France is burning with riots. ARE WE NEXT AGAIN ??? |
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(1)>>French movie ‘La Haine’. If you are French, or want to have a deeper understanding of the situation in France. NOW is the perfect time to watch this movie. LA HAINE vehicular a message that is still important. Even more now Watch it! La Haine opens with a montage of news footage of urban riots in a banlieue in the commune of Chanteloup-les-Vignes near Paris. A local man, Abdel Ichaha, is in intensive care having been gravely injured in police custody. In the ensuing riots the local police station is besieged, and a police officer loses his revolver. The film depicts approximately twenty consecutive hours in the lives of three friends of Abdel, all young men from immigrant families, in the aftermath of the riot.I dont want to spoiler too much, but the rest of the movie is basically about one of the 3 who wants to seek revenge for the killing of abdel,struggles with the police racism and problems within french society. "So the plot is actually really close to the situation thats going on in france rn. You get to see the life in the banlieu and the reason, why someone thats living in the banlieu wants to seek revenge and the sentiment of the people in the banlieu plus you see the divide in the population and the problems with police so I dont really know how somebody could say its totally unrelated lol. (2)>>EU does nothing to stem the continued flow of young mostly male economic immigrants.So a lot of Europeans are mad that EU is allowing mass immigration from places like Africa which is causing the immigrant population for example:Sweden having 14% of their population being foreign born And 1 in 4 German births are by immigrants. And unlike America european immigrants rarely assimilate and have their own separate communities which leads to religious extremism and terrorist attacks like in France where terrorism surged after 1970s allowance of immigration or Sweden violence surging I personally don’t think immigration is that bad but the far right Europeans are getting huge support like the far right candidate against macron almost won last election and could win the future one and I fear that mass deportations and far right countries might rise in europe in the future A lot of Europeans think that other people are replacing their culture (which is bs and this narrative is used by racists a lot) and people go as far and say that this is colonization which is also bs So do you personally think europe should allow more immigrants and would you be ok with it if europe had a large population and were mass immigrating to africa in the 21th century?(3)>> “C’est la catastrophe!”But a year-and-a-half after Macron took office, a majority of the French are trying to tell him, “You don’t listen to us!”. Macron has the support of a tailor-made absolute majority in the National Assembly : he has strictly no interest in calling new elections that would most certainly result in a cabinet hostile to him. Or, he could try and emulate Chirac, who did so in 1997 and was reelected in 2002.He can also resign, which would of course lead to a new presidential election, and most likely in new legislative elections. ---- French pay high taxes, poor retirement, health care issues - Macron lowering taxes for rich, increasing for middle class - Macron mocking the people and being cocky? - Macron wasting a lot of tax money on questionable projects? - Paris is very expensive (at least when I was there the last time) even in very crappy looking areas - Immigration crisis costing extreme amount of money and have a strong toll on the population - Some parts of paris now look like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yqopPs5Tp-I- Recently there was a riot with immigrants destroying parts of the city (also in the video) Not sure how large tho - Recent Terrorist attacks surely having a huge impact - ?The tax raise on fuel even if minor let the barrel overfill and people are just pissed because of the near history, and the cocky attitude of Macron really made people go enrage I would strongly assume All kinds of people are in the protests, left, right, center, extremists, some just want to destroy stuff or fight the police, some travel in to make trouble like at G20, majority of the French apparently sympathize with them from what I know. (3.1)>>FRANCE IS BURNING .. IT's A WARNING also to AMERICA !. Marjorie Taylor Greene is using the unrest in France to warn Americans that similar rioting could happen in the U.S. if the nation doesn't implement stricter immigration laws and defend gun rights.Greene told her Twitter followers on Monday that Muslim migrants are to blame for the French riots and that the country's gun laws have prevented its citizens from owning arms to defend themselves against the rioters."Muslims migrated to France over the past two decades and France took them in while making it difficult for the people of France to own guns for self protection," Greene tweeted. Greene isn't the only one to draw parallels between the recent events in France and American immigration policies. Politically, the situation at the U.S.-Mexico border has been a weak spot for the Biden administration, bringing fierce Republican attacks over the past two years.Despite the differences between the two countries’ cultures, police forces and communities, the shooting in France and the outcry that erupted there this week laid bare how the U.S. is not alone in its struggles with systemic racism and police brutality. (4)>>The revolt started after an officer shot dead a 17-year-old, during a traffic stop in the Paris suburb of Nanterre. Like GEORGE FLOYD , Lawyers for the victim's family identified him as 17-year-old Nahel M. and said they intend to file complaints against the officer who fired the lethal shot and another officer who was at the scene. Nahel's mother took to social media calling for people to join her at a march in Nanterre on Thursday, saying: "Please, let's revolt for my son."I understand France passed a law a few years back giving police the authority to shoot at vehicles. This was in response to the level of terrorism they combat. But even if no law such as that existed...the story is weak. If Nahel had been hit by the