• Hyperion@midwest.social
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    17 hours ago

    This dude has said some extremely problematic things and expressed extremely problematic positions but credit where it’s due, standing up to Israeli Genocide is the only morally correct choice.

  • Zedstrian@sopuli.xyz
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    22 hours ago

    Yet Mélenchon is also disturbingly pro-Russia in terms of how he would handle aid to Ukraine.

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      21 hours ago

      He is not? He doesn’t want things to escalate, but everything we are doing today, he supports continuing to do

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        19 hours ago

        Only recently has he softened his tone to avoid criticism on the issue, but he still offers legitimacy to the Russian position by claiming that sovereignty over Donbas is disputed and should be resolved with a vote.

        Mélanchon wants France to leave NATO and be ‘non-aligned’, but being non-aligned while one European country is being invaded by another without justification does not lead to a just and sustainable long-term peace.

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    18 hours ago

    So, does he mean he’s going to send warships into Israel’s territorial waters?

    What’s his plan when they get sunk?

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      17 hours ago

      To reach palestine, you will have to cross European waters (where the flotilla starts like france)

      THEN international water (the place no one have jurisdiction over yet Israel assieged unarmed ships carrying humanitarian aid)

      THEN reach Palestinian water to deliver aids. See that was always the plan

      Wow, you can do so much without WITHOUT EVEN FUCKING CROSSING ON ISRAEL TERRITORY NOT THAT IT MATTER ANYWAY.

      Sorry, i know you are confused and smarter than that. I do not like Melanchon either. Yeah he is too soft with russia and china, yeah no he will not fix everything. People of power do not fix things, they are the problem… YET for French, europeans and worlds is a step in the right direction and needed breathing room on minorities and majority of peoples.

      He is not the solution, no one is the solution for everyone in every time. He certainly is not perfect. He must be criticized but boy oh boy, the opposition is turbo-fascist-mass-deportation, friends of war mongering rich tyrants, Peoples convicted of embezzlement of funds, etc, etc, etc.

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      21 hours ago

      Le Pen is hated by everyone. She receives tremendous support by the media owned by her friends but that won’t get her votes. Even supporters from her own party prefer the younger candidate she is in conflict with. She will lose, by far. Mélenchon worries more about other right candidates