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So, Gabriel Attal somehow took a clear-ish position against the far-right. Truly, we live in an age of miracles.
The Prime Minister said that not one vote should go to the RN. In circonscriptions where their candidate is third, they should quit in favor of "another candidate who, like us, defends the values of the Republic".
This is, overall, good news. The government has managed to talk about the far-right without making any references to what they call the far-left. What worries me is that they haven't clearly said that any NFP candidate is a better choice than an RN candidate.
Candidates have until Tuesday to confirm their candidacy. I truly hope that everyone will keep it together for a week, eat crows and desist when necessary, and that on Sunday we will achieve the best result possible, which is mediocre.
Mediocre is better than far-right. Many can survive mediocre who couldn't survive far-right. Final verdict is next Sunday, and until then, everyone, good luck and goodnight.
So while we wait to see how low we've slid on this slippery slope, I thought I'd give a primer on how legislative elections work in France.
The first thing to know is that it's more like 577 local elections. In order to be elected, a candidate has to win in the circonscription in which they were campaigning.
The second thing to know is that in order to win on the first round of the election, a candidate must have at least 50% of the votes AND 25% of those registered. This means that if, as has happened in La Martinique, a candidate has 63% of the votes but the turn-out was low (estimated around 25%, which is low but higher than it was in the last election), they still get a second round.
Now, for the second round. Are qualified 1. The candidate who had the most votes and 2. Any candidate that had 12,5% of those registered to vote. Once again, this means that the turn-out is a factor in who gets to participate in the second round. It also means that it is possible for a second round to have a "triangulaire", that is to say 3 candidates in the second round (technically, it means that it's possible to have four candidates).
At time of writing, it is estimated that between 65 and 85 representatives have been elected on the first round, and that there will be between 285 and 315 triangulaires (based on the data given by Le Monde, which is based on Ipsos data). Out of 577 seats. This means that in a lot of circonscriptions, there will most probably be one RN candidate, one NFP candidate and one candidate from the presidential party.
On the left, several political leaders have already announced that if their candidates arrived third and a RN candidate was qualified for the second round, they would give up the election and encourage people to vote for whoever else was qualified.
And now the big question: will the presidential party do the same? Gabriel Attal, the Prime Minister, is expected to talk to the press tonight. I, personally, will be drinking and obsessively refreshing the news page.
Gens de l'Aude, vous avez une chance d'avoir Poutou comme député. D'accord, c'est une petite chance, mais de ce que j'ai compris cette circonscription était considérée comme ingagnable.
Je dois dire j'y croyais pas.
Attal qui appelle au désistement quand Renaissance est 3ème !!! Qui appelle à voter contre le RN !!!! ENFIN !!!!
So while we wait to see how low we've slid on this slippery slope, I thought I'd give a primer on how legislative elections work in France.
The first thing to know is that it's more like 577 local elections. In order to be elected, a candidate has to win in the circonscription in which they were campaigning.
The second thing to know is that in order to win on the first round of the election, a candidate must have at least 50% of the votes AND 25% of those registered. This means that if, as has happened in La Martinique, a candidate has 63% of the votes but the turn-out was low (estimated around 25%, which is low but higher than it was in the last election), they still get a second round.
Now, for the second round. Are qualified 1. The candidate who had the most votes and 2. Any candidate that had 12,5% of those registered to vote. Once again, this means that the turn-out is a factor in who gets to participate in the second round. It also means that it is possible for a second round to have a "triangulaire", that is to say 3 candidates in the second round (technically, it means that it's possible to have four candidates).
At time of writing, it is estimated that between 65 and 85 representatives have been elected on the first round, and that there will be between 285 and 315 triangulaires (based on the data given by Le Monde, which is based on Ipsos data). Out of 577 seats. This means that in a lot of circonscriptions, there will most probably be one RN candidate, one NFP candidate and one candidate from the presidential party.
On the left, several political leaders have already announced that if their candidates arrived third and a RN candidate was qualified for the second round, they would give up the election and encourage people to vote for whoever else was qualified.
