Who gives a fuck? The car isn’t decorated for you it’s decorated for its owner. Same goes with how a person chooses to dress or decorate their body.

Ultimately just another form of “your body exists for my enjoyment”.

I hate this shit. Just make darkmode the default.

I find listening to the actors and the writers themselves results in far more radicalism. They are PISSED on a level that hasn’t been seen in a while. Ron Perlman threatened to burn down the CEO of Disney’s house.

My point here is that this kinda filters everything through a lens that’s sort of weak and does not get across the level of radical that these workers are at the current point in time. People’s lives are genuinely at stake and they’re taking that with the seriousness it deserves. This seems kind of muffled by comparison. It’s not nearly as noisy, angry or radical as it should be in a situation where you have workers threatening to burn down the homes of CEOs.

Instead of filtering through a third party doing commentary it works out much better to simply display the real people on the front line and what they’re saying.

Seems kinda lib, really weak takes that are completely naive to what kind of radicalism is necessary to achieve anything.

Correction. A fascist homophobe.

If you hold free speech as more important than hate speech when it comes to very obvious examples of lgbt hatred and incitement against lgbt people you are a homophobe. Get a grip loser.

I’m not american you massive fucking moron.

Fuck off. Stop responding to me. In the street you’d get your head caved in for saying this shit over here. Deservedly so.

Imagine calling hate directed against lgbt people “free speech” go fuck yourself. Fuck your free speech. Your right to speech ends at precisely the point it oppresses marginalised groups. There is no scenario where you can perform this act and not be committing and inciting hate against these groups. Eat shit homophobe.

EXACTLY

You absolutely will be charged for burning an lgbt flag to make a statement that you hate lgbt people here in the uk wtf are you talking about? https://www.thepinknews.com/2020/08/04/brighton-pride-flag-burned-arson-hate-crime-abdelhakim-ismaili/

You are bigots advocating for hatespeech.

That’s an absolutely absurd thing to say. Hate crimes absolutely include acts against symbols and texts of a group. Go outside and burn some lgbt flags in the street in front of cameras or police anywhere here western EU and see how that turns out for you in court.

Burning religious texts is absolutely 100% a hate crime against followers of that religion and frankly defending that makes you a hateful bigot.

I hope the liberals just blatantly doing racism in this thread in response to this fact get banned.

Also now apparently they’re all in favour of book burning. Scratch a liberal and a fascist bleeds.

Nobody is “redirecting” the blame. The government created the conditions that caused this. Happy and well cared for populations who have their needs met without oppression do not riot.

You are the one trying to misdirect. You are the one rolling out the greatest hits of hitler, reagan and thatcher. Trying to blame the individual and personal responsibility instead of the real source of the problem.

If you treat people like shit, eventually they fight back. Fuck around and find out.

I am probably significantly older than you are, having been an organiser in the UK left for several decades now.

I do not think this person deserved to be left without a car. And the ruling class who have done everything in their power to drive people to this unrest is responsible for it.

But fascists always misdirect their blame, because fascists lick the boots of the ruling class while desiring even harder oppression than that which has caused this. I strongly suggest you look on at what is happening and ask yourself which side you want to be on when things get considerably worse, (which is inevitable in the consistently accelerating crises of capitalism we’re in) because if you continue to be a fash you will end up on the direct receiving end of it just as occurred in the past.

but don’t have actual support.

Leading politicians support it. Melenchon in particular has not condemned it and has had a very “fuck around and find out” response to the situation. The left largely supports it.

The size of the retirement protest was larger because it had more time. This is more like an explosive spontaneous uprising of destruction targeting the rich that has spread from one city to many cities.

You are literally a fascist that was openly defending against the defederation of Exploding Heads. Your opinion is completely discardable.

Very similar situation over here in the UK. Difference is that France’s left is more organised, and much more radical. Here in the UK the left’s organising infrastructure was demolished by Thatcher when she went after the coal miners. All leftist organising at the time was built around unions in the dirty industries and manufacturing, so when those industries were destroyed by her along with the absolute ravaging of the north of the UK the communist influence across the country got demolished with it. We’ve rebuilt to a certain extent along new strategies focused on utilities docks teachers and the NHS but it has taken 45 years to do so.

The French on the other hand? None of that happened, so the radical organising tradition continued without a gap. A lot of people look at France and think there must be something unique to them that causes it but the reality is that the differences is the size, strength and organising power of their left. And by left I mean left of liberal, liberalism represents the centre-right across europe, very different landscape.

The media are predictably focusing on the businesses that are being attacked and trying to frame this as if it’s a horde of animals with no political cause whatsoever who just want to loot stuff.

The catalyst for this event was a police shooting of a 17 year old, but the political backdrop is an absolutely massive amount of discontent between the working class of the country and the wealthy.

The things that are getting targeted are overwhelmingly icons of the rich, or literally the financial institutions themselves. Businesses seen as serving the rich are in particular targeted, such as iconic high-fashion stores.

Yesterday(friday) the figures were as follows, tonight(saturday) they have been worse:

• 250 bank branches were attacked last night. Some have been burned to the ground.

• 31 police stations were attack, some are completely burned out.

• 11 gendarmeries were attacked.

• Socialist symbols, phrases and agitprop are the primary form of graffiti being tagged everywhere

This isn’t mindless. This rage is an explosion that has built up ever since the yellow vests fought for fuel, or the workers fought for their pensions, on a backdrop of increasing cost of living and declining standards. All the while the businesses, hedgefunds and financial institutions post record profits.

The French population has been fighting with the state for a number of years now, and each battle they have hardens them a little more, grants thousands of people actual experience in battle with the state, and then they take that experience into the next inevitable battle. Thousands go to prison each time, and these thousands eventually find their way back into the population where their time in prison now makes living in the current society impossible. They come out hardened by their experiences and ending the current society is literally in their best interests. If yet thousands more get added to that total, things will continue to escalate in France, year on year, there will be more catalysts and the number of radicals will rise and rise.

I see no off-ramp.