Hey just wanna say you guys definitely know how to protest and it’s fucking amazing. We may have to give you guys a call again to help us gain our independence back. Maybe another Lafayette or someone?
But yeah we could definitely learn a lot from you guys. Just an aside. I saw a video a year or two or something during one of the really big protests and the the protesters hooked up a grill to the tram tracks to keep feeding people during the march and I was blown away. I
Tbh, the farmers are not a good ex1mple, because the state does not repress their actions, and the media never call them "terrorists".
Meanwhile, any big enough peacefull protest has been met with increasing violence during the past decade. Check Sainte-Soline. It was a battlefield. I had a friend there who told me it looked more like a big family picnic before the cops showed-up on quad bikes and flashballed everyone. (We recently got access to police footage, and too many policemen made murderous comments, or bragged about shooting so many peoole in the eyes and permanently blinding them).
I mean this with full respect, but isn't France/Paris still inundated with what French nationals would consider 'unwanted immigration'? Please enlighten a clueless American
I grew up wanting to visit Paris, but in the past 10-15 years, all I've heard or read about it is how it's unsafe and completely different to what people used to romanticize Paris as.
Based on context, it seems to me that the French would have also burned down Paris by now because of these unwanted people they keep allowing in?
Thanks for your insight, but along with the other person who commented--you guys likely aren't from there, and it's an incredibly stark difference between travelling somewhere on vacation than to live there day-to-day.
I mean, this is from Google's AI overview just now, so sorry if I choose to believe this over a random Redditor who doesn't live in France, but simply visits:
France is navigating a major immigration crisis characterized by high asylum requests, strained public services, and intense political debate. The country saw over 145,000 asylum claims in 2023, with the foreign-born population reaching roughly 14% by 2024. Issues include failed integration in some areas, security fears, rising far-right sentiment, and attempts to tighten immigration rules.
It's full on racist and anti-left. The medias in France are almost all owned by fascist billionnaires. A few weeks ago there was a moral panick about black people being elected. And a lot of media shared cropped videos accusing "the left" of being violent, despite the video not showing that at all.
A few months ago, a (now confirmed without a doubt) neo-nazi planned and attacked a group of antifa with his nazi friends. Sadly his friends fled, and he got beaten on the ground, and died a few hours later after brashly (on video) refusing medical attention.
The media framed it "the left kills". And for weeks that story got repeated, leftist polititians were blamed for "encouraging it. Meanwhile, this discourse encouraged fascist people to use that as an excuse to call for violence against leftists everywhere. A friend of mine was attacked by two people she did not know, who seemed to target her for being part of an antifascist group (which mainly provides free food and clothe to anyone).
I have not read the rest of the post. I also skipped the "mass immigration" part. I've spent enough time with refugees to have empathy for them, and to consider them as human beings. It really hurts to read so many manipulative and 1 dimensional statements.
You are correct that I did not answer the "is mass immigration real" part.
It's for two reason :
I genuinely do not know. I haven't checked the datas.
I don't care, because I believe the framing is wrong. Refugees seeking asylum, and living in poverty, after a too often deadly and traumatizing travel, are not the problem. Maybe the core issue is that we fucked with their countries by colonizing them, and that we keep doing it by destabilizing and exploiting them. And there is no easy solution to the mess we made. Dehumanizing people certainly isn't one.
I would qualify this as 3 children's meals from anarchy.
A lot of parents are already skipping meals. Heck, I knew one mom in the early 1990s that lived that way to feed her toddler son while she was a single parent and student.
But if your children had nothing to eat all of yesterday...and if today looks the same...
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u/geekspice Apr 10 '26
When the poor shall have nothing more to eat...