Obviously France never had any riots or revolutions before MySpace so this will solve things.
I am glad that there is so much opposition to this within the French government. Because:
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The French people have the means and the motivation to continue protesting, and this is going to piss them off.
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The authoritarian country I was born in regularly does this during protests but they also have almost full control of the media and telecomms . People, also, have limited choices of social media (because almost everyone uses a cell phone because the power regularly goes out, and some social media apps use a lot of data). A lot of times people donât know that theyâve been cut off until itâs already cut.
Iâm not saying he is authoritarian but the idea is authoritarian. Macron is clearly panicked, but this is the wildest, and most extreme reaction. Plus, once people get to know of this then they will just create groups on other platforms. This idea is very short sighted.
This is the point at which the left-wing in France needs to step the fuck up and convince the centrists that the best way to beat the Nazis is not to vote for Diet Nazi.
There needs to be an alternative to both Macron and Le Pen. I would love to see Macron forced to retire, though considering his authoritarian impulses, it seems unlikely without a vote of misconfidence from parliament.
Note that Iâm not super familiar with French political process, so Iâm not totally sure how thatâd need to play out.
Vote of misconfidence only gets rid of the government (PM and the other ministers), the president stays in place. Macron already theatened the parliament of dissolution (meaning everyone goes home and we do a parliament election) in case of succesful vite of misconfidence. It doesnât make it impossible but it makes it less likely.
I donât follow French politics too closely, but from everything Iâve seen, this guy is absolutely DESPISED by the people. Is he not worried about getting voted out or something? Why does he seem to want to stick his finger in the eyes of the French citizens?
According to the French Constitution, the President cannot serve more than 2 consecutive terms. Macron was elected in 2017 and relected in 2022 (against the far-right candidate) so he canât be candidate in 2027.
Before 2027, there wonât be any meaningful national election in France (European congress in 2024 and municipal elections in 2026).
Also, Macron hasnât the absolute majority at the French national assembly, but there are tools in the Constitution which allow the government to pass laws without a vote. And the opposition is not strong enough to dismiss the government.
Heâs playing the same game US democrats are, where itâs either him or a fascist.
If I was French and had to pick between Macronâs hand-picked successor and Le Pen, I would go insane. Vesting so much power in the presidency can only turn presidents into strongmen.
There is no reasonable rational analysis where Joe Biden is a fascist lol. Heâs a neoliberal and I think he sucks, and I truly wish for a different candidate for the Democratic Party. But there is no comparison there between him and the other guy. Not even the same stratosphere.
I think the worldâs nation-states are widely adopting the âlesser-evilâ faux-choice strategy these days. This is by design
Politics has been an exercise in finding compromise from day 1, thousands of years ago. Any, ANY, system of politics that could reasonably exist, will result in candidates that huge percentages of the country arenât happy about. Now, I would LOVE any ranked voting method for this country to minimize this effect. We definitely donât have an amazing system of politics. But âthis is by designâ is literally untrue unless you believe in some weird conspiracy thing. The US constitution is mega old, most of itâs failures are related to that, imo.
