• gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works
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    2 days ago

    Kinda crazy to me that he first pulls out the stops to block FN (their alt-right party), then later made overtures to them instead of the left wing. Like… fucking what.

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      Macron needs the electoral threat of a fascist majority to spur people towards his lukewarm liberal En March. He didn’t anticipate that Mélenchon would command such a popular turnout. So now he’s scrambling to reinflate the fascist boogeyman in hopes of pitting the far-right against the center-left. And, in the process, he’s turning everyone against him.

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      Classic liberal move, history somewhat repeats itself. They’d rather have fascists than leftists in power.

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          None of them electoral politicians, like the ones we’re talking about here. Try again.

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          stalin, mao, min, castro …

          Who could forget the time FDR, Churchill, and Hitler met at Yalta to decide what to do with the defeated Soviet Russia?

          And for the love of god, don’t google any pictures of Nixon. Very real chance you’re going to catch him shaking hands with some shady communist characters.

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          Oh yeah, because not wanting 90% of my country’s media to belong to 10 people, or have proper taxation for richer folks, or good use of my tax euros for proper free health care and education for everyone make me a Stalinist.

          I’d absolutely rather have billionaire fueled propaganda against brown people and the poor, all the while they eat lobster and literally burn the planet to the ground. At least that’s not slightly leftist, right ?

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          Like the rich propping up fascists to keep their wealth and power ? That’s completely unheard of right ? It’s literally happening in France right now.