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Vladan Lausevic's avatar

"Darmanin being Darmanin" x)

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Vladan Lausevic's avatar

It seems that the 1 May events in France confirm the trend of post-industrial social development. In Sweden, two largest left-wing parties are today more of middle-class parties , not driven by manual workers and similar

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Mark L's avatar

Thank You Julien. Sometime I feel that people have too much time on their hands, and other actors use these people's time for their own purposes. ( my take)

After this past week vote in Canada's federal elections. Albertans who were upset at the results of the election, staged a pro separatist rally in Edmonton? I think a hundred or two people showed up.

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Theo's avatar

Are we certain these were genuinely far-left individuals?

It's not uncommon for people to disguise themselves, claim to represent a group, and act out just to discredit them. It's quite simple and effective actually.

That kind of tactic isn’t unheard of, we know some US agencies used similar methods in the past, for example (and will surely keep doing so).

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Julien Hoez's avatar

It’s a very good question, but a lot of this was claimed towards the end of yesterday by far-left groups, and as mentioned, there were first-hand witnesses who saw very specific iconography, and links to specific politicians (as in Glucksmann’s case)

Far-left activists also have a long history of this, like the far-right, who have other methods of going around and smashing things/people up

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Terrilyn🇨🇦's avatar

The international riotous movement within democracies isn't by chance.

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