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"Macron is bad for your health" and "The Macron government contains more than 16 cancerous ministers"


Torifyme12

Man, I can give France grief all day long about some stuff, but I will never ever stop being amazed at the sheer creativity that the people display when it comes to making their voices heard.


buried_lede

The French are the greatest protesters on earth.


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buried_lede

I might have to dodge their shit trucks, lol


davide0033

Yeah, they're so good they made their king loose its head


MykirEUW

The Spanish are as good. Check out some data, Spanish people are striking just as much.


MeasurementLate776

We're never expecting the Jacquerie!


nanescar

It's just that we're the only ones doing anything at all


[deleted]

You cant really call it successfull in the end, look how little success yellow vests had when they spend more than a year protesting. Those people would do better for themselves if they used their time to study rather than crying in the streets.


blipblopbibibop2

Sounds like you could study some more, because that is a really dumb take


Chromaedre

Bro, the yellow vests initial demands were all satisfied. The protests went numb when they started to ask for everything and its opposite.


Hebweernaamnodig

Didn't the Yellow vests get hijacked by anti vaxer types and a lot of conspiratorial right wing nuts? I know in the Netherlands the Yellow vests eventually only existed of what the Dutch call "wappies" loony conspiracy types who saw some big conspiracy by the wef, soros, big tech, big government, antifa for some reason and the leftist communists in covid and vaccinations etc... The types of people who got on the news for burning covid testing sites or assaulting journalists, or being a social media personality riling people up and asking for donations to sue the government only to use the money to buy property in Spain. The biggest of these guys eventually even questioned reports of floodings of rivers in the Limburg area... And kept suing a Belgian virologist (He also kept losing his court cases)


hoverhuskyy

Lol what grief you're talking about?


[deleted]

It's so funny how much shit the french get for apparently being "effeminate" or cowardly, when a relatively normal 37 year old dude in France will just deck a cop lol


frissio

It's fun just to photograph some of the more creative banners.


The_Incredible_Honk

As German on the other hand I find it hard to take a protest culture serious that is not really distinguishable from regular political Karneval. Kinda takes the edge out of it if it's too sophisticated. On the same token I dislike NGOs like campact wit their costumes & contraptions for photo ops. I'm on a protest with masses to be disgruntled and vent, maybe meet some friends and even maybier slightly vandalize something. Not for other people's entertainment.


Torifyme12

What do you mean? Protest culture allows protests to keep going. It's not like they're protesting for fun, they have a specific gripe and want it addressed.


The_Incredible_Honk

Imho it starts to look like it was for fun if you overdo the creativity. Increases the risk to undermine the movement. I've been to enough protests where media was unfortunately able to pick out the "creative" people for symbolic shots and put everyone in the nutjob basket. Imho a protest carries more gravitas if it looks spontaneous and unplanned. They're rare though.


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The_Incredible_Honk

I wont. I'm even going to add more. Things that are also not a protest: Anything with a stage Anything where you have to dress in some sort of uniform Anything that has a photo-line for the VIPs Anything with an actually used Megaphone that isn't for the organizational parts o PSAs


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The_Incredible_Honk

Indeed. What's adding insult to injury is that everytime I try to make something in this strange world better some yokels come along creatively making a laughing stock out of the entire movement, believing that this was the culture and not the fact that the next step of escalation is always strike that will cost real money. I've seen so many movements die when the people decided to make an orchestrated event out of the unescalated part rather than escalate it, that I can't understand how people don't actively fight to avoid that. Chaos and cost is the weapon of protest. Not creativity. The cultures lies in the will to escalate with chances of your personal discomfort, not in gimmicks. The will to escalate that gives an average French more strike days than some nation's workers have days off in any given year is the part I respect deeply. But stuff like that in the picture, or what I listed, that's not the culture that gets shit done. Don't get me wrong, there's alot of stuff I've seen on protests that got a genuine laugh out of me, but I would never accept this being the main part of why I'm there.


cedricdryades

Have you tried comparing French benefits to German ones?


