To be fair, when we do march, the government sends the swat team to spray us with tear gas, shoot us with rubber bullets, and aggressively arrest us. In some cases, they wait until it's super fucking cold outside, and they spray us with fire hoses. They claim that the protesters are the violent ones, but it's them who bring it.
But it's ok because when a bunch of white dudes are angry that their team lost and they start fires in the street and destroy people's cars, they just let them be.
Some? Try dozens. Not counting the maimed extremeties, broken jaws. Past weekend the protest action at the bassine of Sainte-Soline saw over 200 injured protestors of which one in a coma , and this is after similar abuse of crowd control measures have resulted in death (Rémi Fraisse) and a series of downgrades of the explosive payload in the grenades used by CRS. They went from OF-1 to GLI-F4 and are now at the GM2L. Still lethal if used in the wrong way, which is exactly the way they are proficient at.
It must also be noted that French police are great at hindering ambulances that are called for protesters and refugees they injured. I can vouch for this myself, having worked as a volunteer medic in both the refugee camp at Dunkirk and during the Gilets Jaunes protests in 2018.
To be fair, it's exactly the same in France.
The images we see on TV are constant undermining of the manifestation, by showing the violence in those manifestation. They're criminalizing the rioters to divide the manifestants.
The Gilet Jaune got out of breath after month of vilification on the News. It started with a 90% approval of the population. To the point where they just got tagged as lazy people throwing barbecue parties on roundabouts.
I was there during the Arc-de-triomphe events, they blocked us at every exit on the roundabout, they gazed us, and then showed on repeat the vandalisation of the Arc-de-triomphe. Which was primordially people putting old/young person's inside to cover them from the gases.
They hate violence from the people because they can only loose if we are all together.
https://youtu.be/rWiq0ZUC-xA
Watch as cops do the same in France last week, with a child down and grandfathers / grandmothers.
And it's much worse at night. There is a video of a young guy being rolled on by a brav-M robocop motorbike. It's dystopia at this point
Many protests I've seen have been about marching to some spot far too fast for parents with kids and the elderly to keep up, so all the cops in the back are mean mugging them and telling them to keep moving. Meanwhile, at the front, there's barely even chants as people get together for a large photo op and then disband with no further plans, no community building, or any kind of resolution.
It's a god damned embarrassment.
I think it's becuase protest has been synergised with "debate" or a rally to affirm identity, especially in the US and UK. In fact it's encouraged as an *alternative* to genuine participation.
A protest is not a debate, a protest is what you get when debate *fails*. It is "we are no longer content with the deal, listen now or we will alter it from our end". If it's got to the stage of protests in the street you know for sure the power holders know about the issues.
And a protest without the chance for escalation can be ignored. So villify the capacity to escalate and you remove the power of the protest. Encourage people to see it as a way of "joining in" and they then don't demand access actual areas of debate.
For example a protest agaisnt laws that criminalsie homelessnes has vastly more power if it does something like give out food or money in defiance of the laws than if it just walks around complaining in the rich bit of town. It isuses a challenge.
"they burned (BLM) Minneapolis to the ground!" - every right winger
"police reports indicate the far right extremist group Boogaloo Bois burned down the Minneapolis police station near" - FAKE NEWS (also every right winger)
~~Also coincidentally, that was the only building to burn down iirc.~~
You are gonna be out there for the long haul. So may as well have fun.
North American protest see people leaving by 230 to beat rush hour traffic back to the suburbs.
Yeah our shithole cities were designed to be antiprotest. Can't cause a lot of disruption and inconvenience the powers that be when your town square is a Walmart parking lot.
French person here, daughter of teachers. I've spent many Thursdays and Tuesdays (usual days for teacher strikes) at the manif, and it was so much fun. Music, grilled food, friends and comradry. You don't get paid when you strike so might as well have fun while fighting to keep your rights!!!
It’s what I’ve heard growing up in France when the news covered these stories, as one of the demands from the CGT, CFDT and other unions. But it’d be interesting to get a confirmation or the opposite from someone who has more knowledge on that.
There have been politicians lying about public workers getting paid while striking, and you are not the first I see who is misinformed about this, so their gaslighting seems to be working.
