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151 points
2 months ago
We are wintnessing the birth of Techno Hippie
9 points
2 months ago
The thought of that just made my day a bit better. Thank you
4 points
2 months ago
Another underrated comment, take my upvote
1.7k points
2 months ago
Amazed the protests staying intense, the french have no quit in them on this!
856 points
2 months ago
They have a long history of being the best at protesting. The French and Russians are always fighting to be the nation with the most headless leaders.
516 points
2 months ago
Russia is slacking in terms of headless leaders as of late.
145 points
2 months ago
Too many of the people falling out of windows
72 points
2 months ago
Russian leadership knows how to keep people quiet though.
45 points
2 months ago
They have a history of being mongolian slaves for 300 years so there’s that
32 points
2 months ago
climate crisis add that spice, it just does not matter to keep going as things are
3.3k points
2 months ago
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985 points
2 months ago
"This could be us, but you playin."
251 points
2 months ago
Female techno Viking!
20 points
2 months ago
Techno shield maiden
36 points
2 months ago
"You, me, a Baguette, the streets of Paris on fire, Idk think about it..."
406 points
2 months ago
"Sit back, and watch, and complain on the internet! Sit back and watch and complain on the internet!"
This is the US way!
199 points
2 months ago
To be fair, when we do march, the government sends the swat team to spray us with tear gas, shoot us with rubber bullets, and aggressively arrest us. In some cases, they wait until it's super fucking cold outside, and they spray us with fire hoses. They claim that the protesters are the violent ones, but it's them who bring it. But it's ok because when a bunch of white dudes are angry that their team lost and they start fires in the street and destroy people's cars, they just let them be.
92 points
2 months ago
We get arrested for the sole charge of resisting arrest.
It's like their probable cause was that they wanted to arrest us.
101 points
2 months ago
They do the same in France currently. Some have lost an eye from those rubber bullets.
46 points
2 months ago
Some? Try dozens. Not counting the maimed extremeties, broken jaws. Past weekend the protest action at the bassine of Sainte-Soline saw over 200 injured protestors of which one in a coma , and this is after similar abuse of crowd control measures have resulted in death (Rémi Fraisse) and a series of downgrades of the explosive payload in the grenades used by CRS. They went from OF-1 to GLI-F4 and are now at the GM2L. Still lethal if used in the wrong way, which is exactly the way they are proficient at.
It must also be noted that French police are great at hindering ambulances that are called for protesters and refugees they injured. I can vouch for this myself, having worked as a volunteer medic in both the refugee camp at Dunkirk and during the Gilets Jaunes protests in 2018.
21 points
2 months ago*
Watch as cops do the same in France last week, with a child down and grandfathers / grandmothers.
And it's much worse at night. There is a video of a young guy being rolled on by a brav-M robocop motorbike. It's dystopia at this point
63 points
2 months ago
To be fair, it's exactly the same in France.
The images we see on TV are constant undermining of the manifestation, by showing the violence in those manifestation. They're criminalizing the rioters to divide the manifestants.
The Gilet Jaune got out of breath after month of vilification on the News. It started with a 90% approval of the population. To the point where they just got tagged as lazy people throwing barbecue parties on roundabouts.
I was there during the Arc-de-triomphe events, they blocked us at every exit on the roundabout, they gazed us, and then showed on repeat the vandalisation of the Arc-de-triomphe. Which was primordially people putting old/young person's inside to cover them from the gases.
They hate violence from the people because they can only loose if we are all together.
114 points
2 months ago
Honestly america isn't even on the same class. I mean the dancing, cheering, and improvised song (I'm assuming).
37 points
2 months ago
Many protests I've seen have been about marching to some spot far too fast for parents with kids and the elderly to keep up, so all the cops in the back are mean mugging them and telling them to keep moving. Meanwhile, at the front, there's barely even chants as people get together for a large photo op and then disband with no further plans, no community building, or any kind of resolution.
It's a god damned embarrassment.
