French Leftists: “Never thought I’d die fighting side-by-side with a liberal.” French Liberals: “What about side-by-side with an anti-facist?” French Leftists: “Aye, I could do that.”
Stop calling everyone that disagrees with you a fascist. Migrants and unchecked immigration is causing massive problems in the EU and progressives refuses to acknowledge it.
Fascists have had a tendency to kill both liberals and conservatives that don't go with what they want. The only conservatives that are fondly remembered against fascists are the ones who actively fought against them. I'm looking at Winston Churchill here.
I highly doubt about it. I'm really don't trust liberals at this point. backstab us almost all the time. I starting to hate them for making this mass they have no excuse especially when they have power. But wish they did but I doubtful.
Agreed! Voting isn't about who makes you feel good, it's about who is tactically a better choice than the other. Who can you organize under more easily? That's it. Bring a vomit bucket if you must, but vote!
This is why we can't treat history as if it is destined to repeat. There is a difference between describing something that happened and treating it like a law of sociology
i meana this is essentially history repeating. Le Pen did well in the first vote of the presidential election a few years ago. until the non-fascists rallied behind macron
@@AlexanderSonigo Caliphate ideology is just another form of far-right ideology. Leftist ideology is not "domestic fascism is bad but immigrant fascism is good," whereas right-wing ideology literally is just "domestic fascism good and immigrant fascism useful for scaring people towards domestic fascism."
@@AlexanderSonigoweird how muslims in the US and 2nd or 3rd gen British muslims have become liberals politically eh? To use terminology you'll like the fascist adjacency of fundamentalist sects of Islam gets 'bred' out with time and education.
@@user-sm1bi5ix6l Actually right wing in Europe won this time... but the loosers are trying to bunch up to have SOME say still lol. Lol you lefties will be the first people to go in a Islamic theocratic society... These people loved the nazzis and will not be too hostile to a agnostic conservative like me... but gays/liberals/women etc not so much hahahah 😂
@@KungKras Like culturally World War 2 in America is remembered as the time when epic awesome America came in and saved the world. We’re so removed front the conflict that we never had to suffer.
The Tories are LIBERALS! What you talking about? Perhaps Centrist if even, they're supposed to be conservative but they're very liberal in everything. The only thing that seperates the two is to stay in the EU or split. That's it
@chazcmeekins83 What do you mean? He is the president and the presidents office presides over foreign policy and wars. How does foreign policy ruin frances interior? This is an homest question I really want to hear your reasoning.
In Poland, the same thing happened a few years back and last year we fully won both chambers. In the Senate where it's first-past-the-post voting they decided which party has a candidate in which district so that they don't compete against each other.
The thing that has made this possible is France's two-round voting process. In the "normal" single-round voting process Americans and Brits will be familiar with, you only find out how much support each candidate has when the election is done. So in a case like this where you have three parties (or coalitions) of roughly equal popularity, there's no incentive for anyone to drop out because every candidate has a reasonable expectation that they might win in a given seat. The French system means that after the first round everyone has a much better and more precise measure of which candidates have the most support, and it's not so much of a sacrifice for a candidate to stand down in a constituency where they can see that they are very unlikely to win. The system is also extremely based because voters can vote for whichever party they genuinely prefer in the first round, without worrying that it will be a wasted vote if that party is unlikely to win. This would be an incredible positive change to UK politics if it were introduced here, because people could actually vote for candidates who say things they agree with, instead of having to vote for "Red Tory" because at least it's better than "Blue Tory"
French voter here. I voted NFP, and I hope we can at least deny the RN an absolute majority. Also, here, liberals are much more right-wing than in the US.
@@larryc1616 yes. but the parties with "liberal" in their name in europe are the center right parties of those countries. there tend to be multiple parties left of them. to give you an example, the liberal party in germany is the FDP. it hs "Die Linke", the greens and SPD left of it.
@@larryc1616 the word "liberal" means something closer to what americans call "libertarian" essentially everywhere else in the world. political terminology in the US is pretty mixed up since the party switch
As an anglo Canadian living in Quebec I really appreciate this. We have had reasonable cooperation on left, centre, lib, politics but our conservatives have become corrupted. I hope we can recognize international influence on the far right before we lose our balance.
At this point, we're going to have at least four years of a return to the bad old days of the Harper-era Propaganda Conservatives no matter what, it's just a question of how bad things are going to be and how long it'll take for the voter base to remember how to believe their own eyes again.
Because Polish people still have a good memory of far-right and far-left unlike anyone in Western Europe or America. As an eastern European, it's so funny to listen Americans talk about bad far-right and good far-left. Trust me, you don't want anything starting with far.
@@mandranmagelan9430 National Rally are basically fascists in a thin vaneer. Last fascist government in france was Vichy France which changed it to work family fatherland
Oh my gods, actual hope? Could we get some of that over here on the other side of the pond? I genuinely cannot stand that conservatives are fully willing to "fall in line" and support the most extreme far-right when they make a coalition, but it basically never happens here on the left. :(
Hope? 😂 You mean the neoliberal establishment that created the mess we're in that gave rise to the far right movements in the first place getting together to defend the status quo? Please don't be that naive
It's more like them doing the bare-minimum. Their main target was La France Insoumise, the largest left-wing party in France, up until the results from the first turn last Sunday. Their entire strategy was to try to divide it from the others left-wing parties. They won't have enough seats to form a government on their own, so they wanted a scenario where the left doesn't either, to force an alliance with moderates. However it's unclear right now if it will be possible for them to achieve this, even if the party heads were to agree. We were already leading towards an institutional crisis, where basic bills like the government yearly budget would not be able to get passed because there would be no majority that could reach an agreement. This was the reason for the dissolution, which is why it was widely seen as a terrible move as everyone expected Macronists and their allies to lose seats to the far-right, making the crisis worse. The expectation is we're going to see emerging a technical government which won't be able to pass any major reform.