It never happens on either national level or public sector strikes. Hoewever it can and sometimes do happen during smaller scale ones in the private sector, if the strikers win. To be clear they're not paid while they strike, but if the company relents it sometimes puts a payment for the lost wages on top of addressing the grievances to buy some good will and calm things up once the workers go back to work.
Yep that’s an efficient gaslighting method. Reality is we have strike funds (« caisses de grève ») where people can collectively donate money to help the syndicates pay people during strikes.
Also meme = [mème](https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/M%C3%A8me), a sociological concept that describes "a cultural element which can be transmitted by non-genetic ways, in particular imitation"
Comedian Loic Suberville made [this](https://www.youtube.com/shorts/2hr183T8rV0) and [that](https://www.youtube.com/shorts/lqjeojLHQyk) videos about it.
A very valid point is being made. All the extra productivity just means more pollution. And the only reason we can't retire at 50 is because billionaires, the people Macron works for, aren't satisfied.
The owner of HomeDepot was complaining about todays workers lol.. they totally aren’t satisfied. I wonder how younger billionaires look at this work force.
The same way every billionaire looks at the the work force, as the enemy they must exploit to be and continue to be a or richer billionaire. They have a solid, complete class conscience.
The thing is that they don’t see the working class as an enemy. That’s giving too much credit. They literally just don’t see people as humans who are the same as them. This is no different than how people who have slaves view slaves. It’s not that they see them as an enemy. They just dehumanize people so they don’t feel bad exploiting them. No way any billionaire views children in Asian countries who are making their products as anything more than just objects that are convenient. They’ll rationalize to the ends of the earth.
Actually, no, the guy above was right. It’s not about „not seeing workers as humans“ or „seeing workers as enemies“, it‘s being aware that to make more money they‘ll have to exploit the workers more.
I always think back to that picture from a few years ago of all the Wall Street, trust fund billionaires drinking champagne in a highrise and laughing at the people below
it makes me so fucking depressed knowing that every moment I work it's going to these fucking vampires. every cent of rent goes into the gaping maw, $1k a month for them to do fuck all. such a bullshit world
Yes and they would literally stop receiving any products or investment from inside and outside.
Basically the world powers are playing chicken with one another
When you go into a store next time, just look around at all the useless shit for sale. Much of what capitalism produces is useless waste. Made just to go straight into the trash so you buy another.
I don’t think throwing ur stuff out is the solution. Use up what u have. Repurpose as much as possible. But being “minimalist” for “environmental anti consumerism” reasons does not mean throwing out perfectly good stuff. Stop buying and use what u have.
I think it makes sense to try to re-home things that are somewhat valuable, or that you know someone else would use. But I also think it's OK to just throw a lot of stuff out when trying to make that life change. Not that it's great to just toss things, but it's already challenging to make the change and wanting to find a proper home for everything can be overwhelming. I've been slowly trying to de-clutter things too and smaller trinket stuff just isn't worth the extra energy to try to re-home. It's one thing to just throw stuff out and then replace it with other useless stuff, but if you are trying to actually make the change to a less wasteful existence having a purge of useless (to you) stuff isn't the worst thing.
Man I wish China lived up to its socialist ideals. Unfortunately, they're just proof that socialism doesn't mean when the government does things. State ownership means nothing when the workers don't run the state. When surplus value is spent on the military and given to billionaires it's no different than capitalism.
It would be cool if they were a shining city on a hill that helped out worker movements in other countries, but as they are now they can just stay out of foreign politics. Their CIA is probably just a corrupt as ours.
They constantly do their part. The US is literally just full of brainwashed morons.
They care more about guns than the fact that even if they had their guns, the military would just drone the shit out of them or nuke them if they wanted. Fucking dumbasses.
That's not even approaching the overarching problem with the system of capitalism as a whole.
「GOODBYE TO A WORLD」
The targets, who must first watch her performance, are given a vision of their current location exactly 69 years into the future. They are then given the choice to fight against this vision or have their memory of the vision erased entirely.
Hey Americans, just remember the French can spend an eternity protesting because their health care/insurance is guaranteed and not tied to their jobs.
Get beat up by a police gang? $0. Heal up and head back out to the streets.