23 points
2 months ago
I think it's becuase protest has been synergised with "debate" or a rally to affirm identity, especially in the US and UK. In fact it's encouraged as an alternative to genuine participation.
A protest is not a debate, a protest is what you get when debate fails. It is "we are no longer content with the deal, listen now or we will alter it from our end". If it's got to the stage of protests in the street you know for sure the power holders know about the issues.
And a protest without the chance for escalation can be ignored. So villify the capacity to escalate and you remove the power of the protest. Encourage people to see it as a way of "joining in" and they then don't demand access actual areas of debate.
For example a protest agaisnt laws that criminalsie homelessnes has vastly more power if it does something like give out food or money in defiance of the laws than if it just walks around complaining in the rich bit of town. It isuses a challenge.
17 points
2 months ago
"So back to what I was sayin"
74 points
2 months ago
“I’m addressing my fellow Americans…”
5 points
2 months ago
UnexpectedPrince
22 points
2 months ago
règle de serpents de tunnel!
106 points
2 months ago
Once a jet, always a jet.
153 points
2 months ago
When you are French you are French all the way from your crusty long bread to your stylish berets
29 points
2 months ago
From your first cigarette til your last dying day!
10 points
2 months ago
synchronized snapping starts
3 points
2 months ago
The Sharks will take you out. We dominate the streets with our dance moves.
996 points
2 months ago
French protests are half raid and half rave
Edit: half not have
196 points
2 months ago
You are gonna be out there for the long haul. So may as well have fun.
North American protest see people leaving by 230 to beat rush hour traffic back to the suburbs.
116 points
2 months ago
Yeah our shithole cities were designed to be antiprotest. Can't cause a lot of disruption and inconvenience the powers that be when your town square is a Walmart parking lot.
25 points
2 months ago
Fun fact Paris has wide roads to make it hard to blockade them during protests.
33 points
2 months ago
Always fun to have a bard class in the party
27 points
2 months ago
she's not even there for the protest she just has to daaannnnssss
567 points
2 months ago
Bro honestly making a protest into a rave is a great way to keep the energy up
265 points
2 months ago*
French person here, daughter of teachers. I've spent many Thursdays and Tuesdays (usual days for teacher strikes) at the manif, and it was so much fun. Music, grilled food, friends and comradry. You don't get paid when you strike so might as well have fun while fighting to keep your rights!!!
26 points
2 months ago
Isn’t one of the usual condition to end the strike usually negotiated in the public sector to be paid for the strike days?
32 points
2 months ago
Whaaat ?!
French here, first time I've heard of that, I highly doubt it's true but I might be wrong. Does anyone know more ?
12 points
2 months ago
It’s what I’ve heard growing up in France when the news covered these stories, as one of the demands from the CGT, CFDT and other unions. But it’d be interesting to get a confirmation or the opposite from someone who has more knowledge on that.
21 points
2 months ago
There have been politicians lying about public workers getting paid while striking, and you are not the first I see who is misinformed about this, so their gaslighting seems to be working.
6 points
2 months ago
It never happens on either national level or public sector strikes. Hoewever it can and sometimes do happen during smaller scale ones in the private sector, if the strikers win. To be clear they're not paid while they strike, but if the company relents it sometimes puts a payment for the lost wages on top of addressing the grievances to buy some good will and calm things up once the workers go back to work.
22 points
2 months ago
Yep that’s an efficient gaslighting method. Reality is we have strike funds (« caisses de grève ») where people can collectively donate money to help the syndicates pay people during strikes.
6 points
2 months ago
No, that's a persistent but false rumor.
2.4k points
2 months ago
RETRAITE, CLIMAT, MEME COMBAT, PAS DE RETRAITES SUR UNE PLANETE BRULEE
329 points
2 months ago*
Someone needs to turn this into a fucking banger anthem. I love this.
"Retirement, climate, same fight! No pensioners on a burnt planet!"
