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They really do. 3 years ago my daughter was getting ready to take a school trip to France when protests broke out over something. I was worried about the trip and ended up learning a lot about how France protests. Here are some things I learned:
Protesting is considered important and this is taught to kids in school.
It’s often a family affair, grab the whole family and go protest.
Protests are a happy, party-like environment with music and vendors selling food to protestors.
Leaders actually listen to some.extent.
American version:
Protesting is a right, taught in school.
Grab family, go to protest.
Protest turns violent because of hidden cops. Mom gets shot. Dad loses job. Family loses house.
Die.
“Protesting is a right and everything great we have comes from it, but you will be tear gassed and condemned if you try”
Leaders actually listen to some.extent.
Do they? I haven’t seem a lot of meaningful changes in France due to protests in the last 10-20 years. Perhaps you have a list of them that a directly due to protests? It seems like the ruling class, leadership and in general regular people just ignore protests as ‘part of life’.
They do listen to some extent. Not always, obviously, but saying protests are basically useless is just wrong. The CPE was scrapped after protests in 2006, the écotaxe was abandoned after the Bonnets Rouges protests, the fuel tax increase was cancelled after the Yellow Vests, and the government backed down on several measures after the 2024 farmers’ protests. You can argue protests do not always succeed, but pretending they achieve nothing just ignores what actually happened.
Unfortunately the government’s like to wait a few years and try again. The message doesn’t always stick
Macron cancelled a tax hike right before the pandemic, IIRC. I can’t think of anything else particularly substantial from the last 10-20
I think if you can protest then your bitch ass ain’t ready to lead! If you can’t tske over a country my normal means in the 22st sentry then dumb as fuck bro and this os how we do ib in the civilized age.
The flavor is systems. System go up. System go down. But that is shit is temporal abd thats how we take it and if your bitch ass aint riding the race then that chit won’t fuck your ass! So you you go woth the groove and it go tubular. This just stock speak! You know where the numbers are? With God. Shit you don’t know, you don’t know. That’s a fact.
Yeah. Until the British need something that brown/black/yellow people don’t want to give them for free, then they fucking Hulk the way to it. They are affable only to their oppressors, they love their royals.
Holy shit we are docile. How have we not had a fascist takeover yet? The other thing that amazes me about Brits is their priorities. They will riot over things like pedos and immigrants but when their government takes them into illegal wars, destroys their healthcare, public transit and education they do not give a fuck. The public outpouring of grief following the death of billionaire Diana Spencer was equally baffling and grotesque. It is weird to live amongst these people.
British people will riot over pedos?
Jimmy Savile and Andrew Mountbatten probably would have disagreed.
Better just keep switching PMs every 18 months or so to make sure that the leader is almost perpetually someone who wasn’t voted in, that should sort it.
I mean, right now there are students protests in France.
One student had his hand blown off by a police grenade launcher, and something like 50 officers were injured.
They don’t fuck around
It’s almost like you actually have to fight for your rights or something.
His hand was because he picked up a flash grenade to try and throw it back. But yeah, the current protests are rough. A few thousand people detained and a few hundred officers injured last I heard iirc.
So? What was a flash grenade doing on the ground for him to pick up in the first place?
What the fuck do I care? All I’m saying is what happened. I’m not here trying to argue anything other than correcting that his hand wasn’t “blown off by a grenade launcher”.
what the fuck do I care
Mmm. Clearly.
Ok? Not sure what moral superiority fumes you are trying to sniff but have fun with that. 🙄
😆
And then the Brits hang this poster on their windows unironically
Is it true what you wrote about British government? Anytime I talked with people from Britain, either I end up talking to a crowd that says “Islamists are taking over UK” or a crowd that says “Right wing is problem”. I really never got what they are doing these days.
Wish the rest of the world was more like the French. We’d be able to achieve so much change.
Is there something exceptional about english-speaking white people that makes them such effective bootlickers?
A quick glance at uprisings and riots in British history might surprise you. I frequently-ish pass two buildings in Wales where the British Army shot and killed British people.
You have to subjugate your own people before you can subjugate foreign people.
Yes: god and guberment lol. Solid 800+ years of it last I checked.
no, it’s the French that are the exception, we German-speaking white people aren’t very different from English-speaking ones either
Ah, yes, I forgot for some reason that Germans are some of the all-time greats at boot licking.
If I was to defend any argument, it would be that Romance peoples (French, Spanith, Portuguese, etc.) are more likely to protest than Germanic people (English, German, Scandinavian)
I remember hearing about French firefighters getting geared up, setting themselves on fire, and running at riot police lol.
Kids told about thursdays riots here in Bordeaux where the firefighters came and put out the burning trashcans etc, but they also cheered the protesters on!
Same side 😘!
Riot is in our culture ! We learn it at school !
Anyone remember when the French farmers got pissed off at the government and used a manure spray to coat the president house outside and inside?
Oh and they did it again to clear their fields of “travelers”
Ha ha they do that in so many ways, nothings quite like it for a mayor to wade through manure, fish or whatever to get to work!
I mean, yes the French know how to riot, but they will still blame all their problems on “islamo-gauchisme”…
The venn diagram of French people who protest/riot and French people who say “islamo-gauchisme” unironically is two distinct circles.
The latter tend to despise protesters and cheer when the police beat them up. Except when the protesters are farmers, then it’s legitimate anger towards an incompetent and corrupt government.
Thats false, but the far right love to peddle that lie. You also got it wrong, as it’s supposedly an insult to “woke” people or leftists.
Mon point était plus que c’est pas que les Anglais qui ont des dérives de droites. C’est pas pour rien que notre export Mathieu Bock-Côté a tant de succès chez vous.
J’habite en France mon coco.
