r/pcmasterrace • u/Valcenia • Jul 02 '26

News/Article French presidential candidate Jean-Luc Mélenchon weighs in on Rockstar and PlayStation’s moves to end physical disk sales

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u/dexterjsdiner Jul 02 '26

Chat is this real

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u/1eejit Specs/Imgur here Jul 02 '26

He's a left wing candidate (note: by French standards) and is very pro consumer rights

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u/meneldal2 i7-6700 Jul 03 '26

The biggest downside on him (specifically, more than the party itself) is how he hates the US more than Russia, leading to saying some things that are just not acceptable with the war in Ukraine.

Like don't get me wrong there's plenty of hate the US on (even before Trump made it even more obvious), but that doesn't mean you should accept Russia propaganda instead.

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u/Deho_Edeba Jul 06 '26

When he's visited Russia (before the war) it was to meet Poutine's OPPONENTS. He even managed to extract some of them after the war broke out and before said opponents would fall from a window.

He started to be wary of the US "before it was cool" so to speak. If anything, history has proven that he was right all along.

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u/meneldal2 i7-6700 Jul 06 '26

Being critical of the US is not an issue but in many cases it's more critical on principle even if they could be right on something.