11:50 - I like to imagine the translator in this section with the comically French English accent is actually just a regular bloke from London like the others speaking, but is just speaking in an accent here in an effort to make fun of Bardella.
Honestly it's been vrey hectic here but seeing the left unite so fast is galvanising, there's so many kpop-like fan cams of left wing candidates on twitter, someone even did an elden ring parody with Mélanchon that has been shared by his party. It seems that leftists did everything we could to not fall into doomerism and it's working. Good things can still happen, I can't stress enough how important it is to keep hoping because even if the worst comes to pass we still have our community and will support and protect each other.
My “favorite” part of the Jordan Bardella, who presents himself as a populist for the little guy, is that he has never held a job. Not for a single day in his life has he worked a job. He’s just some rich kid from a rich family propped up by racists, and for some reason he’s managed to convince 35% of my countrymen that he’s the guy to help the little guys in France.
The chat is stinking american superiority complex with this weird trend of ‘being xenophobic toward anything europ*an is so edgy 🤪 [insert a boomer ass joke]’
Wish the NDP and the Liberals here in Canada would. Sadly, the Liberals here would rather run interference for the Conservatives. They practically outright admitted to it in Ontario and did in Saskatchewan when they joined together to make the Sask party.
Right, for those who wants a better understanding of the situation here we go. The left front is composed of 3 soc-dem parties, the socialist party (akin to the Democrat or l our party in UK) the écologist party, and the communist party (yes this party is actually soft left, believe me) and one proper socialist party, la France insoumise. La France insoumise is the most influential party in the left front, but because they are pretty left, a coalition is now forming to destroy the left front, betray la France insoumise, and create a national United government going from the communist party to the Republican Party. In the end the bloody liberals right and left want to unite to do the classic politics we ve seen the last 50 years and only la France insoumise on the left and the fascists are left as opposition.. This is not a good situation at all. The left front had a chance but again the soft left liberals betray for their comfortable seats.
@@hopeiswherethehomeis9606 I mean, both make sense. First one leaves you to infer the rest, which would likely be Inshallah they succeed. At least, that's how I read it.
This always happens. In France, who dislikes you is as important as who likes you. And a lot of people despise Le Pen, even if a lot of people like her. Last time, leftists voted for the liberal, so it is only logical that if the leftist candidate is the one left, liberals would do the same, because they hate Le Pen more. This is the beauty of priority voting, even if it is in a limited fashion.
Macron calling the snap election is not a political miscalculation, it’s accepting the consequences of your actions. When the entire country tells you “we don’t like what you’re doing” it is the RIGHT thing to do to call an election to give them a chance to reform the government and parliament to properly represent what they actually want, wether or not that is politically advantageous for your party. They say “political miscalculation” I say “democracy in action.” And I’m glad to see the left and center team up to push back the fascists.
This literally happens at every election. The right wins the first round and then gets beaten at the second. It was literally like that in the last election.
Leftist means left on social and economic issues. Liberals are right on economic issues (=capitalists) and left on social issues, but never as left as true leftists because their capitalist agendas get in the way of implementing true left wing social policies.
It's easy to foster hatred toward liberals online but always remember that for all their shortcomings, they still value the most important things, such as personal freedom and human rights. How we get there is a matter of debate; with fascists, it is a matter of war.
...I don't agree with this. Liberals are right wing on economic issues, which is in direct opposition to personal freedom and human rights. They are socially liberal too, yes, but only as far as the interests of capital allows it. They do tend to clear the very low bar of being anti-slavery, but... Low, low bar.
@@thomaswikstrand8397liberals as a group covers a wide range. Institutionally their pretty bad. But individual candidates and liberally voters are useful allies most of the time. The right is so far gone that even shiftless liberals admit its fascism. So for now they their allies
@@thomaswikstrand8397 If you just talk to a liberal, they will at the very least be honest about their beliefs. Misinformed or not, they usually want what they want because they think it's good for people. Fascists on the other hand cannot help but lie and obfuscate constantly, because their beliefs include the explicit and purposeful mistreatment of others. I'm not saying we're meant to hold hands with liberals and do a happy dance forever. I'm just weighing them against the rest of the right wing.
Dude, liberals supported turning Libya, the former most developed nation in africa, into a failed state with open slave markets. They only believe in wealth and their own comfort.
The French people got a taste of what is to come when dealing with Fascists is like first hand. Like hell they want to have any ruling their home again.
You underestimate the media! The French media has become far right from all of the privatizations. RN candidates get twice or thrice the screen time over other parties. This is how Orban got elected in Hungary. Control the media = control the people.
To be fair, liberals’ biggest issue is being generally overly-optimistic and thinking ”it will not actually go to shit” and therefor not worrying (e.g. Trump 2016). Maybe having a two round election system allows liberals to be able to see the reality during the election and adjust, rather than going ”who could’ve ever seen this coming???” after the election is already over
Very rarely will liberals actually get back down to reality & see the shit they're in, I really doubt that this is gonna be a wake up call for them... they can't recognize actual fascists, or even if they do, they almost always downplay the threat they pose, cuz "it can't happen here" I guess... at least I'm glad that the french left understands how much of a threat the fascists actually are...
