Tankies, famous for their… opposition to genocide?

Famous for using real issues to push shitty accelerationist solutions.

Mood.

France has a slightly less shitty electoral system than e.g. UK, US, Canada, so a party with 30% was never going to win absolute power.

They were projected with 240-310 seats (out of 577) before the Centrists and Left agreed to cooperate. If things were a little more dysfunctional, it could very well have ended up very ugly.

The far-right won big in elections for the EU.

Macron called a snap election for the FRENCH legislature in the hopes of using "Far right is winning, SUPPORT THE NON-FAR-RIGHT" (implicitly, Macron's centrists) to renew his mandate to rule.

However, the far-right won big in the first round of elections, sending everyone into a panic, since they were projected to get close to or an actual majority in the French legislature.

Macron and the Left then agreed that in races where both of their candidates were competitive, the weaker of the candidates in each of the races would drop out to bolster the other, because as much as they hate each other, they hate the far-right more.

The French Left and Macron's centrists both agreed to drop out of competitive races and support each other's candidates. With that, many of the races that were previously considered to be in the far-right's favor changed to favor the left, no longer having to split the vote with the centrists.

Good news, finally.

This made my day.

"YOU GOTTA GET READY"

"I ain't gotta do SHIT before 6 AM you prick. MINUTEman not MORNINGman."

Again, not popular anymore at that point.

It was literally at the peak of the Bund's popularity - which is pretty damning for anyone claiming that they were popular.

To prove the point you seem to ba making, you’d need to find a quote that backs the notion they were never popular

So when someone claims that the Bund was popular, citing an event, and I cite the actual details of that same event showing that the accusation of popularity is highly dubious, the burden of proof is on me.

Is that what you're saying?

Op claims they were popular for a while and then not. You seem to take evidence from the “then not” part of the story and seemingly use it to prove they were never popular

I didn't realize "When the biggest event they ever manage to have is outnumbered by counterprotesters 5-1 maybe they just aren't that popular in the country" was such a huge leap of logic.

But his accounts of other episodes are bolstered by his contemporaneous notes, video footage and text messages exchanged by members of the unit and reviewed by The Times.

While Madison Square Garden had prepared itself for the presence of the German Bund, many around New York City considered the Nazi sect less welcome in their city. About 100,000 anti-Nazi protesters gathered around the arena in protest of the Bund, carrying signs stating "Smash Anti-Semitism" and "Drive the Nazis Out of New York".[6] A total of three attempts were made to break the arm-linking lines of police, the first of these, a group of World War One Veterans, wrapped in Stars and Stripes, were held off by police on mounted horseback, the next, a "burly man carrying an American flag" and finally, a Trotskyist group known as the Socialist Workers Party, who like those before, had their efforts halted by police.[4]

If you gather a crowd of 100,000 counter-protesters, several times larger than your own rally, not sure how 'popular' you are.

Well, you see, every atrocity committed by Stalin or Mao was justified and it's only CIA propaganda that makes you think otherwise. /s