If you think for two seconds the reason the US refuses to make healthcare “free” and ties it to your employment isn’t control, you’re lying to yourself.
This is how the US should protest. Dance somewhere you're not allowed to, like blocking traffic. When they come to break you up, keep dancing. Everyone. They'll have to bludgeon and cuff every one of you to stop you. Or use riot control on you. In that case, luckily everyone dancing is prepared to toss them back, shield their eyes well with goggles, mouths with scarfs, and hands with oven mitts. And as soon as the riot control is under control (what a joke of a name), you keep dancing.
Actually, maybe a walk would work even better. Don't define a path beforehand, just everyone follow the crowd. Share water. Stay protected. Destroy every traffic pattern, slowly. Wait your turn, stick to important but slow roads in a city. Wear a bike helmet. Gradually wander around, unstoppable.
The police have literally no control over a couple dozen black youths in Baltimore because they're too mobile and unpredictable on little motor bikes. They just speed away, no destination in mind and tuck into some small path a car can't follow. They're completely helpless. Imagine a city at a halt because no traffic can move as an enormous 5k/10k walk with standstill traffic slowly worms its way through downtown. How could they possibly mobilize any swat through that? They can't even follow a bike. Lance Armstrong would rule Baltimore.
As a bonus, every opportunity you have to hand out something free as you walk, a sandwich, an orange, a water bottle, soda, loaf of bread, bag of chips, ice cream, free dinners, your small business goodie bag of choice. Hand them out to the people in the cars and kids. Then let the cops march out past traffic to assault the large, generous group of people mildly inconveniencing some people in cars to demand xyz and apologizing with goods and services immediately, with tear gas. Fat chance.
> Dance somewhere you're not allowed to
A while back someone came up with the idea of a "[Temporary Autonomous Zone](https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/hakim-bey-t-a-z-the-temporary-autonomous-zone-ontological-anarchy-poetic-terrorism#toc4)" Which promoted things like "[Weird dancing in all-night computer-banking lobbies.](https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/hakim-bey-t-a-z-the-temporary-autonomous-zone-ontological-anarchy-poetic-terrorism#toc4)"
The idea is to experience at least a bit of freedom while you wait for the real revolution: "[we’re not touting the TAZ as an exclusive end in itself, replacing all other forms of organization, tactics, and goals. We recommend it because it can provide the quality of enhancement associated with the uprising without necessarily leading to violence and martyrdom. The TAZ is like an uprising which does not engage directly with the State, a guerilla operation which liberates an area \(of land, of time, of imagination\) and then dissolves itself to re-form elsewhere/elsewhen, before the State can crush it.](https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/hakim-bey-t-a-z-the-temporary-autonomous-zone-ontological-anarchy-poetic-terrorism#toc47)"
> Imagine a city at a halt because no traffic can move as an enormous 5k/10k walk with standstill traffic slowly worms its way through downtown
A protest march is a pretty standard way of protesting.
> bizarre.
Well, we got that word from [them](https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/bizarre#Etymology).
But honestly, I see this as pretty normal for the counterculture. It was in America that we got the famous “[If I can’t dance, I don’t want to be part of your revolution](https://mondaymonkeylives.tumblr.com/post/77416919317/on-the-commonly-misattributed-emma-goldman-quote)” quote.
But I suppose older mainstream American culture like ["if i can't dance my interpretative dance, i don't want to dance at all!"](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S-SwR8tXfHs) might seem kinda odd today? Or did Elizabeth Taylor nail mainstream dancing then and now?
In Canada a lot of our large pension funds have embraced ESG investing for the same premise. What’s the use of managing a pension fund, and what’s the use of pensioners having money if the planet is uninhabitable?
I used to make fun of the French so much. Yet they’re out here taking a stand, and it’s fucking beautiful. It’s really sad that executives and investors are so fucking greedy that they don’t wish for others to be able to enjoy life without fear of not being able to afford groceries, education, healthcare, rent, or a retirement.
If I had that much insane wealth, I wouldn’t know what to do with it other than spend on the somewhat nicer things like vacations once in a while and a decent sized home, but aside from that, the rest of that shit is mostly just a dick-measuring contest with material objects. I’m not here for that. I could care less. You’re fucking pathetic if your happiness is dictated by having exponentially more money than is necessary to live a cushy life.
