WTF is going on in France Svarty?

[Rum]

Only one or two rhetorical questions..?

Soz, like I said. I can’t be arsed.

[Cunt]

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Smartest post I've read from you in quite some time.

I wonder how many of you would be outraged that Trump is tear-gassing the invaders at his southern border, yet perfectly ok with Macron tear-gassing his own people.

(of course, they aren't 'his people', as his people are too wealthy to dirty their hands with protest)

[pErvinalia]

You wonder do you? Why don't you have the guts to lay out your belief on that point, as opposed to playing inane rhetorical games?

[Rum]

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Smartest post I've read from you in quite some time.

I wonder how many of you would be outraged that Trump is tear-gassing the invaders at his southern border, yet perfectly ok with Macron tear-gassing his own people.

(of course, they aren't 'his people', as his people are too wealthy to dirty their hands with protest)

Lol!

[Svartalf]

CNN has a definite left bias. Fox has a definite right bias. Stormfront is like, really progressive.

Progressive as in " National Socialism is Progress" I assume?

[Svartalf]

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Smartest post I've read from you in quite some time.

I wonder how many of you would be outraged that Trump is tear-gassing the invaders at his southern border, yet perfectly ok with Macron tear-gassing his own people.

(of course, they aren't 'his people', as his people are too wealthy to dirty their hands with protest)

Actually, it's not that his people are too wealthy to soil their hands, it's that they are so well served they have no reason to want to protest.

And I heard his allocution this evening, I"d bet anything that he didn't mean one word of what he said, except the bit that violent protest was not acceptable. (but short of that, there was no way to make him budge).

[pErvinalia]

He's made some concessions. Makes me wish we'd do some hardcore protesting here in Oz.

[Svartalf]

Funny enough, I've heard those, and I'm betting he'll quibble about literal adherence to those terms so that a poor guy like me, living on an invalid's pension won't get a thing out of it, I'm considering buying a yellow vest.

[DRSB]

We were hoping Svarty would explain what's going on as nobody seems to understand, least of all Macron, it's been going on for 1 month, spilling across borders, is he really as clueless as us?

[Brian Peacock]

Rum,

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[Svartalf]

We were hoping Svarty would explain what's going on as nobody seems to understand, least of all Macron, it's been going on for 1 month, spilling across borders, is he really as clueless as us?

worry if I can't explain it rationally, because, AFAIK, it's not a rational phenomenon... it seems to have started among people dependent on road transportation, who feel victimized by the current regime (reduction of max speed on rural roads, proposed tax hike on oil products, increased parking prices in cities...)... it's a grass roots movement without obvious leaders, organized via social networks... ergo, stuff I have no idea about, or the government either for that matter. Funny, since macron rode on such a wave to the presidency, and can't seem to figure what's happening when it's used by the other side. Of course, the lack of obvious leaders or talking partners is a problem, as there'sd nobody to negociate anything with... and if I believe a couple snippets of news I heard since the allocution, it seems macron shot aside of the target as they are largely so disgusted with him that they wouldn't listen to his proposals anyway, short of utter surrender, and preferably resignation.

[rainbow]

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As a psychopath, I find this offensive.

[Scot Dutchy]

NEXIT?

Dutch yellow jacket protests draw small crowds, PM has some sympathy



Some 600 people took part in ‘yellow jacket’ demonstrations in several Dutch cities this weekend, as politicians, including the prime minister said they had some sympathy for the cause.

In Amsterdam, local broadcaster At5 said around 70 demonstrators showed up at city hall for a protest, which involved walking round the building singing the song ‘15 miljoen mensen‘. Other estimates put the crowd in Amsterdam at 200.

In Maastricht, between 150 and 200 people held a march and handed out leaflets saying ‘let us battle together for the future of our grandchildren’. A similar number gathered at the Erasmus bridge in central Rotterdam. There were also demonstrations by ‘several dozen’ people in The Hague, Arnhem and Eindhoven, Dutch media reported.

On Friday, prime minister Mark Rutte said in his weekly broadcast on public television that ‘everyone is wearing a yellow jacket, up to a certain point’, while at the same time condemning the violence in France.

Rutte said he could understand that people in the Netherlands had concerns about migration and refugees, about the consequences of climate change and about income...

https://www.dutchnews.nl/news/2018/12/d ... -sympathy/

www.dutchnews.nl : Well worth adding to your bookmark folder.

They managed to get 50 protestors in Amsterdam (depends which news service you believe), 30 in Rotterdam and 20 in the Hague where the protest lasted half an hour. In Arnhem there were 5. There are always moaners.
Dutch News is very right wing and has a soft spot for Wilders. Just remember that when you are reading it. It is little better than the Daily Lie which is why it appeals to the ex-pats who it aims at.

I would believe the PBO news than AT5.

[Rum]

Rum,

Calling a fellow forum member a psychopath is not playing nice as well as being a personal attack. This is a WARNING, implying that more of the same will see you on a short period of enforced absence. Please try an avoid similar characterisations in future.

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I'm afraid I reject this warning. My labeling of Cunt as a 'psychopath' was an educated guess. I think he may well be. It was not intended as an insult or personal attack and in any case, I'm not sure how it can be characterized as a personal slur unless you 'experts' think a psychiatric condition is a personal failing

[DRSB]

"Psychopath" does not equal a "person with a psychiatric condition". The referential meaning may well be the same but there is the connotation or the emotive meaning: in the case of psychopath highly loaded and definitely negative. Plus: emotions, as opposed to feelings (the body chemistry) always contain a judgement about the feeling. The linguist hath spoken. But of course as a non-native speaker of English I bow to the native ones.