• SomeoneElse@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    It’s behind a paywall for me. I’m going to go out on a limb and suggest that calling the rioters “vermin” isn’t exactly going to calm the situation.

  • ImplyingImplications@lemmy.ca
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    Reminder that the reason French police are not rioting over pension changes is because their pensions are explicitly exempted from the change. ACAB

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      1 year ago

      that would require they turn on their masters and as long as they keep paying that wont happen.

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    I don’t envy French voters, who will be forced to choose between Macron’s successor and Front National in the next election.

    Because presently it seems like Macron, the police, and young French muslims are cooperating in a concerted attempt to enflame the situation and help get Front National elected. And all while Europe is defacto at war, facing an existential threat in Ukraine.

    Lucky that Macron can’t run again, but it’d be nice if he didn’t run a key NATO member into the ground while blaming it all on video games.

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      1 year ago

      LMAO Russia’s failing attack on Ukraine is an existential threat to Europe?

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        It’s only failing due to outside support, if that gets mangled Ukraine doesn’t have the resources to continue to fight in the manner it currently is.

        And just summing it up as ‘failing attack’ really downplays the hard fucking work Ukraine’s fighters are putting in to keep Russia at bay.

        In today’s world Russia’s failure to turn up for a conventional war doesn’t really display their true prowess, propaganda and cyber warfare. If the war in Ukraine no longer requires the resources be drawn away from those then they’re back to full steam manipulation which means a far right wave across Europe, so yes Russia is still an existential threat to Europe.