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submitted 4 weeks ago by GFGJewbacca@lemm.ee to c/world@lemmy.world

"Emmanuel Macron, the French president, has announced that he is dissolving the national assembly, and calling for legislative elections on June 30 and July 7.

The French president said that he can’t pretend nothing has happened, that the outcome of the EU election is not good for his government and that the rise of nationalists is a danger for France and Europe."

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[-] exanime@lemmy.today 7 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago)

2008, the global financial crash, the subsequent shift of trillions of all the currencies towards the already-rich, then Covid hammering the final nail in the coffin of proving that governments care about the people only inasmuch as they provide value.

I get the frustration, but where is the evidence the far right would care an iota more about people? Specially during covid almost every far right government did worse, in terms of actual dead people, than any left one

[-] Redex68@lemmy.world 25 points 4 weeks ago

Sometimes people don't vote by logic. They see stuf going to shit, hear grand promises of how "we'll fix everything, the establishment is incompetent/evil", and hope they'll deliver.

[-] Omniraptor@lemm.ee 4 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

That's not the criteria, the criteria is whoever is the loudest in criticizing the status quo. And the far right is the loudest

The far right would make everyone poorer but wouldn't change the class structure, so they are allowed to exist while the left gets suppressed. See for example how many of the titans of industry in west germany who supported the Nazis got off scot free (or with much commuted sentences) and got to keep their assets. The system works :)

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