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Be like the French
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UltraGiGaGigantic
lemmy.ml

UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.ml
Joined: 2024-08-23
#52 Posted: · edited   Subject: Re: Be like the French Quote Reply
MrNesser wrote:
if Macron raise taxes the right will gain more power. He is already on shaky ground.

Shitty political party and their shittier best buddy to scare the voters. Sounds familiar.
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Dessalines
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dessalines@lemmy.ml
Joined: 2019-04-17
#53 Posted: · edited   Subject: Re: Be like the French Quote Reply
Adniem wrote:
but what if the french get derailed and they get napoleon 3.0 (just joking please dont take that seriously)

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.
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SippyCup
lemmy.world
SippyCup@lemmy.world
Joined: 2026-01-26
#54 Posted:   Subject: Re: Be like the French Quote Reply
Obviouslywrong wrote:
The problem is that they have too much debt and they can't just ignore it anymore. They can complain but they have to cut spending somewhere or increase revenue. Now they can raise the retirement age for everyone. Or they can take the money from the billionaires. But that still doesn't get you closer to lowering the deficit which is very high well over 100 percent of GDP. That means the protest...

Username checks out. I can't tell if this guy is serious or if he's just, saying the most obviously wrong thing he can think of as a bit
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SippyCup
lemmy.world
SippyCup@lemmy.world
Joined: 2026-01-26
#55 Posted:   Subject: Re: Be like the French Quote Reply
DementedSociety wrote:
And how do you propose to do that? In the 1000s of years since society was developed, it's been endless class warfair. Human are greedy, period. Power corrupts us. In almost ever single instance humans have done the absolute WRONG thing. What makes you think this persistent pattern will ever change? I'm serious, why do you think that? What in our history make you believe it will happen?

Could a morally bankrupt and intellectually handicapped society invent the microwavable hot pocket?

I don't think so.
Check mate accelerationists
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Obviouslywrong
lemmy.world
Obviouslywrong@lemmy.world
Joined: 2026-10-21
#56 Posted:   Subject: Re: Be like the French Quote Reply
kossa wrote:
How's just basically erasing all the debt not enough? Like, yeah, they can't do it on a whim (well, technically they can, because they're technically independent, but that would very quickly show how "independent" they really are), but Euro countries can just decide to make it happen, like they did before countless times.

Because Germany will invade Paris again before they would let them do that. A small country budget like Greece is not the same as a huge country budget on the eu economy.
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lemmur420
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lemmur420@lemmy.ml
Joined: 2023-07-30
#57 Posted:   Subject: Re: Be like the French Quote Reply
CyroSignal54 wrote:
They were rioters...

"Free speech" liberal spotted...
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