Same in the Brexit referendum their stupid analysts had made pols in their own ecochambers. Getting the answers they needed. And forgot that online the algorithm only let them see what they want to see. I work with sales/marketing and i’m also a investor. I see this type of wishfull thinking all the time. The avarage liberal is also for the mest part well payd, have their own apartment or house, saveings. That is liveing the what used to be « normal middle class lifestyle». They often simply lack the information on how the world is for the more insecure parts of the lower middle classes and working class. Who has been harder hit by globalisation, automation, inflation. The also underestimate the extreme right ( and lefts), abillity to use social media to reach new targets with their conspiracy theorys and propaganda. They often are ignorant that the poor, working classes, lower middle class often don’t read newspapers/books or see old style tv anymore
The page with the results at 8:51 shows the National Rally separate from their allies (other far-right parties that the NR didn't put any candidates against because they had an agreement). They're listed as "UXD union of the far right" and account for 3.9% (5th line). That's the discrepancy. Also, in a very small amount of districts, not dropping out was actually done on purpose. Close to where I live there is one where the NFP is first with over 47%, followed by the National rally and then a center-right party that, if the candidate dropped out, could mean more votes forthe NR, while staying in the race doesn't really hurt the chances of the NFP condidate who is the incumbent and almost won on the first round (you win the seat on the first round if you get more than 50% of the votes and more than 25% of registered voters'votes - the second condition preventing someone from winning when almost nobody voted)
Not to kill Vaush's optimism but it's actually a really bad situation here in France. The new head of the far right party, Jordan Bardella, is the new fresh coat of paint on the party, he is young, use Tik Tok aggressively and is mostly squeaky clean compared to the LePen family AND reaaaally well media trained. A bunch of our media are now owned by mostly one or two billionaires, hammering down a lot of the far right talking points, most media refuse to call this party "far right" but call the leftist alliance "far left extremists". There was and still is a lot of infighting amongst the Republicans but a lot of them rallied behind the far right, and the yet undecided will most likely vote for the far right, at least there is a higher chance for them to vote far right than for any leftwing party. Usually there is a call to vote against the far right no matter what or who from most parties, that's pretty much how the second round in most elections during these last few decades ended up. For this election, the left wing coalition made this call, retiring a lot of candidates in favor of the candidate most likely to win against the far right, the center, right wing and presidential parties didn't make such call. Some, clearly in a loosing position refusing to drop out will cause the far right to gain more seats. What is clear is that the far right is going from 80 seats out of 577 in the assembly to a potential absolute majority. Sure, we are trying to block the far right, but that's french tradition at this point, and in any cases, it's a BIG victory for the far right, it's a media and image victory, and it's a victory in gaining even more seats and so more control in the assembly. The left wing coalition barely manage to get to a same number of votes as a single far right party, this is bad, REALLY BAD. Once again we are left playing beavers and building barrages wherever we can.
As far as I understand French politics, making such alliances to oust far-right parties (and before that, communists) is something pretty normal there.
I’m pretty sure that the fear of humiliation after the European elections, might’ve made Macron defend his ego by doing such move: uniting with the left.
8:04 what that chatter is referring to is that the results that were revealed at 8pm on election day were not the exact results but rather an estimation based on polls and the registered involvement in the election because ballots hadn't all yet been counted. once they were, the domestic affairs minister's website showed that the results were not 33% for the national rally and 29% for the union of the left but rather 30% for the national rally and 29% for the union of the left. Also, you have to keep in mind that mainstream french news outlets are owned by a handfull of billionnaires and that they have put some high effort into shitting on the left and being courteous to the far right, so you can see these "fake" results as being another way they found of discreditting the left.
Video title: IMPOSSIBLE: Leftists & Liberals UNITE Against The Far-Right In France What I learned from the video content: You shouldn't ever steam your suits that will separate the lining
Are you talking of recent events? That is hardly something to learn from. A general was fired, tried to build the hastiest and most incompetent coup ever and ofcourse failed. There was no planing or real threat behind that.
republican front in the the french context is simply the tradition of the anti-monarchists. the french republicans invented thr human rights and a whole bunch of other things. the american bill of rights followed within a few months after the french republicans declared citizens rights.
French republicans did not invent human rights. The Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen and the US Bill of Rights were both heavily inspired and their principles drawn from the English Bill of Rights of 1689
@@LordDim1 literally not true. the english bill of roghts of 1689 was about the rights of the parliament towards the king. it had very little in terms of citizens rights in it. in fact only 2: right to petition and right to own weapons. only the second amendement is in any way based on the english bill of rights. and nothing about the declaration of humans rights is. the name just sounds similar
First, I wouldn't be too sure how united they'll be before we see the resuylt of the elections. Let's not forget the French left was talking about having united lists for the european elections and uh... yeah, we've seen how that worked. Two, last I checked when I got a pamphlet fopr the Renaissance (liberal so called centrist (with serious right leaning when it come to economic policies) majority party) for the first turn it was hapilly lampooning the LFI deputy in place explaining on he was going to be a barrier to *both* extrmes, no distinction made there. Three after they've spent the last seven years demonizing the left, lefgitimizing the far right, instituting strong right leaning economic policies and barely a few weak left leaning social ones and genraly creating a golden highway for the National gathering to power, you'll excuse me if my faith in liberal centrist party is low.
