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[–] signofzeta@lemmygrad.ml 24 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Police kill an unarmed teen in France, and the country revolts. Police kill an unarmed teen in America, and we’re told to thank the police.

Je suis France.

[–] ComradeSalad@lemmygrad.ml 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The US rioted too. Multiple times

Then people got taken away in unmarked vans, arrested by the feds, shot at, gassed, and crippled. Then they lost their jobs, income, healthcare, and housing due to losing insurance due to “ongoing criminal cases” from rioting charges.

[–] Phillaholic@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The US doesn’t do anything close to the scale of the French.

[–] ComradeSalad@lemmygrad.ml 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Were you asleep for the Floyd riots?

How about Kenosha?

The Los Angeles 1991 Rodney King riots where the city descended into such anarchy that 10,000 US Army soldiers had to be deployed?

There’s is a very very extensive list of riots similar to the ones that are going on in France. But the fact that the Floyd riots in a lot of cities don’t stack up to you is interesting.

[–] iriyan@lemmygrad.ml 8 points 1 year ago

Burning without the slightest form of organization never hurt any capitalists or their puppet gov/admins. Insurance goes up for office space, cars, shops, inflation (economic development) more construction and repaid contracts handed out, and things ALWAYS return to a much worse condition than before.

Why worse? Because police has the justification for more police, for better armed police, for even more aggressive police, and this same repressive mechanism works on worker unions striking and protesting, as it is always easy to convert any protest to an "Algerian youth uprising".

The show also gives populists of the far right more leverage to affect the idiots who vote them and eventually place them in power. Cops know and feed this frenzy, abuse, but don't prevent it from happening.

Macron is too liberal, a neo-fascist is overdue from being elected in EU's #2 political/economic power.