“Democracy” at work.
It is, presumably the elected havent decided yet
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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.
So fucking tired of world shaking events always having a played out joke as the top comment.
If only world shaking events weren’t always the same mistakes as before. Then we wouldn’t be able to use the same jokes.
So tired of once-in-a-lifetime historical events happening every couple weeks.
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.
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.
This deserves a riot.
Fr*nch be like: we don’t even need a reason to riot
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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.
Not even a crumb of chaos? A morsel of mischief? Perhaps a scrap of sabotage?
Not so much as a shred of shenanigans.
Un peu de pagaille? Quelque chose de chienlit?
Political embarrassment rather
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Ya that’s basically what Game of Thrones is about lol.
It’s still riots. But on TV and with ties on.
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.
pass the Gauloises to gauche hand side
Yeah, quite a tough decision to choose between 2 extremists :|
Classic brain-dead centrist perspective thanks for sharing.
Any factual argument or just ad-hominem?
here are two arguments:
- Your stance is based on the idea that both sides have equal merit
- You have no principles or independent thought
you can pick the exact middle
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.
What do you think are the beliefs of the extreme left?
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.
You view those as similar in extremism to Nazis? That’s a self report right there.
do you even hear yourself jfc
extremely high minimum wages, fixed prices for food, state-sponsored housing, etc.
Ooooooooo scary!
Totally the same thing as literally exterminating entire groups of people based on characteristics they were born with.
In all seriousness though, you should look at what Finland has done regarding “public housing,” and how great it has been for them. Spoiler alert, they’re actually really nice, and affordable. Because nobody is looking to maximize a profit.
But please, let me know how “Finland is much smaller than the US, therefore impossible.”
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.
Are you from the past? Like 2014?
Your comments is literally just ad-hominem too bruh.
I have just pointed out that both sides have extreme views that are dangerous.
What extreme views are coming from the left side?
The right side is fascism, the left side is plans to raise the monthly minimum wage, impose price ceilings on essential foods, electricity, gas and petrol, repeal Macron’s deeply unpopular decision to raise the retirement age to 64, and invest massively in the green transition and public services.
How are those ‘exteme’ and ‘dangerous’?
Exactly those are the views you mentioned. All these are extremely expensive and financing all of them without the debt increase is practically impossible. Combine it with almost no relevant plans how to improve economy and you have got quite a dangerous situation. You cannot just spend money without earning it.
Raising the standard of living and improving the purchasing power of the individual DOES improve the economy because it enables more people to spend more on foods and services. They are financed by raising taxes on the ultra wealthy and corporations. The money is already earned, the difference it whether it gets pocketed and horded by executives or recirculated into the economy by improving the standard of living of the populace
That’s not how modern monetary policy works, by the way. The US dollar has a ton of power worldwide for many reasons, so we determine what our money is worth, period. This is why every time the US government has spent money on “demand side” solutions (stimulus checks, etc.) they have provided nothing but upside.
This little trick that capitalists don’t want you to know about: it’s all bullshit. They want us to keep injecting cash into failing banks rather than just paying for people’s garbage mortgages.
We owe nothing to nobody because those debts will never be paid (who would they even be paid to?).
There is zero practical reason (beyond “oh no, billionaires and multinational corporations need to pay taxes wahhh”) that we cannot spend as much money as we like on every social program we like. Prove me wrong (or just read about “Modern Monetary Theory” as I’m not an economist).
It’s amazing all the credit we gave him for that snap election decision is being completely erased.
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).
Well it’s not like he deserved any of that credit in the first place 🤷
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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.
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?
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.
so it’s pretty much the same shit to me.
Jesus fucking Christ.
Time to break out a uniquely French solution?
Ask Robespierre how that works out in the end.
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.
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.
It’s sooo clickbaity - I didn’t even click because I knew how boring the actual story would be.
"Chaos in France"
Just… Can these people exercise any restraint when it comes to sensationalist headlines?
“Chaos in France” doesn’t really mean much either. As far as France is concerned that’s just a normal day.
They should add a new word then.
The president had hoped consultations would break the political deadlock caused by the election that left the Assemblée Nationale divided into three roughly equal blocks – left, centre and far right – none of which has a majority of seats.
So, in parliamentary systems – which, for these purposes, France is similar to – typically this is dealt with via multiple factions making concessions to each other and forming a coalition. Is that an option?
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France’s aversion to coalitions means any new government risks early collapse
In France, however, political leaders from left and right have lined up to rule out a coalition government after Sunday’s snap election produced a parliament of three roughly equal blocs – none with a majority, and all with wildly differing platforms.
Well.
What a macaroon…
Sacrebleu!
I know fuck all about French politics, but it seems strange that he doesn’t just appoint the candidate from the left. It sounds like it’s a fucked up non-functional situation, so he should just let them try to do the impossible and then fail. He’s probably worried that she might actually succeed and is holding out hope for some way to cobble together something as close as possible to the centrist coalition that shit the bed in the first place.
but it seems strange that he doesn’t just appoint the candidate from the left.
From which part of the left? The New Popular Front is actually an amalgamation of broad left wing coalition of various parties. So Macron had to pick from the far-left communist leader Jean Luc Melenchon, or from the centre left Socialist party led by Olivier Faure.
The French legislative assembly works very differently compared to US Congress or the parliamentary system. There isn’t really one, or two, or only five parties getting votes. The French system is much more pluralistic and it is more like a hodge podge of various parties forming a grand coalition that represents an ideology. Even the current French president Emmanuel Macron’s so-called “party”, Ensemble, is a coalition of centrist parties.
If you want to find out more about France’s current deadlock, here is a good succinct video explaining it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q5Q5nCCF5ck
Not a choice he had to make. The NFP parties agreed on a consensus candidate - Lucie Castets.
I didn’t know that, thanks for letting me know. However, it seems Lucie herself had previously rejected forming a coalition with Macron’s group according to the Wikipedia article.
That’s fair it was all the way in the article you’re commenting on
She’s literally in the thumbnail of this post. You didn’t even have to read the article, just the caption on the headlining picture. But thanks for telling us what you read on Wikipedia instead of reading the article you’re commenting on.
This is why headline wording can be so important. People will just project their own biased understanding and skip the details.
Oh Hamas rejected the ceasefire deal again…
Agreed. His excuse rings a little hollow. If there would be a no confidence vote, so be it. Give the left their PM, and if they get thrown out, then move forward with your compromise candidate.
If the candidate from the largest coalition can’t survive a no confidence vote then I don’t see how any other candidate would.
Usually its less about group membership and more about individual positions on individual issues. Usually anyway. You’d think there’d be at least someone from either the left or center that the other would find more amenable due to having a few things in common with the other one.
What a fucking shit stain…
What a fucking trace de pneu
If that’s what I think it is, we use “skid marks” as a euphemism in English too.
