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People took to the streets of #Paris again to protest against the pension reform. pic.twitter.com/3sZTgG46Ep

— NEXTA (@nexta_tv) May 1, 2023


Democracy isn’t free. You must pay with all of your basic freedoms and your human dignity.

All of your money will be forfeit as well.

But that is nothing in comparison to the need to protect our values.

Reuters:

Workers marched across France in anger at President Emmanuel Macron’s increase in the retirement age on Monday, with police firing tear gas in Paris and the western city of Nantes, as protesters joined Labour Day rallies across Europe.

Macron’s popularity has plunged to near record lows hit during the “Yellow Vest” crisis after he stared down trade unions and multi-sector strikes and lifted the retirement age by two years to 64.

The move crystallised discontent against a president perceived by many as indifferent to their daily hardships and Macron has been met by boos, pot banging and heckles as he confronts citizens on walkabouts.

Sophie Binet, leader of the hardleft CGT union, said the pension reform had left Macron isolated.

“The executive cannot govern without the support of its people,” Binet said ahead of the Paris protest, adding her union had not yet decided on talks with the government on other work-related matters in the weeks ahead.

Laurent Berger, head of the reform-minded CFDT trade union, said Macron’s government had been deaf to the demands of one of the most powerful social movements in decades.

He said his union was open to discussions with the government and dismissed suggestions that a rare alliance between the leading trade unions was being tested now that the pension bill had been signed into law.

“We must bring other proposals over salaries and working conditions to the table,” he told BFM TV.

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Macron says the French reform is needed to keep one of the industrialised world’s most generous pension systems in the black.

French pension payments as a share of pre-retirement earnings are comfortably higher than elsewhere and a French man typically spends longer in retirement than those in other OECD nations.

Trade unions say the money can be found elsewhere.

The issue is: if this ever gets too hot, Macron can just surrender, and be replaced with someone exactly like Macron.

Then the protests stop.

That is the way democracy works.

It neutralizes the population.

 

]]> France: Police Now Confiscating Pots and Pans from People to Defend Democracy https://www.anglinarchive.com/2023/04/25/france-police-now-confiscating-pots-and-pans-from-people-to-defend-democracy/ Tue, 25 Apr 2023 00:00:00 +0000

This is a danger to our democracy

One of the biggest threats to our democracy (who we are) is cookware.

That faggot from NATO just released a joint statement with that old whore von der Leyen – pots and pans are not who we are and really have nothing to do with our values.

Daily Express:

Emmanuel Macron reportedly ordered that pots and pans be seized from protesters ahead of his visit to a small French town this week. This comes as the French President comes under intense pressure and a ferocious backlash after pushing through his controversial pension reform plans. Police in the town of Ganges in southern France were told to confiscate saucepans, which were deemed ‘portable sound devices’.

One video shared on social media showed a local policeman seizing a small, round, steel saucepan from a protester.

Our values, our democracy, who we are

After the ban, demonstrators resorted to throwing eggs and potatoes at the head of state from a distance.

The ban on pots and pans comes as President Macron tours the country in a flailing reconciliation bid.

During his visit to a high school in Ganges, Sébastien Rome, an MP from the leftist party France Unbowed, asked if he was willing to face the demonstrators.

President Macron mocked those on the streets as he responded that he would go “if people are ready to talk, but if it’s just for the eggs and the pans — at my place, these are used to cook”.


DEMOCRACY NOW!

The order against the saucepans was likely prompted by the French leader’s visit to the town of Muttersholtz on Wednesday.

This visit saw protesters loudly bang pots and pans to disrupt the visit, amid chants demanding President Macron resign.

He could be seen telling protesters at the event: “It is not the pots that will move France forward.”

Cristel, a traditional pot manufacturer, quipped on social media: “Mr President, at @cristelfrance we make cooking pots that move France forward!”

The French President’s controversial pensions reform to raise the retirement age from 62 to 64 officially became law last Saturday.

