Mod Post: Off-Topic Tuesday

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Comments

[onsokumaru]

Apparently Max is now available in France and it doesn't even have Stargirl nor Doom Patrol. What's the point then? I have no idea where to watch live action DC series anymore and I won't waste my time searching for "other" means than official streaming channels.
But I don't care anymore. Why? Because french Netflix added the 3d season of Young Justice. I'm only two episodes in and my mood is "you can keep your live action stuff, all I need is right here!)


France is definitely heading toward a far right government.
Some people still have hope for the "left" wing aliance, but it's already imploding (oh no, totally didn't see that coming)

We're going to hell, but at least in an entertaining way.
Since Macron the First (and hopefully the Last) set fire to the powder barrel:

*Eric Ciotti, president of the Republicains (right wing, almost far right but not totally) joined the totally far right movement. Republicains fired him, but he didn't accept it and he entrenched himself into the party' s HQ.

*Zemmour (leader of Reconquete, the far far right movement that is even worse than the traditional far right movement) was betrated by his partner, Marion Le Pen, who joined the traditional far right movement, RN (led by her aunt Marine and by Jordan Bardella, who married a Le Pen).
RN is basically a huge scam created by Jean-Marie Le Pen and his nazi pals (and I mean litteral nazis, not "you disagree with me" nazis). Its goal is to make the Le Pen family rich by using racism, conservatism and anti-immigration stance.

*LFI (the problematic party of the left alliance) is imploding. They did some old school stalinian purges against the executives who at some point opposed Jean-Luc Mélenchon, the Leader Maximo. They also appointed some antisemitic members as candidates for the elections.
At least, when the left will inevitably lose once again, they won't just blame the communist and socialist traitors and the medias. This time, they will also blame the "traitors" from the inside. Anything but questioning themselves, their ideas and their methods.

Ex-president François Hollande, who is one of the main culprits for allowing Macron to become president, is making a come back. A pyromaniac dressed as a fireman.

We also got a neo-nazi demo in the street, as well as an anti-far-right demo featuring an antisemitic anti-white group.

Meanwhile, Renaissance (right wing, pro rich, pro corruption, presidential party) is just pointing fingers left and right and hoping the others suck so much that everybody will forgett how they spent 7 years destroying the country.
Macron is litterally the disaster girl from the meme.

And the Olympic disaster is not even here yet!

[lego_joker]

I'm curious, has France *ever* been led by a genuinely not-right wing government? The way you guys describe it it really feels like the UK, where every government is just varying shades of conservative bigot.

[onsokumaru]

I guess it depends on where people are positionning themselves.
From a very left POW, I guess the answer may be no, but the fact is there has been several socialist governments over the time. Yes, they were not perfect, they betrayed some promises, but they still had mostly left politics.

The last socialist government "on the paper", was when François Hollande was president, from 2012 to 2017. But my personnal bias makes it hard for me to acknowledge that as left wing. They were more center-liberal IMO, and they gave the keys of the country to Macron, who is a right wing liberal.

Overall the french society is leaning more and more toward the right.
The center is now more right-leaning, the socialists are more a center or center-left party, the communists are more like socialists.
The electors are voting more and more to the right too. The left, especially, has lost a huge part of the working class votes to the far right.

[zachbeacon]

That's a shame. I've always admired the French left's ability to recalibrate things when the government went too far right.

Anyone protesting injustice here just gets painted as the enemy by both parties.