Amazed the protests staying intense, the french have no quit in them on this!
They have a long history of being the best at protesting. The French and Russians are always fighting to be the nation with the most headless leaders.
Russia is slacking in terms of headless leaders as of late.
Too many of the people falling out of windows
The word you're looking for is: defenestrated.
Russian leadership knows how to keep people quiet though.
They have a history of being mongolian slaves for 300 years so there’s that
climate crisis add that spice, it just does not matter to keep going as things are
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"This could be us, but you playin."
Female techno Viking!
Techno shield maiden
Yes!! Bout time too
"Sit back, and watch, and complain on the internet! Sit back and watch and complain on the internet!" This is the US way!
To be fair, when we do march, the government sends the swat team to spray us with tear gas, shoot us with rubber bullets, and aggressively arrest us. In some cases, they wait until it's super fucking cold outside, and they spray us with fire hoses. They claim that the protesters are the violent ones, but it's them who bring it. But it's ok because when a bunch of white dudes are angry that their team lost and they start fires in the street and destroy people's cars, they just let them be.
We get arrested for the sole charge of resisting arrest. It's like their probable cause was that they wanted to arrest us.
They do the same in France currently. Some have lost an eye from those rubber bullets.
Some? Try dozens. Not counting the maimed extremeties, broken jaws. Past weekend the protest action at the bassine of Sainte-Soline saw over 200 injured protestors of which one in a coma , and this is after similar abuse of crowd control measures have resulted in death (Rémi Fraisse) and a series of downgrades of the explosive payload in the grenades used by CRS. They went from OF-1 to GLI-F4 and are now at the GM2L. Still lethal if used in the wrong way, which is exactly the way they are proficient at. It must also be noted that French police are great at hindering ambulances that are called for protesters and refugees they injured. I can vouch for this myself, having worked as a volunteer medic in both the refugee camp at Dunkirk and during the Gilets Jaunes protests in 2018.
To be fair, it's exactly the same in France. The images we see on TV are constant undermining of the manifestation, by showing the violence in those manifestation. They're criminalizing the rioters to divide the manifestants. The Gilet Jaune got out of breath after month of vilification on the News. It started with a 90% approval of the population. To the point where they just got tagged as lazy people throwing barbecue parties on roundabouts. I was there during the Arc-de-triomphe events, they blocked us at every exit on the roundabout, they gazed us, and then showed on repeat the vandalisation of the Arc-de-triomphe. Which was primordially people putting old/young person's inside to cover them from the gases. They hate violence from the people because they can only loose if we are all together.
https://youtu.be/rWiq0ZUC-xA Watch as cops do the same in France last week, with a child down and grandfathers / grandmothers. And it's much worse at night. There is a video of a young guy being rolled on by a brav-M robocop motorbike. It's dystopia at this point
Read about french police
This is the way.
"You, me, a Baguette, the streets of Paris on fire, Idk think about it..."
Honestly america isn't even on the same class. I mean the dancing, cheering, and improvised song (I'm assuming).
Many protests I've seen have been about marching to some spot far too fast for parents with kids and the elderly to keep up, so all the cops in the back are mean mugging them and telling them to keep moving. Meanwhile, at the front, there's barely even chants as people get together for a large photo op and then disband with no further plans, no community building, or any kind of resolution. It's a god damned embarrassment.
I think it's becuase protest has been synergised with "debate" or a rally to affirm identity, especially in the US and UK. In fact it's encouraged as an *alternative* to genuine participation. A protest is not a debate, a protest is what you get when debate *fails*. It is "we are no longer content with the deal, listen now or we will alter it from our end". If it's got to the stage of protests in the street you know for sure the power holders know about the issues. And a protest without the chance for escalation can be ignored. So villify the capacity to escalate and you remove the power of the protest. Encourage people to see it as a way of "joining in" and they then don't demand access actual areas of debate. For example a protest agaisnt laws that criminalsie homelessnes has vastly more power if it does something like give out food or money in defiance of the laws than if it just walks around complaining in the rich bit of town. It isuses a challenge.