Is that really what they’re protesting?

No one believes that.

They are protesting everything and the media is becoming more ridiculous every time they say this 62 to 64 thing.

The new face of fascism

]]> French Democracy Rejects Popular Referendum Proposal, Pension Reform to Enter Into Force Swiftly https://www.anglinarchive.com/2023/04/15/french-democracy-rejects-popular-referendum-proposal-pension-reform-to-enter-into-force-swiftly/ Sat, 15 Apr 2023 00:00:00 +0000

FRANCE BREAKING: – The constitutional a court has sided with Macron against the people.

Almost as if the people’s voices no longer matter.

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— Bernie’s Tweets (@BernieSpofforth) April 14, 2023

Democracy delivers…. hell on earth!

Reuters:

French President Emmanuel Macron’s flagship pension reform will enter into force swiftly, officials said on Friday after it received the Constitutional Council’s approval despite months of street protests and strikes.

The legislation, which pushes up the age at which one can draw a pension to 64 from 62, remains deeply unpopular, and spontaneous protests broke out when the Constitutional Council’s decision was announced.

Protesters gathered outside Paris City Hall holding banners reading “climate of anger” and “no end to the strikes until the reform is withdrawn”, in a sign the Council’s verdict was unlikely to end widespread anger with Macron and his reform.

Some burnt trash bins as they marched through Paris, singing a chant popular with anti-Macron protesters: “We are here, we are here, even if Macron does not want it, we are here.”

Opinion polls show a vast majority reject the policy changes, as well as the fact that the government pushed the bill through parliament without a final vote it might have lost.

“All the labour unions are calling on the President of the Republic to show some wisdom, listen and understand what is happening in the country and not to promulgate this law,” the leader of the CGT union Sophie Binet said.

In a joint statement, unions said this was “the only way to soothe the anger in the country.”

But officials shrugged off the request, saying the text would be turned into law in the coming days. Labour Minister Olivier Dussopt said it should enter into force on Sept. 1 as initially planned.

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Separately, the Constitutional Council rejected a proposal by the opposition to organise a citizens’ referendum on the pension reform.

The opposition has tabled another bid for a referendum, which is expected to be reviewed by the Council in early May.

Political observers say the widespread discontent over the government’s reform could have longer-term repercussions, including a possible boost for the far right.

Honestly though brah, the French are kind of whiny.

What difference is two years?

These people let their country be flooded with wild apes and did nothing. Now they’re mad about two years?

I mean, I get that it’s abuse by the democracy system, but seriously, who gives a shit?

Plus, Macron is based and he hates America and wants to be friends with China, which is really cool and awesome.

WHO CARES ABOUT TWO YEARS???

]]> France Still Burning, Unions Vow to Continue Massive Protests Over Retirement Age https://www.anglinarchive.com/2023/04/14/france-still-burning-unions-vow-to-continue-massive-protests-over-retirement-age/ Fri, 14 Apr 2023 00:00:00 +0000

In Paris, protesters against pension reform blocked the approaches to the Constitutional Council of France, building “barricades” of garbage containers.

At the same time, the head of the French Interior Ministry banned protests near the building of the Constitutional Council. pic.twitter.com/mrlkiRWOyx

— Spriter (@Spriter99880) April 13, 2023


The problem here is, in the worst possible case, Macron just resigns.

That’s the way democracy works.

There is no ability to change anything.

The Guardian:

Emmanuel Macron faces a fresh day of strike action and protests against his unpopular plans to raise France’s minimum pension age from 62 to 64, amid questions over how the government intends to calm public opinion and move ahead if the bill is validated on Friday by the constitutional council.

Just as the president returned from a state visit to the Netherlands, where he was forced to contain the row over his comments on Taiwan, he faced a renewed domestic challenge as hundreds of thousands of people once again demonstrated across France.

