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Feb 10, 2007

smoke sumthin bitch posted:

why does everyone refer to lepen as being extreme right? sure shes an authoritarian nativist but at the end of the day shes fiscally socialist. calling her extreme left would be far more accurate
lol if you don't think she'll sell out her economically left plans almost immediately

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Feb 10, 2007

i guess french society is filled with blowhards and gasbags

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Feb 10, 2007

i'll believe macron is the winner when i see it, because fact checking doesn't do loving anything to change people's minds

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Feb 10, 2007

french politics: possibly more hosed up than american politics

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Feb 10, 2007

ya know, maybe we're all hosed after all, not just america

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Feb 10, 2007

Shear Modulus posted:

France gets to experience what America would have been like if Hillary had won.
don't forget canada!

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Feb 10, 2007

Lastgirl posted:

just posting to say that Macron is an rear end with an unironic napoleon complex
more like a Louis XIV complex

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Feb 10, 2007

they added jobs under obama too and my question is the same now as it was then: what kind of jobs? the answer is "terrible ones"

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Feb 10, 2007

Plutonis posted:

The Liberal Democratic West is the Free World much like a certain collecion of states in medieval central Europe were a Holy Roman Empire
the Liberal Democratic West is neither liberal, nor democratic, nor in the West. talk amongst yourselves

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Feb 10, 2007

ah gently caress i can't believe he's done this

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Feb 10, 2007

projecthalaxy posted:

So does Macron think hes the new Sun King or what
i already joked about him having a Louis XIV complex itt

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Feb 10, 2007

and so it begins

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Feb 10, 2007

that guy has some jupiter-sized balls

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Feb 10, 2007

i love that the entire world is losing its mind. we need another world war to get this poo poo out of our systems

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Feb 10, 2007

Over Easy posted:

what would the teams even be? now everyone knows everyone else's country is pretty much just as poo poo as their own, just a bunch of rich asses prancing around merry while everyone else eats penis shaped foods all day every day.
pick the US and Russia as team captains and have them pick out countries like playground kickball

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Feb 10, 2007

french farmers are blockading the main roads into Toulouse

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Feb 10, 2007

i'm surprised his favorability is that high

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Feb 10, 2007

the age of consent is 14 in italy and germany, i believe, so france is still behind the libertarian 8-ball

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Feb 10, 2007

quote:

Opinion polls suggest Macron has substantial public support to take on the SNCF, with as many as three in four French people backing reforms.
drat, macron's beaten down the french public good

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Feb 10, 2007

Kurtofan posted:

people hate public servants, its not macron's doing
it's not that simple. there was a NY times article about the tension between macron and the train unions that was mostly bad, but it mentioned that railway workers used to live all across France, including small towns. that was when they had widespread support among the public. urbanization changed all that

it also said that for all of the talk about the crisis the state-owned railways are in from its debt and great benefits for its workers, it actually turned a profit last year. but it's obviously broke (in more ways than one) so macron's gonna fix it with a sledgehammer

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Feb 10, 2007

Jose posted:

because they strike fairly regularly and obviously that inconvenience a lot of people
that's probably another reason why the french are all for this

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Feb 10, 2007

it's also worth noting that France doesn't want to privatize the railways (at least not immediately) because of how much of a disaster that ended up being for Britain. but because the EU wants to open up every country to "competition" by 2019, they're probably not gonna have the final say

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Feb 10, 2007

Jose posted:

One of the reasons it's a disaster is only 1 company can operate trains on a line so there is no competition and they can be as poo poo and expensive as they want
that's probably what the future will be on the continent

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Feb 10, 2007

dammit kurtofan get your diddy kong boom box avatar back, i completely forgot you were french because of your red custom text

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