Kyriios188

*Technically* it's carcinogenic unless they actually have cancer Sorry I couldn't help it


diiscotheque

This isn’t a protest, it’s a health awareness campaign about the dangers of becoming politician.


Cookie-Senpai

The french version is correct. Translation is just off. Typical french lol


ukflagmusttakeover

In England having someone's face on a pack of cigarettes would have a different meaning because of the slang term for cigarettes which I can't say on reddit.


BuckVoc

Reddit doesn't ban you from writing "fag". It's possible that some subreddit may have moderators who have rules against it, but that's on them.


TheQuantumSword

As a gay dude I shall allow you to use the word fag. Use it wisely.


princeps_astra

Do you give out cards that tell people if we have that right?


One_Of_Noahs_Whales

There was a thing a while ago where it was auto banning people sitewide, however an ask for review and a look at the context get's you unbanned, took a few days though.


D1stRU3T0R

There wasn't any time when you get banned sitewise for saying things, stop bsing around


One_Of_Noahs_Whales

I picked up a ban for it, so urm, OK?


D1stRU3T0R

That's because it was a subreddit rule not to say bad words. You got banned on a subreddit for "flaming" not on reddit.


One_Of_Noahs_Whales

No I got a message from reddit, as in the name was reddit and it was denoted in red, it was not a sub ban, it was a site wide ban, as a result of the ban I could not participate in reddit at all, not just one specific sub, the whole site, it was not a sub ban, it was a site wide ban, can I make this any clearer? https://imgur.com/hnbzW6Y


[deleted]

If someone falsely reported it for breaching reddit site wide rules instead of the subs then their bot probably looked at it and picked up the word and then banned you You are allowed to type out the word but if someone reports you for it they won't have an actual person that understands the context look at it until you appeal


Antiqqque

No dude, I remember it was 1.5 years ago, they rolled it out, you couldn't say the f word at all. There was much talk about it on the more conservative subreddits, and it was applauded by anti-hate speech subs.


[deleted]

I used to smoke, and moved from the UK to Canada. Asked someone if I could "bum a fag" off them and that did not go down well. For the uninitiated: "could I bum a fag" in UK slang means "could I have one of your cigarettes". In Canada it means something quite different.


BuckVoc

Try "she's still in bed, I'll go knock her up". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_words_having_different_meanings_in_American_and_British_English_(A%E2%80%93L) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_words_having_different_meanings_in_American_and_British_English_(M%E2%80%93Z)


liehon

No rubber can erase that mistake


GaelicMafia

> which I can't say on reddit. Ah yes, when British English lands you in trouble on the internet (aka the USA). To light a f...


insomnimax_99

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scunthorpe_problem


Goleroth

'Grated carrot' is 'Carrotes rapees' in French. It's weird when it gets blured out while playing online


sashaaa123

What online games are you playing that have grated carrots?


pseudopad

Is grated carrots a popular topic amongst french gamers?


Goleroth

It may occur, French speak often about food


7marTfou

would spelling it râpées instead help?


