I wish No Kings protests in the US looked a little more like this. That’s fucking awesome.
Paris, France
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ramenshaman@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
ysjet@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
If this was an american no kings protest, those cop cars would have been swerving to hit the protesters.
The cops would later say that the protesters stepped in front of their car, and would get no punishment.
eurostile@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
Don’t worry, French cops did it at least one time during the high schoolers protests we had the last few days/weeks. We are witnessing a very violent response from the police here in France (nothing close to what ICE is doing in the USA…yet)
untropvertimide@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 weeks ago
Multiple attempts were filmed. At least one attempt by the “anti flony brigade” (“Brigade Anti Criminelle”, or “BAC”)
antianarchist@sopuli.xyz 2 weeks ago
Imaginary_Stand4909@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 weeks ago
Oh I mean, If you wanna go back to BLM where Americans set fire and destroyed several businesses sure. People act like Americans have never destroyed property, the problem is that it wasn’t properly coordinated and people were burning down random fucking businesses rather than actual places that deserve it. All it lead to was food deserts and small businesses shuttering.
Never mind the fact that we could and would absolutely get shot for rolling up on a cop car like this but, sure man. I do love getting my daily reminder from non-US people that I should go outside and get myself killed today.
ramenshaman@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
That’s not what I meant and I’m pretty sure you knew that
dreamkeeper@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
If they did we’d lose the election in a heartbeat. You keyboard warriors who sit at home and do nothing but whine and criticize are the fucking worst.
ViceroTempus@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
God I hate how much news is just not shown here in the U.S… This and the recent No King protests are really only found in alternative places. I keep trying to explaining that marching isn’t enough, that it doesn’t generate enough fear/anxiety to make them want to change.
That previous “peaceful” protests like MLK’s had targeted strategies that disrupted life on purpose. And still had Malcolm X and the Black Panthers as the muscle of the movement.
We’re just not doing enough, and allies that are willing are just too far apart distance wise to properly coordinate without getting caught. And random acts of violence can be useful, but only if they are actually shocking enough and have follow up. Luigi enacted a small amount of change for a short amount of time. Companies were denying less for a solid year afterwards. The problem is that there wasn’t enough follow up. The violence wasn’t coordinated enough, or organized with a wider group so they could continue to lay on the fear.
We’re just too passive, too domesticated, and lack the will to properly organize. The only good news is Trump is making these points more salient as time goes on. Especially with his talk of interference, and using the national guard for voter intimidation. I believe the mid terms will be a breakpoint for many depending on how they go. Or I hope it will anyway, as nothing else has been enough so far.
Cheebus@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
my gut says people are avoiding giving trump the excuse of shutting down elections before midterms
after midterms my theory is things are gunna get ugly and all the people who want a show are gunna get one
ViceroTempus@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I have to agree. The people I’ve organized with are also waiting to see how mid terms shake out.
dreamkeeper@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Dude you are so fucking wrong. The point of the no kings protest is to organize people and encourage them to vote early for the election. It isn’t supposed to be a disruptive protest.
Maybe try getting off your ass and actually doing something instead of agitating for violence on lemmy like a terminally online weirdo.
ViceroTempus@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
One of is certainly terminally online, but it’s not me. Take your projection and fuck off. I’ve already lost family members to the Concentration Camps, so kindly take your privilege elsewhere and try being useful for once.
alexquiniou@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
Most protests was people walking, being happy, singing and talking. What everyone is talking i that 10% shit happening.
Please, be aware that most of the time people are peaceful. That what everyone have to stick in their brain.
TrackenDaKracken@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Anyone who remembers the George Floyd protests remembers that being the case then, too.
The NYPD funneled the peaceful protesters into one intersection and then attacked.
dustyData@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
And French police is doing the same. They even have an official name for barricading. They trap a group of peaceful protestors into an alley, then send a provocateur dressed as a civilian to start violence. They use the violence as an excuse to detain and injure everyone trapped inside the barricade. When the battle breaks out, they use that to further repress the peaceful protestors.
It’s a worldwide established practice by all police forces.
Evotech@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
That’s daytime protests
Fishnoodle@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
The French are fucking legit. We need that energy in the US. I mean, it’s much easier to organize and meet in city centers in France than in the US, but if you can get 2000 dedicated and coordinated people to split into groups of around 500 and cause chaos simultaneously in any large city you’ll overwhelm the local police, national guard, whoever they decide to call in. Plus a group of organized patriots could easily disperse and blend back into the crowd if needed, then re-convene, regroup, and hit them where they ain’t. I mean FFS there’s a national guard armory a few miles from me with hummers, apc’s, a few tanks, and all sorts of sweet military gear. At any given time there’s probably 30 people or less on site guarding things, and they don’t really wanna die. There’s a single chain link fence with some cantina wire keeping people out. A car or a pair of bolt cutters will take care of that. You show up with a few hundred armed civilians, smoke the hell out of the place, cut power lines to the armory, and let them know they can either hand over the keys, disarm, and leave, or they’ll be burned down with the building they’re in.
