>>80272882It's okay chumbie, in the interests of not veering off-topic I'll try to be brief:
Basically,
the French recently held a legislative election where right-wing parties, think Zemmour, Le Pen and Bardella's people, were expected to make enormous gains and become the dominant political coalition in parliament, but the left and "centrist" coalitions decided to collaborate to keep them out and conspired to strategically stand candidates down in different constituencies so as not to split the anti-rightwing vote, meaning that while the right made large gains, the number of seats they got is both hilariously disproportionate to the number of votes they actually received (see picrel, think something similar to the UK general election they just had on the fourth but on crack), and they're now only the third largest coalition in their legislature. My French buddy says the people he knows are all getting extremely blackpilled, as it not only shows the system is actively working against the will of the French electorate, but also because now the French parliament won't be able to form a governing coalition at all, in the worst case scenario meaning the parliament will be totally paralyzed for the next three years. More details here https://www.spiked-online.com/2024/07/08/the-french-lefts-pyrrhic-victory/ So yeah, you can see why the potential for "la basé" jokes is pretty high right now