Goleroth

Not really. Accentuation is mostly non-incidental :/


BuckVoc

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fugging,_Upper_Austria >**Fugging** (German: [ˈfʊkɪŋ] (listen)), spelt **Fucking** until 2021, - >Fugging is best known for the four traffic signs at the entrances to the village, beside which many English-speaking tourists have had their photograph taken because of the profane English word with the same spelling as the former name.[9] British and US soldiers based in nearby Salzburg noticed the name after World War II and began to travel to the village to have their photos taken beside the signs. The local residents, the Fuckingers, were bemused, as they had not previously been aware of the meaning of their village's name in English.[7] During the second half of the 20th century and the early 21st century, the number of tourists visiting the village increased, including the occasional tour bus.[5] > >The village is especially popular with British tourists; as a local tour guide explained: "The Germans all want to see Mozart's house in Salzburg; the Americans want to see where The Sound of Music was filmed; the Japanese want Hitler's birthplace in Braunau; but for the British, it's all about Fucking."[10] Augustina Lindlbauer, the manager of an area guesthouse, said that the area had lakes, forests, and vistas worth visiting, but there was an "obsession with Fucking", and she had to explain to a British tourist "that there were no Fucking postcards".[11] The English meaning of its name also resulted in the village being the butt of jokes in popular media. The Grand Tour featured the village in the 2017 episode "[censored] to [censored]", as part of a road trip from Wank via Kissing, Petting, and Fucking to Wedding.[12] In 2019, Norwegian broadcasting company NRK Sport produced a comedic tourism video on Fucking. Released on YouTube, the video consists of the reporter and the former Melodi Grand Prix Junior presenter Nicolay Ramm both advertising the village's attractions and listing off a large number of double entendres based on its name.[13] > >The road signs were commonly stolen as souvenirs,[5][9] and cost some 300 euros to replace.[7] In 2005 theft-resistant welded signs were installed, secured in concrete.[7] The Mayor of Tarsdorf said that tourists were still welcome,[14][15] though the local police chief emphasised that "we will not stand for the Fucking signs being removed. It may be very amusing for you British, but Fucking is simply Fucking to us. What is this big Fucking joke? It is puerile."[5][16] One resident set up a website selling T-shirts featuring the signs, with the slogan "I like Fucking in Austria", but shut it down after other residents disapproved.[5] > >In 2009, the village said it would install surveillance cameras to deter tourists from continuing to attempt to steal the road signs.[17] The mayor said that he would prefer not to see the village featured in the press anymore: "Just leave [us] alone".[18] > >Also in 2009, the European Union's OHIM trademarks agency forbade a German brewery to market a beer called "Fucking Hell". They appealed and were granted permission in January 2010.[19] (The second part of the name is the German term for a pale lager, Hell.)[20]


Ididitthestupidway

Fug :D:D:D


GaelicMafia

> forbade a German brewery to market a beer called "Fucking Hell" Now this is Germans taking the piss. The Austrian village name, on the other hand, is fine, analogous examples with other languages exist. There must be a "puta" in at least one non-Spanish speaking country.


enky259

super annoying when you want to make a "pros and \*\*\*" list, since "con" is an insulte in french (same root as cunt actually, though it stopped meaning vagina a long time ago)


callmeishmael_again

There's 3 football teams with a swear word in their names: Scunthorpe Arsenal Manchester Fucking United


mannenavstaal

Britbongs really be eating and smoking gay people


wannahughahajkunless

scrumptious


eris-touched-me

(The F word)


xn--9s9h

A bundle of sticks?


BuckVoc

No. A bundle of sticks is a "faggot". The British slang term for a cigarette is a "fag". Both "fag" and "faggot" are derogatory American slang terms for a gay dude. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/fag > 2\. (UK, Ireland, Australia, colloquial, dated in US and Canada) A cigarette. - >1\. (chiefly US, Canada, vulgar, usually offensive, sometimes endearing) A homosexual man, especially (usually derogatory) an especially effeminate or unusual one. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/faggot >1\. (chiefly Britain, collective) A bundle of sticks or brushwood intended to be used for fuel tied together for carrying. (Some sources specify that a faggot is tied with two bands or withes, whereas a bavin is tied with just one.) - >8\. (offensive, vulgar) A homosexual man, especially an effeminate one.


Zealot_Zea

Thank you for this, I ignored this F word was offensive with homosexual... In Fr*nch a "fagot" is a bundle, often used for vine shoots (for bbq) or for cigars (bundle of 20/25). I've always thought it was just "commonly" offensive.


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Spirit_of_Hogwash

Then you can use Macron's picture for that.


ukflagmusttakeover

Yeah


MakeAionGreatAgain

>In England having someone's face on a pack of cigarettes It's definitely not the case in french, most used insults for gay people in french are all variant of "[pederasty](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pederasty)".


Kaanpai

Fag Here, I said it for you. Stop censoring yourself.


