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[Il Palazzo]

Holy shit

Friendship with Putin is magic!

[dragdeler]

What are we looking at?

[scriver]

my little pony

[voliol]

What are we looking at?

Marion Anne Perrine ”Marine” Le Pen (French: [maʁin lə pɛn]; born 5 August 1968), sometimes referred to by her initials MLP

(In case the image got cropped off, it did at first for me. MLP like ”My Little Pony”)

It is scary, with the small relief that the support for the other far-right/fash Eric Zemmour has dropped with Le Pen’s rise. Assuming the Zemmour-voters were to go to Le Pen in the second round half of that ”shock” has already happened. But really that is terrifying in the first place, that there would be two presidential candidates of the kind instead of just the one.

[martinuzz]

A new dutch law makes it possible to fine electric car owners if they leave their car plugged in to a loading dock after it is fully charged.
Time is of no matter.
5 minutes late or 1 day late will both get you fined 95 euros.

[Loud Whispers]

A new dutch law makes it possible to fine electric car owners if they leave their car plugged in to a loading dock after it is fully charged.
Time is of no matter.
5 minutes late or 1 day late will both get you fined 95 euros.

Can you extend that the other way? Leave my car battery stack plugged for several years = 95 euro fine?

[martinuzz]

Hmmmm. That does sound profitable 

[JoshuaFH]

What's the grace period on that? Like, does it need to be instantly unplugged, or is there like a minute window where it's ok who cares?

[martinuzz]

Not sure.
If it's going to be like parking fines, there's no grace period except for the randomness of parking patrol spotting it.

[Cathar]

MLP : defeat is magical.
I contain my joy only because it is is the rules of this forum, I'll sleep like a baby tonight.

For those who are maybe not aware of french politics (and this would include most french people) Putin is not the worst friend that Fat Rainbow Dash's party have made over the years.
Her political party itself is the pokemon evolution of the putchist officers during the algerian independance war under De Gaulle, who, after trying to overthrow the Republic, evolved into an underground terrorist organization (the OAS) before evolving again at level 54 into a political party (the FN).

Their speciality : failing at every stage.
They killed a lot of people, but never achieved any of their goals. Putsch failed, OAS officers went to jail or were gunned down by the police (they did revendicate a number of political assassinations though), the FN never achieved anything over local elections and political agitation. Tonight they took another step on the road paved in failures, which I hope will lead them over a ravine or similar.

Ah man, I am happy.

[JoshuaFH]

I was under the impression that French political activism was very active, and that mobs of people could be seen striking and protesting on any given day of the week. So I'm somewhat surprised that French Democracy apparently doesn't try to weed out extremists through a more robust voting system.

[Cathar]

We actually did... Until five years ago.

Long story short, the FN (now RN) always have been the pariah of french politics. When Le Pen father (notable contributor to the OAS and officer suspected to have participated to the coup attempt) managed to arrive in the second turn against Chirac, we witnessed a near stalinian level of elections. Chirac won 80/20 something like that. Pretty much everyone allied against them. And that which we called the "Front Republicain" (the idea that, should they pass, the whole political spectrum would beat them with shoes again) pretty much held until the collapse of the socialist party at the end of Hollande's presidency.

Basically, the two governance parties (right then left) failed quite spectacularly one after the other. The UMP (moderate right) failed and tried to rebrand, then disapeared from the public consciousness. Then the socialist came in power and failed so hard they actually had to sell their offices.

It's a very special moment in the french politcal history, because our anti-fascist dam just vanished and people are still looking for something to replace it.
It'll take time before we have stability again, and that is the opportunity that allows the far right to score (relatively) high.

Edit : And when I mean "high"...it's high for a far right party. 60-40 would be a decisive and humiliating defeat for a governance party in normal times, but we're not in normal times, clearly.

[martinuzz]

We actually did... Until five years ago.

When Le Pen father (notable contributor to the OAS and officer suspected to have participated to the coup attempt) managed to arrive in the second turn against Chirac, we witnessed a near stalinian level of elections.

Don't forget to mention that papa Le Pen is also a fervent holocaust denier. MLP kicked him out of the party for that eventually, but only because she is a pragmatist and realized it cost her votes.
MLP is just as much a psycho nazi as is her dad.
You can dress a monkey in a suit, but it is still a monkey.

[Cathar]

Le Pen father was something else. I don't remember the pretext that was used to close his mouth, I think he said something racist to a far right newspaper. It didn't really matter what, dude had the profile of a minority party while his daughter had parlementarian ambitions.

Outside of him funding the OAS (again, a terrorist organization which assassinated elected official as primo modus operandi) he also had ties with the fascist skinhead movement. Oh also he conducted "interrogations" during the Algerian independance war, so theres that. But I think belonging to an organization whose stated goal included killing De Gaulle pretty much disqualified him forever.

Before he left the presidency of his party, he took care to cast out every single one of his direct subalterns so his daughter would inherit the party. When I was a teenager, I saw a constellation of far right new political parties created once or twice a year by a dude he would eliminate. Having him being cast out from the party by his daughter is very amusing.
Those guys are snakes through and through.

I think Gollnish (who still denies the holocaust) is still in the party - as a house clown I suppose. Nobody take holocaust deniers seriously here... But then again most Le Pen voters I talked to were also antimaskers and antivaxers so I guess there might be a public for that kind of rhetoric after all.

[martinuzz]

Sinn Féin (the Nothern Irish catholic political party) has won the elections in Northern Ireland. This means they have the right to appoint the first minister.
The British minister of Nothern Irish affairs has called upon the DUP (the protestant party) not to thwart forming a coalition with Sinn Féin.

This election result could very well mean that Northern Ireland will leave the UK and unite with the rest of Ireland