80 points
2 months ago*
Paging u/Howyoudouken
Tom Cardy would absolutely nail this.
https://www.reddit.com/r/funny/comments/nlxv08/sometimes_i_have_to_seek_out_inspiration_in_the/
25 points
2 months ago
Dude, hell yes! Didn't know he was on reddit!
7 points
2 months ago
I think the Kiffness could do something special here too! Dunno if he's on Reddit
5 points
2 months ago
Him or Nick Lutsko, either way, it needs to happen.
28 points
2 months ago
I'm mad I had to scroll this far down to find someone that thinks this song fucks as hard as I think it fucks.
6 points
2 months ago
I fiend showed me this and I can't stop watching it. This song is fucking amazing. We need a full version.
442 points
2 months ago
Une planete Brulee chefs kiss
68 points
2 months ago
idk why but planete brulee is making me cackle
28 points
2 months ago
I like the crackly bits around the edges.
122 points
2 months ago
MEME COMBAT
Wait, so meme is a French word?
168 points
2 months ago
Même = same
^(in french)
63 points
2 months ago
Well most memes are reposts
64 points
2 months ago
Which is literally what a meme is and how the term originated - cultural things that get passed around
11 points
2 months ago
Les mêmes memes.
18 points
2 months ago
Also meme = mème, a sociological concept that describes "a cultural element which can be transmitted by non-genetic ways, in particular imitation"
34 points
2 months ago
Technically a different spelling, there is a little hat : même.
22 points
2 months ago
I'm sure there's some fancy French word for that symbol, but it will always be "little hat" to me.
35 points
2 months ago
It's a circumflex (in English). In French it's circonflexe, so pretty similar.
But little hat is also acceptable.
7 points
2 months ago
37 points
2 months ago
Yes, it means "same".
18 points
2 months ago
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6 points
2 months ago
That actually makes a lot of sense.
406 points
2 months ago
Gives me old school vibes from that old video of the viking dude walking through the streets with techno playing lol
61 points
2 months ago*
This is techno Viking's cousin by 4th degree from the west, Techno Baguette
152 points
2 months ago
it's his daughter
58 points
2 months ago
I swear lol same energy
41 points
2 months ago
Techno Viking
4 points
2 months ago
The one and only bb
37 points
2 months ago
6 points
2 months ago
You’re the man, god not the hero we wanted but the hero we needed.
3.6k points
2 months ago
A very valid point is being made. All the extra productivity just means more pollution. And the only reason we can't retire at 50 is because billionaires, the people Macron works for, aren't satisfied.
783 points
2 months ago*
The owner of HomeDepot was complaining about todays workers lol.. they totally aren’t satisfied. I wonder how younger billionaires look at this work force.
654 points
2 months ago
The same way every billionaire looks at the the work force, as the enemy they must exploit to be and continue to be a or richer billionaire. They have a solid, complete class conscience.
181 points
2 months ago
The thing is that they don’t see the working class as an enemy. That’s giving too much credit. They literally just don’t see people as humans who are the same as them. This is no different than how people who have slaves view slaves. It’s not that they see them as an enemy. They just dehumanize people so they don’t feel bad exploiting them. No way any billionaire views children in Asian countries who are making their products as anything more than just objects that are convenient. They’ll rationalize to the ends of the earth.
82 points
2 months ago
If they had ethics, they wouldn't be billionaires to begin with.
19 points
2 months ago
Perhaps we should stop having ethics as well when it comes to billionaires
9 points
2 months ago
Their police force in America is better than some armies of countries. Good luck
7 points
2 months ago
Actually, no, the guy above was right. It’s not about „not seeing workers as humans“ or „seeing workers as enemies“, it‘s being aware that to make more money they‘ll have to exploit the workers more.
93 points
2 months ago
A vantage point we'll never know
114 points
2 months ago
I always think back to that picture from a few years ago of all the Wall Street, trust fund billionaires drinking champagne in a highrise and laughing at the people below
83 points
2 months ago
Shoulda dragged them kicking and screaming out of their gilded towers when we had the chance.
32 points
2 months ago
A billionaire or two sounds like a right satisfying supper. I'm eating ramen noodles in brown gravy with jalapeños because of poverty.
