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  • The English wikipedia article is not complete about the party’s foundation: Jean Marie Le Pen did found it, but not alone. Since he was the party’s president for almost 40 years, he’s the most known founder.
    Among the co-founders were two ex-Waffen SS, Pierre Bousquet and Léon Gaultier. See the french wikipedia article for more details.

    Of course, he did beat up communists not much later when he was in uni.

    And he did not stop there. During the Algerian independance war, he is believed to have tortured and supervised the torture of prisoners.
    He’s been condemned at least 25 times for antisemitism, inciting hatred and discrimination, minimizing/excusing war crimes and piblic outrage (not sure about my translations, these are serious offenses in the french law). For example, he stated multiple times that the nazi’s crematory ovens were a detail of the ww2.
    He’s been riling up the country against non-white and non-hetero people for the last decades. And he’s been president of a party that’s had litreral nazis and neonazis in its ranks, which he never seemed to care about.



  • Edit: this is a rant and does not address the issue, just points out Macron’s shittiness.

    Well, Macron openly and blatantly assisted Le Pen’s far right party for the past sevent years. Idk what he’s playing so shocked about.

    It was Macron and his cronies who started the train of “well the far right is bad but the left is anti semitic” on which the far right happily jumped. Nevermind that Le Pen’s party was actually created by an ex SS and that some of their candidates were seen having some nazi fun with friends.

    A french newspaper just revealed that there have been secret dinners and meetings between people close to Macron and the far right’s leadership these past month, the latest happening 3 days after the national assembly surprise dissolution.









  • Maybe I didn’t get my facts straight, but iirc there are around 7.5k satellites up there, with starlink current count about 5.5k. And I think I read they got the greenlight for the 7.5k gen 2 sats launches.
    That looks like a scale change to me. Associated with the short lifespan (which contrasts with the situation 30 years ago, where launches were more expensive), it’s kind of a new situation and should have warranted a more careful approach.

    So musk isn’t the first one to launch satellites, I agree. But the way it’s done is kinda new, and mostly on the worse side. And I’m not saying the old way was good, and not absolving previous actors from responsability in the pollution.