Post by @RattlerSix@lemmy.world

2026-10-07 12:20 UTC

They really do. 3 years ago my daughter was getting ready to take a school trip to France when protests broke out over something. I was worried about the trip and ended up learning a lot about how France protests. Here are some things I learned: Protesting is considered important and this is taught to kids in school. It’s often a family affair, grab the whole family and go protest. Protests are a happy, party-like environment with music and vendors selling food to protestors. Leaders actually listen to some.extent.

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@Hueristic_Autistic@lemmy.world 2026-10-08 07:50

Leaders actually listen to some.extent. No, I have to say this one and I’m not trying to sound any kind of way about this but it’s a little true: Is that the action that comes from anyone in power after a protest comes from fear. That it goes from peaceful discourse to actions that can range and vary…** Though I suppose one could equate it to the rebel-terrorist fighting. … The people of the US fighting for their voices to be heard are the rebels and the oppressive terrorist government that couldn’t give two shits less, except for furthering their dictatorial agendas**

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@GalacticRobot@lemmy.world 2026-10-07 13:26

Leaders actually listen to some.extent. Do they? I haven’t seem a lot of meaningful changes in France due to protests in the last 10-20 years. Perhaps you have a list of them that a directly due to protests? It seems like the ruling class, leadership and in general regular people just ignore protests as ‘part of life’.

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