After a request by the prime minister, Élisabeth Borne, the constitutional council will make a ruling on whether the legislation is in line with the French constitution. Politicians on the left have also asked it to rule on whether a form of citizens’ referendum could be organised on the pensions changes.

Ministers are privately confident that the council will approve the changes, after the government used an executive order to push them through without a parliamentary vote last month. If so, Macron hopes to sign the new pensions rules into law immediately, so they can come into force before the end of 2023.

The government hopes this will put an end to almost three months of protests, which at times have culminated in violence and running battles with police. The demonstrations have focused a sense of widespread anger against Macron.

Trade unions said anger would remain and protests would continue if the bill was signed in.

Transport and schools were affected by strikes on Thursday, and some Paris bin-collectors resumed the capital’s refuse strike, which had stopped at the end of March after 10,000 tonnes of rubbish piled up. Police expect that between 400,000 and 600,000 people will take part in nationwide protests, which would be less than half of the peak of nearly 1.3 million reached in March.

Although the numbers of people marching has decreased, the key issue for Macron is public opinion. Two-thirds of French people remain opposed to Macron’s raising of the pension age, and 52% want protests to continue even if the constitutional council does approve the pensions law on Friday, according to an Ifop poll for Le Journal du Dimanche.

Macron’s image has been shaken by the protests and once again he is being perceived as cut off from the streets and from people’s everyday concerns.

I’m sure people don’t like Macron.

But they will love a new leader.

Democracy is unworkable.

Everyone always loses.

]]> France: Entire Country Rioting Against Pension Reform, Clashing With Police, Cutting Electricity https://www.anglinarchive.com/2023/03/23/france-entire-country-rioting-against-pension-reform-clashing-with-police-cutting-electricity/ Thu, 23 Mar 2023 00:00:00 +0000

Le face à face se poursuit entre certains manifestants et la police en haut du cours Pasteur au niveau de la place de la victoire. pic.twitter.com/SblWebJl9q

— France Bleu Gironde (@Bleu_Gironde) March 23, 2023


Oh, shit, nigga.

They be wiling like a muthafaka out this bitch.

Reuters:

Protesters angry with President Emmanuel Macron and his plan to raise the pension age blocked access to an airport terminal, sat on train tracks, clashed with police and threw projectiles at a police station in a day of demonstrations across France.

Police fired tear gas at protesters in the western city of Nantes. In Rennes, they used water cannon, BFM TV footage showed. Also in the west in Lorient, Ouest-France newspaper said projectiles triggered a brief fire in the yard of a police station.

Roissy-Charles De Gaulle airport outside Paris was hit by wildcat action by workers. Near Toulouse in the southwest, burning piles of debris blocked traffic on a highway and sent plumes of smoke into the sky.

“There is a lot of anger, an explosive situation,” the leader of the hardline CGT union, Philippe Martinez, said at the start of a rally in Paris. Union leaders called for calm but were angry with what they called Macron’s “provocative” comments.

Macron broke weeks of silence on the new policy to say he would stand firm and the law would come into force by the end of the year. He compared the protests to the Jan. 6, 2021, storming of the U.S. Capitol.

Opinion polls have long shown that a majority of voters were opposed to delaying retirement age by two years to 64.

Voters were further angered by the government’s decision last week to push the pension changes through parliament without a vote and by Macron’s comments on Wednesday.

“I’m on strike to protest against the pensions reform, but also against what is happening in the government,” 27-year-old Air France programming officer Lucile Bidet said at a rally in Nantes.

“They’re not listening to the people anymore.”

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Electricity output was also cut on Thursday as unions raised pressure on the government to withdraw the law. Flight services will continue to be reduced at the weekend, the civil aviation authority said.

Protests also targeted oil depots and blocked an LNG terminal in the northern city of Dunkirk.

I haven’t been closely tracking this situation, frankly.

We can ask Andrew Anglin to write about it tomorrow. He’s probably more up on it than I.

