Anonymous B joined in and replied with this 4 years ago, 8 minutes later[^][v]#1,168,215
Are they, though? I just did a quick Google and I'm not seeing her out in front.
Now yes, granted, polls have been catastrophically wrong before. Brexit happened, Trump happened, so I'm not saying that her wining is impossible. I'm just not, at least from a cursory look, seeing where OP is getting this from.
Meta !Sober//iZs joined in and replied with this 4 years ago, 21 minutes later, 30 minutes after the original post[^][v]#1,168,216
Yeah I remember when France tried to annex Austria and bits of Poland and Czechoslovakia. That was some serious stuff!
Anonymous A (OP) replied with this 4 years ago, 42 seconds later, 30 minutes after the original post[^][v]#1,168,217
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I DO remember a few years ago when France started deporting gypsies on trains. It starts small.
Meta !Sober//iZs replied with this 4 years ago, 14 minutes later, 44 minutes after the original post[^][v]#1,168,218
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Were the gypsies citizens of France?
Anonymous A (OP) replied with this 4 years ago, 13 minutes later, 58 minutes after the original post[^][v]#1,168,220
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No. That is not the point. They specifically deported Roma, and Europe has a bad history of choosing an ethnicity to deport on trains. Learn to read the room.
Meta !Sober//iZs replied with this 4 years ago, 8 minutes later, 1 hour after the original post[^][v]#1,168,223
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Would it have been less bad if they deported them on buses?
Anonymous B replied with this 4 years ago, 2 minutes later, 1 hour after the original post[^][v]#1,168,224
Anonymous A (OP) replied with this 4 years ago, 8 minutes later, 1 hour after the original post[^][v]#1,168,225
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It is hard to tell. The French have historically been very conservative in some areas, and very liberal in others. I think it is a symptom of the current global trend toward the right (see Trump for reference, also Poland, Russia, etc.) The pendulum swings back and forth. I am not sure exactly what prompted this global swing to the right, but I think Le Pen, like Trump, is a symptom of it. Let's hope it does take another world war to teach us to swing left again.
Anonymous D joined in and replied with this 4 years ago, 12 minutes later, 1 hour after the original post[^][v]#1,168,227
The Germans think the AfD fascists are sensible and reasonable, too! Has the whole world gone mad?
Anonymous B replied with this 4 years ago, 2 seconds later, 1 hour after the original post[^][v]#1,168,228
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I agree with you to an extent, this has been a recent trend in Europe and America. And while I'm admittedly very uninformed, I haven't recently seen any evidence that LePen is currently on track to win.
I she doesn't, for sure. Europe is at a pivotal moment, and what it doesn't need right now is a freewheeling nationalist thrown into the mix.
Anonymous A (OP) replied with this 4 years ago, 2 minutes later, 1 hour after the original post[^][v]#1,168,230
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Exactly. She may not be in the lead currently, but the fact that she is even a viable candidate troubles me.
Anonymous B replied with this 4 years ago, 28 minutes later, 2 hours after the original post[^][v]#1,168,248
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She got this far last election too. Yeah it's troubling in itself, but don't worry, she won't necessarily win.
Meta !Sober//iZs replied with this 4 years ago, 15 minutes later, 2 hours after the original post[^][v]#1,168,249