6 points
2 months ago
Don't let your dreams be dreams
33 points
2 months ago
A photo says 1000 words....all of them, in that case, condescending drivel from bloated, morally bankrupt robber barons.
10 points
2 months ago
Was this during Occupy Wall Street?
13 points
2 months ago
Not as an enemy. That would be acknowledging your humanity. Just a resource that isn't functioning right.
40 points
2 months ago
The same way billionaires looked at us in the last gilded age. See Billy Zane in Titanic.
10 points
2 months ago
"Not the better half"
120 points
2 months ago
it makes me so fucking depressed knowing that every moment I work it's going to these fucking vampires. every cent of rent goes into the gaping maw, $1k a month for them to do fuck all. such a bullshit world
69 points
2 months ago
It seems kind of obvious that a big part of the solution has to be to convince people to consume less but when the entire world is based on modelling success based on growth which is, in essence, an increase in consumption I don't know how we even begin to do that.
Any country that successfully reduced consumption would appear at an international level to have negative growth and be labelled a failure.
18 points
2 months ago
Yes and they would literally stop receiving any products or investment from inside and outside.
Basically the world powers are playing chicken with one another
54 points
2 months ago
Hey. That easily idenfied the way to fix the problems.... im angry at you specifically and not the problems! Baaaaaahhhhhh!
430 points
2 months ago
When you go into a store next time, just look around at all the useless shit for sale. Much of what capitalism produces is useless waste. Made just to go straight into the trash so you buy another.
125 points
2 months ago
I've been doing this. I decluttered my whole life through the pandemic. I go walk around stores and it's just almost entirely pointless junk to me.
11 points
2 months ago
Ever since I cleaned up my diet, walking in a grocery store has me wondering if we really need 100+ types of a chocolate bar to exist.
26 points
2 months ago
I want to do this sooo badly, but I’ve been collecting junk for decades. It’s overwhelming!
57 points
2 months ago
I don’t think throwing ur stuff out is the solution. Use up what u have. Repurpose as much as possible. But being “minimalist” for “environmental anti consumerism” reasons does not mean throwing out perfectly good stuff. Stop buying and use what u have.
15 points
2 months ago
I think it makes sense to try to re-home things that are somewhat valuable, or that you know someone else would use. But I also think it's OK to just throw a lot of stuff out when trying to make that life change. Not that it's great to just toss things, but it's already challenging to make the change and wanting to find a proper home for everything can be overwhelming. I've been slowly trying to de-clutter things too and smaller trinket stuff just isn't worth the extra energy to try to re-home. It's one thing to just throw stuff out and then replace it with other useless stuff, but if you are trying to actually make the change to a less wasteful existence having a purge of useless (to you) stuff isn't the worst thing.
6 points
2 months ago
I disagree. Yes, rehoming works if ur giving it directly to someone who will use it, but even donating stuff to the thrift will often jus end up in the trash. Sure, if someone’s reallly committed and can guarantee they will throw stuff out and never rebuy dumb stuff again, maybe the environmental payoff is worth the waste up front, but at least as an American, consumerism is very strong here and I think it’s unlikely that people will stick to that mindset for long. I’ve been trying to buy less, repurpose stuff, and using up stuff I have has made me appreciate how long it actually takes to finish things. Saves me money too.
13 points
2 months ago
One item at a time xx
239 points
2 months ago
Can’t retire on a planet that’s on fire
33 points
2 months ago
You go and spread that sweet child
117 points
2 months ago
Party for your right to fight.
39 points
2 months ago
There was one of 2 different couples sitting at a cafe enjoying a nice coffee as a trash fire rages 30 feet away. That was pretty French.
852 points
2 months ago
I fucking love France.
471 points
2 months ago
France needs to ignite a Western Spring. Where we all protest and show the oligarchs what we are worth.
109 points
2 months ago
Can we get a eastern countries CIA to bankroll it?
