USC-MOLA-Lab/MFRC · Datasets at Hugging Face

text stringlengths 33 1.15k	subreddit stringclasses 11 values	bucket stringclasses 3 values	annotator stringclasses 6 values	annotation stringlengths 4 54	confidence stringclasses 3 values
Nothing to do with him. It's a (small) scandal for the Modem party (François Bayrou party) who was a political ally for Macron. Macron never was a member of this party or affiliated to this story. If anything, it proved that Macron would not accept such scandal among his ministers and wants a very clean government. It was one of his main political promises and it means he's serious about that. I think it will do more good than harm for him. There is absolutely no chance this interview is related to that.	neoliberal	French politics	annotator02	Thin Morality	Confident
And as usual expect no one to actually talk about the leaks and instead point fingers while shrieking about how "unfair" they are. Put it this way, start pointing out the actual falsehoods and I will happily upvote you. I for one just want to say I find it rather interesting that Macron's advisor on surveillance died on stage less than 12 hours after these leaks. I'm sure it's just a coincidence.	worldnews	French politics	annotator02	Non-Moral	Confident
Here's an overview of [definitions of Fascism](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Definitions_of_fascism). [Neo-Fascism](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neo-fascism) may be more relevant for Le Pen and Le Front Nationale.	neoliberal	French politics	annotator02	Non-Moral	Confident
When will you alt righters learn? Your constant demonization of liberalism is why Macron won[.](#hover "world's tiniest /s")	neoliberal	French politics	annotator02	Non-Moral	Confident
I see one black woman there and she's Macron's advisor no? How many non-white members of parliament and senate are there?	neoliberal	French politics	annotator02	Non-Moral	Confident
Who said that? You created that straw man in attempt to invalidate the point that the other poster made. You're using semantics as an argument and then backpedaling when someone calls you out on it I'll address your strawman though. No Le Pen is not as bad as Islamic extremism. But their ideologies don't differ greatly. Le Pen is a detriment to what France stands for. Her ideology is regressive a reactionary. It's the stance of cowards and bigots.	worldnews	French politics	annotator02	Equality	Confident
I believe the candidate for that would be Melenchon, but he won´t win.	europe	French politics	annotator02	Non-Moral	Confident
Great way to damage the EU and to give Le Pen(or somebody like her) the victory in 2022.	europe	French politics	annotator02	Non-Moral	Confident
Judging by all the responses in this thread, literally everything is why Macron won...	neoliberal	French politics	annotator02	Non-Moral	Confident
"We need to learn to live with terrorism" Hollande is an absolute piece of crap.	worldnews	French politics	annotator02	Thin Morality	Confident
As far as I can tell, Dupont-Aignan has the nationalism, xenophobia, and social conservatism without Le Pen's FN anti-Semitic background and proto-fascist tendencies. He's as much decent as the far-right can get as opposed to Le Pen's trash.	europe	French politics	annotator02	Equality	Confident
>Macron is an incomprehensible ex-investment banker that nobody respects in France. He is part of that ultra-liberal current which both the left and right are starting to hate because its so irrational. I mean NOBODY liked Macron on that set except the journalist which tells everything. 25% do, which is more than most candidates. Please stop spreading lies because you personnaly don't like him	europe	French politics	annotator02	Non-Moral	Confident
The main point of Macron's candidacy is that he is an economic liberal, someone who would make France attractive for liberal professionals like scientists.	europe	French politics	annotator02	Non-Moral	Confident
I don't know why everyone is so happy with this result, this means dat Macron can rule the country freely without any repurcusions. Why? Because of districts he will get around 400 of the 577 seats, but more important: almost all his candidates have zero experience in politics and are just normal dayjob people. Meaning that they will just follow Macron and won't dare to vote against him in parliament. This will be an autocratic goverment for the next 5 years where Macron can do whatever the hell he wants without an parliament stopping him. RIP France	europe	French politics	annotator02	Loyalty,Authority	Confident
>the hacking is likely intended to serve as a low-risk low-cost move to damage the political image of the incoming candidate and the legitimacy of the election system rather than to guarantee a victory for a pro-Russian candidate. This was likely the intent of previous active measures, but it has been obfuscated by the unexpected result. Given that Macron was already weakened in the unusual position of needing to form a coalition (since his party won't have the majority), it could be quite successful in weakening him further.	geopolitics	French politics	annotator02	Non-Moral	Confident
My only concern is that most of these new members are inexperienced, considering the huge undertakings that Macron has to do in order to show the French people and the world that the centre is the way to go, we have to rely on these guys to pick up on their own or else be bogged down by relentless media of both sides picking apart what they do. Remember, we are the enemy of both left and right, populists and nationalists, conservatives and libertarians - we should not falter.	neoliberal	French politics	annotator02	Non-Moral	Confident
I´m having flash backs to the USA elections. This childish accusations regardless of their accuracy are going to end with Le Pen winning.	worldnews	French politics	annotator02	Non-Moral	Confident
No to every single suggestion you just said. As I already answered you previously... vote for le pen. She will help stop the open-border policy.	worldnews	French politics	annotator02	Authority	Confident
It's important not to read too much into the presidential first round. Hamon's voters left him for Mélenchon because they calculated that he had better chances. That doesn't mean that Mélenchon has close to as large a political machine as the Socialists. As a former Hamon supporter I don't want to have seen the last of him. He ran on what I consider the only future-proof political platform: UBI supported by high taxes on automation.	europe	French politics	annotator02	Proportionality,Equality	Somewhat Confident
What if there is nothing nothing incriminating (in the eyes of voters) in his emails? Could this help Macron more than it hurts him? What scares me is that I remember people outright lying about the contents of Hillary's emails.	neoliberal	French politics	annotator02	Thin Morality	Confident
I know you said English-speaking(don't know why that even matters but whatever), but I did find this about the French election from [this article](https://www.ft.com/content/62d782d6-31a7-11e7-9555-23ef563ecf9a): >Macron made huge gains, picking up the majority of first round supporters of the two leftwing candidates, Jean-Luc Mélenchon and Benoît Hamon. More surprisingly, Macron won almost half of the votes of those who went with centre-right candidate François Fillon in round one. It is kinda hard to find a moderate centrist who recently won over moderate conservatives, since the US is pretty polarized and so is the UK.	neoliberal	French politics	annotator02	Non-Moral	Confident