The random distractions about suits that vaush pauses for in the middle of the sentences of someone talking about rlly important stuff are really bothersome
French Leftists: “Never thought I’d die fighting side-by-side with a liberal.”
French Liberals: “What about side-by-side with an anti-facist?”
French Leftists: “Aye, I could do that.”
Real french would had said oui oui and croissant at least once or twice
@@foxmamer They would have "alors, du coup..." and "et puis basta!" at least 47 times
For Frodo!! (Oh wait, wrong comments section)
Le Marseilles starts playing...
Republican Front = Antifa but it's indisputablly anti-facist. (Not that I'm saying antifa isn't but RF's PR game is way stronger)
Liberals try not to let fascists into power challenge: Actually possible?!?!?!
the fact that it's the French of all people make it the funniest thing imaginable
HAHA a familiar meme format! My normie brain has no choice but to give you a like!
Stop calling everyone that disagrees with you a fascist. Migrants and unchecked immigration is causing massive problems in the EU and progressives refuses to acknowledge it.
Liberals are the only ones consistently standing against fascists. In the meantime, leftists simp for Russia and refuse to vote for Joe Biden.
Not in America, seems like
We should defeat the evil with the power of friendship.
It would be REALLY REALLY funny if we did though.
We Steven Universe now boy
Real life isn't Steven Universe
@@SkulloMad "Well Marie Le Pen. (Starts singing) You can make a promise. You can make a change etc."
Instantly wins election
Go back to watching MLP 😂
Liberal here… yeah duh. I’d rather debate with leftists and fight fascists
Thanks to immigration France is going up in flammes , you got anything to say about that ? What’s the solutions leftists / libs propose ?
Fascists have had a tendency to kill both liberals and conservatives that don't go with what they want. The only conservatives that are fondly remembered against fascists are the ones who actively fought against them. I'm looking at Winston Churchill here.
Thank you liberal!
--leftist
Egalitarians strong together
You are both the same 😅
Non-Right Wing Americans should take note
not like they have a choice xD
@@ImAmirus They do have a choice. They could have rallied together to choose a candidate that can beat Trump, and they chose not to.
We only have 2 parties 🇺🇲
And do what?
I highly doubt about it. I'm really don't trust liberals at this point. backstab us almost all the time. I starting to hate them for making this mass they have no excuse especially when they have power. But wish they did but I doubtful.
We gotta do the same thing with Trump and Biden in 2024 guys.
Yes.
We need to unite. The division is exactly what the Trumpists want.
Not sure how, we only have the two parties to work from.
Agreed! Voting isn't about who makes you feel good, it's about who is tactically a better choice than the other. Who can you organize under more easily? That's it. Bring a vomit bucket if you must, but vote!
What do you mean "in 2024" bruh its this year a few months away
This is why we can't treat history as if it is destined to repeat. There is a difference between describing something that happened and treating it like a law of sociology
i meana this is essentially history repeating. Le Pen did well in the first vote of the presidential election a few years ago. until the non-fascists rallied behind macron
very true
Fascists start rising
The french: Let me show you humanity's "unite against a common enemy" mode.
And then the caliphate of France lives happily forever after 😅😅
@@AlexanderSonigo Caliphate ideology is just another form of far-right ideology. Leftist ideology is not "domestic fascism is bad but immigrant fascism is good," whereas right-wing ideology literally is just "domestic fascism good and immigrant fascism useful for scaring people towards domestic fascism."
@@AlexanderSonigoweird how muslims in the US and 2nd or 3rd gen British muslims have become liberals politically eh? To use terminology you'll like the fascist adjacency of fundamentalist sects of Islam gets 'bred' out with time and education.
@@AlexanderSonigo cope and seethe righty. You lost.
@@user-sm1bi5ix6l Actually right wing in Europe won this time... but the loosers are trying to bunch up to have SOME say still lol.
Lol you lefties will be the first people to go in a Islamic theocratic society...
These people loved the nazzis and will not be too hostile to a agnostic conservative like me...
but gays/liberals/women etc not so much hahahah 😂
The problem with America is that we were never occupied by the Nazis so we have no cultural memory of how bad fascism is.
100% true
@@KungKras Like culturally World War 2 in America is remembered as the time when epic awesome America came in and saved the world. We’re so removed front the conflict that we never had to suffer.
I mean... the far right parties are rising again in Germany too, so it didn't help that much lol
@@calliope3237i mean they were the ones benefiting from it
It didn‘t hurt America meaningfully
Good, the French can join the Brits in rejecting the Far Right, because tomorrow the Tories are going to get Big Bang Kamehameha'd
I am neither liberal nor leftist, I am the one who will destroy fascism. -gogeta apparently
don't jinx it
And replaced with either an equally bad option (labour) or an actually sane option. But I doubt Britain has a population sharp enough for that.
@@JohnSmith-tg5lidon’t be a doomer you gooner.
The Tories are LIBERALS! What you talking about? Perhaps Centrist if even, they're supposed to be conservative but they're very liberal in everything. The only thing that seperates the two is to stay in the EU or split. That's it
GO GO GO FRANCE!
This is like that Episode of Justice League were Superman and Lex luthor teamed up against Darkside its exactly the same
I will always hate Lex Luthor LESS than I hate Macron he's partially why France is in this mess.