The French are constantly rioting, and it never really seems to matter because France is a democracy, meaning they just send the cops to beat you and then you have to go home.

Some elements of this are actually more extreme than the Yellow Vest situation a couple years ago, so it’s possible that something actually extreme could happen.

But for the most part, if you have a democracy, the leader can just resign in the absolute worst case scenario, and be replaced with another figure who is effectively a clone, and the people will stop complaining.

]]> Watch: French People Still Rioting After Democracy Rapes Their Will https://www.anglinarchive.com/2023/03/17/watch-french-people-still-rioting-after-democracy-rapes-their-will/ Fri, 17 Mar 2023 00:00:00 +0000

Fires burned on the streets of Paris and police fired tear gas to disperse protests after the French gov’t forced its controversial pension reforms through parliament without a vote ⤵️ pic.twitter.com/FHhFntgP9Z

— Al Jazeera English (@AJEnglish) March 17, 2023


French riots seem to be a waste of time.

In a democracy, the police can just destroy you.

Reuters:

French President Emmanuel Macron on Friday faced the gravest challenge to his authority since the so-called Yellow Vest protests after his decision to push through a contested pension overhaul without a vote prompted violent unrest overnight.

Cars were torched in Paris and other French cities in the evening during otherwise peaceful demonstrations involving several thousand people. Trade unions urged workers to step up and briefly blocked the Paris ring road on Friday.

“Something fundamental happened, and that is that, immediately, spontaneous mobilisations took place throughout the country,” hard-left leader Jean-Luc Melenchon said. “It goes without saying that I encourage them, I think that’s where it’s happening.”

The pension overhaul raises France’s retirement age by two years to 64, which the government says is essential to ensure the system does not go bust.

Unions, and most voters, disagree.

The French are deeply attached to keeping the official retirement age at 62, which is among the lowest in OECD countries.

More than eight out of 10 people are unhappy with the government’s decision to skip a vote in parliament, and 65% want strikes and protests to continue, a Toluna Harris Interactive poll for RTL radio showed.

Going ahead without a vote “is a denial of democracy…a total denial of what has been happening in the streets for several weeks,” 52-year-old psychologist Nathalie Alquier said in Paris. “It’s just unbearable.”

I think people should have freedom.

But freedom is totally incompatible with democracy.

]]> French Democracy Passes Pension Reform Against the Will of Literally Everyone https://www.anglinarchive.com/2023/03/12/french-democracy-passes-pension-reform-against-the-will-of-literally-everyone/ Sun, 12 Mar 2023 00:00:00 +0000

The biggest problem in democracy is that the people have no representation. They have no ability to petition grievances or affect the function of government in any way.

Somehow, democracy people (“the Jews”) have convinced people the opposite of that is true? I don’t really understand how anyone could think that, but apparently some people think that democracy has some kind of ability for people to impact government function.

If you ask people how it works, however, or when the popular opinion has impacted the functioning of a democracy, you will be met with sputtering.

RT:

The upper house of the French parliament has given the green light to pension reforms proposed by President Emmanuel Macron. The initiatives, which include hiking the retirement age, have triggered staunch opposition from large sections of society.

Late on Saturday, 195 senators voted in favor of the plans, with 112 opposing them – an outcome described by Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne as an “important stage,” as quoted by AFP. Senators had already approved a key article contained in the bill on Thursday.

The reform package is now expected to be reviewed by a joint committee of lower and upper house MPs on Wednesday. A final draft, provided there is one, will be then submitted for a concluding vote in both chambers later in the week.

As French media point out, a constitutional tool known as article 49/3 allows for the possibility of Macron’s government pushing the legislation through even without a vote.

According to Macron, by raising the retirement age from 62 to 64, the government would ensure the French pension system is financially sustainable. The alternative, he argues, would be “decreasing pensions, raising taxes, or letting our children and grandchildren carry the financial burden.”

 

The French are the one group of Western whites who might actually do something.

But they probably won’t.

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