• Ð Greıt Þu̇mpkin@lemm.ee
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    7 months ago

    They live under an even stricter presidential Republic than the US with no regional rights or autonomy, and with a policing system founded by an actual fucking Nazi collaborator with all the brutality that entails, where using gender neutral language even in your own personal writings gets you accused of being a woke college elitist, where a Holocaust Denier’s daughter has nearly become the highest official of the land twice on a coalition with members who call for a French reconquista, and where the existence of Algeria as an independent state is still considered a sore spot with a large voting demographic of the French boomers.

    But they got healthcare and stuff so totally a socialist utopia compared to America and clearly everything their people do works perfectly every damn time

    Question, if the French style of rioting works so much better than voting? Why do they have to keep doing it over the same damn shit far more often than they vote?

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      7 months ago

      so, speaking as someone living under a literal segregationist, whose predecessor and current opponent for next election is a literal Nazi whose father was a Nazi?

      where the cops here murder you in your home for fun then annoint your fucking corpse with cocaine and a ceremonial gun to make it all okay, then if anyone sues it comes out if teacher pay?

      oh wow healthcare. I have stories about that here. mostly body horror.

      gender neutral language gets you called a ‘woke elitist’ here too.

      we certainly aren’t doing better than them. and look, they have fucking healthcare and get to mostly live inside and their food isn’t all either plastic or poison! yeah their government are racist assholes, but that does seem at least somewhat representative, according to you, so maybe thats just the ugly side of the system working?