I would just like to add that the french people don’t actually have grenade launchers on hand, since they are not sold in supermarkets here.
So we just march, shout, sing, hold signs, and get tear-gassed at some point. Admittedly we’re usually in the tens of thousands in medium sized cities and we sometimes burn a few cars and trash cans for good measure.
The last large protest was on September 18. and had between 500k and 1.1M protesters, according to the police and the protesters respectively.
USA government : Allows prices to raise because of greed.
USA citizens: Does a mass shooting at an elementary school.
Thoughts and prayers, Ya’ll.
Devolution: Can’t enjoy a single unrelated thread without bringing up the USA.
Ragebrain is real, y’all.
Guy I’m American and I mentioned it because I wish the US had the kinda response the French have.
Well, I say! I shall complain in the strongest possible terms. “Dear Points of View, why oh why oh why…”
Genders? What poppycock. It was obviously immigrants, or Europe.
It’s worth pointing out that the Axis weren’t the ones putting up “Keep Calm and Carry On” posters.
It’s also worth noting that it was only one of three posters made, the other two just weren’t popular at all.
The wording of ‘Your Courage… will bring us victory’ was criticised. There was some evidence the combination of ‘your’ and ‘us’ ‘suggested to many people that they were being encouraged to work for someone else’, with the ‘your’ referring to the civilian, the ‘us’ to the Government.
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‘Freedom is in Peril’ was also deemed ineffective, blamed on ‘the abstractness of the words, not one of which had any popular appeal’.[55] Even during the planning stages the criticism had been raised that ‘Freedom’ was rather an abstract concept and was ‘likely to be too academic and too alien to the British habit of thought’.Reconstructed examples of the two other posters, “Your Courage” and “Freedom is in Peril” are seen here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keep_Calm_and_Carry_On#DesignApparently there also was a “keep calm and dig” which should get more exposure imo.
Fascinating! I had no idea. The ambiguity of “Your”/“Our” makes sense with the design.
Thank you, that’s great info!
this is something where I’ve always envied the french.
I especially admire their ability to make wine made from grapes grown in horticulturally unsuited regions palatable by making it fizzy.
Is this a subtle dig because the invention of champagne was based on discoveries made by a Brit?
Thanks to climate change, it’s probably going to come back to the British Isles fairly soon.
British Government and People are sounding like their American counterparts.
The shit doesn’t fall far from the ass
i fucking hate the “apple doesn’t fall far from the tree” because fuits are meant to be eaten and spread far from the tree.
your version actually solves that problem and is in any sense, a better metaphor.
I’m keeping it and not giving it back
Mr. Lahey?
Shitbirds of a feather, Randers.
The British are the Americans of Europe.
The British came to the new world and never left, they just decided to change their name over here. It’s The British on both sides, just different flavors.
And of course all the assholes that followed the British.
It’s true that we were the chavs of the Early Modern era and the other powers absolutely resent that we exceeded them during the Imperial phase.
Kinda nuts how institutions just keep going long after they’ve reached the point of historical irrelevancy. As much as I enjoy watching the decline of US empire, it’s kinda bleak to consider the momentum is behind keeping this stupid configuration of states and constitution, dragging this deadweight on into the next century in much the same way you Brits still have fuckin’ aristos.
Yeah, no… We can and do protest. The next massive nation-wide one is in two and a half weeks.
I learned it watching you, Dad!
Here in Croatia, people complain about HDZ and complain about foreign workers from India, Nepal and South east Asia but same people are voting for HDZ (or DP, but they are essentially same party) since 1991. Also that same HDZ had some scandals with corruption, you know nothing to worry about. Like they complain about them, but they keep voting for them or they keep voting for people who will enter coalition with HDZ making it the same shit either way. For that matter, I never voted for HDZ or anyone similar to them. Only time when people are united are during some big sports events like world cup in football or similar stuff.
