Oh fuck off. They were protesting environmental legislation that hurt regular working class people that contribute less than 1% to global warming. While the same government fucks were giving tax breaks to corporations and billionaires that contribute 99%. “THIS DOESN’T SEEM SAFE” 😂😂😂😀 Are you an American? I wouldn’t be surprised you pro-pedophiles would be put off by revolutionary action.
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HappyFrog@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 weeks ago
This doesn’t seem very safe. I hope they’re protesting for something good this time, and not against environmental protections like last time.
AviAdi@suppo.fi 2 weeks ago
arrow74@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
I mean something can be not safe and based at the same time. Revolution is often not safe, doesn’t mean it’s not worthwhile
HappyFrog@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 weeks ago
Huh? I was being funny with the “safe” comment. Also, they weren’t protesting tax breaks for billionaires, we’re they? They were protesting environmental legislation.
I do sympathize with this moment, however.
AviAdi@suppo.fi 2 weeks ago
They were protesting environmental legislation targeting the working class. It wasn’t targeting the true polluters and it sure as hell wasn’t going to curb climate change. The government tried to use the excuse of climate change as a way to tax the working class more. Let’s be clear the neoliberal French government would never pass true environmental legislation because it would threaten business and elite interests!
dgdft@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Actually, a lot of people were protesting tax cuts for billionaires; it was just a big-tent movement.
spankysalmon@fedinsfw.app 2 weeks ago
Most Americans aren’t pro pedo. They’re just uninformed as shit. You would be too if you lived there.
njm1314@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
They sure vote like they are though…
Tedesche@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Anyone who thinks any group of people are pro-pedo (apart from pedophiles) is an idiot.
BaraCoded@literature.cafe 2 weeks ago
Against environmental protection, wtf? Who do you think we are? No, we were protesting against yet another tax on gas that would have weighted mostly on the poors, again. This tax was presented as an environmental tax for people to drink the kool-aid, but when you’re poor enough and every cent counts, you can’t take it anymore. That tax was the straw that broke the people’s back, especially when knowing how few taxes our top 10% pay, which is just obscene. We have a thousand millionnaires who don’t even pay taxes at all.
So, it started in protest against that tax, then Macron spat on our face, then it became about much more than just that tax, it became an uproar against the fucked-up, dystopian society our dear Epstein class is leading us into.
It was repressed with great violence and injustice, until we just got burnt out by a president who’s paving the way for our local nazies with the complicity of the bourgeoisie and their collaborationist medias, who could not even respect the result of the 2024 parliamentary election (the equivalent of your congress) that should have imposed a united leftist prime minister, etc… That’s only a glimmer of how Macron and his goons have starved, mutilated and despised the french people and destroyed the country for almost ten years.
Now, it’s the highschoolers and students that Macron is unleashing his pigs on, and when power spits in our face and start mutilating our children, then we come for its fucking head.
HappyFrog@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 weeks ago
Thanks for telling me :3 I hope you’re successful.
timochka@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
“And that, kids, is how I voted the far right fascists into power at the next election.”
It’s a beautiful, heartwarming tale.
untropvertimide@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 weeks ago
The irony: a contributing factor to both E. Macron elections was his stated posture as a shield against far-right. (M. Le Pen was his second round opponent in both elections.)
timochka@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
Indeed. Unfortunately if the keyboard revolutionaries of Lemmy think that the lumpenproletariat looting Fnac is going to bring about the Glorious Revolution and not instead usher Le Pen into power, they are as deluded as they are biddable, lapdogs of Putin that they are.
BaraCoded@literature.cafe 2 weeks ago
🤣🤣🤣 yeah, sure, bro, sure. Bismillah c’est les ténèbres.
Fishnoodle@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Being under 60 in the world right now isn’t safe. Embrace the chaos and forge your own future. You already know that the powers that be won’t ever voluntarily give you what you deserve
AlecSadler@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
Fuck off.
drmoose@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Yeah this is not a good protest but likely foreign stoked chaos disruption.
untropvertimide@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 weeks ago
Source ?
Whitebrow@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Rising and unaffordable cost of living, education and underfunding thereof, amongst other things.
From what I heard, it’s multiple things coalescing into a singular movement at this point
BooBees@fedinsfw.app 2 weeks ago
This unfortunately is a preview/review of what’s to come in other nations as things unavoidably get worse everywhere