• bolexforsoup@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    4 months ago

    Le Pen is an ignorant bigot but she isn’t acting like Trump so I actually do think NR is figuring out its next electoral strategy/how to capitalize on its seats vs. plotting to overthrow a legitimate election and install a dictator.

    Make no mistake, the rise of right wing groups is a major problem in Western Europe and people need to be careful. But France is not on the brink like the US is. Le Pen is not Trump.

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      4 months ago

      I don’t know France policies but Trump isn’t the problem. The far right will continue to push us that direction if they have any amount of power. Once Trump is gone (hopefully) we need to keep voting every time. Never stop never stopping.

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        4 months ago

        I’m not saying Trump is the end all be all of the problem, but he is the central figure and clearly super on board with overthrowing the government. If if Le Pen plotting the same thing, then she and her co-conspirators are a lot quieter about it that’s for sure.

        I think it is reasonable to assume that everybody on Lemmy knows that Trump is not the only source of the issue. It gets tiresome seeing people repeat this over and over again. We all know there is a much larger issue here and every time somebody “informs people” that there is a larger issue, it’s a needless sidebar that isn’t meant to inform but to correct somebody on the Internet for the sake of correcting somebody and contributing.

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          4 months ago

          So we’re clear I was agreeing with you. I don’t agree it’s a needless sidebar though. There’s plenty of “trump bad”, and he is, but more importantly it’s “republican bad” and I’ll continue to repeat that until that party is dissolved.

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      4 months ago

      ignorant bigot

      Oily oil. Buttery butter. Watery water. They are synonyms. But ok.