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Turns out they had a lot to lose. Who could've seen this coming? I can understand the despair of Argentinians but that was just accelerationism.

Oh yeah you're right, I didn't pay attention, my bad!

And how is China so high? Do they just throw shit away all the time?

Lebanese civilians and Lebanese homes are Hezbollah. It worked in Gaza, why wouldn't it work in Lebanon.

Another case that demonstrates they'll always comply with the law in the end. You just need to make sure your laws and your legislation are rock solid.

I'd say we're still far from it, but that's definitely where we're headed full steam

They could but they won't have enough votes to go through with it unfortunately. The assembly is roughly 33% of the three big groups, the united left, Macron's party and the far right. With the united left having slightly more seats than the other two.

To be fair we're pretty tired and hopeless, most people are apathetic now because nothing seems to be working.

Strikes and demonstrations are vilified by the media, the left is not united enough to hit as hard as they should, the president is a child throwing tantrums to have it the way he wants, the media is owned by very few people so they control the narrative, etc.

It honestly feels hopeless, most people want change, but to a lot of people the demonising of the left has worked and the far right seems to be a reasonable option now.

It's gonna get a lot worse before it gets better unfortunately...

As far as I know, by tradition, Macron should have taken the NFP's candidate as prime minister even though they only had a small majority. Then the assembly could have censored the government or not, basically triggering a new election if they did.
Macron, knowing what we want better than everyone else, took a shortcut by making shoddy alliances with the traditional right and the far right to name Barnier.

The only reason he refused to name Castet was because she wanted to reverse his retirement reform (which was also rejected by the far right, so it could have actually been removed). But the official communications were all about "nobody really won the election" or "it would be ungovernable".

Macron is a child throwing tantrums because what he wants is best and he knows better than us peasants, he sees himself as a benevolent dictator, as in, he is making the tough decisions because he knows he's right. And in our constitution, the president has extensive powers that allow him to act in such a way if he wants to, with basically no checks and balances but honesty and tradition.

And in all that, some members of his former government won seats at the assembly, and kept their positions as ministers too. So we had deputies-ministers, wrapping up the "urgent matters" and setting themselves up for their next jobs. They effectively wrote budgets that, they themselves will vote for in the next few weeks. That's effectively breaking the separation of power

This is a counter argument to having a constitution that allows the president to do what Macron did. There are basically nothing stopping him besides tradition and good will.

"We should do something about this" - COPXX

The defense lawyers also tried the "rape" and rape defense bullshit. Arguing that if you're not intentionally raping someone, it's not rape.

I guess it's their job to defend their clients but what the fuck is that kind of argument...