This doesn't seem very safe. I hope they're protesting for something good this time, and not against environmental protections like last time.

Yeah the GJ are not good guys in my book.

So the police aren’t completely militarized yet, like here.

Rising and unaffordable cost of living, education and underfunding thereof, amongst other things.

From what I heard, it’s multiple things coalescing into a singular movement at this point

At this rate, they will be

GJ?

I think they blew off a student's hand.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/france-protests-student-hand-grenade-injury-b3061463.html

This unfortunately is a preview/review of what’s to come in other nations as things unavoidably get worse everywhere

Gillets-Jaunes, maybe better known in the anglosphere as 'Yellow vests' movement

Info:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellow_vests_protests

These cops, no. But these aren't riot cops. Riot copsin France are legit monsters. Absolutely horrible.

Isn't that painting with a broad brush? I thought there were a wide variety of people protesting for a wide variety of reasons.

Damn French pigs

Thank you! ☺️

I wish No Kings protests in the US looked a little more like this. That's fucking awesome.

Allez les gars, n'oubliez pas 1789!

Oh I mean, If you wanna go back to BLM where Americans set fire and destroyed several businesses sure. People act like Americans have never destroyed property, the problem is that it wasn't properly coordinated and people were burning down random fucking businesses rather than actual places that deserve it. All it lead to was food deserts and small businesses shuttering.

Never mind the fact that we could and would absolutely get shot for rolling up on a cop car like this but, sure man. I do love getting my daily reminder from non-US people that I should go outside and get myself killed today.

That's not what I meant and I'm pretty sure you knew that

No, not really, and I mean that genuinely.

There are too many people on here that say shit like "You should firebomb a Walmart" and mean it with their whole heart. We already had that with the Kimberly-Clarke warehouse and we got diaper shortages. Firebombing a Walmart only hurts the locals in the area who won't get food.

Even with bombing a police station, pray that locals actually care about each other and can respond to emergencies appropriately. I absolutely think police need reform but I'm not gonna sit here and go "I don't need to call the cops if someone breaks into my house"

Firebombing a billionaires house? Absolutely, it hurts no one else but them (pray that no house workers are in there). Fireboming cop cars when they're attacking protesters? Sure.

But people are fucking stupid. Luigi shot did nothing to that CEO and that's great and all, but it didn't change anything. Now we got a chucklefuck who shot a random pharmacist because "Big Pharma Bad."

I just think that too many people on here are encouraging senless violence rather than actual, planned, and carefully considerated operations. And i do not want to see innocents get caught up in brash, half-baked bouts of insanity because a person thought they were "helping."

You should firebomb a Walmart

I spend a lot of time on Lemmy and I haven't seen a single person say that.

If I ever firebomb anything it will be a data center.

In Minecraft.

Pretty sure they are focused on the cops there

Yeah this is not a good protest but likely foreign stoked chaos disruption.

And of course, the post is full of Americans trying to justify shit.

Lol you must be fortunate. I've seen bloodthirtsty maniacs foaming at the mouth in a thread about kittens.

If this was an american no kings protest, those cop cars would have been swerving to hit the protesters.

The cops would later say that the protesters stepped in front of their car, and would get no punishment.

Link?

Just give it a few days, it will happen again. And again.

Chef's kiss 😚🤌

Against environmental protection, wtf? Who do you think we are? No, we were protesting against yet another tax on gas that would have weighted mostly on the poors, again. This tax was presented as an environmental tax for people to drink the kool-aid, but when you're poor enough and every cent counts, you can't take it anymore. That tax was the straw that broke the people's back, especially when knowing how few taxes our top 10% pay, which is just obscene. We have a thousand millionnaires who don't even pay taxes at all.

So, it started in protest against that tax, then Macron spat on our face, then it became about much more than just that tax, it became an uproar against the fucked-up, dystopian society our dear Epstein class is leading us into.

It was repressed with great violence and injustice, until we just got burnt out by a president who's paving the way for our local nazies with the complicity of the bourgeoisie and their collaborationist medias, who could not even respect the result of the 2024 parliamentary election (the equivalent of the american congress) that should have imposed a united leftist prime minister, etc... That's only a glimmer of how Macron and his goons have starved, mutilated and despised the french people and destroyed the country for almost ten years.

Now, it's the highschoolers and students that Macron is unleashing his pigs on, and when power spits in our face and start mutilating our children, then we come for its fucking head.

And what book is that? "How to grind your poors for blood coffee"?

Are you talking about the bloodthirsty maniac in threads about kittens? I spend a lot of time in threads about kittens and I don't believe you.

This is amazing.

Fuck off.

Leaving this here

"we need to transition off fossil fuels ASAP to minimize the catastrophe", actually

Literal terrorists.

Thanks for telling me :3 I hope you're successful.

it's cool they're destroying stuff to get educated better

i wonder if these guys will pass those courses they so desperately want

Scum.

The student picked up a stun grenade that had been thrown and it exploded in their hand.

"and only by putting the effort on the less wealthy". Or maybe you just didn't took the effort to understand the causes (can't blame you, foreign politics are complicated to get into) because the GJ indeed started from fuel increase but the main factor was a lack of fiscal equality, and the increase of the cost of living as a whole, while the most wealthy were shielded.

I'm filled with joy

Yeah, that’s why the people are throwing shit at them.

So, a cop threw a stun grenade that blew off a student's hand. Ergo, a cop blew off a student's hand.

You have heard of that demonstration, and not of the (LOT of) other one. So it's a necessary mean.
And you may be surprised that it have work in the past. Not always, but CEO whining for the destruction to stop have more chance than union asking politely to not be threaten by their workplaces

Do they murder people? Ours murder a lot of people.

https://www.prisonpolicy.org/graphs/policekillings_total.html

Anyone pulling any sort of direct comparison here is being obtuse.

https://www.prisonpolicy.org/graphs/policekillings_total.html

Oh yeah it definitely will. Because of 2 factors

1. In a crisis, voters tend to vote radical populism

2. Melanchon and the left do not have resources. The rich have chosen the side almost unanimously.

Why should these correlate?