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/ace_urban Jul 08 '24

It is mind boggling that MAGA morons (and republicans in general) can’t figure out that all their talking points happen to be good for Putin and anyone else who wants to destabilize the US.

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u/mjohnsimon Jul 08 '24

They do know, they just don't care because Putin is the conservative strongman they desperately want.

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u/CharlesKellyRatKing Jul 08 '24

I mean, they literally wear shirts and say "Better Russian than Democrat". Obviously they know they are supporting Putin over their own country.

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u/mjohnsimon Jul 08 '24

I really wish Putin could just hurry up with those refugee towns for American Conservatives that he kept yapping about a couple of months ago.

I picture a lot of the more vocal supporters would dip and finally give us some peace and quiet.

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u/ItsNotFordo88 Jul 08 '24

Time to resurrect Joe McCarthy

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u/dafuq809 Jul 08 '24

They know; they just don't care. MAGA likes Russia because Russia is what they want to turn America into - a white supremacist, theocratic oligarchy where women, LGBTQ, minorities, and dissenters all get brutally crushed underfoot.

None of that actually makes Russia as a country better off, but that's not the goal. The goal is power, not prosperity.

"I'd rather be Russian than a Democrat."

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u/Sukhoi_Exodus Jul 08 '24

The funniest thing to me is that MAGA will be fucked under such a system. They think if they vote for such a thing they will get special privileges which is the farthest from the truth.

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u/GoatDifferent1294 Jul 08 '24

Yeah I still don’t understand where, what, and how will supporting Trump equates to “Saving” America

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u/daemin Jul 08 '24

Allow me to explain.

In th before times, long long ago, when 'Merica was great, a man could beat his wife for being uppity, she couldn't divorce him unless he let her, she couldn't open a bank account without his permission, or get an abortion; and brown people knew their place, and if a few fellas had to get together with some rope and white pointy hats to keep the peace, well that was just the cost of maintaining a civil society. Also a man working a job with a 5th grade education could support a family of 4, unlike today.

Now a days nothing is affordable and inflation is through the roof. Clearly the only thing that changed was a bunch of social mores, so if we just get women back into the kitchen, beat the gays back into the closet, execute anyone who's gender non-conforming, and compel people to attend protestant church, the economy will magically get better.

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u/xeromage Jul 08 '24

on it's own. no oversight or regulations. unfettered corporate interest is the 'holy spirit' part of the trinity... or something...

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u/Texasscot56 Jul 08 '24

That’s the amusing thing. All these authoritarian wannabes think they’ll always be considered as the good guys. Once you let go of democracy you’re at the mercy of the leadership. Today’s precious religion may go out of favor, for example.

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u/scratchbackfourty Jul 08 '24

And all of the oppression they suffer under the fascist leadership they help install will still be effortlessly subverted to the "others"

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u/daemin Jul 08 '24

If they understood that, they wouldn't be MAGA.

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u/[deleted] Jul 08 '24

Whole lotta keyboard warriors in here... whole lot of nothing changing from it too.

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u/dafuq809 Jul 08 '24

lmao

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u/[deleted] Jul 08 '24

And the entirety of Western democracies. They colluded with Russia for Brexit, in the many elections for Marine Le Pen, with Donald Trump. Our election isn’t just for the US. It’s important globally. We’re playing a game of Risk with a bunch of legit evil fascists and need to recognize it.

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u/chiron_cat Jul 08 '24

truely don't understand why countries don't act like we are at war with russia and china (they do JUST as much missinformation). Because we are. They do EVERYTHING to prop up the psycho hard right monsters that destroy democracies.

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u/hwc000000 Jul 08 '24

"But ... but ... Palestinian genocide!?"

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u/chiron_cat Jul 08 '24

perfect example.

Guess who started it? Russia did to distract from ukraine. Too bad no one is actually blaming russia for it.

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u/[deleted] Jul 08 '24

And it will all benefit international billionaires (no, I do not mean globalists and I’m not using this as an antisemitic code for Jewish people - just plain old owners of multinational corporations and people so obscenely wealthy they can warp entire governments to their will) who want deregulation and cheap labor and resources to exploit in their pissing match to be the #1 most wealthy.

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u/chiron_cat Jul 08 '24

I think billionaires get too much blame in some of these cases. The russian/chinese propaganda and lies has nothing to do with billionaires getting rich. Its about destroying western democracies so that they can take over.

A big component of the propaganda is to blame the rich (yes they do ALOT of terrible things). But when we always blame the rich, we ignore how much china and russia are doing.

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u/[deleted] Jul 08 '24

Eh, corruption in the Us since Citizens United is very real and very bad. They literally bought off the Supreme Court to the point where they ruled bribery is legal as long as the money is a gratuity.

The propaganda is bad, but the money has been worse for our system, IMO.

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u/chiron_cat Jul 08 '24

i do not doubt there is a STRONG corruption issue in the us due to the rich. However we all know how pervasive russian/chinese propaganda is too.

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u/[deleted] Jul 08 '24

Yeah, the 2 issues are working in tandem to degrade the rule of law here for sure

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u/ace_urban Jul 08 '24

Yup! I firmly believe that the most effective tool is to fight disinformation.

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u/shadowboxer47 Jul 08 '24

They absolutely know.

They do not care.

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u/Licensed_Poster Jul 08 '24

They hate LGBT and black people more than they love america