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Canaii@lemmy.zipOPto
World News@lemmy.world•How Paris’s mayor helped the city breathe againEnglish
4·4 months agoNot every left-wing idea is great and not every right-wing idea is bad. It really depends.
For instance, american red states have really dumb gun laws but they make it very easy to build housing.
Canaii@lemmy.zipOPto
World News@lemmy.world•How Paris’s mayor helped the city breathe againEnglish
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Canaii@lemmy.zipto
Europe@feddit.org•Enter the disrupter: Far-left Mélenchon seizes momentum in French electionsEnglish
10·4 months agoHe and his supporters HATE when you call him far-left.
We have had a debate for months on his wikipedia page over whether or not he is far left.
- Said Ukraine should have respected Russia
- Wrote an entire book attacking the EU
- He was endorsed by the anti-capitalist movement (NPA) in several elections.
- He once called Venezuela a source of inspiration
- Once describe businessmen as “the class of exploiters”
- Called several critics “degenerate bourgeois”
- Sentenced to jail for physically pushing a prosecutor on camera
- He is more to the left than Pedro Sanchez or Jeremy Corbyn
I wrote that he is far-left on his wikipedia page.
Someone deleted it. Someone added “far-left” again. Someone deleted that again. Someone added “far-left” again. The Wikipedia French administrators ended up intervening. His official article now says “Some consider him far-left”.
For the record, 70% of french people surveyed call him far-left:
Canaii@lemmy.zipto
Europe@feddit.org•The French parliament introduced a motion to condemn Russia's war against Ukraine. Almost everyone voted yes. 2 political parties refused to vote.English
11·4 months agoThey are left-center/left at best,
Left of center 🤔 ?
Here is Jean-Luc Melenchon, the official leader of LFI :
“Look at what Chavez achieved in Venezuela. Our goal is to transform an angry people into a revolutionary people. This is what we want in France. It’s what I’m pushing for”*
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gsCwuhXSVG4
Here is the official X account of LFI :
“Capitalism isn’t a system that can be regulated. Our goal is radical change”
https://x.com/FranceInsoumise/status/1958528941859422422
It’s okay to be far-left. It’s not a crime dude.














In the United States, it is.
California or New York barely build any housing.
States like Texas or Florida build a shit-ton of housing.
https://besi.berkeley.edu/publication/what-drives-high-costs-in-blue-states/
Sad but true.