The French know how to protest

Unfortunately the government’s like to wait a few years and try again. The message doesn’t always stick

What the fuck do I care? All I’m saying is what happened. I’m not here trying to argue anything other than correcting that his hand wasn’t “blown off by a grenade launcher”.

… wrote someone on a social media site.

Yes. I agree. I used “country” as a metonym for the ones in charge of it.

Brexit did not just pop-up into existence fully formed, done in a jiffy, and immediately afterwards British society returning to its otherwise eternal blissful state of everybody being perfectly just and fair.

From my own experience living in Britain as an EU immigrant before Brexit, it is my impression that said kind of people you mention aren’t at all a small minority, possibly aren’t even a minority.

Further, even most of the “thinking” types have to a lesser or greater extent fallen prey to the soft Jingoism relentlessly pushed by pretty much all of the Press in Britain, were the “Great” in Great Britain isn’t part of the name of one of the British Isles but rather it describes the quality of the British Society, British People, British Politics and pretty much everything else British.

I mean, all it takes is to compare the portrayal of international gatherings in, say the BBC, with the portrayal of the same in the news of other countries, and invariably the thing is passed by the BBC as British politicians being given lots of attention and treated as important by the rest, which does not at all match what’s reported in the press outside Britain.

And don’t get me started on how even supposedly left-of-center newspapers in Britain publish opinion articles about the “scandal” of people sexually behaving in ways that are not the norm, which are incredibly similar to the anti-homosexuality tropes of a few decades ago (only it’s not fashionable to be a sexual moralist against homosexuals anymore, so now different victims are chosen).

From my experience, prejudice in British society is totally normalized, at a level well beyond what I’ve seen in other countries in Europe I lived in - which is why IMHO it’s so easy for anti-immigration scare stories to flare up and for things like transphobia to rise to the surface and grow.

I work for Brits. No mate, I can’t agree with you. Cost of living and the fcking smallboats with Arabs are the only things that they smalltalk about

So you think the system works great, it’s just that the French waste all their energy protesting instead of more constructively, like in the electoral system?

Well I am all for digitalization, but the problem with it is the digital copy is treated as the authority.

We have this in belgium where energy companies treat their internal (corrupt, literally fabricated records) as ground truth and you can’t do anything about it using the paper they send you.

When the Russian war started and oil & gas prices skyrocketed, Mega, a belgian energy cartel, lied to our faces and said that we used >99% of our energy from the moment prices skyrocketed to the end of the year. Complete lie, but their bullshit “database” was what they used to try to charge us almost 3500€ extra for the year. They said we took the equivalent of 1, 30 minute shower through the entire rest of the year. Their own monthly documents be damned.

Luckily, Belgium also has an independent company that handles all of the meters, Fluvius, that keeps their own records of water, gas, and electric meters (that they also allow you to locally access and pull data from the P1 port). We were able to get an official report that lowered our end of year bill to only 1200€ or so.

But for countries where there is no independent auditor, companies just lie, cheat, and steal their way to record profits, modifying, doctoring, and bullshitting digital records as “reality”.

My girlfriend got caught up in an illegal firing when she was on sick leave. There is a 3rd party company SDWorx that handles pay slips, but this is a software service, not a 3rd party auditor/government service.

She needed access to payslips and the software promises to keep 7 years of records (a lie). The company that fired her for being sick removed her access to the payslips and since they don’t come via mail or email, she didn’t have the ones she didn’t already download and she was refused her legal right to see them. They could now faslify the payslips all they wanted and re-upload them as official records.

THAT is what France was fighting against, what is literally being used as a corporate weapon in other countries.

A laughing woman at that. Killing children ain’t funny. We demand a dignified male troll.

I literally cannot even

It was the home of the braves.

Then the white man came and killed them all.

Heh I actually almost went to Kent State cause my brother did. Kent read, Kent write, Kent State! Sorry, it’s a local joke if you lived around there. I actually walked the field when I did tour.

I’ve done my time. At this point, I’m not able bodied. So sitting on my ass and convey a message is all I can do. Not everyone is making up shit.

You make a valid point. I was using the picture to show the size overall. Places like NY and Cali are where the most aggressive capitalists are; these are the people taking advantage of everyone. They are the people that feed off the system.

California, Texas, New York, and Florida are basically the major population of the US. Those white and light pink areas hold as much power as the most densely populated areas. At a glance you can see that 7 states so 14/100 votes are practically… for a handful of people.

And look at it this way, where you see the dark red areas; that’s the capitalistic hubs.

Top left corner, that’s Seattle in Washington state. That’s where Valve is (Steam) whom announced 1.7 billion in sales in September. There’s plenty of people living in those areas that go against the overall welfare of the general public, by voting and by bribing. The rich fucks were really salty about the new additional tax they have to pay.

So what I’m trying to say is these people that are making 250k, 500k, multi millions, billions are going to fight against any change.

The only thing that’s left is to hurt them where it hurts most, finance. That’s why I wrote about the railway strike. Honestly, after reading what the work is like, they should have quit; but then they would likely face a gun to their head and get told to go back to work.

We’re dealing with a new era of bourgeoisie that have armed guards and bunkers and politicians in their pockets. Seems like they learned from historical events.

The thing is, the US is so big that even once you account for the few biggest ones, all the rest of the states in the top 10 each have a population as big as something like Belgium, Portugal, Sweden, or Greece.

Those aren’t additional Frances, granted, but still pretty significant.

You’d need about 5 Frances just to cover the population, ignoring the area.

As I wrote, a strike or preferably mass quitting might just get you a kick in the ass–back to work with a gun to your head by the national guard.