BrutalistMcDonalds posted:

a lot of /pol/ supports the protests which they think will lead to the "day of the rope" (of minorities) and others are starting to figure out why that's a mistake

twoday posted:

https://twitter.com/JeremyCliffe/status/1071010499289079809?s=19

Sheng-Ji Yang posted:

lmao neolibs

Goon Danton posted:

The BBC news bulletin talked about the protests today and they were incredibly salty and spent a lot of time insisting they aren't effective. So keep up the good work, French people, you're getting under their skin in a big way.

quote:

Child rioters, some as young as 12-years-old, were among 153 arrested at a single high school as violent protests over the President’s policies threaten all-out anarchy in Paris. Terrifying footage shows riot police armed with batons guarding the youngsters from the Lycée Saint-Exupéry high school in Mante-la-Jolie - 30 miles west of the capital. The officers are heard shouting at the children and threatening them with violent disorder charges, including "participation in an armed crowd".

suck my woke dick posted:

the german media is very centristly reporting that the gilets jaunes are planning to storm the bastille (and glossing over the multiple historic precendents for that of course)

i hope jupiter decides he’s not a dirty coward like that degaulle guy and tries to stick it out

Typo posted:

there is no bastille though it got demolished in the 1700s

so what's actually being physically stormed?

Typo posted:

there is no bastille though it got demolished in the 1700s

so what's actually being physically stormed?

quote:

PARIS (AP) — As anti-government protests rage through France and Paris locks down, fearing new riots, the man whose presidency has unleashed the anger is nowhere to be seen.

French President Emmanuel Macron has stayed out of the public eye all week, leaving his unpopular government to try to calm the nation. In response, “Macron, resign!” has become the main slogan of the “yellow vest” demonstrators.

The protesters’ anger has been directed at the French leader, who they feel has been the “president of the rich” and is out-of-touch with ordinary people.

Macron’s pro-business reforms have aimed to make the French economy more competitive globally, but French workers see the changes as brutal and weakening their rights.

Macron, whose popularity plummeted in recent months, is also widely seen as arrogant, which comes out when he tells an unemployed man he can find a job if he “crosses the street,” or advising a retiree not to complain.

The 40-year-old leader mostly spent the week holding closed-door meetings in the Elysee presidential palace, which many protesters see as an ivory tower where he is hiding away from the people.

The president’s office said he would not speak before Saturday’s anti-government protests.

Moridin920 posted:

https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/1055757/emmanuel-macron-news-france-riots-protests-yellow-vest-protestors-macron-no-confidence

Sheng-Ji Yang posted:

lmao cowardly bitch

qkkl posted:

Isn't this situation in France a good example of when democracy fails? 51% of the population votes to lower taxes on themselves while raising taxes on the other 49%, causing the 49% to riot.

Sheng-Ji Yang posted:

coathat posted:

https://twitter.com/bellingdog_en/status/1071124282099580929

Vitamin P posted:

It's even worse. Go to the bbc news website and search for 'france' or 'french', they've literally scrubbed all the articles about it. If you narrow it down to 'french protests' there's one article from almost a week ago. poo poo is getting weird.

Sheng-Ji Yang posted:

Sheng-Ji Yang posted:

lmao cowardly bitch

Yinlock posted:

of course some of the nazis didn't get the memo and still think it's a nazi protest

https://twitter.com/DaveHighway1/status/1071166638173626368

Yinlock posted:

it's practically a copy of how thatcher ran away the second it looked like she was in danger

if the protests keep up he'll have mysteriously disappeared in a week

https://twitter.com/MichaelH14/status/1071144340381204481

also lol that macron has successfully united his people under the banner of "macron loving sucks"

Vitamin P posted:

What does nazism have to do with brexit?

Sheng-Ji Yang posted:

keep brexit in the limey thread, jesus

Yinlock posted:

the whole brexit movement was spearheaded by nigel farage, who is a nazi

but it's more that they're trying to focus blame on the EU(though the eu still loving sucks mind you) rather than macron

BrutalistMcDonalds posted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9i3alzuVFXo

etalian posted:

the chad yellow coat vs the virgin neoliberal macron supporter

Vitamin P posted: