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What if you took the alt right meme magic propaganda style and mixed it with left ideology ?
Meet french presidential candidate Jean-Luc Mélenchon, whose youtube channel has gained a lot of popularity recently due to his newfound acquaintances with video game forum JeuxVideos.com (think of it as a blend between mmo-champ and 4chan).
It seems like he is intentionally riding the anti-media/anti-system wave and has directly interacted with this community several times.
It would take me forever to accurately describe what is going on but it seems like that website is giving birth to the left-wing version of the alt-right movement.
They have chosen their Pepe, in the person of Risitas (spanish laughing guy) and are copypasting every possible version of alt right memes.
Some mainstream medias have been quoting "can't stenchon the melenchon" (can't stump the Trump), a /r/Le_JeanLuc (/r/The_Donald) has been created, youtube parody videos are surfacing (debate with Marine Le Pen /watch?v=brGvYwbuXSc).
Jean-Luc Melenchon is widely recognized to be one of the best political debaters and has a lot of similarities with Donald Trump when it comes to anti-system rhetoric and relations with journalists.
But that ends here, because if you thought Berne Sanders was a socialist, here's a few of JLM's propositions :
- 100% tax on all income after 400.000 /year
- taxation of citizens abroad (i.e. fiscal exilees)
- impossibility to earn more than 20 times than the lowest paid employee
-possibility to revocate elected officials by vote
- write a new referendum-approved constitution centered on ecology, democracy and worker's rights
There is a strong anti establishment sentiment in France after president Francois Hollande's (Parti Socialiste)neo liberal policies and the emergence of a threatening conservative right (Le Pen/Fillon), leaving the door open for fringe candidates.
Keep in mind this is all relatively recent and a lot of it is personnal interpretation but i can't wait to see how this will turn out