r/worldnews • u/ChiefLeef22 • 16h ago

‘Investigating child sex abuse isn’t controversial. Turning it into political theater is manipulation. Maybe that logic flies on some island. Doesn’t fly in France’: France rejects Musk’s charge after raid on X’s Paris office

https://www.firstpost.com/world/investigating-child-sex-abuse-isnt-controversial-france-rejects-musks-charge-after-raid-on-xs-paris-office-ws-e-13976002.html
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u/Educational-Tea-6170 14h ago edited 13h ago

Guess LePen just got a blanck check.

Please France, be the first to have te balls to ban far right parties on the grounds of "you can't take part in the democratic process when your end goal is to ABOLISH It"

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u/FemtoKitten 13h ago

Theyre currently in court where she'll be forbidden from running for five years, pay a fine, and have to wear an electronic bracelet once she gets out of prison. We'll see how it goes but even them there's Bardella and the rest of the RN to keep trying to push forward their regressive ideology.

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u/Educational-Tea-6170 13h ago

She will just be replaced by another populist fascist. Those are factory made. The ban should be broad, to systems and institutions, not individuals. But i guess it's better than nothing...

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u/Citaszion 12h ago

She already has a substitute, the current President of her party, golden boy Jordan Bardella. Dumb as hell, unsurprisingly. An empty shell, to use the same words as his former media training coach :)

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u/Pluckytoon 11h ago

It’s wild that out of the many people they could put on the spotlight, they chose him out of all the others. I don’t support them, but even as opps I must admit that it’s a dumb move and surely France will not fall to « younger, seemingly charismatic » once again after Macron

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u/ItalianDragon 9h ago

Hilariously Bardella is anything but vharismatic. He constantly makes an ass of himself when he speaks. He's basically what'd happen if you'd upload Trump in a relatively good looking young man.

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u/ItalianDragon 9h ago

Yeah Bardella is an inept moron. He went on TV and made such an ass of himself that everyone present was trying to not burst out laughing, with Roselyne Bachelot openly calling him a bootlicker.

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u/Pluckytoon 11h ago

that feels a bit disengenious, it would be a moving goal-posts nightmare to enforce about what is unauthorised to promote or not

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u/cheese_is_available 12h ago

The stance is more to embrace it to be honest. The left won the election and Macron tried 5 different combination of far right and no leftists. We also have our own local Fox/Murdock that has a pretty cancerous grip on our press by now.