2026-10-06 20:07 UTC
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@aeiou@piefed.social 2026-10-06 20:45
American government: we’re deporting your friends and neighbors to third countries, burning your crops, poisoning your water supply, and delivering a plague unto your houses Americans: What?! You can’t do that! I’m going to write angry social media posts and participate in a quickly-forgotten weekend protest that disrupts little to nothing! Not this weekend though, I have work in the morning.
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@MarieMarion@literature.cafe 2026-10-07 05:36
I live in very, very rural France. Country-wide protests are happening because high-school students demand better… Well, better everything. Yesterday I carpooled with my kid’s teacher to protest in the “biggest” town (pop. 9,000) in the county. 700 people marched. Some drove over 60 miles one way to be there, when gas costs 2,35€ a liter. In the past week two kids lost an eye, one an arm, one their lower jaw, because of police violence. (The eyes might not be beyond saving, I’m not sure.) Even middle-schoolers fight with their parents to be allowed to protest. Country-wide headcount was 400,000. Our tiny march, every tiny local march did its part. And that was a weekday, small protest. Saturday after next is a big one. I’m really proud of the kids.
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@aesthelete@lemmy.world 2026-10-07 04:24
Is there something exceptional about english-speaking white people that makes them such effective bootlickers?
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@ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net 2026-10-07 05:59
I heard from a friend who worked in France for couple of years that people there basically complain and oppose any change. They were supposed to stop sending people their payslips on paper and move to digital ones and people still were mad about it, for example. At this point they riot about everything and the government simply ignores them and waits for the protests to die out. Which they do most of the time. At the same time people in Spain staged couple of peaceful protests and forced the government to pass new housing laws and call early elections. Being good at rioting is not the same as being good at defending your rights.
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@Eh_I@lemmy.world 2026-10-06 20:39
I remember hearing about French firefighters getting geared up, setting themselves on fire, and running at riot police lol.
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@CyanideShotInjection@lemmy.world 2026-10-06 20:48
I mean, yes the French know how to riot, but they will still blame all their problems on “islamo-gauchisme”…
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@Stolas@lemmy.ca 2026-10-07 07:52
Wish the rest of the world was more like the French. We’d be able to achieve so much change.
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@RattlerSix@lemmy.world 2026-10-07 12:20
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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@Puddinghelmet@lemmy.world 2026-10-08 07:55
In the Netherlands we got all cuts for social services off the table by the left parties working with working unions :3