@jonn sorry what ?
@julienmalka you have to cast protest vote against Le Pen. 🤷
It's not like people were like "yeah, de Gaule is the people's candidate". He was just a guy ready to stand against collaborationism with dictators, which, in modern France Le Pen represents.
I think that Macron has clearly demonstrated that when the war starts, he and his government will fight for the country.
Hence the parallel I draw between modern history of France and the current interesting situation.
@julienmalka tl;dr -- when the war is looming, comfort-policy don't matter.
Vote for those who will make sure you retain freedom.
@jonn IMHO your analysis is wrong on several aspects:
- If you care about foreign policy, war in europe, etc, this business is handled by the president, it’s in our constitution. So for this kind of matter this weekend’s election will have little impact;
- If you care about France not being ruled by a fascist government, you indeed have to vote against Le Pen. But Macron is about to become the 3rd political force in France.
Voting for the left coalition makes more sense as they only have the political force to stand against the far-right.
It is also the only way to ensure Macron is not going to do an alliance with the far right to continue governing France, as he already did several time during this term to pass anti-immigration laws.
@julienmalka oh shit, so like how do I fix the meme?! I honestly am worried about a simple thing: being on the opposing sides with Hungary, Slovakia and now France during wolrd war 3 haha.
@julienmalka basically the point I'm trying to make with the meme is that de Gaulle wasn't some sort of super-popular person who was making popular decisions, he was a person who stood up for France when France was struck down by nazis.
Similar thing is getting slow-rolled now across Europe and it can well be a repeat of a dictator who switched their country to war-time economy is attacking an underprepared Europe encouraged by American isolationism.