I don't really rate my own looks, and words from some creep on the Internet who wants to see me are meaningless 🤣🤣 Want to see an ugly beta male? Watch Donald's handshake with Emmanuel Macron 🤣🤣	worldnews	French politics	annotator02	Non-Moral	Confident
FFS its' a FRENCH election. Melenchon (19% votes didn't call to vote for him). Fillon and Hamon did but called him a lesser evil compared to a potential disaster,not exactly awe inspiring for their voters.	europe	French politics	annotator02	Thin Morality	Confident
Of course, that's the point of all of this. [The emails](https://twitter.com/LeviSmithUSA/status/860664562064011264) show that Macron bought 3-MMC, a designer drug. His campaign administration did the order by email, by the way ;-)	worldnews	French politics	annotator02	Non-Moral	Confident
> everything about Le Pen is ~~left~~ populist, socially, economically, everything ~~except~~ especially the immigration situation in France Fixed that for you.	neoliberal	French politics	annotator02	Non-Moral	Confident
No, I think his point is that the kind of message of hate that is espoused by Le Pen, Trump et al. is the kind of message that leads to war.	worldnews	French politics	annotator02	Non-Moral	Confident
Demography is not an issue at all, in London we are minority non native but no one cares because most of our immigration has been successful. The US is almost majority non white too. When there are problems with assimilation then there's a problem that needs to be dealt with. Also Le Pen isn't an outsider, Macron is. French system is one of the best for ensuring outsiders get a chance. But if the views of a party are abhorrent to a majority of the population they won't get power. As should be the case anywhere	europe	French politics	annotator02	Authority	Confident
> Alternative Fact: > They argued a crowd movement around Ms Le Pen had become “dangerous in terms of security”. > “There was a crowd movement, he pushed and we asked him to leave. There was a risk,” a spokesman for the organisers of the event told Pure Medias. > > > Alternative Fact: > “Two police officers asked us to remove two individuals who were being provocative. There was a lot of pushing and shoving.” No one suggested Le Pen ordered it. Are you suggesting the security guards were justified?	worldnews	French politics	annotator02	Non-Moral	Confident
>ISIS threatens to bomb the election and a potential bomb is discovered at a Macron rally? It still means Putin's going to kill Macron. Wtf does the one have to do with the other??	worldnews	French politics	annotator02	Non-Moral	Confident
To be fair Macron doesn't have any political experience either	worldnews	French politics	annotator02	Non-Moral	Confident
Youre right, Macron is indeed a beta male like youself as you're well aware. Also, I find you creepy and misogynistic for arguing with a girl over the internet. 😂	worldnews	French politics	annotator02	Purity,Equality	Confident
Black magic. Essentially, what I saw from stalking the french reddit is that she was very cringy, only attacking Macron, not acting presidential, acting weird waving her fingers imitating a ghost while laughing. And it kept going for 2 hours while Macron was being serious the whole time.	europe	French politics	annotator02	Non-Moral	Confident
Which is why it doesn't make sense for Fillon-supporing persons to vote Hamon first round.	europe	French politics	annotator02	Non-Moral	Confident
No. Only Hamon questioned Mélenchon about his attitude towards Putin.	europe	French politics	annotator02	Non-Moral	Confident
Neither macron nor le pen can stop individuals intent on committing terrorist attacks.	worldnews	French politics	annotator02	Non-Moral	Confident
The US popular vote was for Clinton. France has a purely popular vote and Macron is leading 20+ points, not 4 or 5 that Clinton was.	worldnews	French politics	annotator02	Non-Moral	Confident
> People who are Dutch, live in the Netherlands, or Holland. Different names for the same place. Holland is a province in Netherlands. In some countries the name for Netherlands is derived from Holland instead, but I can only guess the Dutch outside of Holland aren't too happy to be called Hollanders...	worldnews	French politics	annotator02	Non-Moral	Confident
> In 1972, Le Pen founded the Front National (FN) party, along with former OAS member Jacques Bompard, former Collaborationist Roland Gaucher and others nostalgics of Vichy France, neo-Nazi pagans, Traditionalist Catholics, and others. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Marie_Le_Pen#Front_national	worldnews	French politics	annotator02	Non-Moral	Confident
By making up bullshit, you sounds a lot more similar to Trump. Each time an intellectually dishonest person on the left lies like this, he or she makes Trump, Le Pen, Farage, Wilders etc. seem just a tiny bit more reasonable in comparison.	europe	French politics	annotator02	Non-Moral	Confident
Exactly my thoughts. I can understand Melenchon running and hurting Macron chances, after all they have enough differences, but Valls? Valls will only hurt Macron.	europe	French politics	annotator02	Non-Moral	Confident
Macron is likely to win the presidential race of course, but it should be a worry to the incoming french government the amount of people voting for the far-right and maybe they should address some of that voter bases concerns or the far right will keep rising, by that i mean those people on the fence who aren't necessarily far right supporters themselves but want to see some problems addressed, that being the 'fuck-you' votes	europe	French politics	annotator02	Non-Moral	Confident
no, the right way is : "je, soussigné E. Macron, autorise (...)" the coma was wrong placed in the original note	europe	French politics	annotator02	Non-Moral	Confident
It's not the polling's fault that Huffpo is biased and reads a 4-point lead in must-win states as a 100% chance of Hillary winning. Polls were not perfect, but they were close. Polls in France could be twice as bad as the ones here and Le Pen would still lose by 15 points.	worldnews	French politics	annotator02	Non-Moral	Confident
If France leaves, France is toast. Everybody loses. It's not disinformation to call right wing extremists like Le Pen dangerous and racist and neonazis (or literal nazis, in many cases). There is no excuse for supporting them, either.	worldnews	French politics	annotator02	Equality	Confident
Read the quran please. I'm no Republican, but neither Le Pen nor trump are fascists. However, the quran peaches fascism.	neoliberal	French politics	annotator02	Equality	Confident
Would the French really care if Macron was gay? Seems like those who would care are already voting for Le Pen or Fillon anyway.	worldnews	French politics	annotator02	Non-Moral	Confident
Not quite. * Emmanuel MACRON : 24,01% soit 8 657 326 voix * Marine LE PEN : 21,3% soit 7 679 493 voix * François FILLON : 20,01% soit 7 213 797 voix * Jean-Luc MÉLENCHON : 19,58% soit 7 060 885 voix	worldnews	French politics	annotator02	Non-Moral	Confident
Well, if you believe any thing that comes out of Le Pen's mouth, they both greatly dislike neoliberalism.	worldnews	French politics	annotator02	Non-Moral	Confident
If you have facts that disprove LePen's links to Russia, then please supply them. Because from what we've seen, it seems like Putin would very much like Le Pen to win.	worldnews	French politics	annotator02	Non-Moral	Confident
He's a disgrace for refusing to look into the issue. He's a nationalistic tool supporting people like Le Pen. Pretending to be a skeptic when he's actually just trying to refute negative stories about his ideology is disgraceful.	worldnews	French politics	annotator02	Purity	Confident