As is the tradition. I don’t live there anymore, but whenever I visit every problem is always the migrants’ fault. It’s totally not the government’s.
True true, and only time when people are united is during some sports events or something.
Frustrating. In the states, White conservatives (and white people in general) are the special base that American elected officials seem to only listen to and have considerable power. Safe and secure, not really needing to worry about things (but they do anyway oh and tell you what to do).
As long as that group get’s theirs they will keep voting in these politicians who really do not care about all people only money.
Their entire voting base is doggedly fixed on the idea of turning up to vote even if they hate the candidate or even the current party platform. At the other end you have people who who consider not voting to be a high-minded protest, who only turn up for candidates who are ideologically pure enough: in other words, voters who represent no threat at all and can be ignored. Is it any wonder that those who only care about having power cater to the people who will still vote for you while you piss on them?
You guys have one of the only teams I’ll put a “soccer” game on to watch. Not sure why, watched them about 10 years ago and now always stop to watch if they are on.
It’s deadass 7x more restrictive in England so far, they just fly under the radar.
And the liberals or Center Left are in charge now? bonkers…
That’s not a coincidence.
At least IngSoc made the trains run precisely an hour late.
They wouldn’t dare touch our stinky cheese. Our rights, pensions and public services sure, but they know stinky cheese is a hill too many are ready to die on
I’m German, but you have my axe in this regard. Cheese is love, cheese is life.
Praise Cheeses!
Je t’en prie, mon fiston.
There are jimmies even the bourgeoisie isn’t stupid enough to rustle
I guess that’s why France is doing so well recently.
On the one hand, these strikes have had a direct effect on the national debt, as the country wasn’t able to increase pension age or cut benefits. On the other hand, it might lead to the government taxing the wealthy more and stopping the endless asset hoarding by the rich, which prices out everyone else. If France taxes the rich, they might be able to persuade the rest of the European nations to do the same. Then it might become effective for once.
Not really. France is having a deficit crisis, which led to the collapse of the general assembly five times, leading to five different prime ministers being appointed, and yet the current government still refuse to raise taxes on the rich if they want to cover the deficit. All this government ineptitude is pushing the far right closer and closer to the cusp of power.
Dude it was obvious sarcasm.
Maybe you’re a Brit for not reading everything as sarcasm.
Are the right wingers in France for taxing the rich?
Funny you asked because I haven’t heard them advocate for it. What the right in France does is oppose any budget cuts, but blame the immigrants for social and financial woes. Opposing the budget cuts is where the left and right actually agree on, except for the migrant part, of course. But the problem with the French left is the typical infighting, so they can’t form a united front against the centrist neoliberals and right.
Ofc not. Right wing IS the party of the rich. Knowingly or not.
I like France because the people seem to be doing well most the time and the politicians seem to be doing poorly most the time. Quite refreshing.
I’ve been there and people are not doing well. I think both people and politicians are doing quite bad. Protests look fun on TV but when you oppose everything without an idea how to actually fix things it just stops any progress.
People are not doing well, sure, because only the rich are doing well (same as all over the world), but we’re doing better than most other people.
so much cheese?
it is not always women’s fault. sometimes it is the migrant’s fault. /s
There’s no minority we won’t throw under the bus before we look at wealth inequality. Remember when we were blaming single mothers? That’s before the great replacement theory of course.
Why did the French accent only last about halfway through the first sentence?
They need a constant supply of stinky cheese to maintain it.
Can I see the German take
Sure: we’d protest the measures, but the protest was not approved.
Not approved because there’s no police available to monitor the protest since they’re all busy protecting the Concerned Citizens March one street over from little old ladies.
DIN-compatible protest standards were accidentally faxed to the wrong number so the protest administrators never received them.
No you may not, the last time the Germans tried to take there were two world wars and millions died
I’m sure a strongly worded letter to the crown will fix all of it. You know how much Brits love their royal family.
Muricans: hell yeah, that’ll show the damn libs USA USA USA
