Gotta point out that the french protests, while they are in general for everyone that doesn’t mean it’s not extremely partisan and divided. It’s just we all know Macron is absolute trash 🤷
Gotta point out that the french protests, while they are in general for everyone that doesn’t mean it’s not extremely partisan and divided. It’s just we all know Macron is absolute trash 🤷
Americans literally in the street right now: I sleep
France doing a protest, then immediately sending Macron back for another term: Why can’t we be like that?!
Your “protests” have no demands and disrupt nothing: Americans aren’t protesting, they’re just holding street parties on the weekend.
Plainly untrue.
The coverage of the protests don’t list demands. The impact of the protests regularly get downplayed and dismissed. The policing of the protests is what ultimately squelches demands and stymies disruption.
Americans are alienated from one another. They are gulled into believing falsehoods. They are told that protests aren’t happening, that protests have ended when they have not, that protests have no leadership, that the leadership is infiltrated by bad actors (Russians, Iranians, The Other Party manipulators, the Mafia, the Gay Mafia, lizard people, whatever), that protests are counterproductive, that their False Flags, and that actually the only real form of protest is voting.
No more crystal clear example of this was the J6 protest in DC. News coverage of the riot was blacked out for hours, even as people were storming straight into Nancy Pelosi’s office and shitting on the desk.
The immediate coverage of the protest was that it was a Fifth Column False Flag my Antifa.
Subsequent news reports claimed it was caused by Russian disinformation.
None of the actual funders or organizers of the riot were prosecuted, but a bunch of idiot influencers took the fall.
And liberals went into 2021 thinking J6 had put an end to Trump’s legitimacy.
In other words : protests in the USA are not that different to protests in France.
We just get sweked information about each-other. I suppose it’s because of the oligopoly of billionaire-owned media empires in our two countries. (And because of of the ad-fueled monetization that don’t encourage media teams to checkthe quality and factuality of articles.)
Not to forget our countries don’t have the same population density either. (France’s nationwide density is more that 3 times the USA’s nationwide density.) This could play a big role, especially combined to the countries’ size difference.
French law is supposedly more protective of protesters, although these protections have been progressively eroded since they exist, with an acceleration under the latest presidents. (France is now a very repressive country compared to its european neighbours.)
Also as a side tangent, about people resting during such important protests, while still favorable to these : I blame intense exhaustion (of all forms) due to the current levels of exploitation we’re subjected to. (And fear, because of how those in power police opposition.)