Thank you I didn't know about that stuff
grandepequeno
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Gonna tell my friends that I called it since I predicted after the results that Macron was more likely to try extremely hard to peel of the right wing of the NFP (socialist party and greens) and the left wing of the Les Republicans rather than appoint an NFP government that made any attempt to actually carry out its program (which was unlikely anyway).
What's a tracking link?
Small 5.3 earthquake in central-south portugal today, I happened to catch it because I woke up at 5:10 to urinate, so far no big damages.
Last big destructive earthquake was an 8 in 1969 and historically everyone learns about the 1755 on in school and some people have kind of a prepper "the next big one is coming" mentality because of it.
Portugal? I felt it too, first time ever I felt an earthquake, and it was only because I woke up to go the bathroom at 5:11 and didn't fall back asleep fast enough
This is gonna be weird by I'd throw the dice and tell Lenin before he puts the revolution to a vote in the central comittee that Russia is going to be isolated AF once it revolts and Germany not only doesn't follow suit but it actually turns into the most reactionary regime ever. I assume the October revolution doesn't happen but the socialist challenge to capital is still there (and the bolsheviks would still be strong) so the 20th century might've gone a different way. This isn't the right thing to do as much is it's just a curiosity for me
Communist Party of Paraguay, which never held power
Never even got a single seat in an election, from what I'm seeing
About the DNC not allowing ANY palestinian on stage, like, you know AIPAC's maximalism is behind the decision because they COULD'VE just gotten a centrist or right-wing palestinian or arab democrat, who's totally loyal to the regime to be like "hamas doesn't represent me, we want peace but israel has to free the hostages first", obviously any self-respecting adult would see through it but that would've gotten a solid chunk of the woke identitarian left to ease off on kamala and given liberals a token palestinian to shield themselves behind.
But ANY palestinian is a no-go.
Imo the left (and the LFI) governing WITH macron is still the worst possible scenario, because they'll be tied to macron terrible policies and reaffirm that the far right is the only real opposition.
Honestly if the centrists from the NFP and from the right wing break off and go with macron it'd be better for the left overall
The whole "discourse" around this party's founding was that they'd take votes from conservatives in the east that used to vote for die linke but switched to the AfD so idk
Politico Europe: French left (Socialist Party) looks to UK Labour as a model for booting out Mélenchon
France’s centrist socialists are eyeing Britain’s experience of how to purge the hard left.
Get ready for some CHOICE QUOTES, people
“By turning the page on Corbyn, British Labour allowed itself to turn the page on right-wing populism. We’re going to do that here,” the French MEP told Le Point, comparing Mélenchon to former British left-wing leader Jeremy Corbyn, who opened up years of devastating rifts on the British left.
Mélenchon never ceased from escalating tensions within the already fragile pan-left coalition. Earlier this week, discomfort reached a new peak after Mélenchon called to impeach French President Emmanuel Macron. He has been a divisive on topics ranging from Ukraine to support for Palestinians.
As the traditional left kept losing ground, anti-establishment Mélenchon became unstoppable. The hard leftist, who wants to “disobey” EU treaties and admires former Venezuelan strongman Hugo Chávez, got over 20 percent of votes in the 2022 presidential election (10 times more than the Socialists) and became the líder máximo of the French left, with his party leading the left-wing coalition in the French parliament. Things started to look slightly brighter for the moderate left this summer, when the Socialists and Glucksmann scored better than Mélenchon’s France Unbowed at the European parliament election.
Mélenchon and Corbyn have much in common, noted Sébastien Maillard, a London-based advisor to the Jacques Delors Institute, citing “their opposition to economic liberalism, their strong support for Palestine and their ambiguity regarding Hamas, their accusations of anti-Semitism, their Euroskepticism.”
The moderate left would like to focus more on economic issues, job policies, and security, in a bid to bring the country together instead of fuelling divisions, Socialist Geoffroy said. “The labourists did it quietly, calmly. They finally broke with the more radical positions and it worked, people trusted them,”
Fucked situation, whoever "is seen as" breaking the coalition is going to get punished by voters for sure though
Holy molly. You gotta wonder how many of these failed "games-as-a-service" attempts are black spots on these companies balance sheet that they cover with profits from actually good single player games, and yet they keep trying