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In case you've missed it, the French have been tearing it up over fuel prices and steep cost-of-living increases for a bit now. In the last couple of days, they've been giving Paris a pretty good torchin'. While the core of the yellow-vest movement advocates for peaceful protesting, as things go, protesters tend to have mixed feelings about police presence and policy, and poo poo's turned increasingly violent recently, culminating in yesterday's a-torchin'. 160 fires started, six buildings and countless cars torched, and this isn't in some out-of-the-way district of the struggling working class, this is next to the Arc de Triomphe. A friend of mine has been going to the protests for a couple of weeks, and the poo poo she posts on Facebook is turning increasingly scary. https://twitter.com/BorisKharlamoff/status/1068863856615849989 https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-46411699
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There are also a whole bunch of extremely unfortunate pictures of cops going absolutely ham that are adding fuel to the fire. I'll try to find some more from my friend's feed. Potatocam video, but try to spot the moment it occurs to the cops that they done hosed up: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fxIFDS7MWz4 Some more warzone reporting https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JCTYcoZThCE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eQTw5us49is The "leaders" of the movement (quotation marks because it's not exactly like they're running a centrally-managed operation over there) have been catching flak for right-wing extremists surfacing in the riots, so Macron's government has tried to claim the political opposition is behind the protests, which is disingenuous at best.
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Hexyflexy posted:It ain't that, it's 100% anti-macron. The riots have been on the last year. Well yeah, Macron's the guy running the government? He's the guy that hosed with their benefits and increased the fuel tax. Sure the protests have been going on for over a year, iirc the first big cut to benefits was late December last year, and people were pissed off for a while, but poo poo's really been going off the cliff since the fuel tax increase and the massive tax cuts announced some two to three weeks ago. The cuts were claimed to be aimed at revving up the economy and benefiting employers and employees, but you can pretty much guess who's getting the better end of that deal. And to cover the cost of the cuts, Macron capped pensions, cut welfare and slashed public sector jobs.
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If Idris Elba turns out to be a creepy sex offender that abused his position, I might lock myself into my room and throw a temper tantrum. Like, 13 year-old learning the Backstreet Boys dissolved temper tantrum.
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He was just on an amazing Colbert episode, too. Stephen appeared as a guest to be interviewed by a bunch of former guests and Jon Stewart. I'm pretty sure that must have been after the first allegations.
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Where did this "three branches of Congress" talking point come from, by the way?
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Also, this got a healthy chuckle out of me "I was gonna suck my own dick today about ~GREAT DEALS~, but I'm a very respectful president, who will observe a day of mourning and instead just tell you how he's going to suck his own dick tomorrow." https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1068887938761662465
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bird food bathtub posted:Right wing fever swamps tired of getting chaos dunked on by someone who doesn't run, screaming, from the label "socialist" took a verbal slip and tried to spin it in to "Look how dumb the broad is, doesn't even know how the government she's in works" fwiw, I just found the video, and from the backlash, I fully expected her to actually think Congress was three chambers or something, and it's not even that. Yeah, "three chambers of government" isn't a thing, but it's pretty clear what she means after she corrects herself, because literally everyone on the political stage has talked about those three partisan "goals" for elections. I'm in the cautious camp of people hoping she's worth all the adulation she's getting while not fanboying over her, because I'm still shellshocked over the entirety of young people swaying for a dreamy candidate in a heartbeat as long as they're saying what they want to hear, but if THIS is what conservatives want to poo poo on her over, they should maybe spend a minute or two on not getting chaos-dunked on by her constantly.
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France-protests update: https://twitter.com/DailySabah/status/1069333678290075648
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LingcodKilla posted:His use of parenthesis drive me (an otherwise very sane and good person) crazy. I'm also interested in who this Scott Free is, and what role he plays in these proceedings.
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mods changed my name posted:in case anyone doubted it, apparently Trump will not be speaking at the funeral. Was he subtly uninvited again?
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This is metal as gently caress
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GoGoGadget posted:With Japan's past, wouldn't this kind of be like if the US made a Pearl Harbor themed soup? One you need to eat with an extra-flat spoon because the bowl's too shallow?
