Two months after snap parliamentary elections that threw France into political turmoil, tens of thousands of left-wing demonstrators rallied in central Paris on Saturday in protest at French President…
    • bitflag@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      2 months ago

      Macron can’t run for another term so he doesn’t really care about his future electoral chances.

      • TheGrandNagus@lemmy.worldEnglish
        29·
        2 months ago

        They absolutely could. Macron is a total POS, but it’s not like history has never seen a worse political figure lol

        • SoylentBlakeEnglish
          46·
          2 months ago

          Just sells out the workers to corporations.

          What’s the difference? Living under heel or living under foot? Seems the same to me.

          • Avid Amoeba@lemmy.caEnglish
            21·
            2 months ago

            Workers have little hope of removing a foreign heel over them. A domestic foot on the other hand is much easier to break.

            • BearOfaTimeEnglish
              2·
              2 months ago

              And Macron is a globalist, so pretty hard to remove that heel.

              • SoylentBlakeEnglish
                11·
                2 months ago

                We should call him Macroni, a la crony capitalism and it sounds as stupid as his face looks.

        • federal reverse@feddit.orgMEnglish
          2·
          2 months ago

          I removed your comment for misinformation. You were equating the effect of centrists with that of right-wing extremists.

          [Fwiw, I added a 3-day ban for the bunch-of-children comments.]