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[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago (15 children)

I wonder if French social media users are seeing a constant stream of compelling content in their social media insisting that their central government is fucking up and doesn’t deserve their support.

I know next to nothing about French politics, but the odd alliance of the far-left and Le Pen’s government against the center, and the resulting catastrophic damage to their country’s ability to operate, struck me as a little bit reminiscent of some events that just recently happened on my side of the pond.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 weeks ago (10 children)

There is no alliance between the left and the far right. They're both individually planning to vote the non-confidence motion against the party that got its policy clearly voted against in the last legislative elections and yet is somehow still trying to maintain it, refusing to acknowledge its defeat. We've been stuck ever since, but life goes on.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 weeks ago (6 children)

as far-right leader Marine Le Pen is set to join a left-wing coalition to topple his government as soon as this week

It’s the first sentence of the article.

I’m sure that the center party got clearly voted against. I am saying that it’s interesting that the sensible people in the governments of the US, UK and France all have this massive popular uprising against them over the course of the few years of time, and have been toppled and replaced by no coherent policy preference in particular other than rejection, during a time when almost everyone gets their political news from social media which is massively compromised by opponents of their governments.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago

There are not sensible people in charge of government or life would not be getting worse for all of us.

There are greedy parasites in government.

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