Yellow Vest Protests in France because President Macron hiked up the tax on fossil fuels

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The French had to decide between a white supremacist who would’ve been as bad as Trump and a globalist investment banker who married his teacher that groomed him sexually. They were fukked either way. I guess they thought because he wasn’t as appaling as Le Pen that he was going to actually give a fukk.

He doesn’t.
 

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Just felt like posting a few of the finest of aged tweets.

Yeah, at the time, this was true, and it still is.

France is trying to fix things like collect taxes and slim down the state

Some of yall dont realize France has more mayors than like any other European city

Its bloated government
 

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III- HEALTH/ECOLOGY
Yeah, at the time, this was true, and it still is.

France is trying to fix things like collect taxes and slim down the state

Some of yall dont realize France has more mayors than like any other European city

Its bloated government

Macron's approach of taxing the rich less, taxing the middle and poors of France more, and being extremely dismissive of any concerns with comments like "Cross the road to get a job" are driving forces behind the protests, and they're extremely bipartisan as far as ideology goes; You can find pictures of right-libertarians, fascists, communists and anarchists wearing yellow vests on the streets of Paris to protest the neoliberal policies of Macron's government.



The demands of a supposed 30k member delegation of this Yellow Vest movement, going to post a translation of it I saw floating around somewhere as well.

25 propositions to overcome the crisis

Since politicians pretend not to understand the claims of the Yellow Vests. Since the claims of some are far from sufficient to ensure a serious change and perennial change, void a non-exhaustive list but that has a guarantee of results in the long term. We are not naive, the plutocrats in power will do everything to prevent it, but it is nevertheless essential to enforce these few proposals.

I- ECONOMY/LABOR

1. GENERAL CONDITIONS of taxation. Enclose in the constitution the impossibility for the state to collect more than 25% of the wealth of citizens.

2. IMMEDIATE INCREASE of SMIC, pensions and the social minimum by 40%.

3. MASSIVE HIRING of civil servatns to restore the quality of public services before the RGPP: stations, hospitals, schools, posts…

4. HOUSING: plan construiction of 5 million HLM [rent-controlled housing] to lower the rents, the land and revitalize the economy by through hiring. Severely punish the prefects and mayors who leave homeless people sleeping outside.

5. BANKS: make them smaller in order to protect themselves from crises, break monopolies, separate the speculative deposit and prohibit public bailout.

6. CANCEL DEBT: this is not necessary, it has already been reimbursed several times.

II- POLITICS

7. CONSTITUTION: Rewrite a Constitution by the people and for the interests of the sovereign people. Establishment of referendums of popular initiative. Establish referendums of popular initiatives.

8. PROHIBITION OF LOBBYS and other networks of influence. Permanent exclusion from the political life for anyone elected with a judicial record, put an end to the cumulation of the mandates.

9. FREXIT: exit from the EU in order to regain our political ,monetary and economic sovereignty (respect of the referendum of 2005), regain our right to mint money coming out of article 123 ofd the Lisbon Treaty (50 billion euro savings per yer).

11. IMMEDIATE END TO PRIVATIZATION and recuperation of public property: motorways, airports, car parks, SNCF… [state railways]

12. SPEED RADARS AND VIDEO VERBALIZATION: withdrawal of useless radars and verbalization video which is nothing but a disguised tax.

13. NATIONAL EDUCATION: to exclude all ideology from this ministry and to stop destructive educational techniques (global method…)

14. JUSTICE: quadruple its budget and limit in law the length of proceedings. Simplify and make justice entirely free and accessible for all.

15. MEDIA: break monopolies and media-political cronyism. Make the media accessible to citizens and guarantee the plurality of opinion. Put an end to the propaganda of the editocrats. Withdraw the public subsidy of the media (2 billion per year) as well as the tax loopholes of the journalists.

16. GUARANTEE the freedom of the citizens and inscribe in the Constitution the prohibition for the State to interfere in the teaching, the education, health, family…

III- HEALTH/ECOLOGY

17. OBSOLESCENCE PROGRAM: to extend manufacturer guarantees to 10 years minimum ensuring the presence of spare parts.

18. PLASTICS: prohibit in the very short term the commercialization of plastic bottles, glasses and other polluting packaging.

19. PHARMACEUTICAL LABORATORIES: to weaken their influence, general states of health and hospitals.

20. AGRICULTURE: ban on GMOs, carcinogenic pesticides, endocrine disruptors, monoculture…

21. REINDUSTRIALIZATION of France in order to eliminate imports and thus pollution.

IV- GEOPOLITICS

22. NATO: immediate exit from the North Atlantic Treaty Organization and prohibition to engage the French army in wars of aggression.

23. FRANCFRICA: Stop the looting and the political and military interference. Give the money from dictators and ill-gotten goods to the African people. Immediately repatriate all French soldiers. End the CFA franc system that keeps Africa in poverty. Create equal status with African states.

24. IMMIGRATION: Prevent migratory flows that can not be accommodated or integrated given the deep civilizational crisis we are experiencing.

25. FOREIGN POLICY: scrupulous respect for international law and signed commitments.

These 25 proposals will immediately change the daily life of the French. The simple articles 9 and 10 of this charter can bring up to 130 billion euros per year to the public treasury. France is a rich country, its people valiant and hardworking, it does not have to live in misery.
 

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www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-12-09/pro-russia-social-media-aims-at-macron-as-yellow-vests-rage

France to Probe Possible Russian Influence on Yellow Vest Riots
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A car burns during a demonstration of yellow vests (gilets jaunes) in Paris, on Dec. 8.

Photographer: Zakaria Abdelkafi/AFP via Getty Images

France opened a probe into possible Russian interference behind the country’s Yellow Vest protests, after reports that social-media accounts linked to Moscow have increasingly targeted the movement.