> Oh so anyone who disagree's with you or anything your party thinks, are not ordinary people. Good to know. Was referring to /pol/ and the_don as nationalism, America first, resentment for outsiders telling them what to do and withdrawing from international engagement are major parts of their politics. >Protip, Macron loses. You should bet $10,000 on it :\^)	neoliberal	French politics	annotator02	Non-Moral	Confident
To be fair it's not really all new people. The left-wing was split between people like Hamon who wanted stuff like universal basic income and the more "pragmatic" left. The right-wing was split between people like Fillon who were pro-austerity and supported by anti gay marriage groups, and the more "pragmatic" right. Macron simply told people from the pragmatic left and right to leave the crazies and to form a new party.	europe	French politics	annotator02	Non-Moral	Confident
I have 3 friends who already said they will vote Mélenchon. All 3 see Le Pen as their main enemy and the only one they could never vote for. The communists usually hate extreme right and fascists. I don't know if my friends are representative of the population, though.	worldnews	French politics	annotator02	Non-Moral	Confident
Macron was his guy. It's just that Le Pen was his gal, too.	worldnews	French politics	annotator02	Non-Moral	Confident
>“Fast” will mean, as Macron said in the campaign, using a procedure known as “ordinances” whereby the government can pass laws without a parliamentary debate. Union leaders have already warned they would consider this “undemocratic.” Ordinances “are totally unacceptable,” said Philippe Martinez, leader of the communist-dominated CGT union. Pft, those pesky opposition parliamentarians should obviously know better than to question Macron.	europe	French politics	annotator02	Non-Moral	Confident
See sticky for definition of fascism. It literally cites Le Pen as an example.	neoliberal	French politics	annotator02	Non-Moral	Confident
But surely the Juppe' factions will join him right. They might be far more liberal economically than Macron but socially Juppists are way more liberal than Sarko and Crooked Fillon lol.	neoliberal	French politics	annotator02	Non-Moral	Confident
Yep. The Kremlin doesn't expect to install true puppets in the White House or the Élysée Palace (though Le Pen's passionate boot-licking might qualify if that nightmare came to pass.) Rather, Putin seeks to disrupt real democracies, to instill fear and distrust to weaken their ability to counter his expansion, and also to tear down everyone around Russia to make it look better in comparison.	europe	French politics	annotator02	Non-Moral	Confident
And then I remember why I love French politics [Heavy Metal Macron](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xeDKyl04G74)	neoliberal	French politics	annotator02	Non-Moral	Confident
So...the areas won by Le Pen. What's different about them? Is it just the areas where France's nazi assholes chose to live?	neoliberal	French politics	annotator02	Equality	Confident
> but let's be serious his biggest advantage is that he isn't Le Pen That's been pretty debunked by victories in the legislative elections. If voters wanted anything other than Macron, or even a Macron with a check on his agenda, they could have voted against him. Instead he will win the biggest majority since De Gaulle. Shows French voters want him, and his agenda to, not just as a "least worst option" but as a first choice.	europe	French politics	annotator02	Thin Morality	Confident
But to be honest, free healthcare/education, good public services and generous social security can't really be compared to the radical left (Melenchon). It's centre-left, like Sanders, Sweden, Corbyn, etc.	europe	French politics	annotator02	Non-Moral	Confident
Le Pen is getting the same Kremline treatment that Trump got. Watch the downvoting begin. They're trying to control the narrative by exploiting logical fallacies like might equals right and fear.	worldnews	French politics	annotator02	Care	Somewhat Confident
I know that Le Pen won't win but with the Trump stuff, the Brexit stuff, the Russia / US stuff, how can we have so many people voting for her ?	europe	French politics	annotator02	Non-Moral	Confident
You can be opposed to radical Islam and be opposed to immigration while still being rational and moderate; if you take out the single issue of immigration, Le Pen's policies are a roaring dumpster fire. Look at Denmark, Poland, Japan, or even Canada to see how countries can remain civil while cracking down on theocrat invasion.	worldnews	French politics	annotator02	Non-Moral	Confident
Nah its the share of votes as a percentage, Macron 65% Le Pen 35% it would be rigging on the highest degree if Le Pen got all the blank votes ;)	europe	French politics	annotator02	Non-Moral	Confident
This looks like Matt Bevin (who is unfortunately not a Macron Bernke mashup in terms of policy)	neoliberal	French politics	annotator02	Non-Moral	Confident
What a ridiculous statement, this place is so sheltered when it comes to awareness of what candidates who aren't blindly pro EU status quo stand for. He's not anti EU, he's not pro-Russian, these are buzzwords used by the political establishment to scare his voters away, and they are wrong. If you care about the current EU status quo, Macron is your guy, if you care about the French people, Mélenchon probably should be your guy.	europe	French politics	annotator02	Non-Moral	Confident
Can someone fill me in and explain why Macron would be Merkel's puppet? Is anyone who doesn't want the end of the EU "Merkel's puppet"?	europe	French politics	annotator02	Non-Moral	Confident
Is there any evidence or serious disussion in the media/pollster circles that the polls could be underestimating Le Pen's support?	europe	French politics	annotator02	Non-Moral	Confident
so just to make sure google translate isn't fucking up, he's saying "don't vote FN" but not saying to vote for Macron? JFC.	neoliberal	French politics	annotator02	Non-Moral	Confident
EU doesn't need to be "propped" up. It's the world's strongest economy... I'm amazed at how Trump/Putin/Le Pen trolls are suddenly economic experts, and how everything they disagree with is some kind of a globalist conspiracy theory. Oh to be naive and ignorant to reality.	worldnews	French politics	annotator02	Non-Moral	Confident
Le Pen is not Trump, Le Pen is Steve Bannon, but even more of a facist. Melenchon is to the left of Sanders, as the americans don't really have a left-wing party or candidate. Honestly, i can't see any good reason to vote for Le Pen, at all. Not even as a "protest vote", like many did during Brexit. Allowing facist and nazi policies to exist is not tolerance, it's collaborationism.	worldnews	French politics	annotator02	Equality	Confident
Wisdom right here. There are legitimate issues that Le Pen voters need answers to. I'm just personally relieve that France as a whole was able to recognize that the legitimacy of those problems didn't mean her insanity was the solution.	worldnews	French politics	annotator02	Thin Morality	Confident
Well it looks like Le Pen might have broken a French law by posting those beheadings, now if she lost immunity also because of a shady political game that's possible, I don't know much about French politics. Now about free speech, in my country there's a wonderful woman that's spreading misinformation about vaccines and all of a sudden now we have epidemics and babies dying because their parents think vaccines make their kids sick and shit. Would you also defend her freedom of speech? I'm obviously not connecting this to Le Pen, I'm just curious what you think.	europe	French politics	annotator02	Non-Moral	Confident
