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Re: Dutch, German & French Elections Thread, or The General Political Thread
« Reply #555 on: April 16, 2017, 09:59:59 pm »
It currently stands at 51% in favour ater 98% of the votes counted. I can't say I am surprised, I kinda suspected this would happen. I had hoped the referendum would fail, but alas. What I do find interesting is how really close it is, 51% is a really low majority. I was expecting somewhere around 55-60% in favour, not 51. I guess Turkey is way more divided than we thought.
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Re: Dutch, German & French Elections Thread, or The General Political Thread
« Reply #556 on: April 16, 2017, 10:11:36 pm »
It currently stands at 51% in favour ater 98% of the votes counted. I can't say I am surprised, I kinda suspected this would happen. I had hoped the referendum would fail, but alas. What I do find interesting is how really close it is, 51% is a really low majority. I was expecting somewhere around 55-60% in favour, not 51. I guess Turkey is way more divided than we thought.
Won't be divided any more. All hail Erdogan.

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Re: Dutch, German & French Elections Thread, or The General Political Thread
« Reply #557 on: April 16, 2017, 11:32:54 pm »
Erdogan is a dangerous fool, but I admire some things about him.

For starters, I love how he's chosen political correctness as his weapon to use against Europe and uses it in such a mocking and blatant manner.

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Re: Dutch, German & French Elections Thread, or The General Political Thread
« Reply #558 on: April 17, 2017, 12:13:24 am »
Jesus, the majority of Turks living in Europe voted 'Yes'. Good luck with that by the way, I'm sure it isn't a problem or anything...

I expect Brussels will do as little as possible, maybe send a verbal warning or a few negative tweets. Merkel will say nothing of course because she needs the Turkish vote in October & she doesn't have the guts to police the Mediterranean, so has to rely on Erdogan to do it for her in return for a hefty bribe. Between Putin, Trump and Erdogan I don't know who's done more to make the EU look weaker.

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Re: Dutch, German & French Elections Thread, or The General Political Thread
« Reply #559 on: April 17, 2017, 10:59:39 am »
There is a reason the U.S. has done nothing to Turkey, too...

I thought the U.S. hated dictators? Sure.... as long as they're not an ally, play a vital part in missile defense AND happen to be in control of one of the two sea routes to Russia... How's that for a strategic ally?
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Re: Dutch, German & French Elections Thread, or The General Political Thread
« Reply #560 on: April 17, 2017, 12:01:50 pm »
Damn, the French elections have actually gotten very interesting due to Melenchon. There's four candidates (Le Pen, Fillon, Macron, Melenchon) all within 3-5% of each other in the polls and only two go through. Melenchon has the momentum and it's very possible he could knock Macron off the No.2 spot and go into the final round against Le Pen, in which case the choice will be between two strongly eurosceptic candidates. Or he could knock Le Pen into third place and go up against Macron, in which case he'd stand a much better chance of winning than she would.


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« Reply #561 on: April 18, 2017, 08:14:29 pm »
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Re: Dutch, German & French Elections Thread, or The General Political Thread
« Reply #562 on: April 18, 2017, 09:25:53 pm »
Jesus, the majority of Turks living in Europe and which voted in the referendum voted 'Yes'

Fixed that for you. Quite a number of people can vote but don't really care about Turkish politics one way or the other.

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« Reply #563 on: April 19, 2017, 09:00:13 pm »
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Re: Dutch, German & French Elections Thread, or The General Political Thread
« Reply #564 on: April 19, 2017, 11:11:35 pm »
Well technically they were random white people, he didn't have his eyes set on 'Joe Thomas'

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« Reply #565 on: April 20, 2017, 12:26:42 am »
The headline is purposely misleading

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Re: Dutch, German & French Elections Thread, or The General Political Thread
« Reply #566 on: April 23, 2017, 07:10:23 pm »
Well yeah to garner more clicks.

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Re: Dutch, German & French Elections Thread, or The General Political Thread
« Reply #567 on: April 23, 2017, 08:16:05 pm »
Looks like they're saying it'll be Macron-Le Pen if the projections hold up, though given polling stations literally just closed I'm assuming it's more of an exit poll so treat with caution.

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Re: Dutch, German & French Elections Thread, or The General Political Thread
« Reply #568 on: April 23, 2017, 10:32:00 pm »
It's been predicted for weeks that it would eventually be Macron vs. Le Pen. The biggest surprise is to see that Melenchon ended up quite a bit lower than most expected. He's just below Fillon if the current exit polls are anything to go by. I was expecting him to at least overtake Fillon and maybe get very close to both Macron and Le Pen.
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Re: Dutch, German & French Elections Thread, or The General Political Thread
« Reply #569 on: April 23, 2017, 11:02:02 pm »
Macron Président!! Macron Président!! Macron Président!!