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The right-wing candidate who said "stop the war on cars" was defeated.

The leftist who said "My goal is to make sure Grégoire loses" was defeated

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[–] 71 points 7 months ago (1 child)

HOORAY! (Not a Frenchman, just someone who likes alternatives to cars anywhere)

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  • [–] 59 points 7 months ago (4 children)

    My take is that billionaires and large companies don't put as much money (proportionally) in municipal elections as they do in country elections. When real people vote, you get Gregoire or Mamdani.

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  • [–] 10 points 7 months ago (2 children)

    It's wayyyy too close either way.

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  • [–] 40 points 7 months ago* (8 children)

    Oooh yeah París about to get quadruple pedestrianized. Bravo París, j'en suis fière

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  • [–] 14 points 7 months ago* (6 children)

    Haha vous avez raison, salut d'Ontario

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  • [–] 9 points 7 months ago (5 children)

    Hi from Georgia!

    (LOL, bet you thought I was from Montreal or something, didn't you? I've been learning French because I want to be in places that speak it, not because I'm from a place that speaks it.)

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  • [–] 15 points 7 months ago (2 children)

    Does anybody know if the 38.5% who abstained were people who went to the polls and checked a box to abstain, or if they're just counting the number of eligible voters vs. the number of votes cast?

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  • [–] 14 points 7 months ago (4 children)

    Having seen traffic in Paris, I'd say it's already anti-car.

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  • [–] 5 points 7 months ago*

    I think I read that the pro-car candidate in second place there was wanting to change that. Edit: Oh, or do you mean that there's still too much cars around that they all get stuck in traffic? Yeah I can imagine.

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  • [–] 2 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    not anti-car, but pro-humans.

    carbrainers like to shout that you need stroads everywhere and to kick kids from bikes

    but, if you want fewer traffic jams, a calmer driving experience, you NEED high-quality public transit, separated bicycle lanes, etc. everywhere.

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  • [–] 9 points 7 months ago (4 children)

    Wasn't Hidalgo super pro bike and peds? Was there a term limit or did she lose election to him?

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  • [–] 16 points 7 months ago (3 children)

    She said in 24 she wouldn't seek a third, I couldn't find a reason besides vaguely implying "out of respect to the Parisians".

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  • [–] 8 points 7 months ago (2 children)

    She probably just knew she was on shaky ground. I think she played that smart, it's already pretty wild she got 2 terms seeing how mad some people were at her after the first one

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  • [–] 6 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    I'm not sure if the people living in Paris were mad. It might be the people who commute that hated her anti-car politics.

    On the other hand we are talking about a nation that wanted to put a highway interchange in the middle of Paris ...

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  • [–] 13 points 7 months ago (3 children)

    Good for the anticar part but french socialists are on par with the UK labour. A bunch of corrupted genocidal idiots

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  • [–] 13 points 7 months ago* (2 children)

    Yes, unironically this is to the benefit of fascists and the ruling class. Neo-liberals adopting the aesthetics of leftist parties do not address the material underlying conditions which push people towards more extremist ideology, so by the time the next election rolls around, people feel like the left "betrayed" them and vote for the far-right, despite the fact that they never elected an actual leftist in the first place.

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  • [–] 8 points 7 months ago* (1 child)

    There is always major differences between municipal and national elections. I'll agree with you when it comes to national elections. But the socialists have been leading Paris since 2001. Both mayors since have been reelected after their first mandate. So, they must be doing something right at the city level! And now, Paris is about to have a third socialist mayor in a row, amounting to at least 31 continuous years of socialist leadership in Paris.

    I am disappointed with their politics at a national level. But when I was living in Paris I was pretty happy with what they were doing with the city.

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  • [–] 2 points 7 months ago

    Yeah, that's fair - thanks for sharing, that's a little reassuring. Hopefully true leftists/socialists can take power at a national level and finally start pushing the far-right back where they belong, in the dustbin of history.

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  • [–] 22 points 7 months ago* (37 children)

    "The leftist who said "My goal is to make sure Grégoire loses" was defeated"

    why do we have these

    there's another way to phrase "I am going to lose and I want Greg to lose and Donklus is the only other person running"

    glad she didn't "save Palestine" though gj to the percent of Paris that did the not dumb thing

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  • [–] 12 points 7 months ago (4 children)

    In Italy is the same and it's one of the reasons we're getting fascists elected everywhere

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  • [–] 5 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    The guys who literally collaborated the nazis? No shit

    Beside aren't you one of them genocide influencer whining about everybody being "antisemite"?

