Suspicious posted:

explain this to me like an i'm an idiot (because i am.) who are the fash?

twoday posted:

A lot of the roots of these protests are right wing, don't get too excited

Jose posted:

https://twitter.com/JWMason1/status/1069953564783624192

Jose posted:

https://twitter.com/EuropeElects/st...ingawful.com%2F

Top City Homo posted:

twoday posted:

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

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.

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.

BrutalistMcDonalds posted:

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

Flowers For Algeria posted:

yeah in a few hours i’ll have a youtube stream going on, reporting from somewhere within the crowd

i’ll be posting it here and in the d&d french thread and I’ll be narrating in english from time to time

Jose posted:

https://twitter.com/ali__zs/status/1071465776744411137

twoday posted:

https://twitter.com/TheVoxCatholica/status/1069774438877532160?s=19

Often Abbreviated posted:

AGAIN?!

Dreddout posted:

Chuds desperately want the yellow vest protests to be a right wing thing

Sassy Sasquatch posted:

Posting from a city police cell to own the gvt.

Baloogan posted:

Vitamin P posted:

This song has been stuck in my head https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cBiHJxGxz1g

Byolante posted:

The problem with ragh ragh everyones a nazi bullshit coming out of the wealthy 'left' is that a lot of socialist policies are universally popular and become planks of both sides. Identity politics is a weapon of the neolibs because its a way of removing class conciousness from political discussion so they can split the natural voter bass in 2 to maintain control over society.

In closing, a peanut butter cup mcflurry please

Flowers For Algeria posted:

anyway tomorrow’s the day we storm every palace and burn every church. it’s the morning of the great evening. the great wind of hope for the future

i’ll be at hotel de ville at 11

quote:

There is evidence that French people are losing patience. The mood of reader comments in Le Figaro (centre-right) and Le Monde (centre-left) is now virulently anti-Gilets Jaunes.

And yet opinion polls suggest that that a large part of the French public remains mystifyingly tolerant of the Gilets Jaunes, despite their revolutionary rhetoric, street violence and attacks on journalists. Up to 36 per cent still say that they actively support the yellow vests. Over 60 per cent are “sympathetic”.

Top City Homo posted:

To the day I die I will insist that bitch king macron is pegged on the reg by mamma merkel

Reclines Obesily posted:

https://twitter.com/EuropeElects/status/1090953315800809473

https://twitter.com/EuropeElects/status/1091068682543996928

still find it funny lepen is polling slightly below pre election levels

Kurtofan posted:

"We live in an aristocratic egalitarian society"