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France: Hold by beer. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_incidents_of_civil_unrest_in_France#21st_century https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_incidents_of_

• hnbad 2y ago
  While it's a fun meme, if you actually look at the list, the inciting incidents are usually (accusations of) police violence/overreach, reforms to cut labor protections, welfare or public education, and Israeli military operations in Palestine. In fact, most of the protests seem to neatly fall into the "police violence" (usually against minorities) and "austerity" buckets.
  • tetris11 2y ago
    I think the parent meant that France is a country that actively protects its rights via violent protest as opposed to other countries that merely sit and suffer.
    • immibis 2y ago
      And yet France is talking about turning off the internet during these protests so that protestors can't communicate.
      • hnbad 2y ago
        That was my point. Austerity measures tangibly affect most people in easy to understand ways: cuts to healthcare, cuts to education, delayed retirement, etc. Police violence and overreach are a significant concern especially among certain minorities because they (allegedly) experience forms of it every day. But the Internet is largely a magic box and at this point the common understanding seems to be that it is both private and also under massive corporate and state surveillance at the same time. And that's not even mostly wrong.