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Democratic country doing democratic things, you love to see it.
Incredible, really. Why even pretend to be a democracy at that point.
They had elections, that's all democracy is. Actually doing what the people want is the biggest threat to democracy
excuse me, elections are not all democracy is! democracy is when US businesses have unrestricted access to capital, and elections without that are actually dictatorship.
Ackshualy that's called freedom, and sometimes you can even have freedom without democracy! (Pinochet emoji)
its democratic, they don't have power of 50+ percent 
angle of attack "its the norms" is only good for radicalization, just as leaving macron to work with rn will crush rn, as that will make them establishment (unless they decide to show some largess to become hitlers, but rn is just as much of neoliberal piggies as macron)
And what do French citizens say about this? 💅
Do you think 4chan gets jealous that the left, one half of all political thought that has been dead and irrelevant for decades is still more feared by the establishment than fascism? Hell, porky is hiding behind 4chan's legs like a scared little kid.
Do you live in the imperial core? Have you been made to believe that left political thought has been dead and irrelevant for decades? Are you a victim of the Great Firewall protecting fragile westerner opinions from the conflicting views of a billion Chinese netizens?
You may be entitled to financial compensation.
I deserve my goddamn xi bucks
I get financial compensation just for believing communism is dead and doesn't work?
Hell yea, this is making me love capitalism even more
It is absolutely hilarious to me.
Though I don't think dead and irrelevant is quite the phrase to describe the situation. More like lying in a hospital bed after a brutal attack.
I'd compare leftism in the west to more like a dormant virus that occasionally shows symptoms, but is quickly and ruthlessly addressed because the host is a hypochondriac. And there's no vaccine or treatment of the underlying cause, because capitalism is the cause. I'm a very firm believer that leftist movements spring up then spread very rapidly, like a pathogen or something. The masses can "activate" within weeks sometimes. Movements that begin as maybe 100 people can suddenly explode into hundreds of thousands in just a year, or less. At one point the communist party of China had dwindled down to what, 20 people? And then around 15 years later they had seized the whole country.
I think Porky knows this, that the really scary stuff is uncontrolled widespread spontaneous discontent that coalesces into something more concentrated. That's why they're less afraid of fascists, because fascists will gladly play by the liberal rules.
Also yes I'm comparing myself to a virus
Capitalism is a virus, Leftism is the vaccine.
The patient is an anti-vaxxer that keeps winding up in the hospital after collapsing in public and then immediately punches the first doctor they see before checking themselves out of the ER and going to a homeopath that coughs in their face.
Isn’t there somebody you forgot to ask? 
without looking at the article:
something something unite
something something far left
something something europe
something something democracy
It's really funny seeing Macron completely backtrack on the one good thing he's ever done.
It wasn’t even supposed to be a good thing. All polling showed the far right winning in a landslide. Macron never wanted or anticipated a serious challenge from the left
So will socialists or rn fold to support porkies 
At this point I'm expecting a plain old copy-and-paste of 100-years-ago-Germany stuff.
Wow so surprising
Shocked
Liberals betraying every ideal they pretend to subscribe to for the sake of political convenience? Well I never.....
But muh vuvuzela we condemn undemocratic practices 🤪
We need to intervene and restore democracy and freedom!
I’ve been loosely following this but not really. Anyone have something to bring me up to speed?
The left wing coalition won the last parliamtary elections. They should get one of their own as PM. Macron has buckled every historical precedent and selected a guy from his own coalition.
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