The electoral choice almost everywhere in the Western civilization is between nasty cynical lackeys of liquid capital and neo-Nazis.
The US has thrown a funny wrinkle into the whole deal by electing a nasty cynical lackey of liquid capital who poses as a neo-Nazi.
Nifty observation. It seems that Trump has created the perfect political personae to win at this point in history. Let us hope that history turns the corner soon.
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What about Russia : Putin vs. forgot-the-name-of-that-Nazi-and- Putin’s- opposer?
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Exactly, Putin and Navalny represent the same dynamic. Navalny lost an eye as a result of his anti-Putin struggle, by the way.
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Speaking of Russia the trend of glorifying Stalin and his ethnic deporttions contiunes unabated.
http://windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2017/05/ever-more-russians-say-stalin-was-right.html
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Putin, by the way, is similar to Merkel in that he refuses to limit immigration, and nationalists detest him for that. He mocks Merkel but in his own country, he’s doing the same thing for the same reasons.
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More hackity hacky
Literally at the 11th hour, before the blackout would silence it, the Macron campaign issued a statement saying it had been hacked and many of the documents that were dumped on the American 4Chan site and re-posted by Wikileaks were fakes.
The mainstream French media carried the Macron campaign statement, but virtually nothing else. In addition to the normal proscription of campaign “propaganda” on election eve, the government issued a statement saying specifically that anyone disseminating the materials in this dump in France could be liable to prosecution, and calling on the media to shoulder their “responsibility” by steering clear of them.
Meanwhile, Wikileaks jumped on the document dump, but didn’t seem to be familiar with the material in it. Responding to the Macron statement that some of the items were bogus, Wikileaks tweeted, “We have not yet discovered fakes in #MacronLeaks & we are very skeptical that the Macron campaign is faster than us.”
Ah, but there’s the rub. As reported by The Daily Beast, part of the Macron campaign strategy against Fancy Bear (also known as Pawn Storm and Apt28) was to sign on to the phishing pages and plant bogus information.
“You can flood these [phishing] addresses with multiple passwords and log-ins, true ones, false ones, so the people behind them use up a lot of time trying to figure them out,” Mounir Mahjoubi, the head of Macron’s digital team, told The Daily Beast for its earlier article on this subject.
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Yay! Although I have zero enthusiasm for Macron himself. I’m just happy that Putin got socked in the face.
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I do not care about Purin’s feelings, but am happy the antisemitic Le Pen hasn’t won.
French Jewish immigration to Israel has been significant lately, so France is in danger of going down since Jews have been litmus paper for societies they reside in for centuries. When Jews leave a country, the country isn’t well.
And to Israel Jews do come, including from (still?) first world countries. 🙂
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“I’m just happy that Putin got socked in the face.”
I’m actually thinking that this is like the Russian fixed elections that Yeltsin “won”.
I don’t think Le Pen actually won, but I wonder if Macron isn’t just going to hurry up the bad crap in the future (by releasing and empowering an even more toxic national-populist force).
Yeah, I’m pessmistic about this….
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There’s a great article in the New York Times by a French guy about why people vote for LePen. It’s the best I’ve read on the subject: https://www.google.com/amp/s/mobile.nytimes.com/2017/05/04/opinion/sunday/why-my-father-votes-for-marine-le-pen.amp.html
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