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Antonio the Sixth
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« Reply #100 on: October 23, 2013, 03:33:22 PM »
lolmarseille
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« Reply #101 on: November 07, 2013, 09:17:00 AM »
"Racist France is back"? Has it ever been over?
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« Reply #102 on: November 14, 2013, 09:05:10 AM »
loooooooooooooooooooooooooooooool
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Antonio the Sixth
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« Reply #103 on: November 17, 2013, 07:27:52 AM »
OMG wow.

lolflamby
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Antonio the Sixth
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« Reply #104 on: November 21, 2013, 05:37:00 AM »
OMG, it's an Arab. Let the racist drivel begin...
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Antonio the Sixth
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« Reply #105 on: November 22, 2013, 04:17:17 PM »
It's not only the economy. It's also has to do with the fact he's barely done anything since elected.
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Antonio the Sixth
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« Reply #106 on: November 26, 2013, 10:39:53 AM »
Quote from: Mr Bear, King of Animals on November 25, 2013, 07:08:35 PM
In other news, I've been purged from my party. More about this tomorrow if I can get some sleep in the mean time...

What party is that? FG? Do they actually purge people like in the good old days? Tongue
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Antonio the Sixth
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« Reply #107 on: November 26, 2013, 01:17:36 PM »
Yeah, the far-left/hard-left is well known for its love of internal democracy. Tongue
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Antonio the Sixth
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« Reply #108 on: November 27, 2013, 03:24:03 PM »
Depressing numbers, but no big surprise. France is turning into a reactionary shithole.
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Antonio the Sixth
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« Reply #109 on: December 04, 2013, 09:03:54 AM »

Good riddance.
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Antonio the Sixth
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« Reply #110 on: December 12, 2013, 10:12:04 AM »
Quote from: PASOK Leader Hashemite on December 12, 2013, 09:58:45 AM
Not up to the minute breaking news, but France should recognize white votes (vote blanc) - defined as envelopes returned without a ballot - by counting them separately from invalid votes but they won't be taken into account for calculating the 'suffrages exprimés'. It was introduced by the UDI and has unanimous support, but there are disagreements between the government and the opposition as to when it should take effect. For obvious reasons, the government wants it to take effect after the local elections in March.

http://www.assemblee-nationale.fr/14/dossiers/vote_blanc_aux_elections.asp

I think you're mistaken... "vote blanc" in France usually is an actual blank ballot which you can put in the envelope.
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Antonio the Sixth
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« Reply #111 on: December 12, 2013, 11:25:03 AM »
Quote from: PASOK Leader Hashemite on December 12, 2013, 10:47:52 AM
Quote from: Il cavaliere decaduto on December 12, 2013, 10:12:04 AM
Quote from: PASOK Leader Hashemite on December 12, 2013, 09:58:45 AM
Not up to the minute breaking news, but France should recognize white votes (vote blanc) - defined as envelopes returned without a ballot - by counting them separately from invalid votes but they won't be taken into account for calculating the 'suffrages exprimés'. It was introduced by the UDI and has unanimous support, but there are disagreements between the government and the opposition as to when it should take effect. For obvious reasons, the government wants it to take effect after the local elections in March.

http://www.assemblee-nationale.fr/14/dossiers/vote_blanc_aux_elections.asp

I think you're mistaken... "vote blanc" in France usually is an actual blank ballot which you can put in the envelope.

Yes, you're correct. However, actual blank ballots are not distributed by the authorities, although on internet voting and machines there is an option to cast a 'vote blanc'. An actual blank piece of paper would be considered as a vote blanc.

I'm pretty sure I saw a pile of blank ballots along with the piles for the other candidates at my polling place back in 2012.
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« Reply #112 on: December 12, 2013, 11:41:24 AM »
Weird. Huh Maybe I don't remember well.
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Antonio the Sixth
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« Reply #113 on: December 13, 2013, 06:53:41 AM »
Quote from: PASOK Leader Hashemite on December 13, 2013, 06:33:52 AM
Quote from: RogueBeaver on December 12, 2013, 10:17:31 PM
Le Figaro also has him leading Flanby 46-27. Keeping my fingers crossed for a rematch.

