French Presidential Election

[Ed Anger]

I would assume a mixture of shit, astroglide and mangoo would run.

[11B4V]

"These Colors Don't Run"

OK Gay people, What does the different color stripes mean and is the number of them significant?

[Grallon]

You worry about the hidden agenda of a mainstream Conservative Party, but not of an far-right nationalist party?

I simply don't believe the FN would start carting people to work/death camps.  Restricting immigration - insisting on assimilation of those allowed to immigrate - but there's nothing hidden there - they've been saying it for years.



G.

[Martinus]

"These Colors Don't Run"

OK Gay people, What does the different color stripes mean and is the number of them significant?

Uhm it's the rainbow. 

[Valmy]

The Rainbow has been a symbol of diversity for a long time it seems to me.  It is only relatively recently it became a symbol mostly for gay people.  I could be wrong about that, but when Jesse Jackson had his rainbow coalition thingy in the 80s and it was not just about gay people.

[11B4V]

"These Colors Don't Run"

OK Gay people, What does the different color stripes mean and is the number of them significant?

Uhm it's the rainbow. 

OK, the US flag has stars for example. They signify something. Are you telling me y'all made a flag with six stripes and varying colors because it looked pretty? There's no significance to it?

Serious question.

[Martinus]

You worry about the hidden agenda of a mainstream Conservative Party, but not of an far-right nationalist party?

I simply don't believe the FN would start carting people to work/death camps.  Restricting immigration - insisting on assimilation of those allowed to immigrate - but there's nothing hidden there - they've been saying it for years.



G.

So anything short of "death camps" is the acceptable human rights record for you? 

You are really a fucked up person.

[Martinus]

"These Colors Don't Run"

OK Gay people, What does the different color stripes mean and is the number of them significant?

Uhm it's the rainbow. 

OK, the US flag has stars for example. They signify something. Are you telling me y'all made a flag with six stripes and varying colors because it looked pretty? There's no significance to it?

Serious question.

The rainbow signifies diversity. So individual colours are not significant in themselves (I mean, I guess there has been some retroactive interpretation of them, e.g. one symbolizes gay, another lesbian etc. but it is not the original idea), but the entire arrangement is.

[PDH]

It is celebrating that famous Gay-Rights icon, Roy G. Biv.  The stupid gays misspelled his name though.

[Martinus]

The Rainbow has been a symbol of diversity for a long time it seems to me.  It is only relatively recently it became a symbol mostly for gay people.  I could be wrong about that, but when Jesse Jackson had his rainbow coalition thingy in the 80s and it was not just about gay people.

Yeah. A rainbow flag has also been used by the international cooperative movement (in fact, I think 10 years ago or so the Polish cooperative movement still had a rainbow flag flying over its HQ in Warsaw, much to popular joy - especially as one of the most famous Warsaw gay clubs was located in the same building).

[11B4V]

"These Colors Don't Run"

OK Gay people, What does the different color stripes mean and is the number of them significant?

Uhm it's the rainbow. 

OK, the US flag has stars for example. They signify something. Are you telling me y'all made a flag with six stripes and varying colors because it looked pretty? There's no significance to it?

Serious question.

The rainbow signifies diversity. So individual colours are not significant in themselves (I mean, I guess there has been some retroactive interpretation of them, e.g. one symbolizes gay, another lesbian etc. but it is not the original idea), but the entire arrangement is.

Thanks

[viper37]

I mean hateful ignorant morons. Like it or not, for people like that, you would be first against the wall. For half of them, because they are closet gays. For the rest, because the other half tells them to hate and fear you.

*shrug*  We won't know if/until the FN ever forms the government won't we?  Personally I'm very skeptical about this so called 'hidden agenda' they have.  But then again - look at the Conservative party here - they *did* have a social conservative hidden agenda - we're seeing the results since they've gained their majority.



G.

Lots of Jews voted for the Nazi party.  I don't think they liked the results.

[Martinus]

According to wikipedia, there is apparently some hippie interpretation of the colours too :
hot pink: sexuality
red: life
orange: healing
yellow: sunlight
green: nature
turquoise: magic/art
indigo/blue: serenity/harmony
violet: spirit

Not sure what the hell that has to do with sucking cocks, but to each his own...

[Sheilbh]

It's only a gay symbol in some places too.  It's still commonly used by the Italian left () as a peace symbol, and not just bby Nichi Vendola.

[Sheilbh]

Reading the English Greek press has been interesting.  One thing I hadn't realised was how big a problem illegal immigration is for Greece. 

There's around 400 illegal immigrants arriving every day and all parties want to renegotiate the Dublin Agreement within the EU, probably made by countries like Germany and the UK, which allows countries to deport immigrants to the first country of entry - often Greece.  It seems an okay policy for the big countries but surely it's an enormous financial and social burden on a country like Greece?

Again I think a bit more Euro-solidarity beyond the rhetoric could help.