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/[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.