PoorAndDangerous
Superstar
I've heard French riot police are crazy
Yellow Vest Protests in France because President Macron hiked up the tax on fossil fuels
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Yeah pity the vids are not loading because the guy is reporting live non stop in the thick of it (last week he was there for like 7 hours straight, at some point he even got hit by a water canon and yesterday he was at a similar demonstration in Brussels and briefly got detained by policeDude gives no fukks
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Sucks I can’t see it. It looks like a mix of Occupy and Maidan Square fukkery. Pretty bold for anyone to even be in the mix while authorities are tossing tear gas.
It’s beyond ironic that these cats got on those safety patrol vests but they raising hell.
88m3
Fast Money & Foreign Objects
Sucks I can’t see it. It looks like a mix of Occupy and Maidan Square fukkery. Pretty bold for anyone to even be in the mix while authorities are tossing tear gas.
It’s beyond ironic that these cats got on those safety patrol vests but they raising hell.
The video of him landing at the G20 is
88m3
Fast Money & Foreign Objects
@mbewane @Liu Kang
I haven't found a great article on this yet but it seems like more than taxes on fuel people are protesting? Also is this part of their Paris Climate Agreement goals and or laws that passed that the taxes have increased?
I think anarchists were probably mostly to blame for today. I even saw videos of fancy homes and businesses burning.
Are fuel prices even that high at the moment? I know it's much more expensive than in the states but people buy practical cars or don't own them due to that.
Is it still difficult to get good work contacts like in the early 10's and is the cost of living well outpacing wages?
I haven't found a great article on this yet but it seems like more than taxes on fuel people are protesting? Also is this part of their Paris Climate Agreement goals and or laws that passed that the taxes have increased?
I think anarchists were probably mostly to blame for today. I even saw videos of fancy homes and businesses burning.
Are fuel prices even that high at the moment? I know it's much more expensive than in the states but people buy practical cars or don't own them due to that.
Is it still difficult to get good work contacts like in the early 10's and is the cost of living well outpacing wages?
mbewane
Knicks: 93 til infinity
We discussed this a little in a thread made after last week's demonstrations, yeah there's more to it, for example the government talks about environment but not one EU state has yet done what they said they would do at that Agreement, for example. Reports came out that Starbucks still hasn't paid taxes in France. Then you have articles about the cost of this or that at the Presidential Office (L'Elysée), financial scandals over the years and whatnot.
I don't know how high fuel is actually because I don't drive, but I have no doubt to doubt these people because it's always increasing lol. Same as cigarettes and other stuff, supposedly to prevent people from polluting and getting cancer when we all know it puts more money in the state's pocket, and who knows what they do with it. In France there is a wide-spread financial support called APL that helps you pay for your accomodation, and they reduced that by like 5 euros (iirc), for deputies and whatnot it's not much obviously but for a student it ends being something significant out of his budget. And at the same time you cancel the tax on the super-rich, so you end up making poorer people pay relatively more than rich people (without even talking about fiscal evasion and "engineering").
LIke I said in the other thread, it's also the disconnect between Macron and average people, like when he said that all you have to do to find a job is "cross the street" (lol) and especially between the cities and the countryside, where having a car is necessary to go to work, study, hell sometimes even just to go do the groceries (because of course train stations have been steadily closing down over the years, going back to before Macron). So any increase of fuel has very real and direct impacts on these people budgets, and while us "progressive" gentrifiers are sitting pretty in Paris with all kinds of public transportation and talking about the climate, well those people see that they're paying more and more just to go work for a job that doesn't even pay that much. Add to that years of farmers struggling and whatnot, students seeing an increase in costs...a lot of stuff going on basically.
His reaction to the yellow vest...
the dualites
The video of him landing at the G20 is
shook his hand at 48 sec like 
okay, you seem alright
There's so much I wanted to say about this, but I aint trying up end on the 3 letter agency watchlist.....sacré bleu
everybody tuck in ya chains, theres poor people out
@JahFocus CS I hope you're watching
mbewane
Knicks: 93 til infinity
110 injured, 270 arrested, according to Le Monde.
Macron obviously saying "violence will not be tolerated", opposition that the government is creating that violence to discredit the movement
Macron obviously saying "violence will not be tolerated", opposition that the government is creating that violence to discredit the movement
sacré bleu
everybody tuck in ya chains, theres poor people out
Them fools done implemented a no fly zone on the ground....
YaThreadTrashB!
Superstar
Committee of public safety making a comebackSucks I can’t see it. It looks like a mix of Occupy and Maidan Square fukkery. Pretty bold for anyone to even be in the mix while authorities are tossing tear gas.
It’s beyond ironic that these cats got on those safety patrol vests but they raising hell.
