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|OT| French Presidential Elect 2017 - La France est toujours insoumise; Le Pen loses
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Pai Pai Master
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Thank fuck for this
Palette Swap
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Man, I hadn't realized the two elections were almost exactly 6 months apart.
ultraspank
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jack_package_200
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Ding dong the witch is dead.
Melon Husk
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Splendid. People wanted a candidate from outside the establishment, thank goodness there was a healthy choice of options for them this time.
RoadHazard
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Good job, France. Nice display of sanity after the shit that's gone down in the UK, US, etc.
Red Arremer
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what the fuck is she doing there
KonradLaw
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Gotta change that avatar now
But yeah, while it's a "win", it's a pretty hollow one. Macron is center-right and doesn't represent much on the grand scheme while Le Pen has not been "defeated", just delayed. But people are quick to already forget about her until they'll worry all over again in 5 years.
Like someone else pointed out, it's actually more the very young than the old that is for Le Pen. And the alt-right is not done trying convert more people to their cause to fuck everything up out of malice and short sightedness. I think these 5 years should serve to strengthen the leftist movement
But yeah, while it's a "win", it's a pretty hollow one. Macron is center-right and doesn't represent much on the grand scheme while Le Pen has not been "defeated", just delayed. But people are quick to already forget about her until they'll worry all over again in 5 years.
Like someone else pointed out, it's actually more the very young than the old that is for Le Pen. And the alt-right is not done trying convert more people to their cause to fuck everything up out of malice and short sightedness. I think these 5 years should serve to strengthen the leftist movement
Some sort of landing maneuver.
hobblygobbly
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Exactly.
I woudn't call the PS left tho
True, centre-left sure, same problem with SPD in Germany, both party platforms need reform. They've lost perspective. Goes for a lot of similar parties in Europe.
Pretty much this. Good job, France!
Holy Order Sol
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Mocking him but looking like the crazy one instead.
Boogie9IGN
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Congrats France!
The fuck is going on in that
Merci beaucoup chers francais.
She's trying to cast a spell.
Sgt. Kabukiman
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Let's not get carried away.
samoscratch
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Cursing people, duh!
Unknown Soldier
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You know, now that I think about it:
Hollande did nothing wrong.
Hollande did nothing wrong.
paperboywriter
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Good job France, greetings from Germany.
He got a lot of voters from Hollande's electorate (actually that's his main source in the first round) though
It's a defeat for the PS, LR and now the FN because they hit a hard ceilling
Also Mélenchon went from 11% to 19,5%, I wouldn't consider that a bad number, nobody expected that from him and he could have been in the second round
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Seeing these results, the polls might have been off, but I believe that remarkably awful debate performance drowned MLP even more.
gutter_trash
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Melenchon and abstainers have proved that they are equally as awful as FN voters
harriet the spy
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Thanks for the sophistry, it really adds something to the discussion.
Abstainers can go vote 'blanc'. But let me reformulate: abstainers who complain about the vote results can eat shit.
I am not saying it's a resounding victory for Macron, but whiners are loving to prop up that he has not support, which is factually a lie.
Your point could certainly be made about all candidates (certainly can be made about melenchon, that people liked but didn't support the more 'extreme' components of his policies). Perhaps the candidate with the most genuine support for his platform didn't get elected
he deserved to though
https://www.buzzfeed.com/albertonar...ok-of-european?utm_term=.vpGY5G0O1#.tyrz9nWGw
Decent article, I do like how he was directly debating anyone.
Decent article, I do like how he was directly debating anyone.
whyamihere
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And a last minute swing wouldn't have been captured by the polls. Who knows what would've happened if we had polls yesterday.
It's a crash landing now. ¯\_(ツ
_/¯Ah. That makes sense. Well, sense... it's a fucking insane way of "mocking". Looking like the crazy one indeed.
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Fucking weirdos
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Loosers club
Why do fascists all have such terrible hair?
Red Arremer
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It certainly gives enough time for a leftist movement to grow and establish itself in France. Melenchon, in the short time he had, did move a lot of votes towards him. So clearly the interest in the left is there, if it is representative of socialist values that blue collar workers, the socially downtrodden and young people want.
That's the kind of stuff that the right populists are trying to lure the people in with, and they ARE succeeding with it, but as soon as there is a feasible option for those people who find no alternative in the establishment parties, the right wing loses its steam.
It's a good song! But yeah, it probably won't win.
Blackquill
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Come on
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