Wait... but Macron got more votes than Le Pen, I'm not used to elections like this. How did he win???	worldnews	French politics	annotator02	Non-Moral	Confident
🇪🇺🇫🇷 MACRON PREND MON ÉNERGIE 🇫🇷🇪🇺 Ahhh, intense!! Bless this sub	neoliberal	French politics	annotator02	Non-Moral	Somewhat Confident
I suppose you are American, one of the few countries where nationalism is used a synonym of patriotic sentiment. Nationalism is defined as: "extreme form of patriotism marked by a feeling of superiority over other countries" and yes, I do have a problem with this way of thinking, especially when it is used abused by populist or far right political parties. Moreover, if you paid any attention to what Le Pen has been saying, you would know that being on friendly terms is not exactly what the party is pushing for.	worldnews	French politics	annotator02	Non-Moral	Confident
Well, Macron probably has some sort of Oedipus complex. So i guess he does fall into the 2nd part of my sentance lol	europe	French politics	annotator02	Non-Moral	Confident
Should say Cozying up. Anyway, he has said he would lift sanctions for basically nothing and recognize the annexation of Crimea. He has also regurgitated Russian talking points about NATO being obsolete and making comments that undermines the alliance. He aligns himself with people like Le Pen who is openly pro Russia and Putin. Trump is the best thing to happen to Russian geopolitical interests since the end of ww2.	Conservative	French politics	annotator02	Non-Moral	Confident
To be honest, I'm pretty sure there are less enthusiast french voters than the previous presidential elections. On the international subreddits, people seem way more excited about Macron who seems like a cool and good guy, but a lot of french people just feel like " Well, let's see what happens with this new guy. At least he destroyed the old and rotten political landscape."	europe	French politics	annotator02	Thin Morality	Confident
That was the opposite. That got Spain to bow to blackmail and vote in the Socialist Party who opposed the war in Iraq. This will likely result in the election of Le Pen who will take a hard stance on radical Islam.	worldnews	French politics	annotator02	Non-Moral	Confident
> the previous crisis took place under a socialist government, the neoliberals just came in to fix the problem and their solutions weren't popular. A socialist government? You think Acción Democrática were socialist? How do you reckon? Would you say Macron is a socialist then? What about the Clintons? >in theory decentralised economies and diffusion of powers reduce the impact that each corrupt individual can have. And in theory socialism will lead to a utopia. I'm talking about the actual political economy and history of Venezuela	neoliberal	French politics	annotator02	Non-Moral	Confident
400 seat majority, or even just upwards of 350 is huge. Macron built something of a coalition of centrists, with some diversity in political thought and old party affiliation. I don't know a lot about French politics, but will such a coalition be successful in agreeing on a mandate and getting things done?	neoliberal	French politics	annotator02	Non-Moral	Confident
I love how he literally said "Go vote" and you automatically think it's for Macron. This is why right-wing parties use voter suppression.	europe	French politics	annotator02	Non-Moral	Confident
"[So #macronleaks used Russian Excel: it left some app-internal strings in Russian into the files](https://twitter.com/henkvaness/status/860809075013144577)"	worldnews	French politics	annotator02	Non-Moral	Confident
The closest candidate to Melenchon, from an ideology PoV, is very likely LePen.	europe	French politics	annotator02	Non-Moral	Confident
Lol not at all. Macron is on the same part of the spectrum as Obama.	worldnews	French politics	annotator02	Non-Moral	Confident
>Old people (in their 60s, 70s) think it is typical of homosexuals to marry older women. During the campaign, this was used to portray Macron as a homosexual to older catholics. Someone else in the thread said this.	worldnews	French politics	annotator02	Non-Moral	Confident
Can't wait for the alt right tears when Le Pen loses bigly.	neoliberal	French politics	annotator02	Non-Moral	Confident
I too agree. It's a wonder why Le Pen is doing a better job of standing up for women's rights than a lot of leftist politicians, especially Sweden's government which explicitly claims to be feminist.	europe	French politics	annotator02	Non-Moral	Confident
How did the debate go? I'm guessing it went badly for Le Pen since she is at 34% now. But just how bad I'm curious. What did she say? What did Macron say?	europe	French politics	annotator02	Thin Morality	Confident
I think Hillary Clinton would have a word about poll numbers for Macron.	worldnews	French politics	annotator02	Non-Moral	Confident
Why is Fillon authoritarian? Why is Macron so far right? Isn't Mc. le Ron a tad on the liberal side? Why is a leftist essentially the center?	europe	French politics	annotator02	Non-Moral	Confident
Yes. You should look at the actual migration and secularism/Islam policies of all the candidates as well as their other policies; Trump for instance has some extremely dangerous policies on secularism, war, torture, the climate, and nuclear proliferation that are significantly overshadowed in the public discourse by those on Islam, and Le Pen would likely be a loyal stooge for him. Fillon or maybe even Macron could be possibilities for you.	worldnews	French politics	annotator02	Thin Morality	Confident
Yes, but they are leaked emails, so it means Macron is evil! Right? Right? The Dumpsters love creating fake outrage, they keep hyping every single leak like it's the new Watergategate. Needless to say, mostly nothing comes out of these leaks because there is nothing there.	europe	French politics	annotator02	Thin Morality	Confident
Or whenever you want a disparate, radically different party to support your bid for the presidency. Macron is entitled to nothing by virtue of being the opponent of le pen.	europe	French politics	annotator02	Non-Moral	Confident
Macron is a centrist globalist who wants to improve the economy and jobs..etc Le Pen wants to exit the EU and prevent immigration and shutdown muslims through banning hijab closing mosques..etc	worldnews	French politics	annotator02	Non-Moral	Confident
Political immunity is not supposed to prevent against laws. After all, if it were, then MEP's could go on a robbery or murder spree without consequences. Political immunity is supposed to protect against unjustified persecution. In this case Le Pen did post those images, and France does have a law against them, so lifting the immunity is the only logical option. Not lifting it would be attacking the sovereignity of the French state.	worldnews	French politics	annotator02	Authority	Confident
As a Macron' supporter I am reasonably optimistic, but not in total awe either. I know my fellow countrymen/women too well. The main obstruction won't apparently come from the Parliament, but probably from the streets. As for the expectations, results are mandatory. Otherwise, if deceived, within 5 years from now, French will go back to the polls, very angry this time. And who knows where that could lead us. But my Crystal ball says that will have Macron for another mandate, easy.	europe	French politics	annotator02	Non-Moral	Confident

