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France's left-wing presidential candidate
it’s mélenchon, for those who were wondering
Is he going to be a candidate again !? I thought the last race was his last !
Despite my personal liking for him (justified or not) ; I hope someone a little more "amicable" takes his place. Many people are scared of him, some for understandable reasons.
That's really too bad, he is a fucking russian shill.
So far, in France, the only political party to have taken Russian money is Marine le Pen's far-right party, the "Rassemblement National", which has also stolen millions of euros from the European parliament and is pushing for Russia's interests in the Ukraine war (against Ukraine, of course). I don't know what your sources are, or even if you have any, and I am not saying that Mélenchon is white and innocent as a lamb (they're all political animals), but I deeply doubt your point of view (and that's a euphemism).
Mélenchon a just anoyher tankie. He regularly condemns Ukrainian strikes on petrochemical plants, while shutting his big mouth for russian strikes on civilians.
Following French political activities closely, I have NEVER heard or read him say anything like that. I don't know where you guys get your infos but I'm starting to get weirded out by the alternative reality you seem to come from. Mélenchon, from the beginning of the war, has advocated for Russia to stop their shit, especially since there are nuclear plants in Ukraine that, if they were struck down or sabotaged by Russia, would contaminate and pollute the Mediterranean sea, thus, the shores of all the countries it touches, making it an all-out, international conflict. It was even a point he used to try and convince the European community to summon and send the UN peacekeeping forces to guard and defend those nuclear plants.
Oh then i guess you are not following closely enough. Or maybe you have a selective blindness
My source : https://francais.rt.com/news/135342-melenchon-critique-frappes-ukrainiennes-russie-alerte-sur-une-escalade
Or another source: https://www.telos-eu.com/fr/politique-francaise-et-internationale/melenchon-dans-les-pas-de-poutine-faure-dans-ceux-.html
Both are Mélenchon talking. So stop your nonsense, Mélenchon is a Pootine's bitch, just like Le Pen is. Or maybe worse, because at least Le Pen got paid for services, Mélenchon is just sucking the cock for no reason other than he s a narcissistic, authoritarian wanabe-dictator
I see your point, but I also see its short-sightedness. Nobody "sucks cock" for no reason, especially in politics.
Source 01: It's recent, I didn't have that. All I read is that he doesn't want the conflict to escalate even more, and I think we'll all agree on not wanting a 3rd world war/nuclear apocalypse. So far, it is coherent with his positions, and I agree that it would only benefit America (who's already led by a fascist and holding Europe by the energetic balls after the destruction of the Northstream pipeline). Russia has threatened to use nukes, after all. Also, if Russia is gaining resources and a power stance against NATO by invading Ukraine, Ukraine is gaining nothing by pushing the front on Russia, except revenge. It'd be cool if they could off Putin and end this madness (they have tried by sending attack drones), but if it could be done, it would already have been done, I guess. Also, Putin had told in the past that if NATO, that he considers to be an American-led adversary, tried to integrate Ukraine, making it an "American" advanced base just next to Russia, the shit would hit the fan, and it happened. IMHO, if Ukraine could have been an independent, buffer state between Russia and NATO states, or maybe an exchange state (commercial, diplomatic, etc), things may have not become as dire as they are right now (except, Russia has already invaded and claimed Ukrainian territory in the past).
Source 02: I don't trust Think Tanks. They're never neutral and are usually composed of university people with no professional outcome other than lending their voices to the private interests that pay them. I'll agree on one thing, though: how the fuck could Ukraine organize presidential elections in its current state (unless there is an actual ceasefire), and even if there was a ceasefire and an election, what would guarantee that those elections wouldn't be manipulated by Russia and that a Russian plant wouldn't be elected?
My speculation: Trump isn't eternal. Putin either. But, to preserve France independence from the predatory, failing and now fascist USA (which will not end with Trump) in the long term, France needs to get cheap Russian energy (Northstream), instead of being forced to buy American energy at an arm's cost. I think the shift Mélenchon is planning for is simply the fall of the USA, which will make Europe even more vulnerable to Russia's wrath. And in a world where the USA has destroyed itself, the needed allies are... Russia and China, because America isn't top dog anymore. I think Mélenchon is pushing for an end of the war even if that would benefit Russia (which isn't fair for Ukraine), in order to escape the predation of the USA, but I don't think he'd suck Putin just for the sake of sucking Putin's cock. There isn't even an ideological similarity between the two of them. Russia isn't a leftist state. Russia is just the predator that is the closest, and the failing USA will not defend Europe (which has been made even more blatant by their Iranian clusterfuck) as it has pushed for not supporting Ukraine anymore. If there is a Russian plant in the western world, it's Trump. It's Trump who has summoned Zelensky to humiliate him publicly and pushed him to surrender to Russia. Not Mélenchon, who isn't even in power. Trump is the pivot point. Trump is the Russian asset.
