Get out.

Care to elaborate?

bro really used a benjammins gif 😭😭

That's the exact same situation that made Marx say: "First as tragedy, then as farce".

Europe is stuck in a mid-1800s liberalism loop.

C'mon man, how could you forget about that time that all of Mexico rolled in on a bicycle to burn down the entirety of Los Angeles?

Let’s be real, we’re fairly certain the Portland thing was staffers feeding Trump vids of the Floyd riots and telling him it was happening now. The man is so demented and incompetent he wouldn’t know the difference. The Apple Store windows, for example, were boarded up then. Not so during the ICE protests.

Canadian here. Lived abroad for ages including London for 5 years. Go there 4 times a year still. He tries in vain to gaslight me saying london has been taken over by Islamic extremists because his social media says so. Sigh. Sure.

Paris is fine, just another protest against fascism creeping in again. The French know how to protest fairly effectively, if a bio violently. They are regulars.

What should get more attention was that citizens stormed the Bastille again... That didn't work out too well for the French leadership last time it happened.

What vote do you think you're talking about?

10 years ago, he was making (some) leftist promises (and right wing too yes), and the actual leftist party (which isn't much left anymore today) was tying the noose around its own neck and breaking its own legs after ruling for 5 years and sliding to the right. Things burned then too because of that (in fact, it was precisely because the leftist president increased retirement age to 64). So he won 10 years ago.

Then 5 years ago, he made sure to screw the left and push to set the far right as his opponent in the last election round. So he easily won that too because people don't want the far right.

There were regional votes too that were supposed to force him to get a left wing prime minister, but he just said nu-uh and kept pushing right.

Now things burn again.

Because this misses the third frame, where Macron responds "oops, we're completely out of money now because you refused to accept raised taxes and refused to accept reduced expenditures. So you will work until you die because there's no old age pension at all any more."

France is kind of screwed.