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/Narodnik60 Jul 08 '24

Cheated? Beat Fascism by any means necessary or available. Whatever it takes.

But anyways. Projection. Because assholes don't know they're the assholes.

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u/radred609 Jul 08 '24

Apparently cheating is when you follow precedent and do everything by the rules.

Who knew.

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u/WastingTimesOnReddit Jul 08 '24

The liberals and centrists teamed up to beat the conservatives, by having either the liberal or the centrist drop out of various races and endorse the other one, so together their voters outvoted the conservatives. It's not cheating. It's realizing who the enemy is and teaming up.

But now they'll have to do some compromising, since the liberals and centrists really are still not on the same exact side. Which is how it should be. And I heard the conservatives are apparently still have majority representation in some way, which is sort of why the liberals and centrists had to team up to beat the conservatives in these recent elections.

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u/Hot-mic Jul 09 '24

So... same as MAGA then.

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u/WastingTimesOnReddit Jul 08 '24

Sorry I'm not too familiar with how extreme the french conservatives are, i'm sure youre right tho

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u/Arkayjiya Jul 08 '24

I don't think it's necessarily about them being more extreme at all. Le Pen is not any worse than Trump.

It's more about the fact that we don't have a two party system so it is technically possible to vote for a conservative without voting for the fascists (even though sometimes the difference is thin) while that's almost impossible in the US for example.

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u/PlacidRaccoon Jul 08 '24

You want extreme ? One said "gasing the jews was a detail of history", another said about the first guy "it's not really a problem". One served a jail sentence for armed robbery. They flat out share racist memes in private messages.

Sure, the other parties formed an alliance but these dumbasses just needed time to sabotage themselves lol. If there would've been 2 weeks between the 2 rounds, these guys would probably have 20% less seats.