That's exactly Russian propaganda. France doesn't need "cheap energy" ftom Russia. It needs a sovereign reliable energy supply, one that pnly renewable energy (and possibly nuclear under certain conditions) can enable. France is working on this.
"Cheap energy" from Russia is also a lie. Putin's vassal Orban didn't get cheap energy either. Hungary did have higher energy prices abd much higher inflation than other EU member states.
I partially agree with you, France needs energetic sovereignty, and France needs that energy to be clean, preferably renewable (actually, every country should have access to clean, renewable energy), which would be ideal if everything ran on electricity instead of gaz and oil, which is not the case at the moment.
Personal traffic is currently shifted to electricity, so is home heating via heat pump or to other sovereign sources via distributed heating (oil is being phased out in Austria for example, gas will follow sooner than later). Heavy road traffic is seeing currently the implementation of commercial vehicles that can cover everything up to mid range. China is already getting into transition in that market too. Europe would be irresponsible not to follow.
What is left is rather small in volume. Making oneself reliant on an openly hostile Russian dictatorship which won't waste a second to use that dependency as a weapon against France or Europe, is not necessay than anymore.
On that, I completely agree with you. Unfortunately, France isn't ready for that transition thanks to our collaborationist leaders, and has to face stuff like that :
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/23/climate/offshore-wind-gas-trump-total.html
This has absolutely nothing to do with wind power in France. The US pays a French company a lot of money to not build wind power in the US. Not France's or Europe's strategic problem.
France has massively increased renewable sources and is also in good position regarding EV transition.
No matter how you turn it, there is no reason to make oneself dependent on gas or oil from an openly hostile dictatorship in Moscow.
I definitely hope we don't have to become dependant from an eastern or western fascist, buddy
I think you have a waayy to charitable interpretation of Mélenchon. You try to see a long term plan behind the immediate red flags, while I do not think he deserves do. He is just a politician, they have no vision beyond their immediate interests. I reject your hypothesis of his supppsed 3D chess move on US/France/Russia
I understand your point. Being french, it's hard not to throw all those fuckers in the same basket. My reason for trusting Mélenchon's party over others is simply a test of coherence between what is claimed by the party and what they actually vote in parliament (to me, it's actually the only way to know a political party's solidity beyond the noise they make for PR). So far, I've found more coherency in LFI and the ecologists. The communist party also has solid parliament votes, but their current leader is a bad joke. The french socialist party I won't even mention, the only socialism they're capable of is putting the word in their name (the last socialist president's mandate went so bad he actually killed the French's establishment left, and supported Macron over a candidate of his own party during the following elections). They're the french collaborationist equivalent of the american Dems. Inept and treacherous. Plain anticapitalist parties would be better IMHO, but they don't have the voter base to compete. Also, I watch who the corporate media has been bashing the most for the benefit of our corrupt oligarchy, and they're terrified of LFI, which is a good sign to me.
So not really left wing then.
Left nationalist, if that makes any sense.
LOL
Typical politician talking about things people want but isn't actually going to change.
The problem with games is that they are ruled by IP law, which was codified globally a few decades ago and is completely anti-consumer. Even if a country wanted to change them, it's likely the US would crush them before that.
He literaly plans to end the republic and create a new one by gathering randomly selected citizens in a room, so if you like change you can't expect more
What we all need is more democracy. In fact, we are seeing the shadow of Nazism returning.
That is exactly the point of this movement. France 5th Republic has the president holding too much power. They want to write a new constitution, the 6th Republic, to address this issue and establish a system with more power separation and balance. And possibly more space for direct democracy?
My question is why must the entire Republic be changed? I am not French or into French politics so I don't know why the republics change so often?
It's a long story but basically instead of doing amendments the french like to start with a clean slate every time the current system seems inadequate.
Previous republics ended due to wars, revolutions and political deadlock.
Ah thanks
PRSTV paraliamentary democracy. Only way.
He also has opinions on the EU and those happen to be quite of the kind Putin approves.
Left-wing
Has opinions Putin would approve
Huh?
Putin doesn't really care if European countries are governed by leftists, fascists or whoever, as long as they are nationalists, working towards the balkanisation of Europe and the functional destruction of the EU because this is the precondition to enable the next stepd of Russian conquest and domination of Europe.
There are not only right Putinist parties in the EU. In Germany Wagenknecht is openly defending Russian positions and pretends to be left as well.
One can be left-wing and still dislike the EU.
His views go beyond dislike. He wants the EU functionally dismantled and that is why Putin doesn't care if he or Le Pen make it to power.
So far, there’s a slightly growing sentiment of politicians to preserve games, but so far as I know, none of them have specifically mentioned cases of reselling them. I’m curious what’s going to happen when that enters the conversation.
Especially since, we’re likely headed for a digital future anyway - just that we might manage those licenses on a drive, not a disc. And if reselling can happen on an account or a hard drive, we’ll need to think about what a script kiddy with Python and an LLM would do with resellable licenses.
They've chopped people's heads for less…