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SwingingTheLamp@piefed.zip 1 day ago
This criticism would hit so much harder if, say, the people of France would do something about the hard right, but, oh look, Marine Le Pen can run for president again? Sounds familiar.
roserose56@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
SwingingTheLamp@piefed.zip 1 day ago
Oh, prance around with some signs on a Saturday when they’re off work. So effective! /s
JustEnoughDucks@feddit.nl 13 hours ago
And this happened in the US too, except 5 million people, not thousands.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_Kings_protests
We here in the EU love to shit on Americans because they are stupid. We are just as fucking stupid or even stupider because we are repeating the exact same mistakes less than 2 years after America broadcasted theirs.
Here in the EU, literally exactly the same thing is happening. Corporate sponsored fascism. It is all in our Parliament and Comission at around 26% representation (chat control, fascist policies, even gaming holidays with racist tricks like “must be an overwhelming majority against to NOT pass, while everyone is on holiday”).
Italy is controlled by a fascist party, luckily the Dutch fascists just lost control because they did such a spectacularly bad job, Germany and Belgium fascists are reaching almost a quarter general support, Austria has fascists winning a plurality, Croatia, Czechia, Slovakia, all have fascists in the controlling governments.
France’s fascist party with Le Pen literally has more support in France that America’s MAGA fascists.
France is the only one doing anything as far as actual protests, and they are getting shit on by every country’s media the exact same, even the 90% identical talking points as how American media shit on BLM and No Kings protests.
Swemg@lemmy.world 1 day ago
It’s not people that could decide that unfortunately
SwingingTheLamp@piefed.zip 1 day ago
Sounds familiar.
jontree255@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Also, these protests are likely to contribute to her getting elected.
roserose56@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
jontree255@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Good. Let’s hope that France doesn’t fall for her shit like US did with Trump.
Societal unrest usuall does not bode well for the incumbent party.
Arcanepotato@crazypeople.online 1 day ago
What should they do about Le Pen? Protests the courts that overturned the ruling that restricted her from running for 5 years or simply not vote for her?
SwingingTheLamp@piefed.zip 1 day ago
We’re told to “do something” about our President constantly. Do that.
Arcanepotato@crazypeople.online 1 day ago
Do what? She’s not president?
SwingingTheLamp@piefed.zip 1 day ago
“Something.” Whatever it is we’re supposed to do, do it, so she doesn’t get elected.
LilB0kChoy@reddthat.com 1 day ago
I agree with your sentiment but knock it the fuck off. Those protesting in France and those protesting and fighting back how they can in the US are n the same team.
As are many people here and around the world. Let’s acknowledge and uplift each other when we’re all striving for the same goal. You can still call out people who are building themselves up by denigrating others but do it by behaving the same way.
SwingingTheLamp@piefed.zip 1 day ago
Yes, that is my point, too. Notice how the excuses start to fly when I apply the same (warranted) criticisms to other countries that so many non-Americans lob at the U.S. It doesn’t feel good, and doesn’t help anything, does it? Everybody should knock it off, and work together instead of basking in self-righteousness.
LilB0kChoy@reddthat.com 1 day ago
You mean when you engage in whataboutism?
Really shitty way to make it by feeding right back into it. Notice I didn’t have to do that to make the point?
I’m not from France. I just saw an American acting like an ass and decided, as an American as well, to call it out.
Nope, yet you fucking did it anyway?
How did you not drown in the irony typing this out?
SwingingTheLamp@piefed.zip 1 day ago
It didn’t take long for you turn into an ass, though, did it?
PlaidBaron@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I hear you but its hard when so many Americans are so resistant to any criticism in the first place. Its very hard to build solidarity with people who dont want to see what they might be doing wrong.
SwingingTheLamp@piefed.zip 1 day ago
Ditto.