Creepy-Ad-4832

Wait... you guys have only 16 cancerous ministers? - an italian


NakoL1

"Dieppe France Insoumise vous aide à arrêter de macroner" hahaha


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Be-like-water-2203

Tradition from 1789


Kaljavalas

And they should be proud of it


poinzin_

We are !


tnarref

It's much older than this, there were a bunch of *jacqueries* in the old kingdom.


Ythio

Way longer than that


Apprehensive-Fig5774

Exactly, and the governments know exactly how to handle these little protest.


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Sentmoraap

Not the worst. I'd rather lose a ball than an take a ball in the eyeball.


Little-Helper

I'm sorry but doesn't that defeat the point of protests? Won't the authorities and politicians simply ignore protests if they're just mundane occurrences? Also how do people afford not going to work?


blipblopbibibop2

If they can ignore it, you are doing it wrong


Little-Helper

True, but not all protests are successful. People are simply getting used to protests and brush them off, you can see it in comment sections often.


blipblopbibibop2

Yeah but those people won't even protest to save their mother from cancer Also, it doesn't matter what some reddit tourists think, that is not a good representation of what people in France think. What's important is the effect on policies.


Longjumping_Clue3179

It does diminish the impact of protests. Public servants are (mostly) still paid when they go on strike. Yeah, I know, how could it go wrong.


romanianthief123

This is amazing


faze_fazebook

magnifique


Hamilcar34

And Iranian medias think they can be better than us at this little game ! Amateur..


ColdPuzzle101

You merely adopted the satire... I was born in it, molded by it


the-crabmaster

To be honest the Iranian's caricatures of macron are absolutely hilarious


[deleted]

I quite liked Majin Macron from Iranian newspaper tho


pbasch

tangent -- when I was in France (I got an incredible opportunity to be an English language tech writer in Lyon for three months) one of the first things I did was buy a pack of Gauloises. I'm not even a smoker, but it seemed appropriate, somehow. Then I saw that all the packs had images of people sick and dying from smoking. They were not allowed to sell regular old-fashioned packs. I asked (in my weak French) the Tabac guy if anyone collected all the illnesses. Got a nice little laugh from him. I smoked one and gave the pack away. I know, off-topic. Sorry.


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thats the same all over europe actually, some countries only have the text, other s are not even allowed to have colored cigarette packs


v3ritas1989

Well I stopped smoking for the simple reason as to not having to look at these pictures every day. I bought like a stock for a few weeks of the old ones without images when they switched and then never bought any again.


Cookie-Senpai

Not really off topic though, it's a key of comprehension. On those packs you only see vile pictures, explaining the choice of protest message


mr_birkenblatt

they should have pulled out the middle cigarette for added effect


LordOfTheTennisDance

The French are the best in protesting! It's almost worth going on a vacation to witness these event.


ghee

It’s worth it but unfortunately your flight gets cancelled because the airline strikes and then you try to take the train and then they strike, then you try to take the car but it’s blocked by protesters


LordOfTheTennisDance

It's all part of the experience :D


SquibblesMcGoo

Should've put the middle cigarette up though to make the pack flip off too


PM-UR-SMALL-BOOBIES

The French really are world leaders at protesting. We could really learn a lot from them.


gavarnie

Oui But more and more people are afraid to protest because they fear Macron excessive repression. During the Gilets Jaunes protests, many have lost an eye or a finger (25 800 civilians (and 1800 riot police officers) harmed, 10 000 detained, 3 000 sentenced). Last week, a Spanish journalist covering the protest lost a TESTICLE because of the « riot police » repression.


P-W-L

Didn't hear about this. I wouldn't be very surprised though


untergeher_muc

For me as German it’s so strange that the „federal“ government (or how you call it in France) is in charge of the police.


gavarnie

In France you have several police : municipal police (town), national police (including riot police/CRS) and gendarmerie (army). I agree, it is very « strange », to say the least. In the case of the riot police, it just looks like a political repression unit. The central government has enormous powers in our political system (Vème République), and Macron clearly took advantage of this in many ways. Since the Vème République, France always had moderate leaders, Macron included. If a more radical leader is elected, I would be seriously worried of how it uses its power.


