It was (an attempt at) sarcasm… I read it as “I’m at” rather then “I’m a” and since Captain Eo wasn’t actually a roller coaster with cars…

That’s got to be playing on hard mode.

Captain Eo?

I would be surprised if they didn’t… and [Insert shocked Pikachu face here] if they didn’t attend an overpriced seminar hosted by the respective agencies on the citizen’s dime 😌

Nauseating. I’m truly sorry to hear about that. Hope you eventually get some justice for their crimes and the economic reforms that you’re hoping for.

Ah… yeah, I’ve seen the footage. It looks bad… Though the bit with the cop car driving all over the place trailing something on fire was fairly amusing.

My intention was more of a contrast to what has become of the US of late. Your statistics make it sound worse in many ways, although many of the tactics sound very similar. Hopefully the French police have not been using those “rubber bullets” that seems to be a steel or aluminum ball, barely coated with rubber.

There’s also some footage of a US cop intentionally starting a fire with what appears to be a either smoke grenades or just incendeary rounds.

And the British invented “kettleing” which was used to very effectively here in both occupy wallstreet and various no kings protests.

Gotcha… I mean, it’s a bit bigger than what we’d typically think of as an APC here. But yeah, it’s armored and full of dudes, so yeah, no real argument. I’m not a military guy or even a gamer so the finer points of an answer would take me time, and I’d probably still be off.

Perhaps a former current/former soldier could weigh in?

Me either I’m afraid… and it’s 5:02 AM here so unfortunately it’s going to have to wait until at least noon 😴

Okay… but the question was essentially French people, how do you protest with ease. Not everyone in gen z protesting… so I’m not really seeing your point here.

And no, I’m not reading a 10 paragraph essay for additional context. It was a throwaway comment. Deal.

Wasn’t aware of that… hardly sounds easy to me.

I’d settle for a beer though.

APCs… how quaint they have beercats bearcats now… though now I kinda want a beer-cat now 🍻🐈

Lack of a repressive regime?

Only ever saw that once. I’m trash at FreeCell but I worked at a shitty little computer store in Highschool and there was this dude who worked in the back room frankenstining SGI computers back together that was a damn genius at it — among other things. Shout out to all my LGCS homies.

I guess that’s good 😌 After we get done with operation not kicking Tehran’s asses we’re going to liberate Taiwan right… right?

Just one step away from genetically engineering the chicken salmon!

Awesome. I honestly didn’t know Mapquest was still a thing though.

Awesome :-)

I’m definitely going to watch that tonight 8-)

Which documentary… I just keep getting hits for a '70’s women in prison movie 😂

LOL… looks like I misspelled it. If you’re a fan of Star Trek TOS, or honestly most vintage Scifi it’s the warbeling noise you hear in the soundtrack.

A type of synth that you played by moving your hands in relation to a metal antenna.