PARIS — Against a backdrop of street protest—even in the midst of a COVID lockdown—and increasing police violence and repression, France Tuesday passed the draconian Global Security Law which could make it an offense punishable by a year in jail and a 45,000 euro fine to film, post, and identi...
Can be summed up in a few things : deleted a lot of taxes on the rich, did nothing but order the pigs to repress the yellow vests, didn't prosecute cop violence, didn't stop islamist attacks (and their fucking funding), folded when Turkey attacked the kurds (and when Armenia got whacked), signed several laws further attacking civil liberties, removed several organs for sect surveillance. That kind of things: it's pretty fucking bad, and I fear we're on the same path as Australia or the UK, aka a nominally """democratic""" country, but with a fully-fledged authoritarian state designed to protect capitalists and their interests.
Oh and that's not all he did. There's plenty more I'm forgetting, but that's not the point. The guy is the epitome of what neoliberalism is, any more authoritarian than that and you quickly go into Pinochet-style governance.
as far as five eyes are concerned, how bad are things in canada and nz?
Not a clue since I'm French, but a parody channel goes over all the bullshit in Australia, and there's a lot of it.