Nothing to do with him. It's a (small) scandal for the Modem party (François Bayrou party) who was a political ally for Macron. Macron never was a member of this party or affiliated to this story. If anything, it proved that Macron would not accept such scandal among his ministers and wants a very clean government. It was one of his main political promises and it means he's serious about that. I think it will do more good than harm for him. There is absolutely no chance this interview is related to that.

neoliberal

French politics

annotator02

Thin Morality

Confident

And as usual expect no one to actually talk about the leaks and instead point fingers while shrieking about how "unfair" they are. Put it this way, start pointing out the actual falsehoods and I will happily upvote you. **I for one just want to say I find it rather interesting that Macron's advisor on surveillance died on stage less than 12 hours after these leaks. I'm sure it's just a coincidence.**

worldnews

French politics

annotator02

Non-Moral

Confident

Here's an overview of [definitions of Fascism](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Definitions_of_fascism). [Neo-Fascism](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neo-fascism) may be more relevant for Le Pen and Le Front Nationale.

neoliberal

French politics

annotator02

Non-Moral

Confident

When will you alt righters learn? Your constant demonization of liberalism is why Macron won[.](#hover "world's tiniest /s")

neoliberal

French politics

annotator02

Non-Moral

Confident

I see one black woman there and she's Macron's advisor no? How many non-white members of parliament and senate are there?

neoliberal

French politics

annotator02

Non-Moral

Confident

Who said that? You created that straw man in attempt to invalidate the point that the other poster made. You're using semantics as an argument and then backpedaling when someone calls you out on it I'll address your strawman though. No Le Pen is not as bad as Islamic extremism. But their ideologies don't differ greatly. Le Pen is a detriment to what France stands for. Her ideology is regressive a reactionary. It's the stance of cowards and bigots.

worldnews

French politics

annotator02

Equality

Confident

I believe the candidate for that would be Melenchon, but he won´t win.

europe

French politics

annotator02

Non-Moral

Confident

Great way to damage the EU and to give Le Pen(or somebody like her) the victory in 2022.

europe

French politics

annotator02

Non-Moral

Confident

Judging by all the responses in this thread, literally *everything* is why Macron won...

neoliberal

French politics

annotator02

Non-Moral

Confident

"We need to learn to live with terrorism" Hollande is an absolute piece of crap.

worldnews

French politics

annotator02

Thin Morality

Confident

As far as I can tell, Dupont-Aignan has the nationalism, xenophobia, and social conservatism without Le Pen's FN anti-Semitic background and proto-fascist tendencies. He's as much decent as the far-right can get as opposed to Le Pen's trash.

europe

French politics

annotator02

Equality

Confident

>Macron is an incomprehensible ex-investment banker that nobody respects in France. He is part of that ultra-liberal current which both the left and right are starting to hate because its so irrational. I mean NOBODY liked Macron on that set except the journalist which tells everything. 25% do, which is more than most candidates. Please stop spreading lies because you personnaly don't like him

europe

French politics

annotator02

Non-Moral

Confident

The main point of Macron's candidacy is that he is an economic liberal, someone who would make France attractive for liberal professionals like scientists.

europe

French politics

annotator02

Non-Moral

Confident

I don't know why everyone is so happy with this result, this means dat Macron can rule the country freely without any repurcusions. Why? Because of districts he will get around 400 of the 577 seats, but more important: almost all his candidates have zero experience in politics and are just normal dayjob people. Meaning that they will just follow Macron and won't dare to vote against him in parliament. This will be an autocratic goverment for the next 5 years where Macron can do whatever the hell he wants without an parliament stopping him. RIP France

europe

French politics

annotator02

Loyalty,Authority

Confident

>the hacking is likely intended to serve as a low-risk low-cost move to damage the political image of the incoming candidate and the legitimacy of the election system rather than to guarantee a victory for a pro-Russian candidate. This was likely the intent of previous active measures, but it has been obfuscated by the unexpected result. Given that Macron was already weakened in the unusual position of needing to form a coalition (since his party won't have the majority), it could be quite successful in weakening him further.

geopolitics

French politics

annotator02

Non-Moral

Confident

My only concern is that most of these new members are inexperienced, considering the huge undertakings that Macron has to do in order to show the French people and the world that the centre is the way to go, we have to rely on these guys to pick up on their own or else be bogged down by relentless media of both sides picking apart what they do. Remember, we are the enemy of both left and right, populists and nationalists, conservatives and libertarians - we should not falter.

neoliberal

French politics

annotator02

Non-Moral

Confident

I´m having flash backs to the USA elections. This childish accusations regardless of their accuracy are going to end with Le Pen winning.

worldnews

French politics

annotator02

Non-Moral

Confident

No to every single suggestion you just said. As I already answered you previously... vote for le pen. She will help stop the open-border policy.

worldnews

French politics

annotator02

Authority

Confident

It's important not to read too much into the presidential first round. Hamon's voters left him for Mélenchon because they calculated that he had better chances. That doesn't mean that Mélenchon has close to as large a political machine as the Socialists. As a former Hamon supporter I don't want to have seen the last of him. He ran on what I consider the only future-proof political platform: UBI supported by high taxes on automation.

europe

French politics

annotator02

Proportionality,Equality

Somewhat Confident

What if there is nothing nothing incriminating (in the eyes of voters) in his emails? Could this help Macron more than it hurts him? What scares me is that I remember people outright lying about the contents of Hillary's emails.

neoliberal

French politics

annotator02

Thin Morality

Confident

I know you said English-speaking(don't know why that even matters but whatever), but I did find this about the French election from [this article](https://www.ft.com/content/62d782d6-31a7-11e7-9555-23ef563ecf9a): >Macron made huge gains, picking up the majority of first round supporters of the two leftwing candidates, Jean-Luc Mélenchon and Benoît Hamon. More surprisingly, Macron won almost half of the votes of those who went with centre-right candidate François Fillon in round one. It is kinda hard to find a moderate centrist who recently won over moderate conservatives, since the US is pretty polarized and so is the UK.

neoliberal

French politics

annotator02

Non-Moral

Confident

I don't really rate my own looks, and words from some creep on the Internet who wants to see me are meaningless 🤣🤣 Want to see an ugly beta male? Watch Donald's handshake with Emmanuel Macron 🤣🤣

worldnews

French politics

annotator02

Non-Moral

Confident

FFS its' a FRENCH election. Melenchon (19% votes didn't call to vote for him). Fillon and Hamon did but called him a lesser evil compared to a potential disaster,not exactly awe inspiring for their voters.

