The trouble w/ Macron is that the way he's been framed, as has centrism in Europe & North America in general, is as a safe &moderate pair of hands & friendly 2008-era Obama energy. The reality is that, as Mya L points out, there's no difference between his views and Le Pen's, just how the marketing.
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Rim-Sarah Alouane wrote a great essay in '22 about this & how Le Pen can focus " on everyday issues, such as rising energy bills and the cost of living, safe in the knowledge that on immigration, citizenship and “national identity,” she’s already won the argument."
www.nytimes.com/2022/04/20/o...
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Rough translation of the sentence: "It's important to stay dignified and to respect democratic honor, but some of them would rather wipe their ass with it"
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with the leftist ways of approaching them.
Just earlier today, a journalist friend of mine said "C'est important de rester dignes et de respecter l'honneur Démocratique, mais ça certains s'en torchent le cul" about Macronist candidates coming 3rd but not resigning to let Front Populaire maybe win
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Currently through this whole ordeal, a lot of people on the left have been speaking of honor and acting with dignity. France is a dramatic country, with a dramatic language, and these words do carry a lot. So people from all fronts I guess use them in these ways, however I'm mostly familiar
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That's interesting, thank you for sharing. Given there's no way to separate the meaning of a word and what it evoques to you from the language itself, for me, as a native French speaker, what she said rang very differently
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Je crois qu'on ne le dira jamais assez mais Fuck Macron! Vraiment il ne pouvait fermer sa grande gueule?! Non, ce trou de pus a voulu faire un concours de popularité de merde alors que tout le monde le déteste, lui et son gouvernement pourri. Franchement une sous-merde le type
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Would you mind explaining why you believe honor is a right-wing concept?
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