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France has never once, in the history of the country, ever given half a shit about doing the right thing or not disenfranchising people.
They have a very cool history but France is a shit show top to bottom.
Basically all of their governing tenets only exist to prevent the French from just living in a state of constant revolution.
It's funny that the French are romanticised as a revolutionary people, always ready to stand up to the man and fight for the people.
They've probably just been shit on by their own government more that most other nations, so they've reached that tipping point of revolution more than anyone else.
The French are the ones doing a lot of the shitting on themselves. The Reign of Terror wasn't a government initiative.
Tbh true, yet still not everything in france is bad
Never said it was and never would. Every country has its crazy shit. France's is just very visible.
As an American, I can relate to that.
I think they're more pro French than Americans are pro American. Then again, we could just be seeing right wing French people, and that would be pretty similar to ours.
The French fucking love being French, man. Warts and all. They're a super charming people to me in that way. Their love honestly seems more genuine than a lot of American patriotism to me.
However, no one on Earth hates their government more than the French. People in open revolt probably bitch less about their government. It's a very French thing to be as dysfunctional as humanly possible, even if things are going good. Shit, especially then.
You think Macron had gutted unions and pissed on their ashes Thatcher-style based on the past few months, but he like, raised the equivalent of social security age by like 2 years lol. Like I get disagreeing and voting against that but shit got real.
French people are amazing. Like that ratchet cousin everyone has
They have their moments haha. It is very charming, I agree, but it can sometimes go too far, like here.
I do think it's worth pointing out though that for all their dislike of government and protests, the social security equivalent still had its age go up by 2 years, and I believe the protests have petered out. Maybe we'll see it come back in elections, and I'll happily eat crow if that's the case. Right now it just seems like a lot of performative anger vs real change.