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Is this Mbappe the guy who burst into laughter when someone suggested him that private jets are not eco-friendly?

Yep. Also the call to vote against generic "extremists" is more of an echo of Macronist rhetoric which for the past few years has been both-sidesing between RN and FI (and sadly they seem to have actually convinced their electorate that Mélenchon is just as dangerous as Le Pen). So this is very unlike Marcus Thuram's statement yesterday which actually singled out RN as the real threat.

In the EU elections what percent of Melenchons votes were not student or Muslim votes ?

I mean, hard to say exactly, but almost certainly more than half. While those two groups are among the strongest for FI, they're also small minorities. FI couldn't have polled as high as 10% out of those two groups only, especially in a low-turnout election.

How do Muslims usually vote in France, anyway?

Do americans really want the world to see them as a dumb fat guy with a gun?
I'm somehow pro-gun, but regulations should exist. I kniw there is a gun lobby, but it's not like they could ban the whole thing. I think entertreiment (mainstream Hollyeood) and RW propaganda (created to make people support pro-rich policies) both have some responsability in creating the gun lovers.

Before the '90s, American gun culture used to be normal, it used to be centered around people who actually needed guns (farmers, hunters, ranchers, outdoorsy people, etc).

Then, in the '90s, as the NRA saw it's membership declining, it decided to shift it's strategy and started to appeal to "fear". Then Columbine & 9/11 happened, and boom, many Americans became paranoid and flocked to guns and hyper-militarism. It was a perfect storm for the NRA. They started marketing guns to people who wanted to be a "one-man army". Semi-automatic rifles like the AR-15 exploded in popularity in the 2000s and into the present. As they say, the rest is history (a very dark and tragic one).

Yet you have no problem with semi-automatic handguns.  Those of which are used in more murders in a day than rifles of all kinds in a year.

But handguns are the weapon of choice for certain progressive constituencies.  So you'll never hear a peep on them from modern progressives.  At least be honest it's about disarming people you have straw manned as political enemies.

The joint communiqué of the Summit on Peace for Ukraine does not refer to “aggression” as Ukraine wants it but uses the word “war.”  I suspect this is the work of India who did attend but clearly not the head of state.

Did India even sign the joint communiqué? I read they didn’t.

https://twitter.com/jurgen_nauditt/status/1802343221084766474
It lacks the signature of key regional powers such as Brazil; India; South Africa and Saudi Arabia.

It’s basically an agreement of the Global North joined by just a few lower players that are useful idiots with Right-Wing puppet governments in the Global South (+ Boric’s Chile, but that’s kinda the same thing).

Milei’s Argentina is the biggest South name there if you don’t count ambiguous Turkey (Western but also not Western) and having Argentina as your biggest name to exemplify decent Global South support is not a good look lmao. Especially when it’s with a white supremacist sympathizer like Milei that is deluded in seeing itself as more of an White European than part of the Global periphery.

Russian/China usual idiot slave countries need to fall in line, so they won’t sign or get cut off from the cash.

Lmao at suggesting India or anyone else is a slave of China or of an increasingly decadent Russia. Many of these places hate China and Russia cannot even sustain themselves these days, imagine anyone else.

Btw, this obsession with characterizing Global South countries as slaves of anyone as if that was the only possible position they could occupy has a very clear name: racism.

 Biden is doing so well the GOP needs and endless list of cope.

[I don’t see what seat SF would lose except for the perennial coin flip in Fermanagh maybe,]

Update on the NI situation. Forget about (mostly SF) making gains, things are not looking good for both SF and the DUP when it might come to maintaining all their 2019 seats.

I don’t see what seat SF would lose except for the perennial coin flip in Fermanagh maybe, but that’s not tied to polling.

Perhaps we have been too bullish on SF in South Down, just a theory. Don't forget South Antrim for the UUP.

May headed to the Lords in the Dissolution Honours. Sunak reportedly wanted to send ennoble Richard Sharp too, but after his Johnsonian controversy, eventually settled on a knighthood.

Between the lengthy titles, the ermine, and her post-premiership tendency for high-camp, I look forward to Theresa's evolution into her final form - minor nobility from the Dune universe.

"The spice must flow" - Baroness Maidenhead

The stretch of land between NOVA and NYC is the most desolate, uninhabitable place in the United States. Outside of Philly, DC, and Baltimore, it's a detestable cesspool of cheap plastic white fences, hideous condo complexes, retirement communities for neocons, waterfront docks that serve blue plate specials, dumb suburban wine moms driving Cadillac Escalades, government contractors, vacant parking lots, loathsome mcmansions made of particle board, tacky run-down strip malls, and office parks populated by gremlins who work in insurance or consulting. Everyone in this region is either a hollow corporate stooge or a high school dropout living in his auntie's house and eating funyuns. The land is waterlogged, the foliage is dense yet oddly unpleasant, and a thick layer of pollen residue covers everything. When I think of the Philly suburbs in NJ or the Baltimore suburbs in MD, I just picture a rusted 1996 Mustang covered in leaves sitting next to a chain-link fence and an old tricycle, owned by a guy named Stuart with a mullet who attends high school parties despite being 27. It's either that or the most boring buttoned-down straight-laced tie-wearing balding suburban dickweeds ever to slither out of a cul-de-sac.

I hate New Jersey, Delaware, and Maryland so much it's unreal. F**k these states, f**k the East Coast, and in fact, f**k everything east of the Rockies besides New England and Appalachia. And especially f**k Glen Burnie. You are not real humans and I will not recognize you as such.

Jeez, tell us how you really feel.

Requesting endorsement for the OBD/FalterinArc ticket

Florida, ME-2, Indiana, Ohio, and Texas.

He has way more downside than Trump if he misses out on the debate.