Marine Le Pen banned from running in 2027 and given four-year sentence

Re:Marine Le Pen banned from running in 2027 and given four-... by johnbronnan on Tuesday April 01, 2025 @06:30AM (#43545091)

You are again comparing the flawed US "democratic" system to a real democracy. Trump should not be able to gain those tools because a functioning democracy protects the rule of law and holds justice to be above all other concepts. In the US, the legal system is a sham and the levers of power are easily taken for abuse (not to mention corporate capture of the two political parties which control all political life). So while Trump should not be able to capture those tools, it is only possible because the US does not have a real functioning democracy. In places like France, the state ensures that it is not possible to easily take complete power as Trump has in the US.

In short, no, Trump should not be able to take these tools. But in actual democracies they have checks to ensure that this is not possible while in the US no such checks exist.

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Re:Marine Le Pen banned from running in 2027 and given four-... by refurb on Tuesday April 01, 2025 @08:24AM (#43545916)

I didn’t ask if Trump should be able to take those tools.

I asked if you would be comfortable if he did.

Either you believe it is possible to create a perfect political system which never makes a mistake, or you believe mistakes can be made thus those tools should never be available to those in power.

Which one is it?

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Re:Marine Le Pen banned from running in 2027 and given four-... by darthrupert on Thursday April 03, 2025 @12:25AM (#43564736)

That's easy. It's false dichotomy.

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Re:Marine Le Pen banned from running in 2027 and given four-... by refurb on Thursday April 03, 2025 @05:53AM (#43567264)

Saying either the world is perfect or not perfect is a false dichotomy?

I’m sure that encompasses all possible outcomes, so clearly it’s not false.

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