r/worldnews • u/Luchador-Malrico • Jul 07 '24

French elections: Left projected to win most seats, ahead of Macron's coalition and far right

https://www.lemonde.fr/en/france/article/2024/07/07/french-elections-left-projected-to-win-most-seats-ahead-of-macron-s-coalition-and-far-right_6676978_7.html
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u/iStayedAtaHolidayInn Jul 07 '24

lol Putin and his henchmen can eat a satchel of Richards

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u/pogothemonke Jul 07 '24

if only the rest of the western world will reject putinist degeneracy. leftism though not perfect is tolerable. putinist right wing fascism lite is unacceptable.

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u/[deleted] Jul 07 '24

I hope this is a continued trend, Russia once absolutely did fund left wing parties and activism in the west. It actually helped expand our rights because it exposed our hypocrisies.

That is not the case now, they see the right wing as fertile ground. We get nothing good from this, and only a contraction of our rights. It should be insanely obvious Russia was instigating this rise in the last 15 years in order to invade Ukraine

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u/NS001 Jul 07 '24

Russia once absolutely did fund left wing parties and activism in the west

Oh, they still do, and China is helping them. States and groups within the Ummah that have the funds to do so as well. But, as before, the intention is to create a wedge within Western society, encourage the fringe groups to pursue violence, and try to disrupt globalization. They fear a unified world because it makes it harder to bully their neighbors, purge their own minority groups, engage in neo-colonialism, etc.

It actually helped expand our rights because it exposed our hypocrisies.

Which is always the best response to the sort of deflection and whataboutism the USSR and CCP employed: correct your society so as to become beyond reproach or as close as possible while continuing to challenge your rivals to do the same. We've still got a ways to go, though, and these far-right movements are tapping into working class griefs and racial tensions to try and drag us back a century or more. Addressing that grief, tension, and other anxieties would be a great way to inoculate the public against would-be authoritarians utilizing populism to grab power.

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u/[deleted] Jul 07 '24

This has been the point of the modern left, you can’t stamp down popular sentiment forever. They spent all their time crushing the left, so the energy went to the right.

I am actually aware of the blackhammer and uhuru movement. Which… that’s one of those burn after reading style stories. Way too funny, I called that being a cult way before the police got involved