… wtf is going on over there… What kind of douchebags did you guys elect? I mean, I’m American, I know I can’t throw stones here, but y’alls were better than that. You like, wisely stood against our 9/11 invasion and we probably should’ve listened.
But, wtf?
btw, if anyone was too lazy to dig, this publication is a nigerian newspaper that actually seems legit. Founded in 2020, so pretty new still. Looking at their front page they mostly just do local reporting. Has had run-ins with local power.
We elected him as the “last rempart to the extreme right”. Turns out he and his cronies are corrupted authoritarian fucks. Their shit social and economic policies are opening a highway to the actual far right in the near future, most likely 2027.
More like shitty electoral system that facilitates the choice of a lesser evil instead of the choice for the best candidate.
The last election was a shitshow.
As usual, the younger generation didn’t bother voting, and the older one voted en masse for conservative candidates because they are those our media push for, while at the same time slandering progressive ones.
In the election runoff, we had the choice between an openly fascist candidate from a party literally founded by former Nazis, and a “light fascist” one that people were seeing as the lesser evil. Though it’s pretty obvious now that his fascism isn’t so light (he openly admires Petain, a french leader who collaborated with Nazi Germany), and I hope people will remember that for the next election and understand that voting for a democratic candidate in the first turn if very important.
Weird how this sounds alot like what’s happening in the US. Almost like fascism is encroaching all acrost the world as it crumbles.
Yeah, it’s happening all over western liberal democracies. Inflation is going crazy and wealth inequalities are growing at an alarming rate. Because of that, people in power are afraid of a popular uprising, and they would rather see fascists rise to power and protect capitalism, than an economical shift to the left and lose some of their wealth.
It happened many times before. The more commonly known examples being:
- Prominent industrialists and agricultural landowners providing financial support to Mussolini’s party because they feared the rise of socialism, and saw in him a means to counter it.
- German industrialists who were fearful of the rise of the Communist Party and provided financial support to the Nazi party.
- Spanish landowners and businessmen who were alarmed by the social and economic reforms of the Second Spanish Republic and supported Franco’s rise to power.
History tends to repeat itself.
Recently I read it’s actually worse in Europe, because the far-right has noticeable youth support, unlike here where it’s proportional to age.
That makes me very, very nervous.
As far as I know in the Global South we have a wave of left wing governments, maybe you forgot white people is not the world.
If people get out and fucking vote like it’s your last chance, we can get some sanity.
You know that America just… does this, right? No bill, no law… In fact it was the first to do this at all. It’s why in crime shows they remove the battery (from phone where you still can, of course.)
It is not legal for police to spy on citizens via their phone cameras in the US…
The movie citizen four did an excellent job detailing different ways a government (in this case the united states) can do this.
It would require a warrant signed by a judge with probable cause.
Wiretap warrants aren’t easy.
Wouldn’t this breach multiple EU privacy laws?
This will definitely not be misused by anyone in the government. How on the earth did such blatantly dystopian law get passed?
Except that not really, France could easily have another revolution when things like this happen. NATO doesn’t want any revolutions because the workers would have more power, they want corporation to hold power and wealth, as they can be controlled and sanctioned more easily.
How to make your country burn faster 101
It’s almost like Macron wants to be decapitated.
