(12-02-2018, 03:49 PM)Mystic Wanderer Wrote: It appears snipers on rooftops are shooting protesters. Watch this short clip from Twitter. It's the first post, so even if you don't have an account, you should be able to see it, ( but not the following posts in the thread).
These are not "protestors", they are "rioters", and desperately need to be shot. You can tell the difference - "protestors" carry signs, "rioters" burn and destroy shit that ain't theirs. Perhaps a small distinction, but an important one.
Macron should have been a comedian, with such quips as "No place for this violence in the Republic." - how does he think France ever became a Republic in the first place?
And - Mr Macron has admitted that he has "not succeeded in reconciling the French with their leaders" and had "not given them enough consideration", but is standing firm and refusing to rescind the fuel taxes."
Really? Not "succeeded in reconciling"? Ya think? He's going around thinking it's conciliatory to discuss how the spend the new tax, utterly oblivious to the fact that these folks are incensed that there even IS a new tax - this is something we can see from all the way over here across the pond, yet he can't see it right there in front of his face? Pro tip - you don't have to ask the owners how to spend the tax if you don't goddamned steal it from them in the first place! They can figure out how to spend it all on their own while it is still in their own pockets.
This is a classic display of socialism/ communism in action. They rope you in by telling you how nice and easy life is going to be, how everything is going to be free, the lion will lie down with the lamb, and everyone will gather in a world circle around a campfire and sing kumbaya...
... but they don't tell you that someone has to pay for that fire wood, they don't tell you WHO is going to pay for that firewood, and they sure as hell don't mention the oligarchs that will be the sole beneficiaries of the firewood payments. They don't go into detail - well, they don't mention it at all - about how oligarchs are REALLY going to be running the show and making decisions for "the working class", and that those same oligarchs are going to be the only ones laughing all the way to the bank, and then back to their dachas, whistling the whole way about how they fleeced the sheep.
They don't tell you that you are simply trading one master for another, more draconian master.
So, this faction of the "workers" gets all bent out of shape that THAT faction of the "workers" is making decisions for them that they don't agree with at all - and, truth be told, they are just a little bit bent that THEIR faction of the "workers" is not the faction making decisions for everyone... i.e., they get pissed that THEY are not "The Deciders", and realize they are just another band of followers, which they don't like at all, at all.
So then shit blows up.
Congrats, France! You appear to be on your way to the 6th International!
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Diogenes was eating bread and lentils for supper. He was seen by the philosopher Aristippus, who lived comfortably by flattering the king.
Said Aristippus, ‘If you would learn to be subservient to the king you would not have to live on lentils.’ Said Diogenes, ‘Learn to live on lentils and you will not have to be subservient to the king.’
Said Aristippus, ‘If you would learn to be subservient to the king you would not have to live on lentils.’ Said Diogenes, ‘Learn to live on lentils and you will not have to be subservient to the king.’