N26 maybe?

You’re right, I actually had a second take when writing this sentence, for exactly the reasons you state. France and the US aren’t exactly comparable, but to me it seems the Macron “center” and the US democrats are left leaning in social issues, and go with the times, there’s that, but hard right in economy with neoliberalism, trying to run a country like a private business (yes, the education department costs money, it’s public service!) , and crony capitalism. That’s what I was thinking about with the sliding to the right bit. In both countries the main media belong to billionaires pushing hard the far right agenda. It’s exhausting. We mobilised to avoid for the far right to outright win the legislative elections, but I can’t be confident we’ll be so successfull in the next presidential elections. We have a real left here, but they’ll bicker and split when it matters the most. It’s baffling.

Yeah many people are pushing for a new system that will end the all powerful president era. This 5th republic was tailored for De Gaulle, those were different times. On paper the prime minister is supposed to lead.

Oh, right, thanks for clarifying, I get it now. I agree, it’s not happening in isolation. People are fed up with the status quo and being spectators of the policy sliding always more to the right. And when there’s instability, the terrain is ripe for diverse influence and manipulation in the social media. That we’ve seen. Eventually people will vote anything out of frustration, lack of knowledge, and many other reasons including being nudged by bad actors, via bots as well for sure.

As for the article, it’s clearly biased. It never talks about far right, not once, though Rassemblement National is officially a far right party, and it says leftists for the Nouveau Front Populaire, which is a broad alliance ranging from communists all the way to establishment social-democrats, never citing its name, not once. They also forgot to mention that no confidence was the plan all along for the left, while the far right was perfectly fine making the current government their bitch by threatening no confidence, but now, Le Pen is facing inegibility in the next presidential elections in 2027 because of misusing EU parliamentary funds, so it would be tremendously convenient for her if an early election happened next year. Calling it a coalition would mean they are working together, which they aren’t.

I’m sorry, explain to me what we need the EU to send the national guard (what does it even mean) for… a vote of non-confidence?

There is no alliance between the left and the far right. They’re both individually planning to vote the non-confidence motion against the party that got its policy clearly voted against in the last legislative elections and yet is somehow still trying to maintain it, refusing to acknowledge its defeat. We’ve been stuck ever since, but life goes on.

I’m sorry what?

Zulu

Of course, it was a perfect call.

KSP

WSL was my gateway drug to Linux. It’s neat. Until it isn’t.

Geostationary orbit is waaaaay high.

Flight Simulator… 2? 1988, MS-DOS