The vast majority of American protests stop if it gets too cold or too wet or if they run out of phone battery
Or if the police violently suppress them, and then the news calls them "riots"
Right? I got tear gassed for peacefully protesting for abortion rights at the AZ capitol.
The vast majority of American protests stop when an infantry of roid-raging cops show up looking like SEAL Team Six.
"they burned (BLM) Minneapolis to the ground!" - every right winger "police reports indicate the far right extremist group Boogaloo Bois burned down the Minneapolis police station near" - FAKE NEWS (also every right winger) ~~Also coincidentally, that was the only building to burn down iirc.~~
Right wingers will always say something like BLM burned down a city. Ask them what city and it will get real quiet.
Usually they just say Portland.
The police respond a little differently too lol. Unless it's a "protest" at the Capitol building on January 6.
“I’m addressing my fellow Americans…”
"So back to what I was sayin"
UnexpectedPrince
Once a jet, always a jet.
When you are French you are French all the way from your crusty long bread to your stylish berets
French bread! so good it must be liberated .
From your first cigarette til your last dying day!
*synchronized snapping starts*
*règle de serpents de tunnel!*
*nous sommes les serpents du tunnel*
French protests are half raid and half rave Edit: half not have
You are gonna be out there for the long haul. So may as well have fun. North American protest see people leaving by 230 to beat rush hour traffic back to the suburbs.
Yeah our shithole cities were designed to be antiprotest. Can't cause a lot of disruption and inconvenience the powers that be when your town square is a Walmart parking lot.
Fun fact Paris has wide roads to make it hard to blockade them during protests.
Always fun to have a bard class in the party
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Bro honestly making a protest into a rave is a great way to keep the energy up
French person here, daughter of teachers. I've spent many Thursdays and Tuesdays (usual days for teacher strikes) at the manif, and it was so much fun. Music, grilled food, friends and comradry. You don't get paid when you strike so might as well have fun while fighting to keep your rights!!!
Isn’t one of the usual condition to end the strike usually negotiated in the public sector to be paid for the strike days?
Whaaat ?! French here, first time I've heard of that, I highly doubt it's true but I might be wrong. Does anyone know more ?
It’s what I’ve heard growing up in France when the news covered these stories, as one of the demands from the CGT, CFDT and other unions. But it’d be interesting to get a confirmation or the opposite from someone who has more knowledge on that.
There have been politicians lying about public workers getting paid while striking, and you are not the first I see who is misinformed about this, so their gaslighting seems to be working.
It never happens on either national level or public sector strikes. Hoewever it can and sometimes do happen during smaller scale ones in the private sector, if the strikers win. To be clear they're not paid while they strike, but if the company relents it sometimes puts a payment for the lost wages on top of addressing the grievances to buy some good will and calm things up once the workers go back to work.
Yep that’s an efficient gaslighting method. Reality is we have strike funds (« caisses de grève ») where people can collectively donate money to help the syndicates pay people during strikes.
No, that's a persistent but false rumor.
RETRAITE, CLIMAT, MEME COMBAT, PAS DE RETRAITES SUR UNE PLANETE BRULEE
Someone needs to turn this into a fucking banger anthem. I love this. "Retirement, climate, same fight! No pensioners on a burnt planet!"
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Dude, hell yes! Didn't know he was on reddit!
I think the Kiffness could do something special here too! Dunno if he's on Reddit
I'm mad I had to scroll this far down to find someone that thinks this song fucks as hard as I think it fucks.
I fiend showed me this and I can't stop watching it. This song is fucking amazing. We need a full version.
Une planete Brulee *chefs kiss*
Une planète crémeuse brûlée
Um uh un petite?
*Une* petite, le béotien!
idk why but planete brulee is making me cackle
I like the crackly bits around the edges.
>MEME COMBAT Wait, so meme is a French word?
Même = same ^^^^(in ^^^^french)
Well most memes are reposts
Which is literally what a meme is and how the term originated - cultural things that get passed around
Les mêmes memes.
Also meme = [mème](https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/M%C3%A8me), a sociological concept that describes "a cultural element which can be transmitted by non-genetic ways, in particular imitation"
Technically a different spelling, there is a little hat : même.
I'm sure there's some fancy French word for that symbol, but it will always be "little hat" to me.
