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[martinuzz]

I finally found trace in my papers. Apparently the girl complained to her nanny, and the dude's wife said that he was going to undergo therapy to suppress incestuous urges. It's not clear the accusations had been made to the authorities.

Well, that's what it says in my newspaper.

Die heeft een paar maanden eerder een klacht ingediend tegen Saelens, die hij verdenkt van incest met zijn dochters.

In other news, police shut down a main highway (A2) in the Netherlands for over an hour after someone reported a suspicious package, creating traffic jams throughout the country.
Turns out it was part of a quest for a children's party.

[MetalSlimeHunt]

That's what you get for letting your children outside. Keep them in the Maturation Chamber like responsible parents next time.

[Sergarr]

So the French debates have finished, and Le Pen has shown herself as... well, just look. I'm hearing reports that even among FN supporters, it is agreed that she has made a super-terrible showing. We'll look at how it will affect the polls, but, given that she was still hovering around 40% mark with little signs of movement, her chances are, shall we say, "not good".

[smjjames]

She's also been accused of plagiarizing her opponents speech, which she called a 'homage'. Who the heck makes a homage out of an opponents speech while plagiarizing it? Lol

Caricaturizing/satirizing it for the laughs and to mock it, okay, but it sounds like she went and cribbed her opponents speech.

[Dorsidwarf]

She's also been accused of plagiarizing her opponents speech, which she called a 'homage'. Who the heck makes a homage out of an opponents speech while plagiarizing it? Lol

Caricaturizing/satirizing it for the laughs and to mock it, okay, but it sounds like she went and cribbed her opponents speech.

Mrs Trump?

[Sheb]

'France will be led by a woman. It'll be either me, or Ms Merkel.'

Bwahaha, that was brutal.

Yeah, she went a lot on the offensive, but had bad showing when discussing policy. From the pieces I've seen, it reminds me a lot of the first Trump-Clinton debate.

[Loud Whispers]

Great soundbite, but I don't see what else she has going for her.

More fanatical followers

[martinuzz]

Macron has accused Le Pen of making an army of Russians spread fake news about him.
"Marine Le Pen has troops on the internet spreading false rumors. Some of those are working for the Russian government".
With this accusation he is responding to Le Pen, who hinted at him having offshore accounts on the Bahamas.

According to researcher Nicolas Vanderbiest, the orginal source for the rumor that Macron has offshore accounts on the Bahamas is Disobedient Media, a US pro-Trump internet site. The message has been distributed further over the net by 213 french Twitter accounts, which are well known for retweeting RT and Sputnik messages.

US researcher Ben Nimmo of the Digital Forensic Research Lab says there are thousands of bots actively spreading fake news about Macron.
http://www.volkskrant.nl/buitenland/macron-le-pen-laat-russen-fake-news-over-mij-verspreiden~a4492532/

[Loud Whispers]

Ayy lmao he's gonna sue her for defamation

[smjjames]

Macron has accused Le Pen of making an army of Russians spread fake news about him.
"Marine Le Pen has troops on the internet spreading false rumors. Some of those are working for the Russian government".
With this accusation he is responding to Le Pen, who hinted at him having offshore accounts on the Bahamas.

According to researcher Nicolas Vanderbiest, the orginal source for the rumor that Macron has offshore accounts on the Bahamas is Disobedient Media, a US pro-Trump internet site. The message has been distributed further over the net by 213 french Twitter accounts, which are well known for retweeting RT and Sputnik messages.

US researcher Ben Nimmo of the Digital Forensic Research Lab says there are thousands of bots actively spreading fake news about Macron.
http://www.volkskrant.nl/buitenland/macron-le-pen-laat-russen-fake-news-over-mij-verspreiden~a4492532/

Not the first time the US has meddled in other countries politics, but it's usually the government, not random people under their own initiative.

Not sure what France can do about that, sue the US for meddling in their politics? It's something that we as a global society have to solve.

Ayy lmao he's gonna sue her for defamation

Imagine if Hillary had done that, heh.

Also, Obama has endorsed Macron. Vox's explainer on why.

[Sheb]

Macron has accused Le Pen of making an army of Russians spread fake news about him.
"Marine Le Pen has troops on the internet spreading false rumors. Some of those are working for the Russian government".
With this accusation he is responding to Le Pen, who hinted at him having offshore accounts on the Bahamas.

According to researcher Nicolas Vanderbiest, the orginal source for the rumor that Macron has offshore accounts on the Bahamas is Disobedient Media, a US pro-Trump internet site. The message has been distributed further over the net by 213 french Twitter accounts, which are well known for retweeting RT and Sputnik messages.

US researcher Ben Nimmo of the Digital Forensic Research Lab says there are thousands of bots actively spreading fake news about Macron.
http://www.volkskrant.nl/buitenland/macron-le-pen-laat-russen-fake-news-over-mij-verspreiden~a4492532/

Not the first time the US has meddled in other countries politics, but it's usually the government, not random people under their own initiative.

Not sure what France can do about that, sue the US for meddling in their politics? It's something that we as a global society have to solve.

You have plenty of right-wing americans trying to support their ideological allies in Europe and beyond. Hell, Geert Wilders' donors were largely americans.

[Sergarr]

Study reveals half of young Europeans are skeptical about democracy

The results of the YouGov study, commissioned by the TUI Foundation and released Thursday, show that respondents from Germany and Greece were most in favor of democracy (62 and 66 percent), while France, Italy and Poland were the least convinced of its effectiveness (42, 45 and 42 percent).

[Loud Whispers]

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[martinuzz]

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Thanks that made me laugh hard.
Meanwhile, a opinion piece in my newspaper wonders if the UK is headed to becoming a third world nation again, just like they were before Thatcher, when they were begging the IMF to save them, much like Greece is now.

[Loud Whispers]

Thanks that made me laugh hard.
Meanwhile, a opinion piece in my newspaper wonders if the UK is headed to becoming a third world nation again, just like they were before Thatcher, when they were begging the IMF to save them, much like Greece is now.

Cheers, though in regards to your latter point, it's an interesting idea. Before Thatcher every group was out for itself, out against every other group in their community, vital services grounding to a halt under strikes and threats of national emergency. Infrastructure was shutting down, in one notable instance, a factory was used to store the dead because cemetery workers went on strike. Whilst it was not 3rd world, it was the Ottoman sick man of Yurop. Talented individuals fled the UK for the USA, fleeing the taxes imposed by the gov in an attempt to maintain order. Civil servants determined wages in an effort to combat the threat of hyperinflation, while politicians told foreign generals that the UK would support their invasions of the UK. No one would help their neighbour because they expected society to help them. Today, it would take war or a global recession for that to repeat, just as it took world war to economically dislocate the UK. I suppose we were lucky Thatcher stopped us from joining the Euro. Ultimately as long as we don't have the blood on our streets to the same level as europe, things are gonna be content. Greece's situation is I think, evidence of what happens to nations that are not powerful enough to sit in the big boy club. Don't forget, for individuals like myself, we did not neglect to notice that Greece was not reduced to ruin by the actions of the IMF alone. The Troika was the European Central Bank, the European Commission and the International Monetary Fund, the first two are concerningly left unmentioned.

Also, more bants:

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French police attempting to communicate with anons in order to find who leaked Macron's financial connections

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What are the long term effects of brain drain?