Misleading. The question asks which of Poison Dwarf and Flanby they prefer to see as President, rather than an election matchup. The other parts of the poll confirm that while Sarko's image has improved some since 2012, he's still rather polarizing.

Yeah, the remaining 27% are probably mostly disgruntled leftists who don't want to say they'd prefer Flamby but would still easily vote for him over Sarko in an actual election.

It makes little sense to hit the panic button 4 years before the elections.
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Antonio the Sixth
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« Reply #114 on: January 02, 2014, 09:35:15 AM »

Jesus, what an idiot.

Taxes aren't too high. They are just improperly distributed.
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« Reply #115 on: January 10, 2014, 10:39:34 AM »
Quote from: Oakvale on January 10, 2014, 10:36:57 AM
"lol Flanby" about covers the recent news, right?

"lol Flamby" will probably be an appropriate description for the next 3 to 8 years. Tongue
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Antonio the Sixth
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Political Matrix
E: -7.87, S: -3.83

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« Reply #116 on: January 10, 2014, 02:25:22 PM »
Quote from: Ippikin on January 10, 2014, 01:50:34 PM
He would have already have been forced to resign for other (related) scandals. Though presumably the pimping accusations would have come during the campaign? Yeah, this is a hypothetical that actually destroys itself.

Yeah, without the Sofitel thing Sarko might very well still be occupying Elysée right now.
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Antonio the Sixth
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« Reply #117 on: March 03, 2014, 12:56:25 PM »
Fabius is the most popular? ROFL
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Antonio the Sixth
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« Reply #118 on: March 20, 2014, 03:55:32 PM »

Read it a few hours ago. I guess I'd rather Le Figaro be a (very) right-wing ideology-driven newspaper rather than the UMP's propaganda machine as it was in the Sarko years. It's still trash anyway, but at least they'd recover some of their intellectual honesty.
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Antonio the Sixth
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« Reply #119 on: March 28, 2014, 10:47:43 AM »
Quote from: PASOK Leader Hashemite on March 28, 2014, 10:29:11 AM
Hopefully Flanby pulls a Mitterrand, names Valls PM and ensures that his aura/popularity collapses to his own levels. But Flanby is probably way too dumb to think like that.

Indeed! I don't know why Presidents don't do that more often since it's basically a win-win situation, for example Chirac with Sarkozy in 2005...
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Antonio the Sixth
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« Reply #120 on: March 31, 2014, 12:47:32 PM »
Levons l'hypothèque Valls! Smiley
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Antonio the Sixth
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« Reply #121 on: April 02, 2014, 01:12:21 PM »
Jesus F**king Christ. Bringing Ségogo back. Seriously. And Montebourg... God, this is beyond horrible.
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Antonio the Sixth
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« Reply #122 on: April 08, 2014, 01:56:15 PM »
What's the point of even having regions if you have only 10 of them for a country with 60M inhabitants?
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« Reply #123 on: April 08, 2014, 07:31:19 PM »
Quote from: politicus on April 08, 2014, 05:01:02 PM
If you make them about even you get administrative units with a population like Denmark or Norway and thats a pretty efficient administrative size. From a democratic POV it makes less sense. Thirty would be about right for France IMO.

Well, we have 22 right now, halving them would make the average region more populous than Denmark as a whole. Tongue

Anyway, here's an alternative regions map I once drew, trying to both reduce variation in population and correct a few historical aberrations. That ends up with 20 regions for metropolitan France.


1. Île-de-France
2. Grand Paris
3. Lyonnais

I wasn't entirely sure about a few names, so if some have alternative proposals I'd be glad to hear them. Wink
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Antonio the Sixth
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« Reply #124 on: April 15, 2014, 03:18:12 PM »
Quote from: Mr Bear, King of Animals on April 15, 2014, 03:07:08 AM
Not bad. Not really sure why you would put Seine-et-Marne in Picardie. Picardie should be dissolved anyway. Give Somme to NPDC, Aisne to Champagne-Ardenne, and Oise to a greater Île-de-France. Not ok with your Seine and Seine-et-Oise thingy.

What's wrong with it? Considering IdF is so big, it would make sense to split it into a core Paris agglomeration and the broader Parisian region. Both for the sake of population balance and to create a serious structure for the much awaited "Grand Paris".

Also, why do you hate Picardie? Sad
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