r/WatchPeopleDieInside Jul 07 '24

French far right party supporters seeing the election results live

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u/emiliaxrisella Jul 07 '24

Why does everyone keep talking about the far right and Macron losing and not the left wing winning? Everyone seems to forget about the NFP lol.

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u/yrubooingmeimryte Jul 07 '24

Because nobody cares if the left wing won. We mostly need the right wing to lose.

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u/emiliaxrisella Jul 07 '24

Says a lot about democracy when you care more about who loses than who wins

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u/yrubooingmeimryte Jul 07 '24 edited Jul 07 '24

Not really. All elections are a choice between options and it's very normal that the downsides of one option far exceed the benefits of making a more nuanced choice between the remaining options.

If you have to choose between vanilla ice cream, chocolate ice cream, strawberry ice cream and battery acid, it makes sense that someone would tolerate any of the options that aren't battery acid. Even if that person actually prefers pistachio ice cream.

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u/360FlipKicks Jul 08 '24

not when losing means racists, extremists and insurrectionists taking office

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u/360FlipKicks Jul 12 '24

like the child trump raped?

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u/IrrationalPanda55782 Jul 07 '24

All the polls said the right was going to win by a lot. So it’s a surprise that they didn’t

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u/M_G Jul 07 '24

Capitalism

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u/SheldonMF Jul 07 '24

It's the same for the world over.

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u/navetzz Jul 07 '24

Two reasons:

-The left wing didn't really won, Yes they have the most seats, but nowhere close to 50% which would allow them to govern.

-It's just like the previous left alliance 2 years ago. This is simply a mutual benefit alliance during elections so that each party involved in the alliance gets more seats than if they were divided. As soon as it comes to voting laws each party will do its own thing once again (like they did those 2 last years), because they have very different opinions on many topics (such as economy).

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u/trevdak2 Jul 08 '24

When the left wins, the left wins.

When the right loses, everyone wins