• BaraCoded@literature.cafe
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    17 days ago

    Against environmental protection, wtf? Who do you think we are? No, we were protesting against yet another tax on gas that would have weighted mostly on the poors, again. This tax was presented as an environmental tax for people to drink the kool-aid, but when you’re poor enough and every cent counts, you can’t take it anymore. That tax was the straw that broke the people’s back, especially when knowing how few taxes our top 10% pay, which is just obscene. We have a thousand millionnaires who don’t even pay taxes at all.

    So, it started in protest against that tax, then Macron spat on our face, then it became about much more than just that tax, it became an uproar against the fucked-up, dystopian society our dear Epstein class is leading us into.

    It was repressed with great violence and injustice, until we just got burnt out by a president who’s paving the way for our local nazies with the complicity of the bourgeoisie and their collaborationist medias, who could not even respect the result of the 2024 parliamentary election (the equivalent of the american congress) that should have imposed a united leftist prime minister, etc… That’s only a glimmer of how Macron and his goons have starved, mutilated and despised the french people and destroyed the country for almost ten years.

    Now, it’s the highschoolers and students that Macron is unleashing his pigs on, and when power spits in our face and start mutilating our children, then we come for its fucking head.

      • Un trop vert timide@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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        16 days ago

        The irony: a contributing factor to both E. Macron elections was his stated posture as a shield against far-right. (M. Le Pen was his second round opponent in both elections.)

          • Un trop vert timide@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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            15 days ago

            Please tone your condescendence down.

            Those responsibles for MLP (and her kind) rise to power are not their opponents. The main responsible are themselves, their allies, and their goons/hench•wo•men.

            The narrative about the protesters being responsible ignore the decades-long events chronology, the contribution of these big companies to our suffering, the proganda aganist the protesters even when unsupported by facts, etc. It is a blame shifting narrative.