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  • [–] 4 points 7 months ago

    He is, but that isn't relevant right now. Smearing center left does not help the broader leftist project. It's always "left unity" when it comes to anarchists and social democrats listening to authoritarian Marxists, but never the other way around. I consider "left unity" an authoritarian dog whistle at this point

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  • [–] 1 point 7 months ago

    I would definetely not call France Insoumise tankies. Their platform is basically what the Socialist Party's platform was in the 80s, they pretty much only have a niche to occupy only because the socialists moved so far to the right. That being said, they do have the benefit of being vocal on anti-racist and anti-colonial policies.

    I wish they were actual tankies. In France. The French Communist Party has some Marxist-Leninist memberd, but they are not the majority of the party right now. For a while, the PCF was in an Alliance with the Parti de Gauche (the precursor to France Insoumise), and only took parts in elections as part of this alliance. But Mélenchon, who used to rule Parti de Gauche and now rules France Insoumise, stopped making concessions to the Communist Parti (such as supporting their candidates in the few Communist Parti strongholds left in France), which was seen as a betrayal, and so the Communist parti elected as its leader Fabien Roussel, who is less favorable to alliances with FI unless there are other parties in it as well to avoid the PCF getting fully absorbed as a satellite of FI.

    The problem is that despite the core of the PCF's program being further left than FI's program, the rethoric used by Roussel, the pojects he puts forwards and the ones he chooses to ally with are increasingly further right wing than FI. With FI being new and having more momentum, they're the ones often demonized by the center and Roussel's strategy is to make the PCF appear less scary than them. He is cultivating an older and whiter electorate that can be nostalgic of the time when the PCF was strong and scared of the new and strange FI. I would've liked the PCF to instead go further left than FI. But unfortunately, its move right is kind of in the continuation of the de-stalinisation that happened after the fall of tbe USSR. It's a party with a rich history, more of an internal democracy than FI and deep ties with unions and other organizations, but the way it's headed, it can't go very far.

    Then you have Force Ouvrière, a Trotskyite party. Problem with them is they kinda have their butt between two chairs. They take part in elections just to get known, while claiming the true change must come from a revolution... But aside from selling newspapers, they're not doing much organizing. They're neither really giving themselves the mean to act either in the political world or in the streets. They're not in favor of seeking improvements through unions or electoral politics because they think small improvements will stop people from wanting to revolt.

    This description fits most of the small leftist groups in France, but despite their similarities, their attachement to ideological purity keeps them from banding together

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  • [–] -3 points 7 months ago (30 children)

    why do we have these

    It's the LFI, it's leftists who don't play along well with other leftists (along with some other problematic traits).

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  • [–] 11 points 7 months ago (27 children)

    If you consider the french socialists to be left then... Idk. Maybe you need to curate more what your information sources are.

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  • [–] 1 point 7 months ago (26 children)

    They don't play well with any leftist parties, not necessarily the socialists (who are iirc pretty center these days). LFI is quite abrasive.

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  • [–] 1 point 7 months ago (25 children)

    They are the biggest player in the left. They want to unify the left around them. Other parties do not want this because they all want to share the pie. I'd say they are the biggest team players and the others are retarded. They twice now took the initiative to rally the entire left around them and yet they are somehow the ones not playing nice.

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  • [–] 2 points 7 months ago (13 children)

    No, they want the other left parties to agree to all their conditions and refuse to compromise on their positions. I'm all for a united left but LFI is a big part of the problem.

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  • [–] 2 points 7 months ago (12 children)

    So the biggest player with the most success so far should compromise to the people who wants to push a liberal agenda?

    This makes no sense. You cannot do fuck all for years, loose your base, alienate everybody and then come to say "hey stop bullying me and accept my conditions, also you're antisemitic, and I hate the way you speak".

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  • [–] 2 points 7 months ago* (11 children)

    Yes, they should compromise. They're obviously not big enough to win on their own, so they should compromise like all the others. They refuse to do so, and the logical consequence is that other parties refuse to join them.

    If you think that having more popularity makes them the absolute authority of the left and every other party should bow to their ideas, we have nothing to discuss.

    They refuse to compromise with parties less liberal than them as well, by the way. They refuse to compromise no matter the agenda.

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  • [–] 1 point 7 months ago (5 children)

    What specific issues do you think they refuse to compromise on? Islamoleftism? Genocide being bad?

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  • [–] 1 point 7 months ago (4 children)

    I'll let you have a look at the difference of opinions between LFI and every other left party. All those differences are issues they refuse to compromise on :)

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    I'm not your search engine. If you don't see it and refuse to search for it, that's your problem. I'm not here to convince anyone.

