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KomradeX
Oct 29, 2011

So France is going to elect a fascist, what are the National Assembly elections going to look like?

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KomradeX
Oct 29, 2011


Proof that Center only ever mean Center Right at best

KomradeX
Oct 29, 2011


I really hate the media that keeps trying to conflate fascism with populism

KomradeX
Oct 29, 2011

Kurtofan posted:

a transpartisan movement of the left (actual quote)

meanwhile mélenchon's movement and the communist party couldn't come to an agreement and will run candidates against each other

and the ps is dead

Goddamn it!

KomradeX
Oct 29, 2011

Agean90 posted:

The american left is currently better organized than the european left lol

That's the most depressing thing I've read all day.

KomradeX
Oct 29, 2011

Top City Homo posted:

sadder than Jeb! Can fix it

Well I did just read that, so now it's a tie

KomradeX
Oct 29, 2011

Good thing they didn't elect an open fascist

KomradeX
Oct 29, 2011

R. Mute posted:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/may/18/secret-plans-protect-le-pen-french-republic-emerge

'we have to be ready in case le pen wins the election. how will we be able to violently repress leftist protesters if we don't have a plan?'

Jesus Christ, gently caress France

KomradeX
Oct 29, 2011

Agnosticnixie posted:

It's less than 60 in France but still pretty drat high, FN's biggest demographics are cops and career military.

Fascists vote for a fascist party who could have guessed that

KomradeX
Oct 29, 2011

Wasn't the turn out for France 48%? Yay sounds more like people giving up on electoral politics if you can't even get 50 percent

KomradeX
Oct 29, 2011

Vox Nihili posted:

"The proposal technically maintains the 35-hour workweek, but allows companies to organize alternative working times without following industry-wide deals, up to a 48-hour workweek and 12 hours per day. In "exceptional circumstances," employees could work up to 60 hours a week."

The Nazis are gonna win their next election aren't they?

KomradeX
Oct 29, 2011

Vox Nihili posted:

i expect the socialists (some flavor thereof, anyway) will be back in power in france within a few years. trump has helpfully poisoned the well re: the far right

But will they be actually socialists again or more of these people that hate the idea of socialism that still some how ended up controlling socialist parties?

KomradeX
Oct 29, 2011

Pener Kropoopkin posted:

Macron reminds me of the villain in a Tom Clancy novel.

I don't see why, it's perfectly normal for a centrist to believe in the need for kings and that they sold be be distant from three people as of a God and that they some how have thoughts that are too complex for the media about a day celebrating the birth of French democracy. No that seems normal, right?

KomradeX
Oct 29, 2011


I guess Macron did share some of his "complex thoughts" about it

KomradeX
Oct 29, 2011

Hodgepodge posted:

i'm not sure what it would say about a neoliberal's psyche if they proclaimed l'etat est moi

There were a bunch of Libs (both Neo and not) that desperately wanted Obama to do that to keep Trump from being elected

KomradeX
Oct 29, 2011

get that OUT of my face posted:

the age of consent is 14 in italy and germany, i believe, so france is still behind the libertarian 8-ball

Is this a thing like in Japan where the national age is something low like that but equivalent of state law all has it higher?

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KomradeX
Oct 29, 2011

White Rock posted:

Nope it's just lower across Europe in general, highest age of consent in the eurozone is 16. It does prevent the whole, "18 year old sleeps with 17 year old and is now a registered sex offender" that America has. It also comes with a bunch of special clauses, like age restrictions.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ages_of_consent_in_Europe

Ahh okay

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