And now the big question: will the presidential party do the same? Gabriel Attal, the Prime Minister, is expected to talk to the press tonight. I, personally, will be drinking and obsessively refreshing the news page.
Well fuck.
For those who don't know, this doesn't mean that the RN has a majority in the Assembly. The system for legislative elections is particularly convoluted, and this is based on polls outside voting stations. Nevertheless, it's not a great sign.
We're all having a very normal election time.
Source:
maths enjoyers and bug enjoyers and horror movie enjoyers and so forth all need to come together and unite against the common enemy of people telling you how much they hate something as soon as you mention you like it
La décennie du numérique.
Goddamn voting website is not working are you fucking kidding me
Goddamn voting website is not working are you fucking kidding me
whoever decided to start implementing ads on here that automatically unmute and cut off any music app you might have on in the background as you scroll by should be hunted for sport
Ah ben tout à coup tout le monde veut débattre avec Mélenchon... Honnêtement j'ai un peu de mal à comprendre la logique, parce que j'ai pas l'impression qu'Attal ou Bardella soient de meilleurs orateurs. Est-ce que c'est pour sortir l'épouvantail Mélenchon (qui a, globalement, réussi à fermer sa gueule, ce que je peux pas dire de tout le monde, en particulier au PS) et faire peur à ceux qui votent PS mais trouvent que quand même, LFI va trop loin, c'est les extrêmes, toussa toussa ? Est-ce qu'ils espèrent pouvoir profiter de l'hostilité marquée des journalistes envers Mélenchon (qui, pour être honnête, le leur rend bien) ?
Bon perso je vais pas regarder de débats parce que ça m'insupporte et je vais voter Front Populaire de toute façon, mais je m'interroge.
Dernier post sur Mélenchon et après j'arrête avec lui mais je voulais juste dire que ce qui me frustre le plus, c'est que je le trouve impeccable sur les questions de la transidentité, clair (il me semble, les personnes concernées me corrigeront) sur l'islamophobie, excellent en débat, bon orateur, courageux face à certaines saloperies, quand Zemmour s'est foutu de sa gueule en disant qu'il était sourd et qu'il a répondu du tac au tac "je suis sourd de naissance. Vous avez un problème avec les handicapés ?", incroyable ! Et en plus, il aime la littérature ! Et il défend la Palestine ! Et il nous a tous donné espoir en 2012 ! Et si j'avais pu voter en 2012, j'aurais voté pour lui (mais j'avais 17 ans).
Son défaut est, comme beaucoup d'hommes, et en particulier des hommes blancs âgés ET EN PARTICULIER (je parle d'expérience) des hommes blancs âgés lettrés, c'est qu'il est têtu et qu'il a trop d'égo et qu'il n'admet pas qu'il ait pu merder. Et je ne pense même pas qu'il soit antisémite, je ne pense même pas que ce soit une stratégie électorale, je pense juste à mon grand-père, qui s'appelle aussi Jean-Luc, un vieux militant communiste, qui n'a jamais admis qu'il pouvait avoir tort, qu'il pouvait s'être trompé au moins une fois dans sa vie et je pense qu'ils ont plus qu'un prénom comme point commun.
Salut, c'est re-moi. J'ai trouvé d'autres troubled birds
c’est juste pour dire que la jeunesse emmerde le Front National, bisous
I am happy to have discovered this wonderful addition:
From 24x36
I am happy to inform the public that there is a dataset of hair salons with puns in their name. It's all in French, but I can only applaud the effort and I hope that one day, similar work will be done for coffee shops, if only to simplify the work of authors wanting to check whether or not something is taken.
Names include such gems as Faudra Tiff Hair, United Hair Lines, Lucif'hair, No Peigne No Gain, and my personal favorite, Queer Chevelu.
@oloreandil et moi étions sur la même longueur d'onde, @sometimes-gloriousstudent a confirmé, j'étais donc obligée :
Hello French folks living in the 7th district abroad*, here are your Nouveau Front populaire candidates!! Head on over to this brand-new website to meet them, check out their platform, get updates on events and more!
