French President Emmanuel Macron on Saturday, February 14, urged calm and restraint after the fatal beating of a 23-year-old French youth aligned with the far-right on the sidelines of a conference by a hard-left lawmaker in the southeastern city of Lyon.

The death of the young man – identified only as Quentin – has intensified tensions between France’s far-right and radical left who are both eyeing 2027 presidential elections.

He had been hospitalized in Lyon on Thursday after being attacked while providing what his supporters said was security for a protest against an appearance by hard-left MEP Rima Hassan at the Lyon branch of the Sciences Po university.

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    Fuck your false dichotomy bullshit.

    You can treat the symptoms while working to cure the cause. The two are not mutually exclusive. Each has merit and doing both simultaneously has compounding benefits.

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        Specifically those who disagree with my right to live. If you disagree on any other front, there’s no reason for violence.

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            • Literally by holding the opinion that people like myself shouldn’t exist
            • Supporting people who are actively killing people like myself
            • Encouraging others to incite violence towards us
            • Supporting policy that would kill many of us
            • fortnitefinn@sh.itjust.works
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              Why do you think this is what they believe?

              The more specifics you can use, the better.

              Ex: Instead of saying “Literally by holding the opinion that people like myself shouldn’t exist,” can you tell me what that opinion actually is? I’m not even sure what you mean by “people like yourself.”

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                  Yes? People get shot and killed all the time for all sorts of different reasons.

                  What are you trying to argue? You can be direct about it instead of trying to play leapfrog with yourself.

                  • NotASharkInAManSuit@lemmy.world
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                    Congrats, you play stupid real fucking stupid, stupid.

                    Fuck off, I see what you’re doing. I’m done interacting with this high school debate idiocy.

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        Oh fuck of with that disingenuous “people who disagree with you” bullshit.

        You’re clearly here in bad faith.

        Fuck off, fascist sympathizer.