europe

French politics

annotator02

Thin Morality

Confident

Of course, that's the point of all of this. [The emails](https://twitter.com/LeviSmithUSA/status/860664562064011264) show that Macron bought 3-MMC, a designer drug. His campaign administration did the order by email, by the way ;-)

worldnews

French politics

annotator02

Non-Moral

Confident

> everything about Le Pen is ~~left~~ *populist*, socially, economically, everything ~~except~~ *especially* the immigration situation in France Fixed that for you.

neoliberal

French politics

annotator02

Non-Moral

Confident

No, I think his point is that the kind of message of hate that is espoused by Le Pen, Trump et al. is the kind of message that leads to war.

worldnews

French politics

annotator02

Non-Moral

Confident

Demography is not an issue at all, in London we are minority non native but no one cares because most of our immigration has been successful. The US is almost majority non white too. When there are problems with assimilation then there's a problem that needs to be dealt with. Also Le Pen isn't an outsider, Macron is. French system is one of the best for ensuring outsiders get a chance. But if the views of a party are abhorrent to a majority of the population they won't get power. As should be the case anywhere

europe

French politics

annotator02

Authority

Confident

> Alternative Fact: > They argued a crowd movement around Ms Le Pen had become “dangerous in terms of security”. > “There was a crowd movement, he pushed and we asked him to leave. There was a risk,” a spokesman for the organisers of the event told Pure Medias. > > > Alternative Fact: > “Two police officers asked us to remove two individuals who were being provocative. There was a lot of pushing and shoving.” No one suggested Le Pen ordered it. Are you suggesting the security guards were justified?

worldnews

French politics

annotator02

Non-Moral

Confident

>ISIS threatens to bomb the election and a potential bomb is discovered at a Macron rally? It still means Putin's going to kill Macron. Wtf does the one have to do with the other??

worldnews

French politics

annotator02

Non-Moral

Confident

To be fair Macron doesn't have any political experience either

worldnews

French politics

annotator02

Non-Moral

Confident

Youre right, Macron is indeed a beta male like youself as you're well aware. Also, I find you creepy and misogynistic for arguing with a girl over the internet. 😂

worldnews

French politics

annotator02

Purity,Equality

Confident

Black magic. Essentially, what I saw from stalking the french reddit is that she was very cringy, only attacking Macron, not acting presidential, acting weird waving her fingers imitating a ghost while laughing. And it kept going for 2 hours while Macron was being serious the whole time.

europe

French politics

annotator02

Non-Moral

Confident

Which is why it doesn't make sense for Fillon-supporing persons to vote Hamon first round.

europe

French politics

annotator02

Non-Moral

Confident

No. Only Hamon questioned Mélenchon about his attitude towards Putin.

europe

French politics

annotator02

Non-Moral

Confident

Neither macron nor le pen can stop individuals intent on committing terrorist attacks.

worldnews

French politics

annotator02

Non-Moral

Confident

The US popular vote was for Clinton. France has a purely popular vote and Macron is leading 20+ points, not 4 or 5 that Clinton was.

worldnews

French politics

annotator02

Non-Moral

Confident

> People who are Dutch, live in the Netherlands, or Holland. Different names for the same place. Holland is a province *in* Netherlands. In some countries the name for Netherlands is derived from Holland instead, but I can only guess the Dutch outside of Holland aren't too happy to be called Hollanders...

worldnews

French politics

annotator02

Non-Moral

Confident

> In 1972, Le Pen founded the Front National (FN) party, along with former OAS member Jacques Bompard, former Collaborationist Roland Gaucher and others nostalgics of Vichy France, neo-Nazi pagans, Traditionalist Catholics, and others. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Marie_Le_Pen#Front_national

worldnews

French politics

annotator02

Non-Moral

Confident

By making up bullshit, you sounds a lot more similar to Trump. Each time an intellectually dishonest person on the left lies like this, he or she makes Trump, Le Pen, Farage, Wilders etc. seem just a tiny bit more reasonable in comparison.

europe

French politics

annotator02

Non-Moral

Confident

Exactly my thoughts. I can understand Melenchon running and hurting Macron chances, after all they have enough differences, but Valls? Valls will only hurt Macron.

europe

French politics

annotator02

Non-Moral

Confident

Macron is likely to win the presidential race of course, but it should be a worry to the incoming french government the amount of people voting for the far-right and maybe they should address some of that voter bases concerns or the far right will keep rising, by that i mean those people on the fence who aren't necessarily far right supporters themselves but want to see some problems addressed, that being the 'fuck-you' votes

europe

French politics

annotator02

Non-Moral

Confident

no, the right way is : "je, soussigné E. Macron, autorise (...)" the coma was wrong placed in the original note

europe

French politics

annotator02

Non-Moral

Confident

It's not the polling's fault that Huffpo is biased and reads a 4-point lead in must-win states as a 100% chance of Hillary winning. Polls were not perfect, but they were close. Polls in France could be twice as bad as the ones here and Le Pen would still lose by 15 points.

worldnews

French politics

annotator02

Non-Moral

Confident

If France leaves, France is toast. Everybody loses. It's not disinformation to call right wing extremists like Le Pen dangerous and racist and neonazis (or literal nazis, in many cases). There is no excuse for supporting them, either.

worldnews

French politics

annotator02

Equality

Confident

Read the quran please. I'm no Republican, but neither Le Pen nor trump are fascists. However, the quran peaches fascism.

neoliberal

French politics

annotator02

Equality

Confident

Would the French really care if Macron was gay? Seems like those who would care are already voting for Le Pen or Fillon anyway.

worldnews

French politics

annotator02

Non-Moral

Confident

Not quite. * Emmanuel MACRON : 24,01% soit 8 657 326 voix * Marine LE PEN : 21,3% soit 7 679 493 voix * François FILLON : 20,01% soit 7 213 797 voix * Jean-Luc MÉLENCHON : 19,58% soit 7 060 885 voix

worldnews

French politics

annotator02

Non-Moral

Confident

Well, if you believe any thing that comes out of Le Pen's mouth, they both greatly dislike neoliberalism.

worldnews

French politics

annotator02

Non-Moral

Confident

If you have facts that disprove LePen's links to Russia, then please supply them. Because from what we've seen, it seems like Putin would very much like Le Pen to win.

worldnews

French politics

annotator02

Non-Moral

Confident

He's a disgrace for refusing to look into the issue. He's a nationalistic tool supporting people like Le Pen. Pretending to be a skeptic when he's actually just trying to refute negative stories about his ideology is disgraceful.

