Suuure, everybody knows NATO started that conflict /s
Treason. Vermin like her should be deported to Russia.
Traitors to democracy
That’s Sophie Chikirou of La France Insoumise (LFI), the leading French left-wing populist party. Apparently, she’s also in a relation with the party’s founder and long-term leader Jean-Luc Mélenchon, so also quite ‘prominent’.
Most left-wing populist parties in Europe are financed by Russia while most right-wing populist parties are financed by Russia.
Anything extreme or radical typically is, it makes it harder for traditional parties to govern, and they tend to shift away from the political center themselves as well. It’s political disruption, plain and simple.
The right wing parties shift away from the center. Not so much the left leaning parties.
The fuck is she doing slithering up to Putin then? Do they think Lenin’s corpse is suddenly going to bust out of its glass sarcophagus and bring back the CCCP?
They’re so obsessed with ‘overcoming the system’ that they don’t care whatsoever who to share the bed with to - allegedly - reach that goal.
That their great benefactor doesn’t want them to reach their - or any - goal at all but just plays them like a puppet master to sow constant dissent, is beyond their scope of understanding. Useful idiots.
Fuckin tankies.
Seems to be the French equivalent of Germany’s Sahra Wagenknecht. Also nominally left-wing populist, but pro-Russia and taking weird rightwing talking points.
She should be banned from national politics.
They are flying a Russian flag? So they aren’t even trying to hide it?
No, they are not…Edit: I’m an idiot.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_of_Russia
Looks Russian to me, right? Am I seeing it wrong?
No, you are correct. I just looked at her ribbon and didn’t pay attention to the actual flag. My mistake, thanks for pointing it out.
Its a sash not a ribbon.
Those people behind her clearly are.
Deport her to russia.
By catapult.
In a better society politicians like that would be sentenced to clear mine fields.
Well that’s fucking disappointing for an LFI spokesperson to be saying.
Only if you’re not paying attention to the party, they always eagerly fit into the worst clichês of far-left. Always siding with dictators, Islamic terrorists, antissemitic propaganda etc… really much more similar to the RN then they’re supporters like to admit.
I’ve listened to Mélenchon when he came to Montreal, and I’ve listened to a few of his discours online afterwards. I did not hear any of the things you’re describing. I also don’t trust the accusations you’re making because it’s exactly the kind of shit neoliberal centrists have been accusing the Left of since the Iraq War, all the while actually doing all of the same things in practice. So I’m giving LFI the benefit of the doubt in general and I’m disappointed about this in particular.
Jean-Luc Mélenchon is not a dummy. He is never going to say something completely illegal. He is an immensely intelligent man (yes, really). He uses dogwhisles. And you only notice those dogwhisles if you are carefully pay attention
I’ll give you a few examples.
The Omar Mosque
French police raided the Mosque Omar in the 11th district of Paris
Immediatly, Melenchon posted this on social media:
French police breaking into a mosque. Humiliating muslims. Is this what you want? How can you not hate a State doing this?
Here is the thing. Everyone in French intelligence heard about the Omar Mosque in the 11th district of Paris. And never in a good way.
This is one of the most extremist mosque in France:
In fact, the Omar Mosque had this extremism reputation for decades :
Mélenchon doesn’t give a fuck. He made a tweet that spread like wildfire about the evil police humiliating ordinary muslims. Not honest, but creating resentment works. That’s a way to gain votes.
He publically accused journalist Ruth El Krief of insulting Islam/Muslims:
You can criticize Ruth El Krief on a lot of things. And that’s fine. But she never insulted Islam/Muslims. Never. NEVER. Jean-Luc Mélenchon knows that.
He posts a message on social media accusing her of insulting Islam right in the beginning of the Gaza crisis. A lot of people, especially in the muslim community, were shocked and horrified.
By publically accusing a Jewish figure of disrespecting Muslims, he can appear as “the defender” of humiliated muslims. He gains many votes.
Right after his tweet, El Krief received thousands of messages threatening to rape her and cut her throat. She now lives under police protection:
This man knows exactly what he is doing.
Thank you, the evil this man spreads is not shared enough. He’s at least as hateful and toxic as Le Pen, both terrible for France and Europe. We can thank them both for another delay with the Mercosur deal, just to give a recent example. Putin puppets is just the start of their evilness.
oh, these extremist dudes always love a strong man that shouts loud and aggressively… left or right, the psychological mechanism is exactly the same, the end result also: violence and racism.
marine le PENNE not useful enogh for you PUTIN, she must be damaged goods at this point and probably needs to find another putin SHILL in france.
For a long time the penalty for Treason was Death. Just saying.
Putain
I love how the two most villainous people in the world - Trump and Putin - both have names that are synonymous with farts.
Putain means whore
But pootin’ is trumpin’
Yes but Putin rhymes with Tootin.
Ah, right, didn’t think of that
She’s bought and paid for
You can always find an idiot in any country.
Problem is when that idiot finds an increasing number of other idiots voting for them…
The real problem is when you are only left with the choice between centrist neoliberal billionaire bootlickers, pro russian far right billionaire bootlickers or pro russian leftists (who you at least hope are not billionaire bootlickers).
Given that Putin also is a billionaire, aren’t they also billionaire bootlickers?
Hence the “hope”.
But where’s the hope coming from if you, as in the video above, can clearly see that they absolutely love to lick that boot squeaky clean?
They’re licking Putins boot more because he’s the russian dictator, not because he’s rich. Also, I’m not French and the german Left is not explicitly licking Putin’s boot at all, they’re just weirdly fixated on not fighting anybody under any circumstances, which I still believe they can be woken up from. If I can get a meaningful wealth tax out of them, I’m willing to work from there.
They’re licking Putins boot more because he’s the russian dictator, not because he’s rich.
The difference being? Both being a dictator and being rich are leading to the same thing: being powerful; and that’s the sole reason to get one’s boots licked.
and the german Left is not explicitly licking Putin’s boot at all
“At all” is probably a bit bold of a claim. Granted, with Wagenknecht leaving ship and taking her most avid followers with her, the most prominent “Russian” voice in that party is gone. But you still find a remarkably strong foundation of sympathies towards Russia in that party. No other normal party is as soft on Russia as them. That weird fixation of not giving Ukraine any weapons at all is exactly testament of trying to appease this part of the party that might have gotten quieter but still exists, while still fulfilling the expectations of especially the new influx of members/voters that are no longer filled with these crude nostalgic sympathies. I hope the Linke can overcome this but only time will tell.
It was not NATO tried to knock over Ukraine.
In December 2013, she said in a speech to the US–Ukraine Foundation [uk] that the U.S. had invested over $5 billion on democratic skills and institutions, civic participation, and good governance in Ukraine since 1991.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victoria_Nuland
What’s that but the hybrid in a hybrid war?
Elle peut se mettre dans un grand tas de merde. Va chier grande putte de merde.
