If I can have a sausage sizzle as I'm protesting, I would go out more often.

I watched Les Mis, and there's the song about clothes wet from the rain, sticking to thier skin, while the rich are getting richer.

I wonder how the movie would do if it came out now... (But even then, people would complain about Russel Crowe.)

Centrists?

We have a whole Quebec political party that's about not voting for federal elections... Want to protest against the libs or the cons? Vote for the Block!

As if they were one homogenous voting block? The reason the French government is in a stalemate is because the people vote for so many different things that no coalition can form a governing majority.

Trying to describe that as "they all hate freedom because of the way they vote" is kinda weird, and quite ignorant.

I don't think any country can be described so singularly as "what the people vote for". There's always a diversity of opinions. Some countries suppress dissension, censor opposition, and only allow certain voting choices (e.g., Russia, China, Belarus, etc.); but even those countries have dissention, the dissention is just kept quiet by the repression and censorship.

But the French? Dissention is part of their culture. Political opposition is alive and well there. So try understanding what you're talking about before posting something ignorant next time.

am I recognised here too?

You don’t ask NSFW questions while posing as an 18yo girl, a bit less memorable

But now you are tagged and I shall remember you

Protesting in the bumfuck nowhere gives no results. 10 people protested in village of 200 isn't news. 2k people protested in 200 villages isn't news.

The whole country made a big deal about being sad about a nazi dying and you're talking about political opposition?

Stay deluded.

You'll have to specify what you're referring to, and somehow quantify "the whole country being sad" about it.

Otherwise you're just a troll.

It's more like a thickener used for sauce, but yeah, that's also not important right now.

As an Ontarian I appreciate the BQ. All I'm saying is Quebecois don't burn nearly as much shit as the French. And the rets of us aren't doing anything. Having a less capital-compliant part of Canada would be good for all of us.

Hiragana and Katakana aren't too hard, but Kanji is another matter, and Kanji is used a lot in the names of mass transit stations, for example.

The real reason they got rid of trams in this country

Disagree... It's not "reported" as news, but if 5% of a town showed up to a protest, that's a big fkn deal to the people who see it, and makes them aware that the protest exists.

Clearly you've never seen a marketer and a politician in a room together.

I mean.... What is a shitty little protest in Madrid gonna do to Brussels? You are comparing apples to oranges.

Protesting local matters, like French people being pissed about French shit makes sense. The French understand their power structure well.

Protesting continental matters is considerably more tricky, because of the distance involved.

Comparing all of the US to all of Europe is an apples to apples comparison.

Couple of years ago, "mud wisard" made an international news, and it was a protest of a dozen people in an empty village in the middle of nowhere.

That's more like it. Americans (just like Russians) like to automatically dismiss all the critique and calls to action with this knee-jerk "country big" reaction, and since you can't actually do anything with a country being big, it's a bit of a thought terminating cliché. Meanwhile, the size of a country rarely has anything to do with anything

And you see how well the anti isreal genocide protests are going.... So appreciate you making my point for me.

Protesting in Houston does fuckall to Washington in the immediate.

Well actually...

The french kind of didn't, the french administration did.
The french army had many problems, for the most part because it was not a standing army. These were more or less I'll equipped military, which where basically overrun by German tanks. However the french army also was in no small part responsible for holding off the germans at Dunkirk and nearly broke down the supply lines of the German Blitzkrieg. They mostly didn't flee.

On d day the first waves of troops where also a lot of french exile troops stormy into machine gun fire. Also on d day the french resistance sabotaged the railway network and infrastructure in general so good, that the railway system only worked on 30% capacity, some balloons where running out on puncture repair kits and German tank divisions where delayed by up to 2 weeks.

Yeah but we burn the richs' restaurants too.

Well, hot dogs are fast food.