British holidaymakers warned to watch out for curfews and travel restrictions as pressure grows on Macron to stop violence intensifying
  • SomeoneElse@lemmy.world
    402·
    1 year ago

    It’s behind a paywall for me. I’m going to go out on a limb and suggest that calling the rioters “vermin” isn’t exactly going to calm the situation.

      • Nobilmantis@feddit.it
        3·
        1 year ago

        Given how distant the president actions and speech is from the will of the people this might as well be the XVII century

      • porygon@kbin.social
        210·
        1 year ago

        Multiple rioters have broken into police armouries and have taken firearms. I saw a vid last night on twitter where one was carrying around a belt-fed LMG, if twitter wasn’t fucked right now I’d link it.

        They are vermin. They aren’t protesting anything anymore, they’re just lighting things on fire.

        Oh hey here it is: https://twitter.com/abroadfren/status/1675380197124866050, you can see another one brandish a pistol.

        • markr@lemmy.world
          6·
          1 year ago

          So they are attempting to defend themselves against a well armed militarized police force. How dare they!

          • porygon@kbin.social
            1·
            1 year ago

            They wouldn’t have to defend themselves if they’d stop looting and setting shit on fire.

            You’re the same kind of troglodyte that thinks this will accomplish something.

  • ImplyingImplications@lemmy.ca
    281·
    1 year ago

    Reminder that the reason French police are not rioting over pension changes is because their pensions are explicitly exempted from the change. ACAB

    • keeb420@kbin.social
      3·
      1 year ago

      that would require they turn on their masters and as long as they keep paying that wont happen.

  • Hyperreality@kbin.social
    31·
    1 year ago

    I don’t envy French voters, who will be forced to choose between Macron’s successor and Front National in the next election.

    Because presently it seems like Macron, the police, and young French muslims are cooperating in a concerted attempt to enflame the situation and help get Front National elected. And all while Europe is defacto at war, facing an existential threat in Ukraine.

    Lucky that Macron can’t run again, but it’d be nice if he didn’t run a key NATO member into the ground while blaming it all on video games.

    • azuth@lemmy.world
      21·
      1 year ago

      LMAO Russia’s failing attack on Ukraine is an existential threat to Europe?