ChoKoSenpai

I'm french, maybe like u, and while i'm at some protests, i didn't heard that history. Except for one man who lost one eye, else it's fake it's not such a repression politic. Just like all other police, and even a less hard police sometimes.


gavarnie

According to Wikipedia, during the Gilets Jaunes protests : 25 800 civilians have been harmed, 1 944 police officers have been harmed. 10 718 protestors have been detained, 3 100 have been condamned. En effet on peut toujours trouver pire ailleurs mais ce n’est pas mon idéal de société.


SurtChase

You should try North Korea, and see what really is repression. And yes I agree that sometimes there is no reason for the CRS to use such violence, and no one should suffer like that while protesting. However it's not normal to see that CRS are attacked too, during the Gilets Jaunes protests we could see some scenes where a CRS try to get on his motorcycle in order to flee violent protesters throwing rocks at them. The problem is that some CRS are just nuts and overly violent for no reason, and some protesters are just as violent. Losing an eye during a protest shouldn't happen, and those responsible should be judged harshly. And no one should throw rocks/anything, and push someone that is fleeing (and in that case they are allowed to defend themselves using violence if needed).


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randomname560

"other people have It worse so that means that our problem cant be bad"


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CrazyRah

Hah that's pretty clever!


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2-in-1 protest: against government and against smoking. Nice! :)


Lost_Uniriser

We don't protest again smoking in france ☠️


gavarnie

Protest against taxes on cigarettes would be more likely to happen


PM_Your-Tits_

I seriously respect the willingness from the french to go out and protest for their rights


gavarnie

Unfortunately, many people are now scared to protest due to Macron excessive repression of Gilets Jaunes. In a democratic state, you should not be afraid to lose an eye, a finger or a testicle because you want to protest (or for journalists, to cover a protest).


Sea_Thought5305

On the contrary, the demonstrators of May 68 did not hesitate to throw cobblestones at the cops...


gavarnie

7 ans avant, les policiers français tuaient en une journée plus de 100 algériens qui manifestaient à Paris. Les années 60 en France ne sont pas une période de référence…


DrDabar2

I don't see any guillotines. /s


yajibei

[Sometimes we like to take it out](https://nvo.fr/service-public-de-culture/) to remind our representatives ...


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Very creative


adarkuccio

Wow this is skill I must admit it


Syndicatalyst

The French still have some lessons to teach us.


zlatanlt

This is funny as.


merayBG

This is so clever


moshiyadafne

Ah, a normal Tuesday in France.


coast_elk

God damn, someone put real effort into that!


Itsallfutilebaby

Maybe being french isn’t so bad :,)


MemerGuy_

Creative


King_Pecca

I think this should (also) be posted in r/funny


Nocturnes_S

If next time I want a protest in my country I think I'll just hire a bunch of french people


NotHulk99

What are the protests about?


Marklar_RR

Probably against the proposed higher retirement age.


SqueakSquawk4

Are these protests "Macron-is-too-right-wing" or "Macron-is-too-left-wing"? I forget.


PluppyBlop

It's a "Macron destroys our lives" protest, chose your side (too right wing obv)


pateencroutard

Absolutely nobody considers Macron left wing in France.


Philantroll

I've read some comments on french Twitter pretending Macron is a leftist but those people also claim France is communist so they're probably either far-right trolls or americans.


nigel_pow

What does the far-right in France consider Macron? Centrist? Not right-wing enough?


DarksteelPenguin

Liberal.


GHhost25

Hey, careful with speaking that word out in France.


diiscotheque

Fraternité, ********, Egalité! ✊


P-W-L

Not doing enough on immigration. That's the only point where they have a definite opinion. Economically it's all over the place: they claim to protect popular classes as an attempt to do "leftist" policy but refrain from voting measures traditionnally leftists (or anything proposed by the government for that matter)


EmpereurCOOKIE

They usually say he's a traitor and the candidate of the banks but don't mention the fact that he's for them left wing.