According to the Alliance for Securing Democracy, about 600 Twitter accounts known to promote Kremlin views have begun focusing on France, boosting their use of the hashtag #giletsjaunes, the French name for the Yellow Vest movement. French security services are looking at the situation, Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian said Sunday in a radio interview with RTL.


Russia has been criticized for using social media to influence elections in the U.S. and elsewhere. Attempts to use fake news reports and cyberattacks to undercut the 2017 campaign of French President Emmanuel Macron failed, but Russian-linked sites have pushed questionable reports of a mutiny among police, and of officers’ support for the protests.

“An investigation is now underway,” Le Drian said. “I will not make comments before the investigation has brought conclusions.”


The Twitter accounts monitored by the alliance usually feature U.S. or British news. But the French protests “have been at or near the top” of their activity for at least a week, according to Bret Schafer, the alliance’s Washington-based social media analyst. “That’s a pretty strong indication that there is interest in amplifying the conflict” for audiences outside France.

The Alliance for Securing Democracy is a unit of the German Marshall Fund of the U.S., which monitors pro-Kremlin activity.


The assertion of police dissatisfaction -- which doesn’t appear to be supported by facts -- resembles other Kremlin-backed disinformation campaigns that have tried to engender mistrust in Western governments and show that liberal democracies are in decline, Schafer says.

Russian State Media
Much of the tweeted material comes from Russian state media outlets including the Sputnik news website, the RT television network, and Ruptly, a German-based video news agency that belongs to RT. These outlets are covering the French crisis closely; RT has said that 12 of its journalists have been injured in the protests, far more than any other news organization.

Sputnik and RT have reported in recent days that most French police no longer support Macron and are siding with the protesters.
Their sources: representatives of two small police unions that together won less than 4 percent of votes in nationwide union elections this month. Sputnik and RT also have shown a video – widely shared on French social media -- of police in the southwestern town of Pau removing their helmets in what was described as a sign of solidarity with protesters. Local police and journalists on the scene said the description was untrue. They said some officers had briefly removed their helmets to talk with protesters before putting them back on.

In response to questions from Bloomberg News, Sputnik later corrected its article about police in Pau showing solidarity with protesters, to say the report "hasn’t been backed by evidence so far." RT said its article about police siding with protesters, based on comments by the head of a minor police union, was justified because he had been quoted by other news outlets.

Macron complained repeatedly during his 2017 campaign that Kremlin-controlled media outlets were spreading fake news about him, because he took a tougher stance on Russia than his chief rivals
, Marine Le Pen of the far-right National Front and François Fillon of the conservative Republicans. But negative stories, such as a Sputnik report claiming Macron lived a “double life” and was backed by a “wealthy gay lobby,” never gained traction.

In one instance, a bogus website resembling the site of a Belgian newspaper reportedthat Macron’s campaign was being bankrolled by Saudi Arabia. The source of the hoax was never determined, but the European Union’s East Stratcom Task Force, which tracks Russian disinformation efforts, said it bore striking similarities to an earlier incident traced to a Russian “troll factory.”

Separately, the Macron campaign was hit with repeated email phishing attacks resembling those used by Russia against Democratic Party organizations in the U.S. The Kremlin said it had no involvement in any fake news or cyberattacks on Macron, describing such accusations as “slander.”

— With assistance by Nate Lanxon, and Helene Fouquet

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French people need Russian agents to protest now apparently :mjlol: Not like they have a long history of civil unrest and rioting :skip:Macron and his neoliberal policies are actually well-liked right:skip::skip:


This narrative that Russia is this extremely capable country with a secret network of people to create civil unrest and discontent with the ruling elite in nations out of thin air is just sad at this point. If nothing's wrong, hundreds of thousands of people don't flood into the streets to burn things.
 

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Yeah, at the time, this was true, and it still is.

France is trying to fix things like collect taxes and slim down the state

Some of yall dont realize France has more mayors than like any other European city

Its bloated government
The government and its constitution and the different layers of the administration are the least of French issues.

And Russia may be interfering with social media but please stop thinking that it's somehow the root cause or one of the main ones of the protests. It's trivial at best. If you know French history, you'd know that protests have been happening before the internet for the exact same reasons that the current ones. France doesn't need Russian intervention to protest and go on strike.
 

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French people need Russian agents to protest now apparently :mjlol: Not like they have a long history of civil unrest and rioting :skip:Macron and his neoliberal policies are actually well-liked right:skip::skip:


This narrative that Russia is this extremely capable country with a secret network of people to create civil unrest and discontent with the ruling elite in nations out of thin air is just sad at this point. If nothing's wrong, hundreds of thousands of people don't flood into the streets to burn things.
The government and its constitution and the different layers of the administration are the least of French issues.

And Russia may be interfering with social media but please stop thinking that it's somehow the root cause or one of the main ones of the protests. It's trivial at best. If you know French history, you'd know that protests have been happening before the internet for the exact same reasons that the current ones. France doesn't need Russian intervention to protest and go on strike.
As usual, covert action only exploits fissures, it can't create them. So Russia is fukking around and not helping, I'm just sharing what is a real problem. I AM NOT SAYING RUSSIA CAUSED THIS.

As for the French issue at hand...I think people are too quick to just "give people what they want" without asking how shyt got this way.

This is what led me to think this issue is more than just "muh neoliberalism" talk

Reform is needed in the French state, and it resembles, to me, the shyt Greece was facing.

French got lazy and didn't fix the core of their civil society and its time to pay up

Tell me if I'm wrong


www.nytimes.com/2018/11/11/world/europe/france-mayors-quit-macron.html

Read that and give me your thoughts
 
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