worldnews

French politics

annotator02

Purity

Confident

> Oh so anyone who disagree's with you or anything your party thinks, are not ordinary people. Good to know. Was referring to /pol/ and the_don as nationalism, America first, resentment for outsiders telling them what to do and withdrawing from international engagement are major parts of their politics. >Protip, Macron loses. You should bet $10,000 on it :\^)

neoliberal

French politics

annotator02

Non-Moral

Confident

To be fair it's not really all new people. The left-wing was split between people like Hamon who wanted stuff like universal basic income and the more "pragmatic" left. The right-wing was split between people like Fillon who were pro-austerity and supported by anti gay marriage groups, and the more "pragmatic" right. Macron simply told people from the pragmatic left and right to leave the crazies and to form a new party.

europe

French politics

annotator02

Non-Moral

Confident

I have 3 friends who already said they will vote Mélenchon. All 3 see Le Pen as their main enemy and the only one they could never vote for. The communists usually hate extreme right and fascists. I don't know if my friends are representative of the population, though.

worldnews

French politics

annotator02

Non-Moral

Confident

Macron was his guy. It's just that Le Pen was his gal, too.

worldnews

French politics

annotator02

Non-Moral

Confident

>“Fast” will mean, as Macron said in the campaign, using a procedure known as “ordinances” whereby the government can pass laws without a parliamentary debate. Union leaders have already warned they would consider this “undemocratic.” Ordinances “are totally unacceptable,” said Philippe Martinez, leader of the communist-dominated CGT union. Pft, those pesky opposition parliamentarians should obviously know better than to question Macron.

europe

French politics

annotator02

Non-Moral

Confident

See sticky for definition of fascism. It literally cites Le Pen as an example.

neoliberal

French politics

annotator02

Non-Moral

Confident

But surely the Juppe' factions will join him right. They might be far more liberal economically than Macron but socially Juppists are way more liberal than Sarko and Crooked Fillon lol.

neoliberal

French politics

annotator02

Non-Moral

Confident

Yep. The Kremlin doesn't expect to install true puppets in the White House or the Élysée Palace (though Le Pen's passionate boot-licking might qualify if that nightmare came to pass.) Rather, Putin seeks to disrupt real democracies, to instill fear and distrust to weaken their ability to counter his expansion, and also to tear down everyone around Russia to make it look better in comparison.

europe

French politics

annotator02

Non-Moral

Confident

And then I remember why I love French politics [Heavy Metal Macron](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xeDKyl04G74)

neoliberal

French politics

annotator02

Non-Moral

Confident

So...the areas won by Le Pen. What's different about them? Is it just the areas where France's nazi assholes chose to live?

neoliberal

French politics

annotator02

Equality

Confident

> but let's be serious his biggest advantage is that he isn't Le Pen That's been pretty debunked by victories in the legislative elections. If voters wanted anything other than Macron, or even a Macron with a check on his agenda, they could have voted against him. Instead he will win the biggest majority since De Gaulle. Shows French voters want him, and his agenda to, not just as a "least worst option" but as a first choice.

europe

French politics

annotator02

Thin Morality

Confident

But to be honest, free healthcare/education, good public services and generous social security can't really be compared to the radical left (Melenchon). It's centre-left, like Sanders, Sweden, Corbyn, etc.

europe

French politics

annotator02

Non-Moral

Confident

Le Pen is getting the same Kremline treatment that Trump got. Watch the downvoting begin. They're trying to control the narrative by exploiting logical fallacies like might equals right and fear.

worldnews

French politics

annotator02

Care

Somewhat Confident

I know that Le Pen won't win but with the Trump stuff, the Brexit stuff, the Russia / US stuff, how can we have so many people voting for her ?

europe

French politics

annotator02

Non-Moral

Confident

You can be opposed to radical Islam and be opposed to immigration while still being rational and moderate; if you take out the single issue of immigration, Le Pen's policies are a roaring dumpster fire. Look at Denmark, Poland, Japan, or even Canada to see how countries can remain civil while cracking down on theocrat invasion.

worldnews

French politics

annotator02

Non-Moral

Confident

Nah its the share of votes as a percentage, Macron 65% Le Pen 35% it would be rigging on the highest degree if Le Pen got all the blank votes ;)

europe

French politics

annotator02

Non-Moral

Confident

This looks like Matt Bevin (who is unfortunately not a Macron Bernke mashup in terms of policy)

neoliberal

French politics

annotator02

Non-Moral

Confident

What a ridiculous statement, this place is so sheltered when it comes to awareness of what candidates who aren't blindly pro EU status quo stand for. He's not anti EU, he's not pro-Russian, these are buzzwords used by the political establishment to scare his voters away, and they are wrong. If you care about the current EU status quo, Macron is your guy, if you care about the French people, Mélenchon probably should be your guy.

europe

French politics

annotator02

Non-Moral

Confident

Can someone fill me in and explain why Macron would be Merkel's puppet? Is anyone who doesn't want the end of the EU "Merkel's puppet"?

europe

French politics

annotator02

Non-Moral

Confident

Is there any evidence or serious disussion in the media/pollster circles that the polls could be underestimating Le Pen's support?

europe

French politics

annotator02

Non-Moral

Confident

so just to make sure google translate isn't fucking up, he's saying "don't vote FN" but not saying to vote for Macron? JFC.

neoliberal

French politics

annotator02

Non-Moral

Confident

EU doesn't need to be "propped" up. It's the world's strongest economy... I'm amazed at how Trump/Putin/Le Pen trolls are suddenly economic experts, and how everything they disagree with is some kind of a globalist conspiracy theory. Oh to be naive and ignorant to reality.

worldnews

French politics

annotator02

Non-Moral

Confident

Le Pen is not Trump, Le Pen is Steve Bannon, but even more of a facist. Melenchon is to the left of Sanders, as the americans don't really have a left-wing party or candidate. Honestly, i can't see any good reason to vote for Le Pen, at all. Not even as a "protest vote", like many did during Brexit. Allowing facist and nazi policies to exist is not tolerance, it's collaborationism.

worldnews

French politics

annotator02

Equality

Confident

Wisdom right here. There are legitimate issues that Le Pen voters need answers to. I'm just personally relieve that France as a whole was able to recognize that the legitimacy of those problems didn't mean her insanity was the solution.

worldnews

French politics

annotator02

Thin Morality

Confident

Well it looks like Le Pen might have broken a French law by posting those beheadings, now if she lost immunity also because of a shady political game that's possible, I don't know much about French politics. Now about free speech, in my country there's a wonderful woman that's spreading misinformation about vaccines and all of a sudden now we have epidemics and babies dying because their parents think vaccines make their kids sick and shit. Would you also defend her freedom of speech? I'm obviously not connecting this to Le Pen, I'm just curious what you think.

