The French government also recently proposed to force pornographic websites to ask their identity card or passport to french users before letting them access the content, to prevent minors from viewing it. Really stupid, ineffective and authoritarian. Children should not see pornographic content, but this won’t solve the problem. (the linked article is in french).
I don’t know what France is like these days, but as I see the US and my country flirting with conservative homophobic politicians, I absolutely refuse to tie the porn I browse to my government ID.
The far right is practically guaranteed to win the next presidential elections, a literal Nazi party has 90 MPs, moderate leftist politicians are being ostracized as “outside of the republican way”.
So, out of random reason, I read into Hitler’s wiki entry on Wikipedia. Basically, he had no skills or anything of merit. But, he had a strong way of wording through his speeches and pressing the right buttons of the people in the most opportunistic of times. That was all he had and he excelled in it.
The same exact practice is happening with people like Trump, people like DeSantis, people like Putin .etc
They’re getting as far as they are, because while they are seemingly preaching the choir, they’re using deceitful layers while doing so. Those layers being their own self-appeasing agendas.
Trump clearly is fascist (and so is Bolsonaro, for the sake of argument), but that’s just two samples. Whereas e.g. france got rid of that Napoleon dude (you know who I mean) in favor of Macron.
Using “Moderate leftist politicians” to depict Melenchon and its party is a very dubious take. And I won’t ho into the use of “nazi” for convenience, refardless of the truth of the matter.
No. You could reasonably argue that the LFI program is social-democrat, but their internal democracy is a joke, and JLM himself consider the Venezuelian political system to be a model while being remarkably tolerant of Russia’s imperialistic moves. This guy’s a crypto-tankie.
As for the RN, there are a fair number of fascists in the party (and nazis too, but that’s different), but they mostly seems there because there are no legal political formation further right. The voting base don’t particularly support them, and even the high management is annoyed by their presence/visibility… Even is their tolerance of it is far too much for my taste.
The French government also recently proposed to force pornographic websites to ask their identity card or passport to french users before letting them access the content, to prevent minors from viewing it. Really stupid, ineffective and authoritarian. Children should not see pornographic content, but this won’t solve the problem. (the linked article is in french).
I don’t know what France is like these days, but as I see the US and my country flirting with conservative homophobic politicians, I absolutely refuse to tie the porn I browse to my government ID.
The far right is practically guaranteed to win the next presidential elections, a literal Nazi party has 90 MPs, moderate leftist politicians are being ostracized as “outside of the republican way”.
So, not very well.
Geez! Why is this shit happening everywhere? It’s like fascists got a direct connection to a lot of people’s brains.
Billionaires buying newspapers and TV channels in order to propagate their ideas. They like fascism better than socialism.
So, out of random reason, I read into Hitler’s wiki entry on Wikipedia. Basically, he had no skills or anything of merit. But, he had a strong way of wording through his speeches and pressing the right buttons of the people in the most opportunistic of times. That was all he had and he excelled in it.
The same exact practice is happening with people like Trump, people like DeSantis, people like Putin .etc
They’re getting as far as they are, because while they are seemingly preaching the choir, they’re using deceitful layers while doing so. Those layers being their own self-appeasing agendas.
Hot, but probably not too hot take: Other factors aside, people got dumber due to covid. They got literal brain damage. So when a reasonably intelligent person would be able to tell fascism as insustainable, they wouldn’t after their second or so infection.
The timing is wrong. The pandemic happened, at least in part, because fascism was already here before it started.
Trump clearly is fascist (and so is Bolsonaro, for the sake of argument), but that’s just two samples. Whereas e.g. france got rid of that Napoleon dude (you know who I mean) in favor of Macron.
I was making a much more narrow argument that the pandemic might have been averted entirely if not for the specific Trump policy I linked.
Possibly. Hard to tell how much time that would have bought.
Using “Moderate leftist politicians” to depict Melenchon and its party is a very dubious take. And I won’t ho into the use of “nazi” for convenience, refardless of the truth of the matter.
Melenchon is a normal leftist, not far left. He is a social-democrat. I wish he was as extremist as the right wing says he is.
RN is definitely a Nazi party. It was founded by collaborators. They cannot erase their history, and they are still close to violent neo-Nazis groups.
No. You could reasonably argue that the LFI program is social-democrat, but their internal democracy is a joke, and JLM himself consider the Venezuelian political system to be a model while being remarkably tolerant of Russia’s imperialistic moves. This guy’s a crypto-tankie.
As for the RN, there are a fair number of fascists in the party (and nazis too, but that’s different), but they mostly seems there because there are no legal political formation further right. The voting base don’t particularly support them, and even the high management is annoyed by their presence/visibility… Even is their tolerance of it is far too much for my taste.
All this will do is make people change which site they go to for their masterbatory needs.
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