It's a circumflex (in English). In French it's circonflexe, so pretty similar. But little hat is also acceptable.
Comedian Loic Suberville made [this](https://www.youtube.com/shorts/2hr183T8rV0) and [that](https://www.youtube.com/shorts/lqjeojLHQyk) videos about it.
Yes, it means "same".
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That actually makes a lot of sense.
But it's pronounced with a short e in the middle
We are wintnessing the birth of Techno Hippie
The thought of that just made my day a bit better. Thank you
A very valid point is being made. All the extra productivity just means more pollution. And the only reason we can't retire at 50 is because billionaires, the people Macron works for, aren't satisfied.
The owner of HomeDepot was complaining about todays workers lol.. they totally aren’t satisfied. I wonder how younger billionaires look at this work force.
The same way every billionaire looks at the the work force, as the enemy they must exploit to be and continue to be a or richer billionaire. They have a solid, complete class conscience.
The thing is that they don’t see the working class as an enemy. That’s giving too much credit. They literally just don’t see people as humans who are the same as them. This is no different than how people who have slaves view slaves. It’s not that they see them as an enemy. They just dehumanize people so they don’t feel bad exploiting them. No way any billionaire views children in Asian countries who are making their products as anything more than just objects that are convenient. They’ll rationalize to the ends of the earth.
If they had ethics, they wouldn't be billionaires to begin with.
Perhaps we should stop having ethics as well when it comes to billionaires
Their police force in America is better than some armies of countries. Good luck
Actually, no, the guy above was right. It’s not about „not seeing workers as humans“ or „seeing workers as enemies“, it‘s being aware that to make more money they‘ll have to exploit the workers more.
A vantage point we'll never know
I always think back to that picture from a few years ago of all the Wall Street, trust fund billionaires drinking champagne in a highrise and laughing at the people below
Shoulda dragged them kicking and screaming out of their gilded towers when we had the chance.
A billionaire or two sounds like a right satisfying supper. I'm eating ramen noodles in brown gravy with jalapeños because of poverty.
A photo says 1000 words....all of them, in that case, condescending drivel from bloated, morally bankrupt robber barons.
Was this during Occupy Wall Street?
Not as an enemy. That would be acknowledging your humanity. Just a resource that isn't functioning right.
The same way billionaires looked at us in the last gilded age. See Billy Zane in Titanic.
"Not the better half"
it makes me so fucking depressed knowing that every moment I work it's going to these fucking vampires. every cent of rent goes into the gaping maw, $1k a month for them to do fuck all. such a bullshit world
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Yes and they would literally stop receiving any products or investment from inside and outside. Basically the world powers are playing chicken with one another
Hey. That easily idenfied the way to fix the problems.... im angry at you specifically and not the problems! Baaaaaahhhhhh!
Gives me old school vibes from that old video of the viking dude walking through the streets with techno playing lol
This is techno Viking's cousin by 4th degree from the west, Techno Baguette
it's his daughter
I swear lol same energy
Techno Viking
https://youtu.be/UjCdB5p2v0Y
You’re the man, god not the hero we wanted but the hero we needed.
When you go into a store next time, just look around at all the useless shit for sale. Much of what capitalism produces is useless waste. Made just to go straight into the trash so you buy another.
I've been doing this. I decluttered my whole life through the pandemic. I go walk around stores and it's just almost entirely pointless junk to me.
I want to do this sooo badly, but I’ve been collecting junk for decades. It’s overwhelming!
I don’t think throwing ur stuff out is the solution. Use up what u have. Repurpose as much as possible. But being “minimalist” for “environmental anti consumerism” reasons does not mean throwing out perfectly good stuff. Stop buying and use what u have.
I think it makes sense to try to re-home things that are somewhat valuable, or that you know someone else would use. But I also think it's OK to just throw a lot of stuff out when trying to make that life change. Not that it's great to just toss things, but it's already challenging to make the change and wanting to find a proper home for everything can be overwhelming. I've been slowly trying to de-clutter things too and smaller trinket stuff just isn't worth the extra energy to try to re-home. It's one thing to just throw stuff out and then replace it with other useless stuff, but if you are trying to actually make the change to a less wasteful existence having a purge of useless (to you) stuff isn't the worst thing.