@chazcmeekins83 What do you mean? He is the president and the presidents office presides over foreign policy and wars. How does foreign policy ruin frances interior?
This is an homest question I really want to hear your reasoning.
when will you do it against islam
@@AshkanPacino13 Islam is cool I'm pro the headscarf just because people want to ban it.
@@chazcmeekins83Luthor would build a better economy at least
In Poland, the same thing happened a few years back and last year we fully won both chambers. In the Senate where it's first-past-the-post voting they decided which party has a candidate in which district so that they don't compete against each other.
Sadly Left completely wastes it's chance to use it to their advantage. Poska gurom tak czy siak
@@maciejglinski6564 Yes... I hope for more active role after Presidential Elections when Duda is out because that fucker won't sign anything.
@@maciejglinski6564 when Duda is out it will be better
damn Poland 🇵🇱 needs proportional ranked-choice voting as well huh.....
@@shzarmai we have a type of proportional system but only for lower chamber of parliment.
The thing that has made this possible is France's two-round voting process. In the "normal" single-round voting process Americans and Brits will be familiar with, you only find out how much support each candidate has when the election is done. So in a case like this where you have three parties (or coalitions) of roughly equal popularity, there's no incentive for anyone to drop out because every candidate has a reasonable expectation that they might win in a given seat.
The French system means that after the first round everyone has a much better and more precise measure of which candidates have the most support, and it's not so much of a sacrifice for a candidate to stand down in a constituency where they can see that they are very unlikely to win.
The system is also extremely based because voters can vote for whichever party they genuinely prefer in the first round, without worrying that it will be a wasted vote if that party is unlikely to win.
This would be an incredible positive change to UK politics if it were introduced here, because people could actually vote for candidates who say things they agree with, instead of having to vote for "Red Tory" because at least it's better than "Blue Tory"
That fucking thumbnail is fantastic
I seriously thought it was Hillary Clinton, at first. That's how wrapped up I am in US politics.
Marine le Pen from hell
@@redbomberx354 She is Hillary Clinton combined with Donald Trump.
French voter here. I voted NFP, and I hope we can at least deny the RN an absolute majority.
Also, here, liberals are much more right-wing than in the US.
Really? All the Europeans here tell me our lefty Democrat party is equivalent to a western European conservative party.
@@larryc1616 This is true.
No way, nobody in France would even think about privatise the healthcare system
@@larryc1616 yes. but the parties with "liberal" in their name in europe are the center right parties of those countries. there tend to be multiple parties left of them.
to give you an example, the liberal party in germany is the FDP. it hs "Die Linke", the greens and SPD left of it.
@@larryc1616 the word "liberal" means something closer to what americans call "libertarian" essentially everywhere else in the world. political terminology in the US is pretty mixed up since the party switch
Nice to see leftists show discipline
As an anglo Canadian living in Quebec I really appreciate this. We have had reasonable cooperation on left, centre, lib, politics but our conservatives have become corrupted. I hope we can recognize international influence on the far right before we lose our balance.
Quebec is a cultural right wing mess and done.
Anglo-Canadian in Quebec? Man you fight the hard fight every day against the French Quebecouis lol.
Probably not, there are many anglo-enclaves, and more than half the of the province is some degree of bilingual.
@@grandsome1 I know, I'm just memeing.
At this point, we're going to have at least four years of a return to the bad old days of the Harper-era Propaganda Conservatives no matter what, it's just a question of how bad things are going to be and how long it'll take for the voter base to remember how to believe their own eyes again.
HOLY SHIT WE’VE LEARNT FROM HISTORY
Profile picture fits this so well lmao.
Delicious. Finally some good f**king news.
"Vote the crook not the fascist"- Actual banner at a Jacques Chirac rally
Such a thing happened in Poland. Few months ago. There is no real far-left party in Poland though.
Yeah Poland in general (from what I as an American understand) pretty conservative. Good to hear y'all did something to stop them.
@@ChaseJames-uf1wt best we can get is moderate center-right, but hey, that's better than fascists
Polish people what to keep Poland, for the Polish people
@@dannynaylor5485 mimimi :'-D
Because Polish people still have a good memory of far-right and far-left unlike anyone in Western Europe or America. As an eastern European, it's so funny to listen Americans talk about bad far-right and good far-left. Trust me, you don't want anything starting with far.
Liberte, Egalite, Laicite!
Liberty, Equality, Secularism!
Let it never be Work, Family, Fatherland!
wtf are you rambling about?
@@mandranmagelan9430
National Rally are basically fascists in a thin vaneer.
Last fascist government in france was Vichy France which changed it to work family fatherland
It's not rambling. It's actually rather insightful@@mandranmagelan9430
@@mandranmagelan9430 do you not know basic history and politics
Liberté, Égalité, Laïcité!
(Quebec French
Oh my gods, actual hope? Could we get some of that over here on the other side of the pond?
I genuinely cannot stand that conservatives are fully willing to "fall in line" and support the most extreme far-right when they make a coalition, but it basically never happens here on the left. :(
Hope? 😂 You mean the neoliberal establishment that created the mess we're in that gave rise to the far right movements in the first place getting together to defend the status quo? Please don't be that naive
Vive la France!
And we said from the edge of the void, in one voice: never again.
It's more like them doing the bare-minimum. Their main target was La France Insoumise, the largest left-wing party in France, up until the results from the first turn last Sunday. Their entire strategy was to try to divide it from the others left-wing parties. They won't have enough seats to form a government on their own, so they wanted a scenario where the left doesn't either, to force an alliance with moderates. However it's unclear right now if it will be possible for them to achieve this, even if the party heads were to agree. We were already leading towards an institutional crisis, where basic bills like the government yearly budget would not be able to get passed because there would be no majority that could reach an agreement. This was the reason for the dissolution, which is why it was widely seen as a terrible move as everyone expected Macronists and their allies to lose seats to the far-right, making the crisis worse. The expectation is we're going to see emerging a technical government which won't be able to pass any major reform.
Finally a W
11:50 - I like to imagine the translator in this section with the comically French English accent is actually just a regular bloke from London like the others speaking, but is just speaking in an accent here in an effort to make fun of Bardella.
Proportional representation would fix all of this.
As a French resident I truly hope Le Pen doesn't win. I do not want to live in a fascist country, shameful. No return to Laval and Petain.
Lol your country belongs to Islam in the Future 😅😅😅
You had the chance to kick us out, now France is ours like Ghaddafi said 😅😅
@@AlexanderSonigoShoo, troll. Go away you pest.
People sometimes complain about the ego of the French, but when it comes down to things like this...
I almost don't believe it but this little ray of hope is invaluable.
Honestly it's been vrey hectic here but seeing the left unite so fast is galvanising, there's so many kpop-like fan cams of left wing candidates on twitter, someone even did an elden ring parody with Mélanchon that has been shared by his party. It seems that leftists did everything we could to not fall into doomerism and it's working. Good things can still happen, I can't stress enough how important it is to keep hoping because even if the worst comes to pass we still have our community and will support and protect each other.
Hope but macron is litteraly authoritarian tho .
49:3 is anti-democratic by nature.
The far right minister might even want to unperson some lefties
"want to" is guaranteed
The trick is whether or not they can
Unperson?
@@themadmanescaped1 Roadblox them... in Minecraft.
Do you mean Le Pen, or the even further right Zemmour
@@themadmanescaped1 1984, unperson means to un-alive us. Kick the oxygen habit,in a political way
My “favorite” part of the Jordan Bardella, who presents himself as a populist for the little guy, is that he has never held a job. Not for a single day in his life has he worked a job. He’s just some rich kid from a rich family propped up by racists, and for some reason he’s managed to convince 35% of my countrymen that he’s the guy to help the little guys in France.
The chat is stinking american superiority complex with this weird trend of ‘being xenophobic toward anything europ*an is so edgy 🤪 [insert a boomer ass joke]’
every time any european country is mentioned. most likely the chat consists of 12 year olds
Thank you... I needed some good news for once
Wish the NDP and the Liberals here in Canada would. Sadly, the Liberals here would rather run interference for the Conservatives. They practically outright admitted to it in Ontario and did in Saskatchewan when they joined together to make the Sask party.
Right, for those who wants a better understanding of the situation here we go. The left front is composed of 3 soc-dem parties, the socialist party (akin to the Democrat or l our party in UK) the écologist party, and the communist party (yes this party is actually soft left, believe me) and one proper socialist party, la France insoumise. La France insoumise is the most influential party in the left front, but because they are pretty left, a coalition is now forming to destroy the left front, betray la France insoumise, and create a national United government going from the communist party to the Republican Party. In the end the bloody liberals right and left want to unite to do the classic politics we ve seen the last 50 years and only la France insoumise on the left and the fascists are left as opposition.. This is not a good situation at all. The left front had a chance but again the soft left liberals betray for their comfortable seats.
Or just read what French deep state would do if she gets majority 😅 you people are the destruction of free Europe 😅
Cute, but this isn’t going to go away until the moderate parties muster the courage to address the *cause* of the rise of the radical right.
so islam?
The demographic crisis?
Immigration and disorder?
you don't want them to do that
Nous sommes le super classeur. Nous ne faisons qu'un.
En les etats unis nous sommes dans la merd grande.
Wee wee, croisante, Pairee
INSHALLAH!! 🙏
I don't mean to be pedantic or unkind, but I don't think inshallah works here? I thought it would be mashallah.
@@hopeiswherethehomeis9606 I mean, both make sense. First one leaves you to infer the rest, which would likely be Inshallah they succeed. At least, that's how I read it.
@@hopeiswherethehomeis9606 it’s correct, inshallah means god willing. Mashallah means god willed it when something positive happens - a Muslim
@icecream-soup yes, I'm sorry for the confusion, that is the vibe I was going for. Second round on the 7th, gotta keep hoping for the best x3
@@shadowLurker4v My apologies, this usage is entirely correct then.
POV: you became the end-game crisis
Dude, it´s fucking France - it´s an old tradition from the 1930´s.
France has a history of both over throwing kings and subjecting people, There are still being cringe in Africa
Seriously every five years it's "fascism is on the march in France" and then everyone strategically votes like they do in every 2nd round
@@cameraman502 France just loves JREG anybody but the Centrists should win
This tradition is way older in France.
Every government need to be leftist.
Brandon should take notes
This always happens. In France, who dislikes you is as important as who likes you.
And a lot of people despise Le Pen, even if a lot of people like her.
Last time, leftists voted for the liberal, so it is only logical that if the leftist candidate is the one left, liberals would do the same, because they hate Le Pen more.
This is the beauty of priority voting, even if it is in a limited fashion.
I wish we can do the same thing in America but unfortunately thats never gonna happen to beat Trump and Project 2025 :'(
Vote Blue. People just need to stop shitting on Biden and vote.