And remember -- if you are able to, VOTE on June 30 & July 7!!
online, if your email address and phone number were up to date by June 16
in person at your local polling station
by proxy (vote par procuration)
Spread the word!!
*Albania, Austria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, the Czech Republic, Germany, Hungary, Kosovo, Macedonia, Montenegro, Poland, Romania, Serbia, Slovenia and Slovakia
Absolutely obsessed with this hurdy gurdy rigged up to a tredle sewing machine stand. Man is going NUTS on the thingamabob!!!
His tiktok has more videos as well!
Ma modeste contribution en ce funeste mois
However frustrating the recent drama on the left has been (and it has been very frustrating), let's all remember how much worse it is on the right (and how much funnier, since I don't have a sense of dread every time one of these far-right idiots trips on his own feet). The Red text says, in French: "Live, 2024 legislative elections: a third preliminary investigation targets Eric Ciotti".
The insanity of French politics in the last few days is re-kindling a deeply buried instinct to start a podcast.
Reminder that Jeffrey Combs is the #1 top Vorta apologist
this video has been going around for a while but the English subtitles didn't match the energy of the spoken French at all. i had to fix it.
reblog to spread this version
Just watched the last philosophy tube. It is excellent, but there is a minor point that bugged me a little, so I thought I'd exorcised it by making a post. (Yes, I know, random tumblr user has notes for extremely successful youtuber, more at 6)
So around minute 9, she talks bout how a strict legal definition is not necessary in order to protect women. The example given is the one of hate crimes: If an applicant for a job is rejected on the grounds that they are perceived as a woman, it does not matter whether or not they are a woman. The employer is still guilty of illegal discrimination. Good point. A bit later in the video, she brings up the fact that in the UK, trans women are jailed in men's prisons. The point made is that trans women are labelled as dangerous to other inmates without any evidence of this danger. Also a good point.
But this is an example of when one does need a working definition of women, since prison are segregated by gender. Moreover, a definition is needed in order to protect women, since as she puts it "this policy makes prison significantly worse for a segment of the population".
I started typing about how we use categories as shorthands for the diversity of humans experience for practical reasons, even though no strict definition will work 100% of the time, and about the consequence of this, which is that any defnition used should be chosen while keeping in mind why this gender segregation exists, what does it seek to accomplish, and whether or not gender is the most appropriate criteria.Then I remembered that Mia Mulder has an excellent video on this about women's sport, so I'll just put it there.
I find it hard to write about this subject without getting sucked into tangents (which perhaps explains why it is glossed over in the video). Just writing this, I looked up how the gender segregation in prison worked in my country, then the overpopulation in women's facilities, then the overpopulation in general (114% occupancy rate, third worse in the EU), then the rise in the carceral population and its de-correlation with the crime rate, then the expeditive measures being adopted which will without a doubt make things worse as the Olympics Games loom ever closer (no prizes for guessing which country that is).
I also know that I am getting a bit internet-poisoned because I fought the urge to pre-emptively answer every bad faith argument that could possibly be made, so I'll cut it short. Let me reiterate. I fully agree with the points that are made in the video. I understand that time is a factor in what is and is not included in a video. I just wish this particular point was made a little better.
I am coming to France next week!
I remember when I first saw the Coming Out Video. I spent most of it wondering if I had lost the ability to recognize faces.
New Philosophy Tube Dropping in May
The next episode of Philosophy Tube is gonna be very special I'm travelling back in time to chat to my past self, and it does not go well... More pics on my Patreon now!
I also want to say a special thanks to you all on this one. Today we cross-shot a dramatic scene with three cameras, a dedicated sound engineer, a hair and makeup artist, a professional actor, plus me. We had a full hour lunch break and everyone got paid a pro rate. I'm proud of the production quality we're able to achieve on Philosophy Tube and, I hope, of the way the crew get tret - that's super important to me. When patrons and Nebula subscribers trust me with their money it's important to me that it goes on the screen.
So thank you. This kind of thing just would not be possible without audience support - Patreon subscribers and Nebula subscribers - because advertising doesn't pay for quality like this.