https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/frances-macron-weighs-barnier-option-drawn-out-search-prime-minister-2024-09-05/

  • Staines [they/them]
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    2 months ago

    Incredible, really. Why even pretend to be a democracy at that point.

    • HamManBad [he/him]
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      2 months ago

      They had elections, that's all democracy is. Actually doing what the people want is the biggest threat to democracy

      • porcupine@lemmygrad.ml
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        2 months ago

        excuse me, elections are not all democracy is! democracy is when US businesses have unrestricted access to capital, and elections without that are actually dictatorship.

        • HamManBad [he/him]
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          2 months ago

          Ackshualy that's called freedom, and sometimes you can even have freedom without democracy! (Pinochet emoji)

    • plinky [he/him]
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      2 months ago

      its democratic, they don't have power of 50+ percent shrug-outta-hecks

      angle of attack "its the norms" is only good for radicalization, just as leaving macron to work with rn will crush rn, as that will make them establishment (unless they decide to show some largess to become hitlers, but rn is just as much of neoliberal piggies as macron)