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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Thats why they get the good stuff. Gotta keep the leaders honest with a few riots and manure deliveries to their homes.

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[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Lower taxes, subsidies, avoiding government prices hikes, public policy regarding police action - all sorts of things - this article explains it pretty well

https://time.com/5476534/french-protests-successful-macron/?amp=true

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

We have the same stuff in Germany without burning shit down...

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Actually:

June 4th, 2023, 300 Germans set fire to police barricades and attacked Leipzig police officers. The rioters were protesting jail sentences for people who attacked neo-nazis.

Source:

https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2023/06/04/europe/leipzig-germany-lina-e-far-left-protest-intl/index.html

These are protests to breaches by authority against standing political, social and economic infrastructure rather than the infrastructure itself you are referring to; that infrastructure is as in place in France as it is in Germany.

[–] [email protected] -4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

France has astronomically higher taxes that the US does.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

"Astronomically".

This is like making fun of a fireman using a bucket of water that's twice as large as your bucket to put out a house fire.

They pay twice as much in taxes. Vs the ludicrous cost of most basic citizen necessities in the United States .

Pay twice as much in taxes, you get affordable/basically free healthcare and adorable/basically free higher education(medical school is 2k a year in France). Affordable, reliable long-distance transportation/physical transportation infrastructure, a living and functional social security, but sure. Careful of those taxes you could pay that would cover all basic human necessities plus all major financial concerns until you croak.

As an example, instead of paying $3,000 in taxes per year, you could pay $6,000 in taxes per year, and you would be free to pursue any education you liked, including medical school, for $1000-$2000 per year instead of paying 30k per year just to learn core classes. Good thing you saved that 3k during tax season.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 1 year ago

Lmao what? France gets the good stuff?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Oh I think it's a wonderful thing!