Popular front? People’s front? What are we in - a python sketch?
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But spending ridiculous amounts on nuclear power generation is all good, and opposition to it is childish, according to one of the biggest dipshits on Sky, Rowan Dean.
And Bolt reckons the vote in England is a sure precursor to revolution. Well, let’s get the tunmbrils rolling with the talking heads on Sky first up the steps.
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it’s certainly not the way i’d describe it, but i definitely agree with you
call it “linguistic activism” maybe. we’re going to make sure everyone says the “correct” things rather than make material improvements for the disadvantaged
disability advocates go on about this all the time
access ramps for wheelchairs/walkers in building entrances = material improvement
insisting on language change from “disabled person” to “person with a disability” = does nothing for those affected, and annoys those who aren’t
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When a friend on NDIS asked me for help in explaining the letter advising that she had been assessed as level 2 assistive technology ( she needed a special wheelchair which she could access at a price defined by the Assessor).
Then, there’s ‘accessible design’ which means better packaging.
Terminology invented by the providers that can be inexplicable for the users, for which the programs exist.
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While Le Pen presented RN as more moderate, a lot of its candidates were out and out racists, neo Nazis. At least 50 of them were defeated in the run off.
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But thirty of them were elected, the Trump effect.
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Two questions…
Who’s the blonde crying?
Are the Ensemble Alliance pretty much centrist? or centre-left?
The blonde is Le Pen I think, the leader of the far right.
Ensemble Alliance are Macron’s grouping, the current government. I think they claim to be centre-left, though the fact that a full third of the population voted for parties further left than them might imply they emphasise the ‘centre’ bit of that.
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I thought it might be Le Pen. So what’s the context? Crying because she lost?
Elon (and Putin’s) mate, David Sacks aint happy.
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Not just the elite and the dirty left, but worse, some who aren’t afraid to call themselves Communists combined ( 9-10 seats) to put RN third, not even second!
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The left and the center allied to keep the right out of power, at the expense of their own positions. Each race dropped back to a single opponent to the right, to avoid splitting the vote. That worked for the last man standing, but a selfish politician would be resistant to stepping down. It was an extremely negative approach and will not work consistently in the future.
Extremely negative, faced with the prospect of the extreme right taking power?
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As in not a constructive strategy. It’s like all the players are playing a hard tag instead of being play makers.
Yeah from a few years back. Never gets old.
What might work in a preferential voting system ……
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Reckon you are reading this wrong.
Really good strategy to collaborate to defeat a common enemy. Policy of Macron’s group and Leftist parties are not that far apart, actually like most of ALP and Greens policy. They worked cleverly together to win seat by seat. Preferential voting makes a difference here, but reckon those Centre and Left froggies did a good job.
Oh they 100% definitely did a good job. The concern from the coverage I’ve read is this isn’t a sustainable way to hold back the far right over the long term. If one party drops the ball on the blocking alliance, then the dam wall breaks.
One of the reasons that the far right has advanced of late is that Macron allied the left and the center together into one block. That meant that if you didn’t like the status quo, you had no option for a protest vote other than the right. By everyone standing against the right, the right became the only opposition.
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Except it is not a Westminster system, and the President has far reaching powers including appointing the Prime Minister.
While there is a Government it is not actually a Party and while there is Opposition, there is generally no Shadow Ministers.
The rules under which it operates are more like US but are still very different.
As long as Macron stays in power and his group can form Government the right will fade away.