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Post by Murray the Demonic Skull on Apr 23, 2017 14:48:50 GMT -5
She's not going to win. You can print that comment and make me eat it in 2 weeks if I'm wrong.
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Post by Desert Dweller on Apr 23, 2017 14:57:27 GMT -5
She's not going to win. You can print that comment and make me eat it in 2 weeks if I'm wrong. I want to believe. But, lots of people said that about Trump. And Brexit happened. And I'm now slightly afraid that the whole world is going insane. And are we ever going to get to a time when our choices are better than "Candidate most people don't like vs Truly detestable racist"? I can't believe I now look fondly at the times when our choices were "Candidate most people don't like vs Candidate most people don't like". |
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Post by Buon Funerale Amigos on Apr 23, 2017 17:03:09 GMT -5
She's not going to win. You can print that comment and make me eat it in 2 weeks if I'm wrong. *prints comment, dusts off fax machine and looks up France's country code.* |
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Post by Deleted on Apr 23, 2017 17:15:18 GMT -5
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Post by Pastafarian on Apr 23, 2017 18:16:56 GMT -5
She's not going to win. You can print that comment and make me eat it in 2 weeks if I'm wrong. I'm getting a super strong sense of deja vu right now. |
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Post by Roy Batty's Pet Dove on Apr 23, 2017 18:26:45 GMT -5
She's not going to win. You can print that comment and make me eat it in 2 weeks if I'm wrong. Isn't Macron favored in polls by a good 15 percentage points over each of the other major candidates in a head-to-head matchup? That's better than what the polls showed wrt the 2016 election in the US, where people thought super-volatile polls which on average had Clinton winning by less than 5 percentage points over Trump. Also, it's not like Chirac was super popular in 2002, is it? |
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Post by Desert Dweller on Apr 23, 2017 19:52:21 GMT -5
She's not going to win. You can print that comment and make me eat it in 2 weeks if I'm wrong. *prints comment, dusts off fax machine and looks up France's country code.* Does *everyone* get to print the comment to send to you to eat? Or just me? Not that I want this to happen, of course. Just wondering. |
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Post by Desert Dweller on Apr 23, 2017 21:30:27 GMT -5
Just saw Le Pen was at 5% of the vote in Paris.
France! It's just like us! Cities vote one way, those outside the city vote a different way.
Please don't elect Le Pen, France. I still have yet to visit. I don't want it to be ruined before I get there!
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Post by sarapen on Apr 25, 2017 9:32:49 GMT -5
It only just now occurred to me that if Le Pen wins she'll have access to France's nuclear weapons. She could theoretically nuke all of Algeria if she wanted to.
On the other hand, Macron is probably going to win, so Justin Trudeau will have another good-looking neoliberal-ish centrist world leader to make out with in public.
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Post by dＬᵒ on Apr 25, 2017 20:55:55 GMT -5
www.residentadvisor.net/news.aspx?id=38818I think at this point it is safe to assume that any 'youth brand' corporation is a front for a crotchety boojee old man. (See also Coachella, Urban Outfitters, Whole Foods)
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Post by Pastafarian on Apr 26, 2017 13:09:04 GMT -5
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Post by Tea Rex on Apr 26, 2017 16:12:22 GMT -5
It only just now occurred to me that if Le Pen wins she'll have access to France's nuclear weapons. She could theoretically nuke all of Algeria if she wanted to. On the other hand, Macron is probably going to win, so Justin Trudeau will have another good-looking neoliberal-ish centrist world leader to make out with in public. Have you been reading my fanfiction?? |
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Post by Lord Lucan on Apr 27, 2017 7:00:17 GMT -5
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Post by Lord Lucan on Apr 27, 2017 17:43:32 GMT -5
So having been made to look so remote from labour by Le Pen, who went amongst the picketers, Macron is thought worthy of praise for being forced à contrecoeur amongst them himself, whereupon he managed to defeat Le Pen's maniuplative empty promises by lulling them into a silent despair with the message, basically, that their situation is hopeless and, being couageous enough to impart this to them, perhaps convince them that they should disconsolately go to the polls for him instead. The ownership of capital, being the relevant issue, is thus avoided by all. This is the most important function of bourgeois democracy: managing the irrational calls for justice of labour so that the rational operations of capital can proceed with minimal interference. www.theguardian.com/world/2017/apr/27/how-macron-calmed-whirpool-workers-whipped-up-by-le-pen |
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Post by Lord Lucan on May 1, 2017 1:06:14 GMT -5
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Post by Lord Lucan on May 3, 2017 21:44:08 GMT -5
Hollande somehow sunk to 4% in opinion polls and dared not to seek reelection, yet his hand-picked successor, who resiles from nothing I'm aware of, is the likely next president.
