OMG they really do.
I remember when I lived in Germany, French Truckers had a protest where they parked hundreds of trucks on highways and basically shut down the highways in France.
You know how the French people reacted?
They brought the truckers food and water so they would not go hungry.
The solidarity of the French is no bullshit!
In america you block a road and your likely to get murdered
Can’t be late to work. Will get fired and replaced by ai. Which means no healthcare, no house, no food.
That’ll happen either way, if we let the people who would have stood in solidarity with us protest alone and be fired themselves. I’m not telling you what to do, but you’re not protecting yourself
True, a job means healthcare and a house. Right?
If the wannabe oligarchs get their way, that’ll happen anyway…
…by a fellow worker who will not be prosecuted because “they were just defending themselves”
The solidarity of the French is no bullshit!
Fraternité motherfuckers!
Everyone should spend time working in France. Yes I realize how insanely privileged that statement is. But something about working amongst a people where the janitor doesn’t even pretend to take shit from the CEO and leaves a conversation in the middle because it’s break time, is inspiring.
Had this happen to me in Berlin. Customer rep just looked at her watch and left. Granted, it was at an airport very late in the evening, so circumstances were unusually shit, but still. I was amazed.
At least see first hand how they work. I work for myself so I try to imitate their style. I don’t need to go on strike but I’ll drop a client if they’re being stupid.
They also have mobile bars (basicaly a food truck, except you can buy food or drink as it moves along the protest).
Source : I’m French, and protested. It’s kinda like those who run to keep in shape. We protest instead.
If there was another French Revolution, you know that they’d have guillotines on tram tracks
I admire the French, even envy them a bit. I would like to have been born French.
But, since I wasn’t I don’t want anything to do with them.
Since you weren’t neither do they.
Ouch, right in my croissant shaped heart.
But that’s true… Merde, that’s true.
Everyone praises French protesting but the French are literally still like the top 5 of imperialist countries in the world and more often than not their protests don’t change much externally.
Just food for thought when everyone considers dumping everything into protesting.