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Yellow-jacket update: Guillotines up and aboutRandomPauI posted:At least three guillotines were erected in the past week. But it looks like only one was decked out in high-vis gear
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orange juche posted:Calm down he quoted a moron in the article comments. Calm down he wasn't being catty
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Very fine people
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I think they figured it out. In a post-factual society, you can just frame investigations into criminal behavior as a opinionated state of the union address and do a rebuttal https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1071055923848855553
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I almost want to say "I'm too old for poo poo poo poo" in terms of actually reading his dumb tweets, but is this for real? Dear god
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Yes, being "out of line" should definitely be a criterion for quality with the current government. Oh my loving days
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facialimpediment posted:Video is coming, but this meeting turned into a clusterfuck in front of cameras, with the President going galaxy brain. facialimpediment posted:Have fun y'all: https://www.c-span.org/video/?455813-1/president-trump-democratic-leaders-clash-border-funding Yo, I'm stoked for this video, and I was already stoked for only working 2 more days this year.
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But is the president tweeting yet?
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LingcodKilla posted:Goddamn this is getting dark. How do you mean "getting" dark?
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FAUXTON posted:Christie says no to the chief of staff job lmao. I'm sorry, you're wrong. Everyone wants to work in this White House
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This is another one of those loaded tweets that has it all. Delusion, fake news (in the literal sense), lack of understanding, it's all there. https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1074657278974939138 Also: Some more socialism https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1074774781420015618 Hot Karl Marx posted:Idris Elba continues to own. He better be the new bond if that's still in contention Oh god, by law of milkshake-duck, this means he has something to hide 
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I don't see Trump ever going to prison that is all
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M_Gargantua posted:By clicking that link you've got a Ministry of State Security remote access product on your PC Joke's on you, I clicked it from my Huawei phone 
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I didn't "play" like six years of Eve Online without using "o7" to suddenly start using a dumb word like 'cuck' just because it's okay 
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I had to google who the gently caress this Major Golsteyn was, and he apparently killed an Afghan in violation of the RoE? Did I live under a rock for a bit?
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Oh, this is the bomb-maker the discussion a few pages ago was about, my bad, I'm late to the party.
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McNally posted:No. Well, that certainly went from 0-60 rather quickly
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Just chisel it into Lady Liberty and stop pretending
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I'm watching Michael Moore's Fahrenheit 11/9 while wrapping up Christmas gifts (what a great idea that was), and while I have half an hour to go on this, I'm currently in the the optimist's equivalent of emotional destitution. I fully assume this thing to be shared and boosted on social media in the upcoming primaries, and probably serve as the same ambassador to US politics that "Bowling for Columbine" was to Europe back in the day despite not seeing commercial success. I'm all for a revolution and all, but this is such loving ridiculous Michael Mooring that it hurts. My "favorite" quote thus far is this: quote:Often, the move is to say 'You're making a comparison to Hitler. It's not a perfect comparison, and therefore, let's throw all of history out. Whereas what I would say is 'of course, the comparison's not perfect, no comparison is ever perfect, because history doesn't repeat. But history is this huge resource of patterns, and this huge resource of structures, it's a way to try to get your bearing in the moment like the present one, where we're not really sure what's going on. What a great defeat of the "you're only making Hitler-comparisons" counter. Followed immediately by a 10-minute "Trump is actually Hitler" comparison. Michael Moore can go gently caress himself.
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Slim Pickens posted:I forgot that even came out. Michael Moore is just a left-wing version of Bill O'Reilly, he just needs to gently caress off back to northern Michigan and stop making garbage. I have like four minutes left in it, and he's snidly pretending that the dumb strategic missile alert in Hawaii MAY HAVE BEEN A GOVERNMENT DIVERSION AND/OR WAY TO KEEP CITIZENS ON THE EDGE I'M JUST ASKING QUESTIONS Jesus H. Christ. I'm a couple of beers in and have finally wrapped up all my Christmas gifts, so you'd assume I'm all content and whatnot, but this dumb THEIR HEART IS IN THE RIGHT PLACE THEREFORE THE ENDS JUSTIFY THE MEANS AND ALL CRITICISM IS DISSENT is scaring the everloving gently caress out of me.
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Soulex posted:Why yall watch that conspiracy bullshit is beyond me Because while I get that it's easy to dismiss Moore, Moore is unfortunately also what ends up globally as the gospel
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mlmp08 posted:https://twitter.com/presssec/status/1076124248484311040?s=21 Oh? https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1076132028888825857
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I feel like this gem slipped through the crack yesterday: There are such wondrous things in this one. I also missed that he was on the twittermachine for what seems like the entire day yesterday.
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Merry Christmas, you dinguses
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