Random Politics & Religion #23 (Fake News)

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The last one went on long enough so I'm gonna go ahead and restart.

/wave

#FreeKekistan

Love how respectful you libs are. You bitched and moaned when someone said disparaging names about Obama, but have all sorts of names for others. Is this that open mindedness we hear of all the time?

Thats cute Slore. Very cute.

I have transcended your petty mortal liberal vs conservative conflict. I just hate you all.

Yeah? Well, the Thunder still suck, so there.

Pepe will rise again:

Exodus 8:3 The Nile will teem with frogs(Pepe). They will come up into your palace and your bedroom and onto your bed, into the houses of your officials and on your people, and into your ovens and kneading troughs.

Who said Pepe is dead...he is in the NIle !

What an odd coincidence. Half of the country is in de Nile.

Even Ivanka believes in Pepe:

I'm raising my cat gender neutral and I'm wondering why the boys don't like me...

I forgot to take my medication now I'm growing hair where I shouldn't...

Apparently there are/were anti-Macron protests going on in France. Despite the 2:1 victory.

Ah, correction. They're protesting the fact they were given such shitty candidates in the first place.

As best a bilingual friend can figure, anyway.

This might be the one time we can actually learn something from France.

It makes a lot more sense than having paid protesters go out and only protest the legitimate winner, who also happens to be the one George Soros didn't want.

I'm up for being a paid protester where do I sign up ?

In vaguely feminism news:

I'll spare you the reading: Basically overweight woman wore a latex dress and was upset when people made fun of her

http://people.com/bodies/mtv-movie-tv-awards-chrissy-metz-body-shamers/

Image may cause emotional distress:

It's a common problem. I wore a latex dress to a job interview and got turned away at the door.

Well then tell us how you really feel !

Basically she uses Cartman logic:

Le pen got far more youth votes than any other nationalist candidate.

When the left looses the youth, there done.

Normally what happens is the left grow up and stop being on the left !

Funny thing is the left is spinning this as a victory while failing to mention the ridiculous growth of the NF's support base. Just to give everyone an idea, in 2008 they had a 4.5% support. France has a dual vote election system, the first vote is a huge list of different parties candidates and the top two go on to the national election.

So
2007 (presidency) 10.4%
2008 (cantonal) 4.5%
2011 (cantonal) 15%
2012 (presidency) 17.9% (third place)
2017 (presidency) 21.3% (first round) / (33.9% second round)

This is basically a minority party who's support is growing at an astonishing rate. The big left wing parties were defeated in the first round and left a moderate-left traditional party and the super nationalistic right party. So the real story isn't in Macron's victory, which was easily predicted but in the fast growing support of the nationalistic party.

They come out of university indoctrinated into the socialist / communist progressive ideology. For years they struggle to fight the battle and achieve that grand social Utopia. Later they discover the utter moral bankruptcy of the left and how they were made into useful idiots and switch over.

/eyeroll

Calling Macron left, particularly in regards to European politics is pretty damn funny. He's firmly center right.

Also, reaching pretty damned hard there, Saev. The United States, compared to the rest of the West, is fairly conservative. The nationalist groups are gaining popularity, but they're mostly nabbing fence sitters and from other conservative parties.