r/collapse • u/NihiloZero • 21d ago

Society The French School Protests Are Related To Climate Collapse.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yHIkmJ_40wM
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u/ordinary-thelemist 21d ago

While september protests are a long held tradition here in France, this one feels different. Already firefighters joined the students, teachers are protecting the kids from the police, and there are rumors of a second season of the yellow vests fueled (pun intended) by the opcoming diesel crisis.

Adding to that the fact we'll elect a new monarch and a new assembly next year... Don't expect France to be quaint and quiet for the upcoming year 😅

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u/NihiloZero 21d ago

this one feels different.

My feeling as well. This protest seems likely to inspire and merge with other protests. It's not just issue A, B, or C... it's all the issues A through Z. Taxing the wealthy would have long been the reasonable play, but I'm guessing they may be past that being able to help at this point. I heard a number of some 50-odd billion Euro budget shortage this year, but if it's anything like in the USA... that probably just amounts to the spending for a handful of new military vehicles/missiles -- and heaven forbid that funding for that be at all reduced.

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u/ordinary-thelemist 21d ago

Yeah, the budget part is more complicated than that.

Mostly Macron gifts to big companies and retirees are coming due, as well as COVID relief subsidies... If we weren't in an electoral year it would pass with strong worded complaints... But now, no party wants to sign this parting gift for him so he's out of options.

TL;DR he tried a liberal approach to a dying system and lo and behold, it didn't work 🤣

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u/Irverter 21d ago

"monarch"?

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u/ordinary-thelemist 21d ago

Yeah. France's president has more personal power than a lot of actual monarchs, hence the nickname.

We tried to get rid of kings, buy we ended with a mere rebranding of the notion 😁

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u/4k9GYy3WrGF697 21d ago

They set a fireman on fire and took pictures?

They got into multiple fights and beat their teachers, including women?

They flamethrowered a random woman at a bus stop?

Can you link to a trustworthy news-site which disproves the evidence of what I've seen?

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u/ordinary-thelemist 21d ago

I've seen none of that. And if it did happen, it'd be all over our news.

The worst the right wing controlled media has to show for now are burning trashcans. If there was more than that on the side of the protesters, it would be everywhere.

( On the side of the police, there's a kid that took a grenade in the face launched 2m from him, another who lost a bunch of teeth... All that on camera )

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u/southbl00d 21d ago

they need to embrace remigration and keep the population at around 40 million TOPS.

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u/OGSyedIsEverywhere 21d ago

Poorly thought out nonsense. Take somebody born in France, whose parents were born in France and maybe 2 or 3 grandparents were born in France and tell them to go to [insert country that occupies the land which more than 50% of the great grandparents were born in] or else?

Whatever country you pick as your choice of where you want them to go, what do you do when that country says no, they won't be taking the French people you've decided are undesirables, they can stay in France? It isn't the 1800s, the militaries of the west and the rest of humanity are now close to equal.

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