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Originally posted by maximus_flavius:
Although I think the Yellow Jackets are a buncha commie assholes, good on them in this case.

You have no idea what you're talking about.

The huge majority of the yellow vest protesters are middle aged, normal working French citizens, and they have "permanent" protests in nearly every corner of France. They are the French middle class who are being squeezed to death by taxes and everyday expenses and have finally had enough.

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Originally posted by RAMIUS:

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Originally posted by 1KPerDay:
If antifa tards were doing this here everyone would be screaming for their execution. "Gas is too expensive! I want the government to make everyone equal and babysit me! Let's burn a bunch of cars!" These are not freedom fighters. They're socialist anarchists.

I agree. If this were to happen here, everyone would vilify them for one reason or another.

The extremist, sure. But the huge majority of the protesters are not fighting police and burning cars.

I have no doubt that if this were happening here, I'd be a yellow vester too. I'm sure many here would be as well.

They don’t like the taxes but they do like all the benefits, forced short working hours and vacations, etc.

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Originally posted by maximus_flavius:
Although I think the Yellow Jackets are a buncha commie assholes, good on them in this case.

You have no idea what you're talking about.

The Yellow Vest's are basically France's equivalent (as near as can be) to the Tea Party. As Balze pointed-out, they're largely middle-class, middle-age, and getting sick and tired of getting told how bad they are by the left and taken advantage of by the right.

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Originally posted by corsair:

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Originally posted by maximus_flavius:
Although I think the Yellow Jackets are a buncha commie assholes, good on them in this case.

You have no idea what you're talking about.

The Yellow Vest's are basically France's equivalent (as near as can be) to the Tea Party. As Balze pointed-out, they're largely middle-class, middle-age, and getting sick and tired of getting told how bad they are by the left and taken advantage of by the right.

Well excuse the shit out of me. There’s not exactly a lot of info coming out of the MSM here about it. When this first kicked off, weren’t there reports of the YV also wanting a higher gov mandated minimum wage? Seems like there were other demands that we would call socialist. I also assume that the average Frenchman is pretty socialist to start with. & They have allowed their country to be taken over by middle eastern “immigrants”. Bridget Bardot has been to court how many times over speaking out against them? & she’s a raging lefty.

If they are nationalist, good on them. If they are middle class & less socialist, even better. Either way, I detest that socialist cuck Macron. FREXIT, great!

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If they are nationalist, good on them. If they are middle class & less socialist, even better. Either way, I detest that socialist cuck Macron. FREXIT, great!

We've been discussing this here since November.

Read through this thread:
One Dead, Over 200 Injured As 280,000 People Protest Rising French Fuel Prices
https://sigforum.com/eve/forums...935/m/9330037944/p/1

How about instead of worrying about how we would react if this was occurring over here by different groups we instead focus on what is actually happening, where it is actually happening and who is actually doing it?

Why the need for hypotheticals all the time? There are a lot of differences between here and France and the political situation isn't a 1:1 comparison. If you don't understand the situation over there either educate yourself about it, or stay out of the conversation.

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good on them

I detest revenue cameras

you want my money, at least have the balls to do a legitimate traffic stop and earn it

thats just a chickenshit way of legalizing extortion

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Originally posted by nhtagmember:
good on them

I detest revenue cameras

you want my money, at least have the balls to do a legitimate traffic stop and earn it

thats just a chickenshit way of legalizing extortion

I concur. We’re seeing them around here. Government extortion. Safety is not the issue.

I’ll defer to Balze Halse on the pulse of the French protesters. I believe he spends more time in France than anyone else on the forum.

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Originally posted by nhtagmember:
I detest revenue cameras

you want my money, at least have the balls to do a legitimate traffic stop and earn it

I agree with nhtagmember!
... and I don't blame the French people for wanting to get rid of them.

The Brits have been doing this to their speed cameras for ages. I saw several burned up ones - tires were popular - on trips there in the early 2000's.

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Originally posted by Blackmore:
The Brits have been doing this to their speed cameras for ages. I saw several burned up ones - tires were popular - on trips there in the early 2000's.

Saw several back in 2012 when we visited.

Best one was in Scotland, several tires incinerated to cords, the post and camera melted. With probably 20 beer bottles strewn about.