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i uh. i like being soft..

real quick for my international followers who may not know: people showed up to the french legislative elections in record numbers not seen since 1997, and successfully guaranteed a majority left-wing parliament.

this does NOT mean that the situation is magically fixed: a big chunk of that left wing is not as revolutionary as you'd expect, and the national front is a single party while the new popular front is a coalition of smaller ones. things are not ideal, what this means in practice is simply that we will not have a proud fascist as prime minister.

this does not mean we are guaranteed a leftist prime minister, most likely they'll be a basic ass uncontroversial guy from the political centre. maybe a centre-left one if we're lucky.

but it is important that so many people showed up to block outright fascism, especially since more and more attacks on the rights of minorities in this country have been happening... which if you know anything about france- we are not great at, in our case especially for poc and religious minorities. still it's not like the left wing is good on that either. much like in the UK, just because the worst guys didn't win doesn't mean that the guys we got are all that great.

still, we are breathing a sigh of relief in that this will prevent the situation from becoming actively worse. AND like i said an active rejection of fascism on this scale doesn't mean nothing. as much as i feel compelled to be as pragmatic as i can here, as i am known to do, i am still hopeful this is the start of some form of change for the better.