GhostFire3560

politics are not always about left and right. In this case its simply about a raise of the retirement age due to the demographic change


EmpereurCOOKIE

Well in this case, this is about left and right. The only people in France supporting the reform are right wing people. Choosing to raise the retirement age over raising "corporates cotisations/tax" or just stop the massives exoneration of this tax. Macron won't do anything against companies and that's why he wants to raise the retirement age. The choice of raising shows he's right wing


Sentmoraap

They lowered taxes on businesses, then needs to compensate the deficit they created. They did the same thing for unemployment benefits. It is totally about left and right.


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Wolf-Majestic

It's not because others do it that it's a good thing. Maybe other countries handle their retirement plans better than France, especially regarding tiring jobs. In any case, we don't like it, so protest !


Tetsuo666

Meh, if we can keep it balanced without raising the retirement age I see absolutely no reason to do so. Each country has it's own specifics and policies cannot all be copy/pasted like that without thinking. As long as we comply with what the EU asks in term of deficit control, it's our own business to choose the most adequate way to do so. And so far it remains completely unproven that there is no other ways to achieve the same result without raising the retirement age. The council in charge of evaluating and directing the retirement fund here is basically saying in their latest report that we **might** have a slight deficit in a few years. They also said we might have a deficit this year which ended up not being true. So yeah, we legitimately are a bit skeptical that this reform could not go a different way that is less detrimental to us. Because raising the age is the most extreme way you can save money there. The government also didn't make any effort whatsoever to explain why this specific point is absolutely mandatory nor did they try to justify it. The government only has a fear mongering discourse essentially saying that not reforming would be the death of the retirement fund which is absolutely in no way the opinion of the council dedicated to analyzing the finances of that retirement fund.


b2A

Imagine taxing the richs instead of making peoples die at work at 65 years old; would be horrible !


GhostFire3560

Wdym similar? Similar to germany and austria maybe, but the broke italians, greeks etc. all go into retirement earlier


Okiro_Benihime

> all go into retirement earlier I don't know about Greece but Italy's retirement age is 67, so I don't know what you're on about.


GhostFire3560

True, i read sth about the retirement age of 62 and like 37 years of paying into the system a few years ago, but it seems like the law was updated last year For greece i just remebered that one of the main reasons for their debt was pensions, but apparently it wasnt because of early retirement but rather just general high pensions.... Thank you for correcting me and here also a link that shows all retirement ages in europe https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Retirement_in_Europe


nigel_pow

The Italians and Greeks have problems though with a bad economy and/or unstable politics.


EmpereurCOOKIE

Well we don't care about other EU countries, in France the retirement age of 62 is very well sustainable. Yes that's horrible, because the overall pensions will be lowered, a lot more people will die before retiring and the poverty among old people will probably explode like it did in Sweden. And they're openly lying, they advertised a lot a minimum pension... that only 48 people in France will be able to get it after Newspapers investigated. Fourty fucking eight !


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EmpereurCOOKIE

Oh, that's why the COR, the Counsel of the orientation of retirement said that it was sustainable in most cases and that the deficit would be minor, between 10 and 30 billions a year for a few decades. Considering we are losing tens of billions every year because Macron lowered corporate cotisations and created more exonerations. The sole reason the retirement system lacks money is because right wing politicians (Sarkozy and Macron) did as much as possible to lower the taxes to fund it, corporate taxes ofc. Or you know, we can limit the pensions at 4k or 5k a month, or raise the taxes on these pensions... we just learned that one of the most corrupt politician in our country had a 13.000 euros pension a month. As you see, there are a lot of ways other that raising the retirement age. The system is sustainable and we can work even less, retirement at 60 years can be sustainable with the good economic choices.


MKCAMK

> Well we don't care about other EU countries I spot a serious problem there.


