France Is Headed Towards Its Most Feral Right-Wing Regime Since the Nazis
Violence is in the air as Marine Le Pen’s National Rally threatens to win national elections, which the president says could spark “civil war.”
There is one and only one way to deal with Nazis
Carnegie Hall here we come
I archived this cancerous bloated paywalled shit show of a website just on principle
Why is so much of the internet terrible now fml
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.
[Deep breath in.........]
Wealthy men that are perpetually insecure in life because their fathers didn't show them any outward affection when they were children are blindly and joylessly driven to increase a bank balance that they couldn't meaningfully decrease in a thousand lifetimes in the hope that it will make their fathers ghosts smile and pat them on the head (ghosts who don't even put out the effort to haunt their children anyways)
I'm dizzy, what just happened?
I asked chatgpt & it said this: " The internet can feel overwhelming or negative at times due to various factors like misinformation, toxicity in online communities, and the sheer volume of content. It's important to curate your online experience by choosing reliable sources and engaging in positive communities that align with your interests and values. Taking breaks from the internet or limiting exposure to certain types of content can also help maintain a healthier online experience. Don't share sensitive info. Chats may be reviewed and used to train our models. Learn more ChatGPT can make mistakes. Check important info. " I think that a better answer might have something to do with commercial interests.
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.
It's foxes all the way down. Just a question whether Russians or Americans get their slice.
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.
That’s the problem. When the tech bros have more money than a king, who’s to stop them?
It's also the fault of neoliberal governments around the world for actively looking down on middle class people for not caring as much about the climate, refugees and other matters that you can care about when you actually have enough money to have the time to care about those things.
...the French, in principle, rarely distinguish between fact and impression.
The author comes out swinging and still manages to bore quickly.
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.
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.
We still have hope this week end for the Nouveau Front Populaire, the left wing alliance. There might still be a chance
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.
What's (not) funny is that the French far right is just slightly to the left of the US Republicans.
Well, populist proto fachos so...
I feel sorry for migrants in general, they are their primary target
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.
For now...
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.
A search returns this article alone. Bizarre. Is he trying to make this happen??
ChatGPT had a fever dream again
How is it France falling to this? Don't they riot every other month about government bullshit?
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.
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
Ooohh. Yeah that's stuff I couldn't have had a clue about.
authoritarians grow stronger every day. God help us all
If people rely on their imaginary friend, we're so fucked...
It’s a figure of speech. No need to get your knickers in a twist.
What are the reasons for this? I'm out of the france loop
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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.
Right, I see your point. I also wonder sometimes if the excess of social media consumption and the battle to gobble more eye balls has somehow influenced people making them more susceptible to manipulation via charisma and populist opinions, I'm not sure how different it is nowadays than a couple of decades back. I might be wrong about this anyways
If you cant handle a democratic election not going your way, maybe you dont belong in politics.
And maybe you shouldve curbed immigration instead of making it a wedge issue, and only having the far right party be for curbing it. Just a thought
Whipping up fear about brown immigrants is what the right does when there is no wedge issue.
I thought that was a Mexican border only thing, turns out European leaders do the same shitty fear monger
I guarantee every coastie wants to rescue live folks, color doesn’t matter in the sea. It’s the politicians saying no to human lives
Pretty easy to do after 9/11, Nice, Vienna(2021), Dresden(2021), the list goes on. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islamic_terrorism_in_Europe
When multiple groups have declared Jihad against the west, a little more caution should be exercised.
Remember, immigrating is not a right.