but of a gun, whether once or twice he would not be able to drive. What he is not saying is relevant. It is also important to note the trivial details being provided by this "friend". The story is very unnatural and raises more questions than answers.While he did not possess a criminal record, according to his family’s legal representatives, Merzouk had encounters with law enforcement, notably for resisting arrest.He had been charged with resisting arrest multiple times, including the weekend before his most recent incident.His judicial file revealed 15 recorded incidents involving offenses such as using false license plates, driving without insurance, and engaging in the sale and consumption of drugs.A series of difficulties and encounters with the legal system characterized Merzouk’s life. (5)>>This is not justice, this is just using a tragic incident to justify doing crimes: breaking shops and stealing from them, burning random cars of people and so on. Similar to minneapolis in that the rioters didn't care about George Floyd, but wanted a free TV or see the world burn - anarchists. Same thing is happening in France. While the world shudders at what video suggests was a senseless killing, as well as the equally senseless destruction of Nahel's neighborhood — and beyond — Minnesotans are likely viewing the news from France through the lens of George Floyd's murder in Minneapolis and the violent events that followed in 2020. BUT will stoop to anything as it regards speculation- this has nothing to do with a 17 year old young man - trying to draw similarities is frightful - what's clearly wrong is the reaction to this by people in France- they are using this tragedy the same way we saw people rioting and burning and STEALING from stores and innocent business owners- To be clear, this is not a protest. This is a riot of people behaving badly. While the loss of life may have similar nodes to that of the loss of Mr. Floyd. The true correlation is with those rioting in France today and those who, throughout urban America, rioted in the Summer of 2020.(6)>>Riots spread to Switzerland and Belgium. Seven were arrested in Lausanne, Switzerland, after teens smashed shop windows. After having spread to Belgium, Afro-Arab riots have no spread to Switzerland. Tell me again this is just about pOLiCe BruTaLiTy? It’s clearly a war on Europeans, permitted by decades of anti-white animus and a cultivated sense of entitlement and impunity. Protests over the killing of a French teenager at the hands of police have spread to neighbouring Belgium and Switzerland, as Emmanuel Macron delayed an official visit to deal with the crisis.On the sidelines of an EU Summit, Belgian Prime Minister Alexander De Croo said, "What is happening in France has nothing to do with what is happening in our country."Over the past six nights, roughly three thousand people have been arrested, with shops being looted and buildings being attacked in parts of France.I don’t understand what it means for a riot to “spread” to another country. What is the mechanism by which riots in Belgium and Switzerland are “caught” from France? The BLM example was quite explainable: pushed by the media. (7)>>If it fails, France witnesses a revolution of the kind that hasn't been seen in a G7 country in centuries. While the newest wave of protests , Even though the relationship between the French police and the citizenry has been strained, this dynamic is not the sole cause for unrest. France's most intense urban violence in nearly two decades rocked the country for a week, with thousands of cars torched, public property destroyed, and over 3,700 rioters arrested, many of them minors.President Emmanuel Macron will celebrate Bastille Day, which marks the fall of the Bastille prison in 1789, seen as igniting the French Revolution. As a result of this dissatisfaction, the protests have been centered around a grassroots movement outside of governmental processes. this strategy has helped calibrate the frustration of the French people. NOW these movements have failed to articulate an “end game.” Just as there exists a disconnect between Macron’s promises and his governance, a disconnect exists between the grassroots movement and its goals to radically reform France’s economic and political structures. Both crises flow, in part, from the high rates of inflation caused by the Ukraine war and the retreat of the Covid pandemic. What we’re witnessing is the slow-motion train derailment that is the collapse of the post-Cold War neoliberal consensus. In nearly every western nation, the globalists are under siege from both right and left. When faced with civil disorder, and let’s remember the primary purpose of all governments at all levels is to maintain civil order, weak willed politicians will bow to public pressure in order to avoid outright rebellion. These ‘compromises’ will gradually erode the policies that have enabled and empowered the current neoliberal order. At the same time, attending to the immediate needs of domestic populations is likely to be at the expense of international goals like free trade, etc. as the human instinct to ‘take care of our own’, and/or ‘put our own house in order’ overrides all other concerns. The US no longer has the economic power or the political capital to intervene, and a significant portion of Americans are tired of the expenses of being a hegemon falling upon them while the benefits continue to enrich the top 1%. Expect no help from here, as there’s a strong possibility that unless the economy makes a major turn in the next two years, we’re likely to see the return of Trump or someone quite similar in 2024. Moreover, the powerful US military establishment is laser focused on China at the moment and the conflict between the world’s two largest economies will continue at everyone’s expense because there is almost no political pressure outside of big business (who themselves are becoming political pariahs in many corners) in the other direction. The end result of all of this will be a multipolar world characterized by resurgent nationalism, increased tension between nations, and an increased reliance on limited political/economic alliances between individual nations or regional blocs who share economic synergies and similar political objectives.