The usa needs more parties
Macron calling the snap election is not a political miscalculation, it’s accepting the consequences of your actions. When the entire country tells you “we don’t like what you’re doing” it is the RIGHT thing to do to call an election to give them a chance to reform the government and parliament to properly represent what they actually want, wether or not that is politically advantageous for your party.
They say “political miscalculation” I say “democracy in action.”
And I’m glad to see the left and center team up to push back the fascists.
France remembered what happened to it 80 years ago and decided "not again"
This literally happens at every election. The right wins the first round and then gets beaten at the second. It was literally like that in the last election.
You might need to define 'leftist' and 'liberal' as they apply in this case.
Leftist means left on social and economic issues. Liberals are right on economic issues (=capitalists) and left on social issues, but never as left as true leftists because their capitalist agendas get in the way of implementing true left wing social policies.
It's easy to foster hatred toward liberals online but always remember that for all their shortcomings, they still value the most important things, such as personal freedom and human rights. How we get there is a matter of debate; with fascists, it is a matter of war.
...I don't agree with this. Liberals are right wing on economic issues, which is in direct opposition to personal freedom and human rights. They are socially liberal too, yes, but only as far as the interests of capital allows it.
They do tend to clear the very low bar of being anti-slavery, but... Low, low bar.
@@thomaswikstrand8397liberals as a group covers a wide range.
Institutionally their pretty bad. But individual candidates and liberally voters are useful allies most of the time.
The right is so far gone that even shiftless liberals admit its fascism. So for now they their allies
Not in gaza
@@thomaswikstrand8397 If you just talk to a liberal, they will at the very least be honest about their beliefs. Misinformed or not, they usually want what they want because they think it's good for people. Fascists on the other hand cannot help but lie and obfuscate constantly, because their beliefs include the explicit and purposeful mistreatment of others.
I'm not saying we're meant to hold hands with liberals and do a happy dance forever. I'm just weighing them against the rest of the right wing.
Dude, liberals supported turning Libya, the former most developed nation in africa, into a failed state with open slave markets.
They only believe in wealth and their own comfort.
The French people got a taste of what is to come when dealing with Fascists is like first hand. Like hell they want to have any ruling their home again.
You underestimate the media! The French media has become far right from all of the privatizations. RN candidates get twice or thrice the screen time over other parties. This is how Orban got elected in Hungary. Control the media = control the people.
Do you hear the people sing?
French citizen here. If you think Macron is "liberal" you are sadly mistaken.
why? is he not a Liberal??
@@shzarmaihardly
@@shzarmai not really
"I read La Mond, was it in La Mond...?"
"I don't know, I don't read La Mond."
This is cool to witness 😎
Just hope it’s not too late
To be fair, liberals’ biggest issue is being generally overly-optimistic and thinking ”it will not actually go to shit” and therefor not worrying (e.g. Trump 2016). Maybe having a two round election system allows liberals to be able to see the reality during the election and adjust, rather than going ”who could’ve ever seen this coming???” after the election is already over
Very rarely will liberals actually get back down to reality & see the shit they're in, I really doubt that this is gonna be a wake up call for them... they can't recognize actual fascists, or even if they do, they almost always downplay the threat they pose, cuz "it can't happen here" I guess... at least I'm glad that the french left understands how much of a threat the fascists actually are...
Same in the Brexit referendum their stupid analysts had made pols in their own ecochambers. Getting the answers they needed.
And forgot that online the algorithm only let them see what they want to see.
I work with sales/marketing and i’m also a investor. I see this type of wishfull thinking all the time.
The avarage liberal is also for the mest part well payd, have their own apartment or house, saveings. That is liveing the what used to be « normal middle class lifestyle». They often simply lack the information on how the world is for the more insecure parts of the lower middle classes and working class. Who has been harder hit by globalisation, automation, inflation.
The also underestimate the extreme right ( and lefts), abillity to use social media to reach new targets with their conspiracy theorys and propaganda.
They often are ignorant that the poor, working classes, lower middle class often don’t read newspapers/books or see old style tv anymore
i like where you're going with this
Now this is the solidarity I like to see
The thumbnails of late are all very much of a style, aren't they?
The page with the results at 8:51 shows the National Rally separate from their allies (other far-right parties that the NR didn't put any candidates against because they had an agreement). They're listed as "UXD union of the far right" and account for 3.9% (5th line). That's the discrepancy.
Also, in a very small amount of districts, not dropping out was actually done on purpose. Close to where I live there is one where the NFP is first with over 47%, followed by the National rally and then a center-right party that, if the candidate dropped out, could mean more votes forthe NR, while staying in the race doesn't really hurt the chances of the NFP condidate who is the incumbent and almost won on the first round (you win the seat on the first round if you get more than 50% of the votes and more than 25% of registered voters'votes - the second condition preventing someone from winning when almost nobody voted)
Not to kill Vaush's optimism but it's actually a really bad situation here in France.
The new head of the far right party, Jordan Bardella, is the new fresh coat of paint on the party, he is young, use Tik Tok aggressively and is mostly squeaky clean compared to the LePen family AND reaaaally well media trained.
A bunch of our media are now owned by mostly one or two billionaires, hammering down a lot of the far right talking points, most media refuse to call this party "far right" but call the leftist alliance "far left extremists".
