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French election: Macron defeats Le Pen

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Re: French election: Macron defeats Le Pen

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Post by wsc981 »

jjawssd wrote: post #25
wsc981 wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

As a European I see this as a huge concern. Choosing Macron means keeping the status quo, which means continued mass immigration, continued bad economic policy, etc... in Europe. I am sure the bankers will be glad as will the European Commission and the multinationals, but the common people will become disillusioned in a few years as more and more terrorist attacks will happen into Europe and the problems with the ec…

How can one profit off of the collapse of the European Union?

Soros at one time hedged against the British Pound and he made much profit this way. Perhaps the same could be done w.r.t. the Euro? See: http://www.investopedia.com/ask/answers/08/george-soros-bank...

Re: French election: Macron defeats Le Pen

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Post by azag0 »

masklinn wrote: post #16
s_kilk wrote: post #5

65% to 34%, mauled.

Not that much of a mauling by FN standards, when her father reached the 2nd round in 2002 he got 18%, that's a serious improvement of the party's result.

In line with her being (at least publicly) less extreme than her father

Re: French election: Macron defeats Le Pen

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Post by wayn3 »

jjawssd wrote: post #25
wsc981 wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

As a European I see this as a huge concern. Choosing Macron means keeping the status quo, which means continued mass immigration, continued bad economic policy, etc... in Europe. I am sure the bankers will be glad as will the European Commission and the multinationals, but the common people will become disillusioned in a few years as more and more terrorist attacks will happen into Europe and the problems with the ec…

How can one profit off of the collapse of the European Union?

Do you want to know how YOU can profit or how people like Soros do it?

If you're certain something declines in value, all you got to do is buy Put Options

Re: French election: Macron defeats Le Pen

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Post by Boothroid »

orf wrote: post #2

As a European this comes as a huge relief, especially given the poorly-timed email leak (with Russian names in the metadata). Here's to hoping that Europe can continue working together and begin to reform itself, and not tear itself apart like some of our American 'allies' on the (alt-)right would like. Lots of challenges ahead, but we wouldn't want it to be too easy now would we?

Lots not Lot's. No apostrophe needed to make plural :)

Re: French election: Macron defeats Le Pen

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Post by agumonkey »

jstoja wrote: post #30
agumonkey wrote: post #4

I can't deny it uplifted my mood quite a bit. The nationalist wave didn't flip France head enough, which is always good. It's just a start, a new hope.

A new hope would have been to start having a decline in the far-right votes.

Yeah totally. I wished for a 20%. Alas time moves quick and I couldn't act to ensure this locally. 35% is still way too high, but the worst is avoided.

Re: French election: Macron defeats Le Pen

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Post by orf »

wsc981 wrote: post #19
orf wrote: post #2

As a European this comes as a huge relief, especially given the poorly-timed email leak (with Russian names in the metadata). Here's to hoping that Europe can continue working together and begin to reform itself, and not tear itself apart like some of our American 'allies' on the (alt-)right would like. Lots of challenges ahead, but we wouldn't want it to be too easy now would we?

As a European I see this as a huge concern. Choosing Macron means keeping the status quo, which means continued mass immigration, continued bad economic policy, etc... in Europe. I am sure the bankers will be glad as will the European Commission and the multinationals, but the common people will become disillusioned in a few years as more and more terrorist attacks will happen into Europe and the problems with the ec…

I don't agree with the downvotes you are receiving, you make some good overall points (but also some bad ones).

Nothing is dead until it is entirely dead, and the EU idea still runs strong in people. Things need to change, as Brexit and the recent problems faced by the union have shown. Now it's down to the time to reform.

I don't think Macron is choosing the status quo though, hes as much as a political outsider as Trump and I hope he will make some progress in achieving reforms.

Re: French election: Macron defeats Le Pen

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Post by MagnumOpus »

sbose78 wrote: post #23
lindbergh wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Polls close at 7pm except in larger cities, but counting of votes start at this time. It's forbidden to leak the results until 8pm, at which time the sample is large enough to give a precise estimate, unlikely to move by much.

If polls haven't closed yet, shouldn't exit polls be made illegal? Because exit polls can manipulate opinions.

That is already illegal in France. Exit polls can be taken, but cannot be published until after polling booths close.

Since the polling booths are now closed (it is 8:30pm in France), these exit polls have been published. That is what the Beeb article is based on.

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