Most military vehicles don’t even have keys. If you get thru the fence and can open the door/hatch, it’s yours.
tene@leminal.space 2 weeks ago
2000? more like 10k
RandomHugs@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
And of course, the post is full of Americans trying to justify shit.
murvel@feddit.nu 2 weeks ago
Of course it is. And per usual they know about fuck all what’s actually going on
AviAdi@suppo.fi 2 weeks ago
Please please please Livestream the beheadings of your elites and politicians ❤️❤️❤️❤️
Rokin@leminal.space 2 weeks ago
No, Paris.
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.
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
AviAdi@suppo.fi 2 weeks ago
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 ?
Zombie@feddit.uk 2 weeks ago
Police learning that they’re outnumbered and can’t dig it.
Love to see it!
selokichtli@lemmy.ml 2 weeks ago
It is better when they are concerned about beating the shit out of you. They are not soft when people is soft.
dismay3915@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I’m filled with joy
theskyisfalling@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
AlecSadler@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
This is amazing.
Burn_The_Right@lemmy.today 2 weeks ago
We have much to learn from the French.
FundMECFS@piefed.zip 2 weeks ago
Vive la Révolution
flango@lemmy.eco.br 2 weeks ago
Allez les gars, n’oubliez pas 1789!
BaraCoded@literature.cafe 2 weeks ago
Chief kiss
Arachnidbrilliant@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
I used to look up to France for their ability to come together and rebel again against the unjust.
Can someone tell me what they’re doing over there?
FurryMemesAccount@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 weeks ago
Coming together and rebelling against the unjust.
To boil it down, billionaires stealing all the money.
murvel@feddit.nu 2 weeks ago
Lmao Nah, at this point they’re just wrecking shit for the fun of it
BilSabab@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
a combination of external factors beyond the governmental control, the aftermath of short-sighted energy policies, the aftermath of even shorter-sighted deprioritization of public education, cost of living crisis on top of that and heavily biased fiscal policies on top of that and some good old government corruption as cherry on top.
dan69@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Damn French pigs
imetators@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
Sad to see innocent businesses getting destroyed. Sad to see schools not being modernized as per request of students and protesters. Sad to see government not doing due diligence to listen to their people, especially children.
Happy to see people protesting not only for 5 hours. Happy to see repercussions of not being heard. Happy to see that France shows the whole world how one should protest.
tocopherol@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
Which innocent business got destroyed? I’m not doubting some did, but I hear that narrative during every protest, and I have seen them smashing Louis Vuitton and other corps windows but leaving local businesses untouched. That’s how it’s usually been where I’m at when this stuff happens, a business seen as supporting the police or CVS/Target etc got smashed windows but the local store next door run by cooler people was untouched even without boarded windows in 2020.
Itdidnttrickledown@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
This video isn’t in the US where the police send in saboteurs to get that kind of shit going.
Avicenna@programming.dev 2 weeks ago
This is the only country where police probably really fear for their lives (not talking about the bullshit us police spew to get themselves out of trouble when they kill someone).
dustyData@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
They should. For what I’ve seen in the news cycle, protests started peacefully then the police started crippling children. I mean, a 14 year old lost an arm to police brutality. That’s when the rest of the country raised up in arms and started attacking the cops and rioting. So far all political statements, starting with Macron, have only called to prosecute children for property damage calling them “extreme left violence”. While the cops maiming children, who were just asking for more teachers with fair pay, are being protected.
ACAB
tino@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Frsutration leads to chaos. The French are very frustrated at the moment.
BilSabab@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
gee, i wonder why? definitely not the government’s fault…
abc@suppo.fi 2 weeks ago
Scum.
selokichtli@lemmy.ml 2 weeks ago
We all know American cops are fucking pigs and may kill you just because, we’ve seen the videos. We also saw footage of one guy taking care of the CEO of not a minor healthcare insurance company, with a printed gun, iirc. Shit is crazy, and that’s precisely why people must do something else than well-behaved protests. Nonviolent protests can be way more effective if planned correctly. Think about the Hormuz blockade, it’s not a bloodbath there, but it is hell for the USA allies. Cops aren’t the problem, you do not need to literally fight them to change shit.
