r/SipsTea • • 14h ago

Chugging tea Peaceful protests in France today

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u/Dull_Astronomer_3778 13h ago

A peaceful protest rarely accomplishes anything

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u/arkeod 13h ago

it's not a protest, it's a riot

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u/AccomplishedFall6603 13h ago

If they don't listen to the protests, they're going to hear the riots.

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u/RogueCleric 13h ago

Do you hear the people sing?

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u/Dull_Astronomer_3778 13h ago

Should have listened when it was just a protest

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u/meergreister 13h ago

Vast majority of this movement has been peaceful. Just fuck off with your bullshit

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u/lowie07 13h ago

Is this what the injured cops and owners of destroyed property are told? "No reason to complain, the vast majority was very peaceful"

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u/mloukhia59 9h ago

Loooool "poor injured cops"

Meanwhile those who lost their hands / eyes are not cops

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u/meergreister 13h ago

I don’t know dude is that what you are telling them?

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u/lowie07 13h ago

People like you are such hypocrits, we can never generalize but if it's to let shit like this slide it's no problem. If part of this mob was being racist the entire movement would be condemned racists but violence is perfectly tolerable in the grand scheme of things apparently.

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u/meergreister 13h ago

Not even remotely fucking true. I think there are those who are part of the Palestinian rights movement that are actually antisemitic. They show up to protests but that doesn’t discredit the whole movement.

Just like the property damage from rioting during the French protests doesn’t discredit the whole movement which is largely peaceful.

It’s chuds like you who immediately move to discredit entire movements while supporting politics entirely based around racism, xenophobia, and hatred that are the hypocrites.

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u/1maginaryApple 13h ago

Shit got violent when cops started hitting on fucking kids peacefully protesting. This police state escalated the issue. Not the other way around.

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u/lowie07 13h ago

Yes for every violent protest in France a kid was smacked first, they normally never do this

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u/1maginaryApple 13h ago

It's always the government that escalate actual peaceful protest

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u/Black3Raven 11h ago

It does. Especially with worker strikes

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u/updoot35 9h ago

But this one doesn't. Remember 2020?the firdays for future protests? All people said was that Greta thunberg is annoying and kids should go to school. Nothing changed

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u/moashforbridgefour 13h ago

Maybe France has some better social programs as a result of their protesting, but I have never once had to board up my windows to protect against angry mobs of people hurling rocks and crap down my street.

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u/braumbles 13h ago

Instead you just lose healthcare coverage because politicians think you're worthless.

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u/Relative-Disk-8560 13h ago

You’re projecting the reaction of the French people, where in reality this stuff is quite normalized and people are not just cowering in fear. More likely to be sitting at a cafe watching until the tear gas wafts too hard.

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u/moashforbridgefour 12h ago

Do you even realize how crazy you sound?