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David wrote:Have you ever met an actual left-wing person, Wokko? :lol: They were dissing Macron months before he was elected. He's no friend of the left and never presented himself as anything of the sort.
He's left of the Nazi alternative - that's all that mattered.
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Even then, a great many of the French left either stayed home or voted for Le Pen in protest. I would have voted for Macron over Le Pen, but only, in the French tradition, with a clothes-peg on my nose.
"Every time we witness an injustice and do not act, we train our character to be passive in its presence." – Julian Assange
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