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Evelyne Luethy's avatar

While I'm relieved with the rest of the world, it's still more than 40% who voted for Le Pen - soooo much more work to do. That moment when the announced the results live on French TV at 8 pm. That was a pretty good moment. Also one of those moments I'm glad I understand French well enough to follow a political discussion.

I listened to a podcast where a Slovenian woman talked about what was going on in her country. I have to admit that I had not really followed Slovenian politics much before that. So, this is really good news as well.

And it's probably smartest for me to stay away from that IQ-Test topic. I might get angry, frustrated etc and want to hit my head on the wall. None of it is healthy. What a ... [fill in your best Dutch expletive].

Thank you for highlighting the importance of democracy. I'll keep that in mind the next time I complain about having to vote on the distribution of subsidies based on whether a farmer's cows have horns. Of course we do take democracy to the next level in Switzerland.

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Mary Ross's avatar

We in the U.S. are very glad for the people of France!

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