French election coincidence rock!

[ChristineM]

Latest News.

Looks like an outright win.

Macron 58.2% of the vote
Le Pen 42.8%

France 24 - International breaking news, top stories and headlines

 

[Spiderman]

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With the new Marianne

She's beautiful! I love the female personification of France! She is like a Divine Feminine Divinity to me!

 

[Debater Slayer]

What rights? The right to run across border illegally or kill your baby? We don't recognize those as "rights".

Not sure who you're referring to by "we," since many Americans would disagree with you. Either way, I disagree abortion in most cases is killing a baby or that all undocumented immigrants should simply be deported without consideration for their economic contribution to the U.S. These subjects would probably need their own thread, though.

 

[Debater Slayer]

Latest News.

Looks like an outright win.

Macron 58.2% of the vote
Le Pen 42.8%

France 24 - International breaking news, top stories and headlines

Macron may not be a good president overall, but he's certainly the lesser evil.

Congratulations to France for yet again avoiding the disaster of a Le Pen presidency.

 

[ChristineM]

She's beautiful! I love the female personification of France! She is like a Divine Feminine Divinity to me!

 

[Debater Slayer]

What rights? The right to run across borders illegally or kill your baby? We don't recognize those as "rights".

You know what, I didn't plan to turn this is into some political argument but I can't even say I support someone without getting lectured and guilt-tripped. At this point, I don't even want to discuss politics on RF because it's totally pointless.

Posting one's views on a debate forum opens them up to being challenged. You call it "lecturing" and "guilt-tripping," but I simply call it debate and welcome it as an important aspect of a diverse forum. I don't expect everyone to embrace my views when I post them either.

 

[Spiderman]

Latest News.

Looks like an outright win.

Macron 58.2% of the vote
Le Pen 42.8%

France 24 - International breaking news, top stories and headlines

Okay, he won looks obvious! But doesn't it seem like Le Pen is growing increasingly more popular over time?

 

[ChristineM]

Macron may not be a good president overall, but he's certainly the lesser evil.

Congratulations to France for yet again avoiding the disaster of a Le Pen presidency.

He certainly is the lesser of 2 evils.

 

[Spiderman]

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I should tape that picture to my wall! She looks so strong, mighty, virtuous , noble mother God!

 

[ChristineM]

Okay, he won looks obvious! But doesn't it seem like Le Pen is growing increasingly more popular over time?

Since she cleaned up her act she is taking some of those dissatisfied with macrons failed promise of change.

Interestingly though. There were the highest number if abstentions for 50 years.

 

[Spiderman]

I wonder if the granddaughter of Le Pen will ever have a shot:

She is anti-globalist! I don't know much about her, but hear she is like her grandmother!

 

[ChristineM]

Just watcing some statistics. One that really stuck out was. The answer to why did you vote for macron.

9% said he'd make a good president
91% said to block Le Pen.

 

[F1fan]

She's beautiful! I love the female personification of France! She is like a Divine Feminine Divinity to me!

If only she was running for Miss France 2022 your acclaim would mean something. But as we see with trump and especially Putin, elections have consequences and we can't trust authoritarian leaders. Nations and the world are better off avoiding the risk of electing authoritarians as the alternative have a vastly less violent outcomes. Perhaps Le Pen would surprise us and not push divisive polices and exit NATO, but it seems even the French people can see that isn't worth a risk.

 

[F1fan]

I wonder if the granddaughter of Le Pen will ever have a shot:
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She is very anti-globalist! I don't know much about her, but hear she is like her grandmother!

Anti-globalist?

Well that's self-sabotage of her political career. If the past decade has taught us anything it's that globalism is crucial for all major nations to function and maintain economic stability.

 

[Spiderman]

If only she was running for Miss France 2022 your acclaim would mean something. But as we see with trump and especially Putin, elections have consequences and we can't trust authoritarian leaders. Nations and the world are better off avoiding the risk of electing authoritarians as the alternative have a vastly less violent outcomes. Perhaps Le Pen would surprise us and not push divisive polices and exit NATO, but it seems even the French people can see that isn't worth a risk.

I was talking about Marianne, the female personification of France in the post you quoted. I wasn't talking about Le Pen!

 

[F1fan]

I was talking about Marianne, the female personification of France in the post you quoted. I wasn't talking about Le Pen!

I was going to recommend glasses. Well done.

 

[Saint Frankenstein]

Posting one's views on a debate forum opens them up to being challenged. You call it "lecturing" and "guilt-tripping," but I simply call it debate and welcome it as an important aspect of a diverse forum. I don't expect everyone to embrace my views when I post them either.

Say you support Trump on here and see what happens. You know this forum is not that "diverse", either, especially politically.

 

[Debater Slayer]

Say you support Trump on here and see what happens. You know this forum is not that "diverse", either, especially politically.

A lot of people understandably have issues with support for the politics of someone like Trump, and unless you post in a discussion-only section of the forum, there's nothing preventing debate and disagreement just as there's nothing preventing you from posting your views.

I don't know what you would consider to be "diverse," but I frequently see various active members from different backgrounds expressing differing political and religious views.

 

[Saint Frankenstein]

A lot of people understandably have issues with support for the politics of someone like Trump, and unless you post in a discussion-only section of the forum, there's nothing preventing debate and disagreement just as there's nothing preventing you from posting your views.

I don't know what you would consider to be "diverse," but I frequently see various active members from different backgrounds expressing differing political and religious views.

Whatever, DS.