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French President Emmanuel Macron has unveiled his new government almost three months after a snap general election delivered a hung parliament.

The long-awaited new line up, led by Prime Minister Michel Barnier, marks a decisive shift to the right, even though a left-wing alliance won most parliamentary seats.

Despite the partnership between Macron’s centrist party and those on the right, parliament remains fractured and will rely on the support of other parties to pass legislation.

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[-] ModernRisk@lemmy.dbzer0.com 127 points 2 months ago

I keep wondering why and how it is that fascism is rising up so much. This is a serious question.

[-] DeadWorld@lemm.ee 100 points 2 months ago

It's profitable to keep the left out of power as fascists will allow the rich to keep their wealth so long as they toe the party line and remain useful to the authority

[-] JustTesting@lemmy.hogru.ch 30 points 2 months ago

Well, profitable in the short term. If the lowly peons don't have money because you took it all, they cant spend it on stuff from your factories and your profit goes down and everything grinds to a halt. of course you can try to sell it to other countries, which fucks over their economies and makes them more susceptible to populism/facism (well after an initial phase of excitement over those sweet cheap imports) and then it's facism all around and everyone is fucked. You just need to plan it well enough so you're on your private island/mars colony with robot butlers by that point

[-] yeahiknow3 28 points 2 months ago

Thinking ahead has never been the purview of the rich.

[-] SimplyTadpole@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 2 months ago

It's moreso that they think "by the time shit hits the fan, I'll be long dead anyway, so I don't see why I should care". Ergo, pure, distilled lack of empathy, a "fuck you, I got mine" aimed at the future of every living being in our planet.

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