#BREAKING Austria far-right concedes defeat in presidential race

[hrmjustin]

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#BREAKING Austria far-right concedes defeat in presidential race

https://twitter.com/AFP/status/805447788481888256

[Horse with no Name]

1. Whew!

We may all end up as Europeans again.

[SharonAnn]

6. Thank God! And thank the sensible voters!

[SamKnause]

2. That is a nice bright spot.

I hope the momentum keeps going.

Too bad, too sad the U.S. fell for Trump's bullshit.

[BlueMTexpat]

3. YESSSSSS!!!!!

[meow2u3]

4. Good!

Good thing Austria saw through the far-right BS. Too bad Americans couldn't.

[ismnotwasm]

5. Whew

[spanone]

7. K&R...

[Wounded Bear]

8. A glimmer of hope...

that people can open their eyes to what is going on around the world.

[wisteria]

9. Halaluya. The world is not going crazy.

[ailsagirl]

20. No-- just us

[LittleGirl]

10. That's great news! eom

[rurallib]

11. sad it got that far

[spooky3]

12. Good! What a beautiful, civilized country Austria is.

Glad it will stay that way.

[Jeroen]

13. Good news!

[LeftishBrit]

14. What an deep 'PHEW!' of relief!!!

[liberalhistorian]

15. Oh, Lord, what a relief!

I was really worried about this one. Well, at least one western democracy has shown some fucking sense. I only hope and pray that France follows suit soon, but I'm not too hopeful on that account.

[lonestarnot]

16. YES! Woodamnwhoooooooo!

[Hortensis]

17. Wonderful! Austria chose tolerance and moderation and

rejected the far right. We should be saying the same, and did, but lost. I'm so sad, but glad. Antisemitism has been very strong in Austria, so this rejection of extremist white nationalism is especially significant.

[nevergiveup]

18. There was an Australian journalist on MSNBC

this morning who said Australian's were obsessed with America's presidential election. Maybe the shock of seeing what happened here had an affect. It would be nice to think that maybe something positive came out of the fiasco here.

[Kingofalldems]

19. Some unhappy internet trolls today. Very nice.

[shenmue]

21. Thank God

[Skittles]

22. too bad that did not happen here