cross-posted from: https://jlai.lu/post/8269177
Are you allowed to leap across the finish line like that?
Edit: guess so?
this post was submitted on 03 Jul 2024
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If only the American public responded like the French public when fascists try to seize power.
By voting them in?
For real, the French Resistance is estimated at like 3% of their people lol
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We’re corn-fed financial cattle, we can work sleep and handle a dozen crises at once individually; yet we’re unable to see that we share objectives because of team politics and exclusionary grouping. A lack of solidarity because it’s not allowed.
Italy too!
Good point. But given that it’s Italy, maybe they already finished.
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what did France recently do to leap ahead?
Whatever it was, the US Supreme Court deciding that presidents are immune from prosecution beats it by a very, very long shot.
Marie Le Pew’s far-right party is gathering more followers for ? reasons?
Marie Le Pew sounds way too nice for that POS
It’s Marine Le Pen, and her goon Jordan Bardella (who has Algerian origins from his grandmother but ignores that completely and prefers talking about his Italian origins from his grandfather)
Yes, right. That.
The reason being that a single fascist billionaire owns several TV channels, radio stations and newspapers.
Hey - Hey, I’ve seen this one!
Le Penis party didn't achieve anything yet.
Macron's party is pulling out of races to give the socialists a better chance of cutting off the nazis.
It could work. We will see.
Don't give them too much credit, everyone's doing it and they were the last to do so too.
Don’t give Macron too much credit here.
He’s the one to blame for the far right’s victory with his same-same language, has he pushed the discourse that the left party is in fact a dangerous antisemitic far left party.
The left party was the first to pull out of races to let macron’s representatives win against the far right, even though it would cost them much more.
Macron is an absolute POS.
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People think that Macrons gambit was a mistake.
They're wrong, but its what they think.
Why are the UK on here, were about to vote in a left wing party.
Because this is a meme. It doesn't have to make sense or be rooted in reality. Just 😂.
Everyone's scared of Reform UK I guess. Forgetting how FPTP will fuck them in the same way it usually fucks the Greens and the Lib-Dems.
were about to vote in a left wing party
Bahahahahahahaha, omg I needed a good laugh this evening., thanks..
Guy literally purged every halfway leftist in the fucking party, and has spent his entire time as leader, and is aiming his entire election campaign on, pleasing capitalists and maintain the status quo. The man doesn't have a left leaning bone in his spineless self serving body.
Dude literally promised to continue tory policies. He's a fucking Tory in a labour suit.
Yup, but people don't want to hear it, they want to pat themselves on the back for "doing their part" and move on with their lives without ever having to stop to consider what they're actually endorsing and what part they are playing in this charade designed to keep us forever subservient to the owning class.
Eh, still better than the Tories. Supermajority begins the process of dragging the overton window back left, which I'm all for
Supermajority begins the process of dragging the overton window back left
Literally the opposite.
Normalising the current Labour party as anything even remotely left, which it isn't in any way shape or form, shifts the window to the right by removing actual left from the map altogether. That's the whole point of Starmer - to regain back ground for the right after what Corbyn awoke in the party and country.
We are getting a Tory whoever wins, they just wear different coloured ties.
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Starmer's Labour is about as left wing as the US Democrats are; by comparison only.
Nope. Both murican dems and cons are further right than Reform in the UK.
I mean, he really isn't. He's far to the left of them.
as i understood he has no intention of reversing the institutional damage from the Tories so he’s effectively supporting those anti welfare policies
He's pledged to set up a nationalised green energy company, increase funding to the NHS, and build 300,000 new homes per year. That seems a fairly decent start.
Issue is the Tories have tanked the economy and cut taxes, so Starmer's got fuck all money without raising taxes (unpopular, even though I think it's the right thing to do). Post election and with a massive amount of political capital to spend, I think we will see tax rises on those that can afford it, to help fix some of the damage.
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Not counting chickens until they're hatched, I guess?
Tbh the question is just how big a majority labour get, and whether the Tories will even be the second biggest party.
Nigel Frog Face Farage's far right Reform UK do look like they might get up to maybe 15%-20% of vote however. But thanks to our very unrepresentative FPTP system they're looking to get 0.15% to 0.31% of the members of parliament. In short they're facing the same issues that have held down the left in the UK for years.
Don't worry, you are still in the running, it's just a temporary setback.
it’s just a temporary setback.
Barely even that, the man is the establishment, and has proven time and time again that he isn't interested in the working class and other marginalised people. If anything, he's there to keep things the same so that in the next cycle of this sham theatre the Tories can point to the lack of improvement as Labour failing and get right back in to power again.
The system is designed to self preserve, this isn't a bug, it's a feature, and as long as people keep playing along and pinning their hopes on the establishment reforming itself, we're going to continue our rapid descent in to full blown fascism.
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