There was and still is a lot of infighting amongst the Republicans but a lot of them rallied behind the far right, and the yet undecided will most likely vote for the far right, at least there is a higher chance for them to vote far right than for any leftwing party.
Usually there is a call to vote against the far right no matter what or who from most parties, that's pretty much how the second round in most elections during these last few decades ended up.
For this election, the left wing coalition made this call, retiring a lot of candidates in favor of the candidate most likely to win against the far right, the center, right wing and presidential parties didn't make such call.
Some, clearly in a loosing position refusing to drop out will cause the far right to gain more seats.
What is clear is that the far right is going from 80 seats out of 577 in the assembly to a potential absolute majority.
Sure, we are trying to block the far right, but that's french tradition at this point, and in any cases, it's a BIG victory for the far right, it's a media and image victory, and it's a victory in gaining even more seats and so more control in the assembly.
The left wing coalition barely manage to get to a same number of votes as a single far right party, this is bad, REALLY BAD.
Once again we are left playing beavers and building barrages wherever we can.
Building barrages disent help à country.
Instead of opposing things by barraging you should build things .
Europe is so weird, you can have a field correspondent in Paris for a report and have him back later that day. That's wild
This is the kind of suit-cleaning content I come to this channel for! 👍
United front!
UK and France both give me hope that it isn't over for us here
“Liberals and leftists unite” oh boy a sitcom! 🙃
Strategic Voting, Baby!! 💪🏼😜👍🏼👍🏼It works!!
i love how the person taking a selfie with le pen looks like she barely avoided downs syndrome
As far as I understand French politics, making such alliances to oust far-right parties (and before that, communists) is something pretty normal there.
Glad to see the people uniting against the common enemy.
Should be on main channel
I'll believe it when it has happened
i thought the thumbnail for this video was hillary clinton laughing, and i was so confused on what she had to do with french politics
This reminds me of what happened in Spain a few years ago
Thumbnail goes hard
9:05 no, the French name is Nouveau Front Populaire.
Government statistics follow the old style where they are descriptions
first time for the far left to not team up with the far right
I'm getting the same feeling about the American electorate
I’m pretty sure that the fear of humiliation after the European elections, might’ve made Macron defend his ego by doing such move: uniting with the left.
9:50 No, it is mega cringe- big city lib LARP/self-satisfaction
Plus the hypocritical lib self satisfaction with it
just slightly surprised le pen still has her hair the French used to know how to deal with collaborators
8:04 what that chatter is referring to is that the results that were revealed at 8pm on election day were not the exact results but rather an estimation based on polls and the registered involvement in the election because ballots hadn't all yet been counted. once they were, the domestic affairs minister's website showed that the results were not 33% for the national rally and 29% for the union of the left but rather 30% for the national rally and 29% for the union of the left.
Also, you have to keep in mind that mainstream french news outlets are owned by a handfull of billionnaires and that they have put some high effort into shitting on the left and being courteous to the far right, so you can see these "fake" results as being another way they found of discreditting the left.
Video title: IMPOSSIBLE: Leftists & Liberals UNITE Against The Far-Right In France
What I learned from the video content: You shouldn't ever steam your suits that will separate the lining
you steam COSTUME suits because they're usually more a breathable polyester blend. you dry clean actual dress clothes
Elections dont mean anything. You can learn alot from the Bolivians in stopping fascists.
Are you talking of recent events? That is hardly something to learn from. A general was fired, tried to build the hastiest and most incompetent coup ever and ofcourse failed. There was no planing or real threat behind that.
republican front in the the french context is simply the tradition of the anti-monarchists. the french republicans invented thr human rights and a whole bunch of other things.
the american bill of rights followed within a few months after the french republicans declared citizens rights.
French republicans did not invent human rights. The Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen and the US Bill of Rights were both heavily inspired and their principles drawn from the English Bill of Rights of 1689
@@LordDim1 literally not true. the english bill of roghts of 1689 was about the rights of the parliament towards the king. it had very little in terms of citizens rights in it. in fact only 2: right to petition and right to own weapons.
only the second amendement is in any way based on the english bill of rights. and nothing about the declaration of humans rights is.
the name just sounds similar
That Paris reporter (Clovis) is very multi lingual
can we all agree that Macron looks way too much like Hanz Landa
First of all it is spelled Hans, american. Second no I do not see that at all. He and Christoph Waltz look nothing alike.
Was that channeling Vlad Vexler at 1:10
Nani?! There's no way
vaush looking at french news spending half the video talking about how to clean a suit.
First, I wouldn't be too sure how united they'll be before we see the resuylt of the elections. Let's not forget the French left was talking about having united lists for the european elections and uh... yeah, we've seen how that worked.
Two, last I checked when I got a pamphlet fopr the Renaissance (liberal so called centrist (with serious right leaning when it come to economic policies) majority party) for the first turn it was hapilly lampooning the LFI deputy in place explaining on he was going to be a barrier to *both* extrmes, no distinction made there.
Three after they've spent the last seven years demonizing the left, lefgitimizing the far right, instituting strong right leaning economic policies and barely a few weak left leaning social ones and genraly creating a golden highway for the National gathering to power, you'll excuse me if my faith in liberal centrist party is low.
I dunno if i will be able to vote on the seccond round. Will still try though.
The random distractions about suits that vaush pauses for in the middle of the sentences of someone talking about rlly important stuff are really bothersome
It can be done.
You absolutely can steam a suit
Come for the politics, stay for the fashion pointers :)
Hopium feels good 😊