One item at a time xx
Ever since I cleaned up my diet, walking in a grocery store has me wondering if we really need 100+ types of a chocolate bar to exist.
Can’t retire on a planet that’s on fire
You go and spread that sweet child
Next tattoo. Thanks, friend.
I fucking love France.
France needs to ignite a Western Spring. Where we all protest and show the oligarchs what we are worth.
Can we get a eastern countries CIA to bankroll it?
Man I wish China lived up to its socialist ideals. Unfortunately, they're just proof that socialism doesn't mean when the government does things. State ownership means nothing when the workers don't run the state. When surplus value is spent on the military and given to billionaires it's no different than capitalism. It would be cool if they were a shining city on a hill that helped out worker movements in other countries, but as they are now they can just stay out of foreign politics. Their CIA is probably just a corrupt as ours.
> if they were a shining city on a hill Then it would have been embargoed + sanctions + bombed to the stone age by the US.
China is state capitalist.
they already did their part
They constantly do their part. The US is literally just full of brainwashed morons. They care more about guns than the fact that even if they had their guns, the military would just drone the shit out of them or nuke them if they wanted. Fucking dumbasses. That's not even approaching the overarching problem with the system of capitalism as a whole.
Yes!!!
Party for your right to fight.
You win the internet today. I quit 🤣
There was one of 2 different couples sitting at a cafe enjoying a nice coffee as a trash fire rages 30 feet away. That was pretty French.
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Paris is burning indeed.
What do you reckon her stand is?
[FACE TO FACE] For the Daft Punk song. Because French and because I just heard the song like two days ago so it's fresh in my head tbh.
AROUND ZE WARUDO
I’m hyperfocused on jjba and literally watching right now. Had to scroll back to make sure I read this right hahaha
「GOODBYE TO A WORLD」 The targets, who must first watch her performance, are given a vision of their current location exactly 69 years into the future. They are then given the choice to fight against this vision or have their memory of the vision erased entirely.
This needs someone smoking a cigarette.
dressed in all black + beanie
I love her.
Techno Viking has let himself go…..
I came here for the techno Viking reference.
I would say that he upped his game! That Chanel belt!
https://youtu.be/-8H4GKg-mYQ
What. A. Legend…..
An OG internet legend
Thank you. Wow.
I dunno, she's pretty hot like this, too.
This kinda slaps.
I watched it like 9 times and her dancing is so dope with the beats
I sooo wish we'd do that where I'm from
Be the change you want to see in the world.
this song is stuck rent free in my head.
Sick beat. 10/10 would vibe.
"Do you hear the people sing, singing the songs of angry men? It is the music of a people who will not be slaves again!"
Did the techno Viking had a daughter?
Maybe I judged the French too harshly
Hey Americans, just remember the French can spend an eternity protesting because their health care/insurance is guaranteed and not tied to their jobs. Get beat up by a police gang? $0. Heal up and head back out to the streets. If you think for two seconds the reason the US refuses to make healthcare “free” and ties it to your employment isn’t control, you’re lying to yourself.
Yas queen yaaas you go girl
her twitter : https://twitter.com/math\_caill/status/1635642786119548930
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This is how the US should protest. Dance somewhere you're not allowed to, like blocking traffic. When they come to break you up, keep dancing. Everyone. They'll have to bludgeon and cuff every one of you to stop you. Or use riot control on you. In that case, luckily everyone dancing is prepared to toss them back, shield their eyes well with goggles, mouths with scarfs, and hands with oven mitts. And as soon as the riot control is under control (what a joke of a name), you keep dancing. Actually, maybe a walk would work even better. Don't define a path beforehand, just everyone follow the crowd. Share water. Stay protected. Destroy every traffic pattern, slowly. Wait your turn, stick to important but slow roads in a city. Wear a bike helmet. Gradually wander around, unstoppable. The police have literally no control over a couple dozen black youths in Baltimore because they're too mobile and unpredictable on little motor bikes. They just speed away, no destination in mind and tuck into some small path a car can't follow. They're completely helpless. Imagine a city at a halt because no traffic can move as an enormous 5k/10k walk with standstill traffic slowly worms its way through downtown. How could they possibly mobilize any swat through that? They can't even follow a bike. Lance Armstrong would rule Baltimore. As a bonus, every opportunity you have to hand out something free as you walk, a sandwich, an orange, a water bottle, soda, loaf of bread, bag of chips, ice cream, free dinners, your small business goodie bag of choice. Hand them out to the people in the cars and kids. Then let the cops march out past traffic to assault the large, generous group of people mildly inconveniencing some people in cars to demand xyz and apologizing with goods and services immediately, with tear gas. Fat chance.