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Post by Desert Dweller on May 3, 2017 22:58:05 GMT -5
The difference is that Macron didn't hang out with reporters for a year going on and on with stories about all the horribly greedy women, children, disabled, & otherwise minority groups who pestered him asking for help from the government!
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Post by ganews on May 3, 2017 23:14:03 GMT -5
I suppose it's because I personally am on the left and I interact with people (and am one of those people) who would prefer center-left politicians be more left...but it gets tiring hearing people complain more loudly about insufficient left purity when the extremist right alternative is so extreme. At some point primaries etc. are over.
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Post by Lord Lucan on May 6, 2017 15:06:32 GMT -5
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Post by Lord Lucan on May 6, 2017 15:22:39 GMT -5
The difference is that Macron didn't hang out with reporters for a year going on and on with stories about all the horribly greedy women, children, disabled, & otherwise minority groups who pestered him asking for help from the government! Hollande did that? Or Le Pen? One would wish the answer were obvious, but Hollande's ex accused him of mocking the poor. He being a Socialist president. Such being the destination of social-democratic state capitalism's reformist journey. |
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Post by Desert Dweller on May 6, 2017 16:32:58 GMT -5
The difference is that Macron didn't hang out with reporters for a year going on and on with stories about all the horribly greedy women, children, disabled, & otherwise minority groups who pestered him asking for help from the government! Hollande did that? Or Le Pen? One would wish the answer were obvious, but Hollande's ex accused him of mocking the poor. He being a Socialist president. Such being the destination of social-democratic state capitalism's reformist journey. Ha! It is both funny and horrible that it was hard to know which person I was talking about. And the answer is Hollande, of course. The book the reporters subsequently published with all those quotes, plus some brutal gossip communicated to them by Hollande, is one of the things that contributed to that 4% approval rating. |
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Post by Deleted on May 7, 2017 12:10:59 GMT -5
Big congrats to the next President of France. |
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Post by Post-Lupin on May 7, 2017 13:56:37 GMT -5
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Post by Murray the Demonic Skull on May 7, 2017 15:26:54 GMT -5
She's not going to win. You can print that comment and make me eat it in 2 weeks if I'm wrong. Told you. |
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Post by Murray the Demonic Skull on May 7, 2017 15:32:24 GMT -5
Time for some Tony Blair bullshit going down for 5 years.
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Post by Superb Owl 🦉 on May 7, 2017 15:43:06 GMT -5
Time for some Tony Blair bullshit going down for 5 years. Congrats on your marginally better result, Murray! |
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Post by Jean-Luc Lemur on May 7, 2017 15:44:52 GMT -5
Murray the Demonic Skull is sentenced to printing out and eating the Shitposting Thread instead. ETA: I’d say someone who’s basically “Hollande, but handsome” is not “marginally better” than someone from a party founded by literal Nazis.
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Post by Superb Owl 🦉 on May 7, 2017 16:54:46 GMT -5
Murray the Demonic Skull is sentenced to printing out and eating the Shitposting Thread instead. ETA: I’d say someone who’s basically “Hollande, but handsome” is not “marginally better” than someone from a party founded by literal Nazis. I knooooooooooooow. Plus, I forgot he was handsome. |
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Post by Didja Heah That, T? on May 7, 2017 18:28:56 GMT -5
Murray the Demonic Skull is sentenced to printing out and eating the Shitposting Thread instead. ETA: I’d say someone who’s basically “Hollande, but handsome” is not “marginally better” than someone from a party founded by literal Nazis. i agree, people being fed into metaphorical shredders in the name of neoliberalism totally beats the literal shredders of fascism |
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