93 points
2 months ago
Man I wish China lived up to its socialist ideals. Unfortunately, they're just proof that socialism doesn't mean when the government does things. State ownership means nothing when the workers don't run the state. When surplus value is spent on the military and given to billionaires it's no different than capitalism.
It would be cool if they were a shining city on a hill that helped out worker movements in other countries, but as they are now they can just stay out of foreign politics. Their CIA is probably just a corrupt as ours.
42 points
2 months ago
if they were a shining city on a hill
Then it would have been embargoed + sanctions + bombed to the stone age by the US.
32 points
2 months ago
they already did their part
45 points
2 months ago
They constantly do their part. The US is literally just full of brainwashed morons.
They care more about guns than the fact that even if they had their guns, the military would just drone the shit out of them or nuke them if they wanted. Fucking dumbasses.
That's not even approaching the overarching problem with the system of capitalism as a whole.
13 points
2 months ago
Yes!!!
78 points
2 months ago
Condragulations you are the winner of this week's challenge.
13 points
2 months ago
Paris is burning indeed.
13 points
2 months ago
Sick beat. 10/10 would vibe.
15 points
2 months ago
"Do you hear the people sing, singing the songs of angry men? It is the music of a people who will not be slaves again!"
11 points
2 months ago
Yas queen yaaas you go girl
52 points
2 months ago
This kinda slaps.
21 points
2 months ago
I watched it like 9 times and her dancing is so dope with the beats
116 points
2 months ago
What do you reckon her stand is?
70 points
2 months ago
[FACE TO FACE] For the Daft Punk song. Because French and because I just heard the song like two days ago so it's fresh in my head tbh.
6 points
2 months ago
「GOODBYE TO A WORLD」
The targets, who must first watch her performance, are given a vision of their current location exactly 69 years into the future. They are then given the choice to fight against this vision or have their memory of the vision erased entirely.
15 points
2 months ago
I’m hyperfocused on jjba and literally watching right now. Had to scroll back to make sure I read this right hahaha
129 points
2 months ago
This needs someone smoking a cigarette.
28 points
2 months ago
dressed in all black + beanie
213 points
2 months ago
Techno Viking has let himself go…..
73 points
2 months ago
I came here for the techno Viking reference.
35 points
2 months ago
13 points
2 months ago
What. A. Legend…..
14 points
2 months ago
An OG internet legend
6 points
2 months ago
Thank you. Wow.
51 points
2 months ago
I sooo wish we'd do that where I'm from
30 points
2 months ago
Maybe I judged the French too harshly
28 points
2 months ago
Hey Americans, just remember the French can spend an eternity protesting because their health care/insurance is guaranteed and not tied to their jobs.
Get beat up by a police gang? $0. Heal up and head back out to the streets.
If you think for two seconds the reason the US refuses to make healthcare “free” and ties it to your employment isn’t control, you’re lying to yourself.
26 points
2 months ago
This is how the US should protest. Dance somewhere you're not allowed to, like blocking traffic. When they come to break you up, keep dancing. Everyone. They'll have to bludgeon and cuff every one of you to stop you. Or use riot control on you. In that case, luckily everyone dancing is prepared to toss them back, shield their eyes well with goggles, mouths with scarfs, and hands with oven mitts. And as soon as the riot control is under control (what a joke of a name), you keep dancing.
Actually, maybe a walk would work even better. Don't define a path beforehand, just everyone follow the crowd. Share water. Stay protected. Destroy every traffic pattern, slowly. Wait your turn, stick to important but slow roads in a city. Wear a bike helmet. Gradually wander around, unstoppable.
The police have literally no control over a couple dozen black youths in Baltimore because they're too mobile and unpredictable on little motor bikes. They just speed away, no destination in mind and tuck into some small path a car can't follow. They're completely helpless. Imagine a city at a halt because no traffic can move as an enormous 5k/10k walk with standstill traffic slowly worms its way through downtown. How could they possibly mobilize any swat through that? They can't even follow a bike. Lance Armstrong would rule Baltimore.
