacharnian@lemmy.ca 6 points 4 months ago (1 children)

What's (not) funny is that the French far right is just slightly to the left of the US Republicans.

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[–] egeres@lemmy.world 4 points 4 months ago (5 children)

What are the reasons for this? I'm out of the france loop

[–] orangeboats@lemmy.world 6 points 4 months ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)
[–] BrightCandle@lemmy.world 4 points 4 months ago

All of the western democracies are telling their people the reason their quality of life is declining is due to immigrants and the disabled and poor. A lot of people seem to believe them. I agree its about inequality and bringing the far right in will only accelerate the process.

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[–] werefreeatlast@lemmy.world 4 points 4 months ago

I hope they really don't like the ruzzians. That way, when the time comes, they can be properly utilized and disposed of...."guys why are there so many seeds in our uniforms? I don't get it".....

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