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[smjjames]

Hell no. I would've given the guys involved in the last couple pages some shit, sure, but why lock it? It wasn't exactly boiling over. I guess Toady is playing it extra careful with the AmeriPol thread: If it's permalocked, the topics will just infect the rest of the board. That's why it is important to keep the containment area stable.

It's possible that he recognized how controversial the whole thing is and just gave it a timeout rather than do any post deletion.

You're right about it infecting the rest of the board though, heh.

[Sheb]

So in other tasty news from the Fillion scandals: he tried to calm the thing by playing the simplicity card and claiming he only ever had one bank account in his local branch.

The bad news is that the Assemblée Nationale's rules impose that MPs have at least to bank accounts to keep salaries separate from funds intended to fund loce offices in the district. So either he was lying, or he was funneling cash intended for other purpose to his personnal bank account in violation of the law.

This come on top of recent claims that he had his assistant refunds part of their salaries (about 1000 euros/month) to his personnal bank account.

[Helgoland]

Imma go stand in front of a mirror and chant 'Macron'.

[Baffler]

So in other tasty news from the Fillion scandals: he tried to calm the thing by playing the simplicity card and claiming he only ever had one bank account in his local branch.

The bad news is that the Assemblée Nationale's rules impose that MPs have at least to bank accounts to keep salaries separate from funds intended to fund loce offices in the district. So either he was lying, or he was funneling cash intended for other purpose to his personnal bank account in violation of the law.

This come on top of recent claims that he had his assistant refunds part of their salaries (about 1000 euros/month) to his personnal bank account.

How is France reacting to this? I don't know the French internet very well, it's hard for me to find good results for this. It looks like Le Pen has 25%, Fillon 22%, and Macron 21%, but that's might be old. Is it likely that all or most of Fillon or Macron's voters would go to the other if their candidate lost and shut out FN, or is it a more mixed bag? Can Fillon be disqualified over this?

[Sheb]

Well, Fillion can't be disqualified, but calls for him to step down are increasing.

This here is a good English-language summary of where the race is right now.

On thing they don't mention is that yesterday the socialist selected the leftist Hamon over the centrist Valls. (He is among other things proposing a further reduction of the working week (currently 32 hours), to look into a basic income (he wants it at 750 euros a month) and to tax robots.). This opens more room in the center (Valls could have cannibalized votes from Macron in the first round).

[Sergarr]

France has a 32 hours working week? Woah.

[Sheb]

sorry, currently 35. It's a typo.

[Loud Whispers]

Hell no. I would've given the guys involved in the last couple pages some shit, sure, but why lock it? It wasn't exactly boiling over. I guess Toady is playing it extra careful with the AmeriPol thread: If it's permalocked, the topics will just infect the rest of the board. That's why it is important to keep the containment area stable.

We should just build walls around Ameripol containment threads

[martinuzz]

Hell no. I would've given the guys involved in the last couple pages some shit, sure, but why lock it? It wasn't exactly boiling over. I guess Toady is playing it extra careful with the AmeriPol thread: If it's permalocked, the topics will just infect the rest of the board. That's why it is important to keep the containment area stable.

We should just build walls around Ameripol containment threads

And make the rest of the forum pay for it, ofcourse. It's gonna be huge.

[Helgoland]

Actually we already have that. It's called Toady.

[Sheb]

Romania decriminalize official misconducts when the damage is less that ~47,000 USD. Protests are all over the place, probably the biggest since 1989.

[Helgoland]

E: Confused Russia and Romania there for a second. Man, that would've changed WWII sooooo much...

[Loud Whispers]

Mighty Romania crush all beneath the might of Carpathian tanks

[Sergarr]

E: Confused Russia and Romania there for a second.

Not only you, not only you... I was about to look out the window, before I realized my error.

E: Apparently French Muslims are voting Le Pen because "‘Politicians won’t change anything anyway". Wow.

RIP democracy, seems like you can't survive the advent of the disinformation age after all.

[Loud Whispers]

Apparently Muslims aren't all this one Arab guy who all think the same, who would've guessed

Oh wait, we're gonna do the Bernie Bro thing. They just low information, we know what's best for them

    “If she wins, it will be a good thing. The left and right are all bastards. They promise things and they don’t deliver. Let’s vote for Le Pen and see what happens.” — Aubervilliers resident

HYPE