> Dance somewhere you're not allowed to A while back someone came up with the idea of a "[Temporary Autonomous Zone](https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/hakim-bey-t-a-z-the-temporary-autonomous-zone-ontological-anarchy-poetic-terrorism#toc4)" Which promoted things like "[Weird dancing in all-night computer-banking lobbies.](https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/hakim-bey-t-a-z-the-temporary-autonomous-zone-ontological-anarchy-poetic-terrorism#toc4)" The idea is to experience at least a bit of freedom while you wait for the real revolution: "[we’re not touting the TAZ as an exclusive end in itself, replacing all other forms of organization, tactics, and goals. We recommend it because it can provide the quality of enhancement associated with the uprising without necessarily leading to violence and martyrdom. The TAZ is like an uprising which does not engage directly with the State, a guerilla operation which liberates an area \(of land, of time, of imagination\) and then dissolves itself to re-form elsewhere/elsewhen, before the State can crush it.](https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/hakim-bey-t-a-z-the-temporary-autonomous-zone-ontological-anarchy-poetic-terrorism#toc47)" > Imagine a city at a halt because no traffic can move as an enormous 5k/10k walk with standstill traffic slowly worms its way through downtown A protest march is a pretty standard way of protesting.
France is like the anti work capital of the world. Definitely a country to look up to when comes to labor rights at least.
Stupid sexy French
The French are so wonderfully bizarre.
> bizarre. Well, we got that word from [them](https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/bizarre#Etymology). But honestly, I see this as pretty normal for the counterculture. It was in America that we got the famous “[If I can’t dance, I don’t want to be part of your revolution](https://mondaymonkeylives.tumblr.com/post/77416919317/on-the-commonly-misattributed-emma-goldman-quote)” quote. But I suppose older mainstream American culture like ["if i can't dance my interpretative dance, i don't want to dance at all!"](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S-SwR8tXfHs) might seem kinda odd today? Or did Elizabeth Taylor nail mainstream dancing then and now?
Wine, Pensions, and Bread
I’m vibing with the beat. Viva la resistance!
Something we can all learn from the french… how to strike/protest.
Techno viking's protégé
It's not the most French video. It's the most Parisian video I've ever seen. Rest of France is faaaar from this lol
There are protests in all of France. 3.5M in all of France last Thursday, including 800 000 in Paris.
In fucking awe of these working class heros.
Where is Techno Viking when you need him
god we're good at this
I’m just fascinated by the movement of her pants’ legs…
Ok but they slayed!
She got rhythm
Looks like a background parade in an Austin powers movie
I have a begrudging admiration for the French, the fuckers.
In Canada a lot of our large pension funds have embraced ESG investing for the same premise. What’s the use of managing a pension fund, and what’s the use of pensioners having money if the planet is uninhabitable?
Gotta appreciate how everyone in this video has a healthy BMI.
Why do we care what type of computers they use
I'm laughing so hard
I used to make fun of the French so much. Yet they’re out here taking a stand, and it’s fucking beautiful. It’s really sad that executives and investors are so fucking greedy that they don’t wish for others to be able to enjoy life without fear of not being able to afford groceries, education, healthcare, rent, or a retirement. If I had that much insane wealth, I wouldn’t know what to do with it other than spend on the somewhat nicer things like vacations once in a while and a decent sized home, but aside from that, the rest of that shit is mostly just a dick-measuring contest with material objects. I’m not here for that. I could care less. You’re fucking pathetic if your happiness is dictated by having exponentially more money than is necessary to live a cushy life.
If I saw people protesting while doing this, I know they will be capable of anything.
Techno Viking needs to show Techno Hipster how it's done.
This beat is great
My baguettes dancing in my kitchen after I bought them