I would definitely be in favor of France taking the US's place on the world stage.
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Yep, and while we did progress from the mindset of that time, I don’t think we made as much progress as we should have, and the recent political atmosphere is... worrying. I mean, I don’t think we would enslave Africa again, but I shudder to think of what a superpower with our far right as its head would do. Also, superpowers are intrinsically dangerous, imho.
France is still enslaving parts.
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France is still enslaving parts.
What are you refering to?
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What are you refering to?
The West African Franc and the Central African Franc and how France is using them to hold the economic keys to huge parts of its former colonial empire.
Not sure if that's what the previous poster referred to, but that's what I'd guess.
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can it be literally anyone else please? I worry that is the French get any more pompous they'll explode so fiercely that we won't need any nuclear weapons
LePen's party is on the cusp of taking the presidency.
It's crazy to see anymore excited about a more militant French government.
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Hm, I don’t think there’s such a thing as an “appropriate leader of the free world”. (Not even talking about how problematic the notion of “the free world” is.) We’re in this mess because one country has this much power over the rest of us. Replacing it with another (I’m saying this hypothetically, because France is in no position to gain as much power as the US anyway) doesn’t solve the problem.
Also, and I’m saying this as a French person, France has its issues, even though they’re not as cataclysmically bad as the United States’s problems right now. The far right is getting a lot stronger here too (as in many other countries) and I’m frankly worried about the future. Many people here are fighting against this, and I hope we can turn the tide somehow, but... never depend on one country.
Yeah, 2 countries should be world leaders. Moldova and Romania
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Yeah, 2 countries should be world leaders. Moldova and Romania
Kazakhstan would like a word. They are a number one exporter of potassium. Also other countries are run by little girls.
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The West African Franc and the Central African Franc and how France is using them to hold the economic keys to huge parts of its former colonial empire.
Not sure if that's what the previous poster referred to, but that's what I'd guess.
How are the west African France and central African franc controlled by France, aside from the same? Actually asking, not trying to be contrarian.
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LePen's party is on the cusp of taking the presidency.
It's crazy to see anymore excited about a more militant French government.
Her (grand?)father was a piece of shit actual Nazi in Vichy's government, wasn't he?
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How are the west African France and central African franc controlled by France, aside from the same? Actually asking, not trying to be contrarian.
Someone else posted this Jacobin article that explains it: https://jacobin.com/2020/01/franc-zone-french-neocolonialism-africa
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Her (grand?)father was a piece of shit actual Nazi in Vichy's government, wasn't he?
Kinda not the point; rather she's the leader of a far-right party.
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