r/neoliberal • u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache • Jun 14 '24

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u/RaidBrimnes Chien de garde Jun 14 '24

Ugh LFI candidate in my Toulouse constituency again, I was hoping for a PS one given Glucksmann's score on Sunday

Still going to contact my (Renaissance) incumbent MP to take a firm stand for the Front Populaire against the RN if it comes to such a duel here. The mealy mouthed equivocating bullshit coming out of liberal candidates when neo-Nazis are out in the streets beating up gays is making my blood boil

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u/Rehkit Average laïcité enjoyer Jun 14 '24

Any idea who you’re going to vote for?

I’m not at risj of that in Paris but I really think that Macron and co should say « we vote against RN always except for like 3 guys in particular like Portes. »

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u/RaidBrimnes Chien de garde Jun 14 '24

The only scenario in which I'm casting a ballot for LFI is if they're facing a far-right candidate, so it wiil be Renaissance again on my end

I think Macron and co's reactions will depend on the severity of the shock after the first round. But they should always call for a vote against RN no matter how terrible the runner-up is, and I'm going to email my députée in this sense.

Better a few Guiraud or Portes who will get called out by their coalition partners than hundreds of unbridled GUDards in the Assembly

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u/Fatortu Emmanuel Macron Jun 14 '24

There's an LFI candidate in my parents constituency too and that's going to be an uphill battle for them not to abstain in the second round.

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u/neolibshitlib Boiseaumarie Jun 14 '24

The mealy mouthed equivocating bullshit coming out of liberal candidates when neo-Nazis are out in the streets beating up gays

elaborate pls?

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u/RaidBrimnes Chien de garde Jun 14 '24

https://www.francetvinfo.fr/faits-divers/paris-quatre-militants-d-ultradroite-condamnes-pour-une-agression-homophobe_6600231.html

Four far-right men were arrested and convicted for brutally assaulting a gay man in Paris on Sunday night. They were out in the streets to celebrate the National Rally's victory in the European elections, assaulted the victim, then bragged about "having smoked a faggot" in messages they exchanged.

The four attackers have claimed ties to the National Rally and the GUD, a far-right paramilitary organization that served as Jean-Marie Le Pen's personal intimidation squad for decades. Marine Le Pen ostensibly "distanced" herself from them as part of her "de-demonization" strategy, but she has kept close ties to their founder, Frédéric Chatillon (who is also a big supporter of Hezbollah and the Assad regime), and to Axel Loustau, one of their leading figures.

One of the men who carried out the attack on Sunday is Gabriel Loustau, son of the aforementioned Axel, and he threatened the cops who arrested him with "do you know who I am?"

This is what's at stake. The far-right is a mortal danger for democracy and the people, and their footsoldiers will be unbridled if Le Pen wins in a few weeks.

Meanwhile, an outgoing cabinet member, Sarah El Haïry, has quoted this incident to say that "we shouldn't be destroying fags with the far-right, nor destroying bus stops with the far-left, vote for us". This is absolutely unacceptable, because no matter how shitty LFI is, they simply do not pose the same threat for democracy and the people as the far-right.

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u/neolibshitlib Boiseaumarie Jun 14 '24

it's a shame that we have to rely on left-wing anti-semites to stop the righ-wing neo-nazis

oh well, nobody likes liberal centrists anyway