Mod Post: Off-Topic Tuesday

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In the comments to these weekly posts (and only these posts), it's your chance to go as off topic as you like.

Talk about non-comics stuff, thread derail, and just generally chat among yourselves.

The intent of these posts is to chat and have some fun and, sure, vent a little as required. Reasoned debate is fine, as always, but if you have to ask if something is going over the line, think carefully before posting please.

Normal board rules about conduct and behaviour still apply, of course.

It's been suggested that, if discussing spoilers for recent media events, it might be advisable to consider using the rot13 method to prevent other members seeing spoilers in passing.

The world situation is the world situation. If you're following the news, you know it as much as I do, if you're not, then there are better sources than me.

If you're in the UK and not yet resistered to vote for the General Election, we actively encourage you to do so, to participate in the democratic process.

Doctor Who revealed it's season big bad guy, and it's a BIG bad guy, one we haven't seen for around forty nine years, and they got the original actor to return to voice him at the age of 91.

In light of the announcement of the new Watchmen animation, let's petition for the release of the original

Comments

[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.