faetal on 7/5/2017 at 22:17

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Cardia - Macron is awful - he is basically lined up to start handing France to the wealthy. The fact that he is a better option than FN / Le Pen doesn't really say much. He's been compared with Tony Blair - so yeah, bad.

Briareos H on 7/5/2017 at 22:21

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Also, sorry, I might be slightly inebriated.

faetal on 7/5/2017 at 22:49

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Thor - neither. Also, I'm tired of political discourse being on a 1-dimensional spectrum.

skacky on 8/5/2017 at 00:47

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I call people complete idiots a lot but you actually, legitimately, are one.

Maxrebo6 on 8/5/2017 at 01:04

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So you guys had the choice between two candidates who wanted to turn your country into America,where its a Third World Country unless you have the good graces to be born into money you stole from people who actually do the labor or America with the idiotic conspiracy theories,unchecked facts and stupidly large amounts of racism.Its so weird to hear people refer to liberals like in regards to cutting jobs and pensions since over the right seems to think Liberals are Karl Marx which much to our loss they aren't.

I just don't get why some people are so against the idea that people who work for a living should have a decent standard of living,Disabled People who can't work have just as much right to live as everyone else,or we should change in order to adapt to changing situation like why do we have the right to survive and live decent life tied into employment when full employment and livable levels is impossible even more so with jobs being lost to Automation and Globalization.

Why is that such an alien concept some people.The world is changing and we must adapt with it we can keep on the same path we have been on since the 17th century because if current trends continue eventually the elites who have usually avoided the creeping touch of decline will feel it before long and the economy will collapse.Its just plain unsustainable to keep at with a society that ignores the needs of the majority of its population and an elite that continues to change the rules in their favor and take more than their fare share.It will never balance out it will only bottom out.

What the deal with these fears of a so called European Caliphate,being American we don't hear a lot of the details about what happening there plus having to sift through the lies coming from the right.Has there been any attempt by immigrants from North Africa and the Middle East to impose Sharia or their values on those not of the faith that had any chance of success?Then you hear the cries about Crimes and Terrorist actions committed by Immigrants and Refuges,what are the real numbers and do they take into consideration the how much of a percentage of the population.

For example if you have 300 Violent Crimes being committed by a group that makes up 25 Percent of the population and then 2500 violent crimes being committed by people belong to the group that makes up the remaining 75%,then that still means that the vast majority of the minority group are law abiding citizens who aren't bothering anyone.

The issue with Extremism is how many of the actors are true believers and how many are just Psychotic Nihilistic Misanthropes who just latched onto this ideology to justify their desire to murder.

So it sounds like it wasn't a win it was just staving off something far worse but the fight is still far from over. Remember don't the immigrant for job losses blame the business whose insatiable greed led to them giving the immigrants the job so they can undercut their wages.

Keep up the good fight because we need to try to prevent world from getting any worse. A quick note to any right wingers,guess we leftists don't find the idea of a caliphate very appeal some of us don't want to be lorded over by an religion and feel that religion should be a private matter and stay out of public affairs nor are all of us Muslim apologists who refuse to call out the Islamic World when they messed up stuff.I criticize all faiths equally and I think the left needs listen more the experience of Atheist living in the Muslim World or Muslim Apostates because they probably have more experience than some Westerner.One can be critical while still respecting and defend a groups fundamental human rights.Setting any one person or group as infallible is just a recipe for disaster.I personally feel that the US is doomed because the Cold War and then later Fox News and some of our left decided to shoot themselves in the foot plus the our basically being a corporate state has seemingly irreparably damaged our political plus having no real serious challenge to agenda of the elite among the political parties and way to many still have their faith fixing this mess through electoral politics when the system is wholly rigged.

Trumps not gonna save you neither was Hillary their both just separate arms of the same beast.The worst part is the people who are gonna feel perhaps the biggest pinch of Trumps Policies are the some of his most fervent supporters.I hope that wake some of them up the fact that they have been played for a long time.This country really needs a new Eugene Debs and Huey Long. I am glad you made the rightish decision and I can definitely understand why so many abstained.