europe

French politics

annotator02

Non-Moral

Confident

Wait... but Macron got more votes than Le Pen, I'm not used to elections like this. How did he win???

worldnews

French politics

annotator02

Non-Moral

Confident

🇪🇺🇫🇷 MACRON PREND MON ÉNERGIE 🇫🇷🇪🇺 Ahhh, intense!! Bless this sub

neoliberal

French politics

annotator02

Non-Moral

Somewhat Confident

I suppose you are American, one of the few countries where nationalism is used a synonym of patriotic sentiment. Nationalism is defined as: "extreme form of patriotism marked by a feeling of superiority over other countries" and yes, I do have a problem with this way of thinking, especially when it is used abused by populist or far right political parties. Moreover, if you paid any attention to what Le Pen has been saying, you would know that being on friendly terms is not exactly what the party is pushing for.

worldnews

French politics

annotator02

Non-Moral

Confident

Well, Macron probably has some sort of Oedipus complex. So i guess he does fall into the 2nd part of my sentance lol

europe

French politics

annotator02

Non-Moral

Confident

Should say Cozying up. Anyway, he has said he would lift sanctions for basically nothing and recognize the annexation of Crimea. He has also regurgitated Russian talking points about NATO being obsolete and making comments that undermines the alliance. He aligns himself with people like Le Pen who is openly pro Russia and Putin. Trump is the best thing to happen to Russian geopolitical interests since the end of ww2.

Conservative

French politics

annotator02

Non-Moral

Confident

To be honest, I'm pretty sure there are less enthusiast french voters than the previous presidential elections. On the international subreddits, people seem way more excited about Macron who seems like a cool and good guy, but a lot of french people just feel like " Well, let's see what happens with this new guy. At least he destroyed the old and rotten political landscape."

europe

French politics

annotator02

Thin Morality

Confident

That was the opposite. That got Spain to bow to blackmail and vote in the Socialist Party who opposed the war in Iraq. This will likely result in the election of Le Pen who will take a hard stance on radical Islam.

worldnews

French politics

annotator02

Non-Moral

Confident

> the previous crisis took place under a socialist government, the neoliberals just came in to fix the problem and their solutions weren't popular. A socialist government? You think Acción Democrática were socialist? How do you reckon? Would you say Macron is a socialist then? What about the Clintons? >in theory decentralised economies and diffusion of powers reduce the impact that each corrupt individual can have. And in theory socialism will lead to a utopia. I'm talking about the actual political economy and history of Venezuela

neoliberal

French politics

annotator02

Non-Moral

Confident

400 seat majority, or even just upwards of 350 is huge. Macron built something of a coalition of centrists, with some diversity in political thought and old party affiliation. I don't know a lot about French politics, but will such a coalition be successful in agreeing on a mandate and getting things done?

neoliberal

French politics

annotator02

Non-Moral

Confident

I love how he literally said "Go vote" and you automatically think it's for Macron. This is why right-wing parties use voter suppression.

europe

French politics

annotator02

Non-Moral

Confident

"[So #macronleaks used Russian Excel: it left some app-internal strings in Russian into the files](https://twitter.com/henkvaness/status/860809075013144577)"

worldnews

French politics

annotator02

Non-Moral

Confident

The closest candidate to Melenchon, from an ideology PoV, is very likely LePen.

europe

French politics

annotator02

Non-Moral

Confident

Lol not at all. Macron is on the same part of the spectrum as Obama.

worldnews

French politics

annotator02

Non-Moral

Confident

>Old people (in their 60s, 70s) think it is typical of homosexuals to marry older women. During the campaign, this **was used** to portray Macron as a homosexual to older catholics. Someone else in the thread said this.

worldnews

French politics

annotator02

Non-Moral

Confident

Can't wait for the alt right tears when Le Pen loses bigly.

neoliberal

French politics

annotator02

Non-Moral

Confident

I too agree. It's a wonder why Le Pen is doing a better job of standing up for women's rights than a lot of leftist politicians, especially Sweden's government which explicitly claims to be feminist.

europe

French politics

annotator02

Non-Moral

Confident

How did the debate go? I'm guessing it went badly for Le Pen since she is at 34% now. But just how bad I'm curious. What did she say? What did Macron say?

europe

French politics

annotator02

Thin Morality

Confident

I think Hillary Clinton would have a word about poll numbers for Macron.

worldnews

French politics

annotator02

Non-Moral

Confident

Why is Fillon authoritarian? Why is Macron so far right? Isn't Mc. le Ron a tad on the liberal side? Why is a leftist essentially the center?

europe

French politics

annotator02

Non-Moral

Confident

Yes. You should look at the actual migration and secularism/Islam policies of all the candidates as well as their other policies; Trump for instance has some extremely dangerous policies on secularism, war, torture, the climate, and nuclear proliferation that are significantly overshadowed in the public discourse by those on Islam, and Le Pen would likely be a loyal stooge for him. Fillon or maybe even Macron could be possibilities for you.

worldnews

French politics

annotator02

Thin Morality

Confident

Yes, but they are leaked emails, so it means Macron is evil! Right? Right? The Dumpsters love creating fake outrage, they keep hyping every single leak like it's the new Watergategate. Needless to say, mostly nothing comes out of these leaks because there is nothing there.

europe

French politics

annotator02

Thin Morality

Confident

Or whenever you want a disparate, radically different party to support your bid for the presidency. Macron is entitled to nothing by virtue of being the opponent of le pen.

europe

French politics

annotator02

Non-Moral

Confident

Macron is a centrist globalist who wants to improve the economy and jobs..etc Le Pen wants to exit the EU and prevent immigration and shutdown muslims through banning hijab closing mosques..etc

worldnews

French politics

annotator02

Non-Moral

Confident

Political immunity is not supposed to prevent against laws. After all, if it were, then MEP's could go on a robbery or murder spree without consequences. Political immunity is supposed to protect against unjustified persecution. In this case Le Pen did post those images, and France does have a law against them, so lifting the immunity is the only logical option. Not lifting it would be attacking the sovereignity of the French state.

worldnews

French politics

annotator02

Authority

Confident

As a Macron' supporter I am reasonably optimistic, but not in total awe either. I know my fellow countrymen/women too well. The main obstruction won't apparently come from the Parliament, but probably from the streets. As for the expectations, results are mandatory. Otherwise, if deceived, within 5 years from now, French will go back to the polls, very angry this time. And who knows where that could lead us. But my Crystal ball says that will have Macron for another mandate, easy.

europe

French politics

annotator02

Non-Moral

Confident