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• Arcanepotato@crazypeople.online ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Yes, but if you understood the office of President I. France and the office Le Pen currently holds you’d realize how bizarre of a choice this comparison is.

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  • SwingingTheLamp@piefed.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    But she holds national office. Why don’t French people “do something” about it?

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    • Arcanepotato@crazypeople.online ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Do I know what a parliament is

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      • SwingingTheLamp@piefed.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        I do, it’s a legislative body comprised of elected representatives from geographic areas, often based on proportional representation. But that shouldn’t prevent the French people from doing something about right-wing populism, and Le Pen in particular, any more than the U.S. system prevents Americans from doing something about it.

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