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[–] gbzm@piefed.social 1 points 1 day ago

"Less than a month" isn't conveying the absurdity of the situation. He spent "less than a month" in discussions to agree on a government (which was actually very long). He resigned - taking said government with him - less than fifteen hours after settling on one.

Then Macron rehired him for 3 days, he said he'd leave then, and Macron said "alright then 5 days". We're living in a Month Python skit.

[–] gbzm@piefed.social 5 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

It is. It could be construed as a form of constitutional brutalism: in theory the president is free to name whomever he chooses, however he is expected to choose someone from the parliamentary majority.

But this is the first time in the history of the current constitution that the parliamentary majority isn't an absolute majority or cannot form an absolute majority coalition. The consequence is that they can't systematically no-confidence-vote out any head of government they don't approve of, and basically enforce this expectation directly.

So Macron can just name someone from his minority (3rd biggest group even) and wait for the parliament to (more or less slowly) disagree enough with it that they'll agree to no-confidence-vote it out (usually when the government proposes a budget). Then, every time a prime minister is ousted, he can pretend he's not violating the constitution -- in spirit if not in letter -- when he starts again. He can frame it as defending the republic against "extremes" even though the relative parliamentary majority he's "defending against" is just a loose leftist alliance between parties that span from barely liberal to a bit more angry, but not extreme even by the state council's own definition. The second biggest group, however, is actually the far-right authoritarian racist party founded by literal ex-SS that's going to win a presidential election at some point if he keeps trying to out-authoritarian them.

[–] gbzm@piefed.social 7 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

aaaaand it's gone

Lecornu quit first thing this morning

[–] gbzm@piefed.social 10 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Seven over his two terms. Three since his party lost its relative majority last July

[–] gbzm@piefed.social 12 points 2 days ago

"New" in this case means almost literally a permutation of the same people, with two 'additions' from previous failed governments.

[–] gbzm@piefed.social 99 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (10 children)

I was also under the same impression, but it seems to have grown less clear?
https://voxpoliticalonline.com/2025/09/15/tyler-robinsons-groyper-connection-truth-or-conspiracy-theory/

In any case, Kirk enjoyers have never been known to let facts get in the way of their hate

[–] gbzm@piefed.social 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Another way to look at it is "one can't fuck children, because fucking implies consent so you should use the appropriate term which is rape", which is what I believe they meant.

[–] gbzm@piefed.social 2 points 1 week ago

Merci pour Le fact-check

[–] gbzm@piefed.social 11 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

At a glance it even looks like an AI wrote the whole thing, doesn't it?

EDIT: 3 posts in history, all with the same hollow Green LinkedIn vibe...

[–] gbzm@piefed.social 3 points 1 week ago (2 children)

"Une graine dans le bocal piment" ?

[–] gbzm@piefed.social 4 points 1 week ago

Actually 157 out of 192 UN countries recognize the state of Palestine right now. When Crimea was invaded by Russia in 2014 and Israël had already been occupying parts of it illegaly for over 40 years, the count was 133. As soon as 1994, even before Netanyahu's first tenure, there were more than half (96) UN member states recognizing the state of Palestine.

Most countries absolutely do and have recognized Palestine and the imperialism that goes on there is old as fuck. Yours maybe doesn't, mine only switched this year as a mostly performative act. Source: even a passing glance at wikipedia

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