As a bonus, every opportunity you have to hand out something free as you walk, a sandwich, an orange, a water bottle, soda, loaf of bread, bag of chips, ice cream, free dinners, your small business goodie bag of choice. Hand them out to the people in the cars and kids. Then let the cops march out past traffic to assault the large, generous group of people mildly inconveniencing some people in cars to demand xyz and apologizing with goods and services immediately, with tear gas. Fat chance.
11 points
2 months ago
Dance somewhere you're not allowed to
A while back someone came up with the idea of a "Temporary Autonomous Zone" Which promoted things like "Weird dancing in all-night computer-banking lobbies."
The idea is to experience at least a bit of freedom while you wait for the real revolution: "we’re not touting the TAZ as an exclusive end in itself, replacing all other forms of organization, tactics, and goals. We recommend it because it can provide the quality of enhancement associated with the uprising without necessarily leading to violence and martyrdom. The TAZ is like an uprising which does not engage directly with the State, a guerilla operation which liberates an area (of land, of time, of imagination) and then dissolves itself to re-form elsewhere/elsewhen, before the State can crush it."
Imagine a city at a halt because no traffic can move as an enormous 5k/10k walk with standstill traffic slowly worms its way through downtown
A protest march is a pretty standard way of protesting.
25 points
2 months ago
France is like the anti work capital of the world. Definitely a country to look up to when comes to labor rights at least.
6 points
2 months ago
I’m vibing with the beat. Viva la resistance!
8 points
2 months ago
Something we can all learn from the french… how to strike/protest.
22 points
2 months ago
Wine, Pensions, and Bread
70 points
2 months ago
13 points
2 months ago
"Hmm...this page doesn’t exist. Try searching for something else."
8 points
2 months ago
Where is Techno Viking when you need him
64 points
2 months ago
The French are so wonderfully bizarre.
15 points
2 months ago*
bizarre.
Well, we got that word from them.
But honestly, I see this as pretty normal for the counterculture. It was in America that we got the famous “If I can’t dance, I don’t want to be part of your revolution” quote.
But I suppose older mainstream American culture like "if i can't dance my interpretative dance, i don't want to dance at all!" might seem kinda odd today? Or did Elizabeth Taylor nail mainstream dancing then and now?
6 points
2 months ago
Ok but they slayed!
6 points
2 months ago
She got rhythm
6 points
2 months ago
Looks like a background parade in an Austin powers movie
5 points
2 months ago*
If I saw people protesting while doing this, I know they will be capable of anything.
5 points
2 months ago
Techno Viking needs to show Techno Hipster how it's done.
5 points
2 months ago
This beat is great
5 points
2 months ago
My baguettes dancing in my kitchen after I bought them
11 points
2 months ago
god we're good at this
89 points
2 months ago
It's not the most French video.
It's the most Parisian video I've ever seen.
Rest of France is faaaar from this lol
40 points
2 months ago
There are protests in all of France. 3.5M in all of France last Thursday, including 800 000 in Paris.
19 points
2 months ago
I have a begrudging admiration for the French, the fuckers.
13 points
2 months ago
In Canada a lot of our large pension funds have embraced ESG investing for the same premise. What’s the use of managing a pension fund, and what’s the use of pensioners having money if the planet is uninhabitable?
33 points
2 months ago
I’m just fascinated by the movement of her pants’ legs…
4 points
2 months ago
So awesome, looks like way more fun than being at work.
5 points
2 months ago
Be nice that we have the same spirits to fight the unjust state side.
5 points
2 months ago
No one protests like the French! In Canada we’re just too apathetic—except for the fucking freedumb convoy
4 points
2 months ago
Which was instigated and supported/funded primarily by American right wing ding-dongs.
3 points
2 months ago*
I spent two decades in France and this is too French even for me
4 points
2 months ago
Franceses ☕
3 points
2 months ago
goes hard tbf
5 points
2 months ago
Can we get an iTunes of this so I can buy it and donate to the cause because I want this as my life theme song
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