The pretty thing of this video is that people is sending a clear message to the State, and probably, the government of France will change its stances.
berno@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Lock all these fucking criminals up
SalamiDommie@lemmus.org 2 weeks ago
1 - the French protests will not end well. 2 - US protests would end even worse 3 - no kings is mostly old boomers reliving their youth. The majority of you get people there are dragged by their parents or grandparents. It is also a very small percentage of people who support no kings 4 - I do have to congratulate the No Kings people, there aren’t currently any in the US. So good job.
rhinestones@europe.pub 2 weeks ago
As wealthy millionaire living my best life, I’m giving 35 grand to anyone who messages “GRACE” on Telegram @Georgestones12 I understand that many people are struggling with bills, and I want to help reduce that burden. It’s a season of love, kindness, and blessings.
Itdidnttrickledown@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
In the land of the fee they would be using high caliber machine guns right now. Mowing down anything that moved.
Arachnidbrilliant@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
I used to look up to France for their ability to come together and rebel against the unjust. Can someone tell me what they’re doing over there?
homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
So the police aren’t completely militarized yet, like here.
itsjustachairmary@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
These cops, no. But these aren’t riot cops. Riot copsin France are legit monsters. Absolutely horrible.
Valmond@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
Here in Bordeaux they just started gassing the legal movement super heavily, it was 100% peaceful (no shooting stuff or burning or even firecrackers) was moving for only 5 minutes (this is regular stuff, happens often). Old people, handicapped people, parents with strollers. My friend went to them (the riot police) and asked why they started to gas everyone and could they please let them (him) help people out (you get respiratory problems when you’re gassed, and people get disoriented, scared etc, people was on the floor, panicked), he got gassed.
So this seems to be a biig “blunder”, I mean if they don’t just not give a fuck, which they don’t. They don’t listen? Well then it’s french riot time I guess.
✊🏼
ieightpi@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
At this rate, they will be
AviAdi@suppo.fi 2 weeks ago
Not if they want to keep their heads in the upcoming trails. Lol
Seriously I hope there are public executions of their pedophile elites. Hopefully Americans will get inspired and we see Trump family get all killed on Livestream. ❤️❤️❤️
Fishnoodle@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Our police have low end military equipment, that’s about it. Being militarized means not having fat lazy 40-60 year olds on the force, and America sure as shit ain’t there yet.
Our police love the optics of having military gear, but quite frankly they aren’t trained and versed on military tactics, discipline, or a number of other things that would make them effective. That’s why when there’s a real problem like a school shooting or hostage situation they just stand around sucking each other off while wearing body army and holding $1500 AR’s. They’re just security theater. They care about getting easy overtime. They want to go home at the end of the day. They don’t want to die violently. They are paper tigers
AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Weird, that perfectly describes the cops in the US.
Oh and militarized just means giving the cops military equipment, mostly armored vehicles and projectile launchers that wouldn’t normally be used in civilian work. Police are civilians, and I think they understand that in France better than anywhere, because you don’t allow them military vehicles and gear to fight the populace. Unfortunately, no other country got the message. We give MRAPS to our thugs with badges. It’s hard to fight back, even when you have pistols, shotguns, and rifles, when the thugs with badges have crowd control weapons. Sonic inhibitors, UV dispersal units, and lethal options like their standard issue AR-15.
4am@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
I dunno where the fuck you’re from but American cops definitely aren’t fat 40-60 year old slobs. That’s one of the things that is so dangerous about them, they’re young dudes with a chip on their shoulder and shit to prove (and now let just ICE, they’re the bottom of the barrel but they’re hadly an exception)
Now if you’re from a rich community where everyone has gates and private patrols then yeah maybe it’s all fat old cops collecting a check where nothing happens because they roll out the SWAT team when people from “those other neighborhoods” get near, yeah maybe I see where the idea comes from
jimmy90@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
it’s cool they’re destroying stuff to get educated better
i wonder if these guys will pass those courses they so desperately want
im_fine_sandy@nord.pub 2 weeks ago
I don’t think Americans can really throw any shade on anyone about how to protest.
menas@lemmy.wtf 2 weeks ago
You have heard of that demonstration, and not of the (LOT of) other one. So it’s a necessary mean. And you may be surprised that it have work in the past. Not always, but CEO whining for the destruction to stop have more chance than union asking politely to not be threaten by their workplaces
AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
It’s not the demonstrators, it’s the usual bunch of idiots that use that excuse to break stuff and pillage shops. It’s become pretty much systematic.
CultLeader4Hire@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
In France one of the only groups, maybe the only? not allowed to unionize is the police
GeriatricGambino@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Not the police, as it is one the most unionized group of public servant workers in France, the biggest police union is called alliance, which is considered to be affiliated with the far right, and their spokespersons go bitching on tv like little crybabies every chance they get. The only group not allowed to unionized in France is historically military personnel, so maybe you’re thinking of the gendarmerie who are military and not cops even if most of what they do is cop things.