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  • [–] 1 point 7 months ago

    Serieux, sur quoi ils refusent le compromis. Je veux pas te blesser hein copain, mais c'est une question simple et c'est toi-meme qui avance qu'ils sont intransigeant, donc c'est a toi d'appuyer tes propos.

    La bonne journee

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  • [–] 1 point 7 months ago*

    It should be very easy though.

    I actually looked it up. The only thing they really distinguish themselves from the other leftist parties is police violence.

    Whiiich, well, i got my head bumped on the pavement by the cops while protesting last summer, so i'm with them on this. Compromising to a bunch of violent cops is not the way to go if you want to have moral high ground.

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  • [–] 0 points 7 months ago (4 children)

    You miss the points. To quote someone else "you don't have the cards".

    When your party is irrelevant and you want to push your agenda and slander the other bigger boy, ofc you gonna get bullied. That's how life works.

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  • [–] 2 points 7 months ago (3 children)

    If they had no cards, LFI wouldn't need them. You're contradicting yourself.

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  • [–] 1 point 7 months ago (2 children)

    ... They don't need them. They want them to work together yet the others spit on their face everytime they have the chance.

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  • [–] 1 point 7 months ago (5 children)

    I would have upvoted you til you used an ableist slur. You could have made your argument perfectly well - in fact, even stronger - if you chose a specific word that more closely matches the problem. It isn't that they're intellectually disabled, it's because they are too blinded by ideology to take a pragmatic approach. I'd just say "...the others aren't pragmatic enough to put aside their differences" or something.

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  • [–] 2 points 7 months ago (4 children)

    No. This has nothing to do with pragmatism. This is the fucking ruling class shitting their pants because they fear the loss of their privileges. The PS is nothing more than cockroaches trying everything to keep the little bit of power they have.

    Do you imagine if you had to find a proper job after being an elected PS official for years? What would you out in your CV? Traitor (Faure)? CIA asset (Glucksman)? "I successfully lead a party to its ruin (Holland, Valls)?

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  • [–] 2 points 7 months ago (3 children)

    Right, okay, that's fine -- my point is that the problem isn't intellectual disability, and even if it was, you shouldn't use the r-slur. I am disabled and I have had that word weaponized against me my entire life, and seeing it used brings back memories of all of the times I was bullied and harassed for being different.

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  • [–] -1 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    I can understand this. If it clears things up in my world retarded! = disabled.

    In my head, retarded is someone who's purposefully going out if his way to be as stupid as possible. Just like dude or bro is genderless. Idk if this makes sense for you, tho.

    I'm sorry if you felt attacked. This was not the goal.

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  • [–] 3 points 7 months ago

    If it clears things up in my world retarded! = disabled.

    I get what you're saying, but unfortunately we don't live in your world, we live in the real world, where the term "mental retardation" was historically used to refer to intellectual disability, and has since been weaponized against disabled people and is used as a negative slur all the time.

    I understand that you used it without harmful intent, but what I am trying to express to you is that it doesn't matter what your intent was, much like the n-word, the word has baggage and causes real world harm, and further marginalizes some of the most marginalized people in society.

    Please, have some compassion, just choose to use some other word or turn of phrase instead, is it really that hard?

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  • [–] -1 points 7 months ago (4 children)

    Get rid of Melenchon and we can talk.

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  • [–] 1 point 7 months ago (2 children)

    Why? Because the hardlib hate him?

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  • [–] -1 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    For those with their eyes filled with sawdust: Because he turned into a piece of populistic shit. Also, as you don't seem to be living in France, for good or bad reasons, loads of people hate him and fear him, and will never ever vote for him.

    So let's keep him so that they will never win, right, to own the euh, "hardlibs", by getting Bardela elected instead. That'll teach the, euh "hardlibs".

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  • [–] 5 points 7 months ago

    Time to start the war on cars ☺️

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    Yeah but he opposes antifascism so.....

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  • [–] 5 points 7 months ago (4 children)

    Since when are the socialists not the leftists?

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  • [–] 2 points 7 months ago

    Merde alors.

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  • [–] 2 points 7 months ago

    Félicitations, Paris !

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  • [–] 3 points 7 months ago

    Great news, but I would love more Sophia Chikirou to win.

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  • [–] 0 points 7 months ago

    Anti car, but pro tanks?

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  • [–] 0 points 7 months ago*

    The leftist who said "My goal is to make sure Grégoire loses" was defeated

    Hmm. Even if I'm not sure I'd use the word "leftist" If you're controlled opposition maybe don't say it out loud lmao

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