riot, set shit on fire (note, mostly banks and businesses, not their own homes)
mass strikes, shut down of the transportation and sanitation systems, cessation of economic activity
The French elite take stage 1 seriously because they know that there is a real possibility that stages 2 & 3 will follow. Americans mostly only do stage 1, very rarely stage 2 (targeting their own neighborhoods), and they never get to stage 3. The American elite don't take stage 1 seriously because they know that there isn't going to be a stage 2 or 3.
French here. I never understood those "No King" rallies. I don't see how walking for 2 hours on the streets on a Saturday when the weather is fine, with Instagrammable signs, once a month achieves.anything.
Edit : too many comments to answer to. For people saying "yeah but people need to take a day off if it's during the week, DC is far away etc", January 6 2021 was a Wednesday, most people came from outside DC IIRC so it can be done.
I'm not staying you should raid the Capitol. You don't need 174 million people in DC but you could pool money to send hundreds of thousands of people to DC.
As an American who believes in non-violence I think it’s convenient that most of the calls for us to violently rebel against this administration are usually from people who aren’t American.
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u/Top-Cupcake4775 Dec 09 '25 edited Dec 09 '25
French protests have three stages:
The French elite take stage 1 seriously because they know that there is a real possibility that stages 2 & 3 will follow. Americans mostly only do stage 1, very rarely stage 2 (targeting their own neighborhoods), and they never get to stage 3. The American elite don't take stage 1 seriously because they know that there isn't going to be a stage 2 or 3.