French political discussion megathread: Yellow Vest Redux

[Red Velvet]

How is this any worse than what labor rioters do? 15 years ago weren't labor rioters literally kidnapping bosses demanding not to be fired?

It’s not, it’s people who are way more sensitive to violent protests because of social media. Mainstream media has always been opposed to this stuff but nowadays they also give more attention to international protests like this in itger countries because of social media reach of this info.

The French have always done this stuff: strikes; burning cars on the street; etc etc so it’s nothing new even if the motivation behind always changes. This time is a racist murder of a French dude with North African ancestry, some time ago it was about lowering of purchase power, in the future it will be something entirely new… The French love to have reasons to hate on their leaders and destroy their country to the ground in the name of a cause that opens door for improvement, it’s in their DNA because of the revolution.

[Red Velvet]

To think people were trying to justify low approval ratings were a good thing… This is what happens when you have lots of passionate “dissent”.

Only 1/4 of France likes Macron. The other 1/4 is on the Le Pen camp and another 1/4 are leftists who dislikes him as well. And the rest are spread out all over the place, not falling in one exact camp but still not on Macron’s side.

Anyway, it’s France though so I expect nothing to come out of it. People will get it out of their systems and then move on.

[Red Velvet]

It’s just obvious tbh. The more the West tries to isolate, suffocate, coup or destroy these South countries in order to protect their standing; the more overflooded the West will be with people from non-western places.

Which can be good to compensate for demographic declines but also creates a much more intense need for integration. They think they can welcome all these people while keeping them as third-rate citizens with no consequences and that’s simply impossible without some kind of harsh backlash. And we all know that the West isn’t really prepared to renounce to internal white supremacist dynamics that are key to shaping their national and cultural identities. You easily notice how they inherently feel “superior” to these immigrants culture even when they’re trying to welcome them.

It’s like, you can arrive to France as long as you renounce to your individual identity and basically become a white person with “French” values. It’s absolutely disgusting but westerners in general always push it very naturally because of this inherent misguided superior complex mixed with the savior complex too. It’s not because people look for better opportunities that they want to be like you are lmao. This led to people in the West to believe that immigrants would just come and be like them because the “inherent western cultural superiority” would lead the “better” culture to prevail.

If more and more people inside your borders are increasingly different than the “national standard” then it’s that standard that will inevitably have to change in order to fit the country reality for the sake of social cohesion and peace. Otherwise you have an apartheid state. This is the reality that the West has to face nowadays, renouncing their old national identities is inevitable for the sake of their own survival after all the interference that was pushed by themselves.