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He's not even wrong tho, Reagan was the most cunning snake ever elected to office. He somehow flipped the entire political establishment of the United States and it's allies to neoliberalism and facilitated a ridiculous stampeding military inflation that continues to this day with hardly a word of contemporary dissent. That neoliberal consensus created the perfect conditions for a new era of US imperialism and private interest, and the ridiculous military budget did exactly what it was supposed to by provoking the USSR into enormous military investment it could not possibly maintain, ultimately contributing to the dissent which allowed Gorbachev to open the long-coveted markets of the soviet bloc to western parasites and the eventual capitulation of the socialist republics to neoliberal regimes(with a helpful push by Gorbachev, Boris and the CIA). He was supposed to be a stupid cowboy actor but instead became the best agent of the international bourgeoisie in all of history thus far.

This is what every American administration has been crudely imitating ever since: the silent degradation of workers rights and the standard of living as banks and firms receive boon after boon and giant military budgets that somehow get more cartoonish with each passing year but never ever stop. People like Macron and Trump wish they were Reagan. The whole capitalist class ducking pines for another Reagan, but the same trick just won't work twice and things as they are now cannot stand. Macron is going to flee his country before he leaves office, mark my words.

If only. You underestimate the power of modern media, user. Unless the strike manages to cripple newspaper distribution and TV broadcasts, they write reality. If they don't mention any strikes, there are no strikes. If they say his reforms are on track to be approved, they will be. You could set yourself on fire in front of the Élysée, but if no mainstream outlet reports on it, you will never have existed in the first place.

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you sound like an anticommunist with that narrative you're spewing.

He didn't have shit, all of the military expansion was paid with deficit spending.

This. The average person today lives in nightmarish social conditions compared to people even just 50 years ago. However, every is totally OK with it, because the news tells them what to think and there's always a new show on Normieflix to keep you distracted.

fug lad take it easy, enjoy the weekend

Sadly its true that the media shapes opinion, but strikes can be felt even without media coveragr bu damaging supplies of goods in metropolis (blocking important trade highways is a common prptest tactic in my 3rd world shithole, not just marching, singing, and fighting the police)

Sadly this also gives the media the chance to paint the strikers as the bad guys. Not that they wouldn't do that anyways.

Quelqu'un est allé à la Bourse du travail hier ?

The point I'm trying to get across is that Reagan was playing offensively against the USSR while Macron is playing defensively against the EU. By 1988 SDI didn't result in much for the billions dumped on it but it did up the price of building a competitive military, a thing the Soviet leadership was increasingly unable to do. In our time, Macron's main job is being an EU repairman since Merkel's time is clearly running out in Germany as her grand coalitions become increasingly fragile. To this end Macron's primary duty is silencing internal dissent in France, especially from labor and migrants who cause Euroskepticism.

That isn't to defend Reagan, but my point is that Macron is no Reagan. They are two different people in two vastly different eras in two different countries.

The media blackout won't do much. Trains and planes don't stop worldwide for nothing, and people were already distrustful of the French and EU leadership. Le Pen only lost because she was seen as too extremist against Macron, who scooped up reluctant leftist and labor voters. Such voters are being burned hard by him and will at least consider the Zig Forums option during the next election.

Time is working against him, especially if labor actions continue. Every day MLP has a larger and larger chance of becoming France's President and starting a Frexit referendum, for better or for worse.

he is, yes.