When you know that capitalism can only be maintained by injecting massive amounts directly into big companies and banks, paradoxically applying the “econ 101” logic of “if a company fails, they weren’t good enough” is the anti-capitalist move. China is letting the private sector reach its inevitable end.

Least reckless Ukraine move

Looks like a cool anime character

Are there even small businesses there anymore? You guys look like everything belongs to a national level brand

Cmon Biden, force them to fully pivot to China!

A well trained middle schooler could “field foreign policy questions like this”

Imo it’s going to happen

I still have hope for a secret Stalin card in the new popular front’s hand that would play but honestly that would be an absolute miracle

Problem is, the Popular Front has a big chunck that belongs to the “Socialist Party” which traumatized everyone by winning the 2014 presidency and :

• Doing a right wing budget policy
• Doing a right wing worker’s rights policy
• Doing a right wing mass surveillance policy
• Naming the biggest Zionist in town as prime minister
• Naming literally Macron minister of the economy

You can imagine how thin the ice is for this alliance

Ah oui, dit comme ça je comprends mieux ton point vue

Maintenant que l’extrême droite en a fait un marche-pied, il vaut mieux qu’il se mette en retrait.

Honnêtement je pense qu’on a tendance à se faire gaslight avec l’idée que le but de la gauche c’est de prendre les voies de l’extrême droite. Les racistes vont voter pour le parti du racisme, et il y a plein de racistes en France. On devrait pas écouter ces gens

C’est ça la vrai question. Mais là dans l’article on se doute bien que sur les marchés de Picardie où visiblement ils ont tous votés RN c’est pas majoritairement des gens de gauche qui venaient se plaindre de lui à Ruffin

D’un côté, il y avait la force d’attraction du RN : en face de moi, le candidat, c’était Jordan Bardella. Pour bien des gens, Marine Le Pen et lui incarnent le changement. Et, de l’autre côté, une force de répulsion. Pendant trois semaines, nous avons porté notre croix, un sac à dos rempli de pierres, on s’est heurtés à un mur, à un nom : « Mélenchon, Mélenchon, Mélenchon. »

Donc le problème avec Mélenchon c’est que les racistes ne l’aiment pas? Quoiqu’on pense de lui ça me semble pas être la critique la plus pertinente à lui faire

Fact is, straight people are boring as fuck.

Well I’d prefer them to stay boring because straight pride would mean celebrating being the dominant, non-oppressed group which is a core facet of fascism

Notably, maximization of animal suffering is a key element to both.

It’s not literally that. Back when these methods were written down, they were thought as minimizing suffering because you had to make it quick. A non religious farmer who wouldn’t care could torture the animal for dozens of minutes by doing it carelessly while halal / kosher farmers would use proper methods

Now technology evolved so there’s debate to be had but the initial intent wasn’t cruelty, quite the contrary

Anti-X or Y country sentiment is a powerful tool to discredit the left. A lot of people are afraid to engage in Marxism because “it’s gonna be like the China which is bad”

Actually he only got further left by growing older. He learnt about Islamophobia, transphobia, anti-colonialism and integrated everything to his political line. He was at the big tent succdem party at some point and now his party is treated like an existential threat by the French bourgeoisie

Who is Beth and why they want me to dig them??

That’s true, we’re mostly big time opportunists on international matter. Let’s hope we at least keep it that way so we can pivot out of US influence.

The idea of changing the constitution is one of the things that gives credible hope. However I’m not totally confident in our ability to not be toppled like Gaddafi or Allende if that happens

So, what does this mean for future legislation in France?

The big question is whether or not Macron is going to uphold the tradition of naming a prime minister elected by the majority faction of the National Assembly. If he does so maybe France will have some social democracy as a treat and recognise the state of Palestine if we’re lucky.

He could also not give a fuck as far as I know, French president is a de-jure dictator in the fifth republic’s constitution.

He could also resign which would be… funny I guess?

Or the Presidential race once Macron’s term is up?

Too soon to know about that. Mélenchon could come back or not, if he doesn’t nobody knows who would run for LFI. The next mainstream neolib too is unknown. The only certain thing is that we have our Party For Racism that will probably be a threat as usual

Yeah sad AF

I respect Mélenchon mostly for being decent on China, Russia and Palestine, which is what’s most controversial about him. Strategically it makes sense to throw geopolitics under the bus so the pink imperialists would go along, but it’s sad nonetheless