OMG they really do.
I remember when I lived in Germany, French Truckers had a protest where they parked hundreds of trucks on highways and basically shut down the highways in France.
You know how the French people reacted?
They brought the truckers food and water so they would not go hungry.
The solidarity of the French is no bullshit!
In america you block a road and your likely to get murdered
…by a fellow worker who will not be prosecuted because “they were just defending themselves”
Can’t be late to work. Will get fired and replaced by ai. Which means no healthcare, no house, no food.
That’ll happen either way, if we let the people who would have stood in solidarity with us protest alone and be fired themselves. I’m not telling you what to do, but you’re not protecting yourself
If the wannabe oligarchs get their way, that’ll happen anyway…
True, a job means healthcare and a house. Right?
The solidarity of the French is no bullshit!
Fraternité motherfuckers!
They also have mobile bars (basicaly a food truck, except you can buy food or drink as it moves along the protest).
Source : I’m French, and protested. It’s kinda like those who run to keep in shape. We protest instead.
Dang, I wonder if the true winner here is the food truck owner…
Depend if you count getting regularly tear gased as a win 😂.
I admire the French, even envy them a bit. I would like to have been born French.
But, since I wasn’t I don’t want anything to do with them.
Since you weren’t neither do they.
Ouch, right in my croissant shaped heart.
But that’s true… Merde, that’s true.
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French unionist here, and the CGT Barbecue is like a national food here
Everyone should spend time working in France. Yes I realize how insanely privileged that statement is. But something about working amongst a people where the janitor doesn’t even pretend to take shit from the CEO and leaves a conversation in the middle because it’s break time, is inspiring.
At least see first hand how they work. I work for myself so I try to imitate their style. I don’t need to go on strike but I’ll drop a client if they’re being stupid.
Had this happen to me in Berlin. Customer rep just looked at her watch and left. Granted, it was at an airport very late in the evening, so circumstances were unusually shit, but still. I was amazed.
I’m taking notes
If there was another French Revolution, you know that they’d have guillotines on tram tracks
I have a feeling that there’s like one or two of these. It’s very often the case when reading a post saying how “X of country Y do this”.
I’ve read some wildly misleading shit about Finland that was like this lol
Iirc, it’s the train conductors’ union, which makes sense. If they’re not involved, I wouldn’t trust using the tracks.
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It’s harder for the police to confiscate it and more stable than wheeling it over cobblestones/rough pavement
Everyone praises French protesting but the French are literally still like the top 5 of imperialist countries in the world and more often than not their protests don’t change much externally.
Just food for thought when everyone considers dumping everything into protesting.
They at least protest and can change things internally, heck they don’t change those imperialist things because they just don’t protest about it
Just food for thought when everyone considers dumping everything into protesting.
Aaand this comment ends with anti-protests(-ism), which is very sad
It doesn’t as much as people believe. France still raised their retirement and pension ages even after mass protests. Call it anti protestism or whatever but here in America it’s not doing what people believe it does. Most protests here are pats on their back and aren’t doing enough.
It’s not anti protestism whatever to point out the ineffectiveness of it. That’s just called the truth.
It’s just new. The Macron government don’t give a flying fuck about protests and does what it want.
But prior to his presidency it was working.
Now is it a new way of managing a country and will it continue or worsen in the future? Probably yeah… But still about that point, protests used to work, it’s just today (last decade) politics that don’t care.
Macron has been president for almost a decade. And the guy before him was even worse I can’t remember his name but I remember him threatening to absolutely ban demonstrations of any kind. Macron was seen as a new kinder president who was gonna hear the people.
It’s just not true. Protesting is fine but people are genuinely delusional thinking they work as effectively as people believe. The media tries its best to portray them as negative and effective because that placates people the right way. It supports those who think antifa are terrorists and gets the other side to think they don’t have to vote or engage because they protested.
It’s literally like some MkUltra shit and you can see it in how angry people get when you point it out and how ineffective they’ve been.