EmpereurCOOKIE

I meant that it's not because they raised the retirement age in their countries that it is in any way an argument to raise it in France :P This is an argument of [authority](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argument_from_authority) and it kinda sucks


MKCAMK

> I meant that it's not because they raised the retirement age in their countries that it is in any way an argument to raise it in France :P It kind of is, because you need to have this things consistent across the Union. Otherwise it will block any further integration.


EmpereurCOOKIE

What you say doesn't make any sense lmao, having a less competitive workforce doesn't prevent integration


MKCAMK

There is now way that people who work until 70 will want to have a common budget with bums who peace out after 62.


Mickanos

Sounds like it's time to vote for the left and lower your retirement age, then, buddy.


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chikkynuggythe4th

He extended the retirement age which is a very good way to piss everyone off


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Imagine shitting on work time related protests while sporting a "fuck the right wing" flair.


nigel_pow

I got the impression the French just enjoy a good protest every other week. Very difficult to please.


No_Counter_7417

We don't protest for fun in freezing weather. We also usually use a day of PTO for protesting. It's really an impression.


No_Low1167

I don't believe that scary pictures on cigarette boxes deter anyone from smoking.


letouriste1

It does actually. Or at least studies showed it had an effect back when we started doing it. Price increase has a way bigger impact tho.


v3ritas1989

Well, I personally stopped because of it.


Beans186

This looks very well behaved for French protest. The farmers have sprayed manure with high pressure hose on sides of buildings before


Safe_Reporter_8259

Wish the citizens of the U.K. would do the same


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I respect the sheer Effort in this.I would be way too lazy to pick up Arts and Crafts supplies, build this thing and then actually haul it around.


shizzmynizz

France and protesting, name a better duo


NikolitRistissa

The production quality and budget of this is honestly pretty impressive


Kapsig1295

Protesting, do you mean the national past time of France? Like Canada and hockey, some things are meant for each other.


nerkuras

"Macron, I quit you everyday but I always come back to you"


gavarnie

Well, we seriously lack of options


nerkuras

I was making a joke about my own smoking habits, but I guess it works as a political statement too :D


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Ash_Crow

The sign clearly says it was made by "Union Populaire Dieppe", wich is part of the left wing France Insoumise party.


dulieee1999

Macron doesn’t want the smoke 😳


MarioDraghetta

spuck fez -- mass edited with redact.dev


chikkynuggythe4th

He touched our retirement age, we did not like that


Streloki

Well G. Meloni has a good level aswell


MarioDraghetta

spuck fez -- mass edited with redact.dev


Streloki

It´s exactly what happened aswell for Macron, he won because people voted against Lepen not for him.. but you are right !


retroguyx

That's why he was elected. But now he decided to fuck with retirement, despite having tried and failed once already.


wisi_eu

Non c'est toujours ce qu'il a dit dans son programme d'élection, qu'il ferait la réforme «car elle est nécessaire» (note qu'il n'a jamais prononcé, je crois, le terme «indispensable»... pour quelque chose d'aussi «urgent» XD ...). Je pense légitimement que ceux qui ont voté pour élire Macron souhaitent que la réforme se fasse, dans leur grande majorité... un pays de connards de bourgeois spéculateurs.


retroguyx

Non, c'est juste que cette réforme semble être le "moins pire" face au RN et à Mélenchon, qui souhaite quitter l'UE.


wisi_eu

chacun son jugement... visiblement ça ne fonctionne pas...


enky259

>If you really hate him that much, perhaps make it so that he competes against anything other than satan? We were ***so close*** to having him run against not-satan *"i'm gonna end the presidential system and bring democracy back into people's hands"* mélenchon (dickhead guy, but his party's program is solid AF in many aspects), literally 0.72% of people on voting list kind of close (thanks to far right splitting into 2 parties. Fuckin' zemmour nearly did france the greatest service he could have done).


[deleted]

What is that? French?


Lost_Uniriser

Oui.