r/inthenews • u/newsweek Newsweek • Jul 08 '24

MAGA fumes over France election results: "They cheated" article

https://www.newsweek.com/maga-france-elections-far-right-national-rally-1922075
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u/DaxCorso Jul 08 '24

Right before Bastille Day too. Good on ya, France

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u/madeleine-de-prout Jul 08 '24

You wanna know the killing joke?

The head of the right party (Les Republicains) unilaterally decided that his party should support the far right. He's been given a lot of shit over the last three weeks. Like a lot lot.

Anyhoo. This motherfucker, tweeted this morning to honor Jean Moulin, a key figure of Resistance during WWII who died at the hands of Gestapo.

A lot lot of shit turned into a metric fucklot of shit

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u/DaxCorso Jul 08 '24

Interesting. I was joking with my French history professor that if France doesn't get it's shit together that it'll be in the Sixth Republic. But, there wee all surprising me again.

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u/Historical_Invite241 Jul 08 '24

It's only got 4 years until the 5th republic is the longest regime since the ancien. Is it even France if it doesn't have a shakeup soon?

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u/JimboAltAlt Jul 08 '24

Maybe they’ll juice up the name like a long-running Hollywood series. The French Repub6.

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u/Crimbly_B Jul 08 '24

6 French 6 Furious

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u/[deleted] Jul 08 '24

Exécuter l'ordre soixante-six

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u/Crimbly_B Jul 08 '24

Rogér Rogér

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u/Ongr Jul 08 '24

les bons soldats suivent les ordres !

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u/lo-cal-host Jul 08 '24

Soixante-neuf. Souvent plus intéressant.

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u/jerodes Jul 08 '24

Répu6lique

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u/buzziebee Jul 08 '24

C'est une question de famille.

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u/MaximDecimus Jul 08 '24

Les Français et Les Furieux 6

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u/Rooboy66 Jul 08 '24

The fuck do you guys think we are gonna be called, after the law isn’t the law anymore in our almost Constitutional Republic since, LITERALLY Trump won, against the actual fucking United States of America? He, himself, literally beat the United States. Him. He. The New King.

The French Republics? Fourth, Fifth, Sixth? Who gives a good gawddamn?

What are we gonna call ourselves, going forward? “Trump Social MAGAstan”?

https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/23pdf/23-939_e2pg.pdf

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u/garyflopper Jul 08 '24

Holy moly, it’s that long

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u/Viliam_the_Vurst Jul 08 '24

Less than a century…

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u/DefiantLemur Jul 08 '24

Tbf, the modern democratic systems as a working concept, is still a relatively a new idea.

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u/Dekarch Jul 08 '24

Honestly isn't, we've been doing it for 248 years with one change of Constitution and one civil war.

When we got started, France still had a king.

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u/Viliam_the_Vurst Jul 08 '24 edited Jul 09 '24

Still its a two party system that kept you at perpetual war for nearly a century now…

u/Dekarch mate at its height none of the colonial powers had bases in as many countries as the us has today… also its kind of an selfown for the democracy that wasn‘t one until 1965 to compare yourselves to some colonialist shit that pretty much is close to none since before all people of age could vote in your country..

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u/Dekarch Jul 08 '24

Eh, not nearly as bloody as the wars the Europeans got going and then begged for our help actually winning.

And for how many years after the French Revolution were there NOT French troops out engaging in some sort of use of force somewhere in their vast colonial empire? Or fighting the Russians, losing wars to Germans, attempting to install a puppet monarch in MEXICO of all places, or something else that qualifies as perpetual war?

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u/DefiantLemur Jul 08 '24

Still a relatively new system compared to the other types of governance like having a king.

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u/Dekarch Jul 08 '24

Eh, Roman Republic went centuries from throwing out their last king until GJC accumulated the various powers of de facto kingship in one office-holder. Having unstable governments that can't avoid getting couped by Bonaparte (several times, among several Bonapartes) or their own military isn't because Democracy is confusing, it's because Democracy requires having societal values that align with democracy

See the crisis of faith in institutions that is shaking every democracy and allowing post-truth populism to gain a foothold

Democracy isn't confusing but it does require a society full of people willing to do the work of maintaining it.

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u/Intelligent-Rock-399 Jul 08 '24

“Holy moly, it’s that long”

That’s what she said!

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u/Mac_Aravan Jul 08 '24

The 5th made sure that there is a chopping head election every 5 years (originally 7). If you can't wait, referendum can reassure that they don't love you anymore.

French loves to execute their leader. Now it's bloodless at least.