France 2017: Results Thread

[MasterJedi]

Going to end up being a 65-70% smack down of the fascist.

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2nd round vote by 1st round voters:

Not surprising, large chunk of the left throwing a tantrum there. "Marcon and LePen are the sames!!1!1!1".

[MasterJedi]

Well, she did her best.  Praying for France that everything is OK and doesn't become in even worse shape within the next five years.

She lost, it'll be ok.

[MasterJedi]

2nd round vote by 1st round voters:

Not surprising, large chunk of the left throwing a tantrum there. "Marcon and LePen are the sames!!1!1!1".

53% of Mélenchon voters supported FBM, but only 48% of Fillon's did, but of course a right-winger like you only takes issue with the former.

Generally the right always turns out, the left doesn't. It goes for far stricter purity tests so they'd prefer LePen winning than holding their nose and making sure it doesn't happen. White privilege at it's finest!

[MasterJedi]

2nd round vote by 1st round voters:

Not surprising, large chunk of the left throwing a tantrum there. "Marcon and LePen are the sames!!1!1!1".

53% of Mélenchon voters supported FBM, but only 48% of Fillon's did, but of course a right-winger like you only takes issue with the former.

Generally the right always turns out, the left doesn't. It goes for far stricter purity tests so they'd prefer LePen winning than holding their nose and making sure it doesn't happen. White privilege at it's finest!

"Vote for our awful candidate who violates your values and convictions or else we'll invoke the White Privilege card against you!!!"

Well you certainly don't see minorities doing that. They don't really have a choice, they know that one side wants them basically dead and the other doesn't, they may not like them but they'll still vote for him. You only see it with middle and well to do whites so I don't know how else you would describe it.

[MasterJedi]

2nd round vote by 1st round voters:

Not surprising, large chunk of the left throwing a tantrum there. "Marcon and LePen are the sames!!1!1!1".

53% of Mélenchon voters supported FBM, but only 48% of Fillon's did, but of course a right-winger like you only takes issue with the former.

Generally the right always turns out, the left doesn't. It goes for far stricter purity tests so they'd prefer LePen winning than holding their nose and making sure it doesn't happen. White privilege at it's finest!

...but the non-Le Pen right had almost as many abstentions as Melenchon's voters, and far more than Hamon's.

They really have nothing to lose by it though, a lot of them probably support LePen in some way and if they don't vote and she wins/loses their ok. But it's a clear option for Melenchon voters, either you support Marcon or you run the risk of a fascist winning. Very easy choice to make which makes it much more bizarre.

[MasterJedi]

Haha so many leftists who claim Le Pen is a fascist. It's amazing how s*** like this continues

Can we just have a Brown avatar already?

We already have a maroon for Socialists.

We do have a brown "other", or at least we used to. Close enough.

[MasterJedi]

They really have nothing to lose by it though, a lot of them probably support LePen in some way and if they don't vote and she wins/loses their ok. But it's a clear option for Melenchon voters, either you support Marcon or you run the risk of a fascist winning. Very easy choice to make which makes it much more bizarre.

So it's OK to vote for a fascist if you're one of the people who do well under fascism? Gotcha.

No, sh**t, I would have voted for an actual socialist over LePen (or (gag) Sanders over Trump, like I did Clinton over Trump). I'm just explaining how a lot of people could be thinking about it. I will never support a fascist/far right loon/incompetent moron (same goes for the other side, God hope we never have that election).

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Sums up the win nicely: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Jn8K8EA7-Q&t=50sp

[MasterJedi]

President Trump tweeted his congratulations for Macron.

61-39 Macron with close to 15 million votes counted, we should be over a 40% mark in vote count.

"b-b-b-b-b-b-but Trump's a fascist and both he and le pen are putin's puppets and trump gets triggered"

He probably didn't even do it, and he probably was told he had to do it. Guaranteed he's peeved.

[MasterJedi]

President Trump tweeted his congratulations for Macron.

61-39 Macron with close to 15 million votes counted, we should be over a 40% mark in vote count.

"b-b-b-b-b-b-but Trump's a fascist and both he and le pen are putin's puppets and trump gets triggered"

He probably didn't even do it, and he probably was told he had to do it. Guaranteed he's peeved.

I don't really think he cares.

He supported LePen, so he cares to some extent.

[MasterJedi]

Wow. France's olds are huge FFs!

LOL no, they are the only ones who voted for Fillon.

Then by your logic they should have heavily voted for LePen but they didn't, voted strongest for Macron.

[MasterJedi]

What's up with Aisne swinging hard right? Hollande won it by 5 points but Le Pen leads by 11, but there's still a lot of vote to count.

This runoff is not between the left and the right.

I'm just trying to understand why the only three departments Le Pen is currently leading in also happen to be places where Hollande won.

Because many voters would prefer a left-winger to a right-winger but prefer a candidate like Panzergirl to one like FBM. There's nothing strange about that.

Gotta love the mental gymnastics needed to get to that point. Then again people like that will likely be getting what they deserve here in the US in a disgusting way with healthcare.

EDIT: The far left and far right are really just the same thing, fully authoritarian, just for different goals. So really not that surprising.

[MasterJedi]

But Obama's interference in the French election through his endorsement of Macron was OK?

Considering it was a statement of a former world leader who has no political power anymore and he didn't have the US hack LePen and try and leak something, yes, yes it is.

[MasterJedi]

"Favorite" comments from around the net:

- Spain needs to build a wall on the French boarder to keep out the Muslim wave.

- Within 1 year the Louvre will be ransacked within a year so we need to send in American troops to take all the art.