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Hey America, this is how it's done.
This is the way to get their attention. >

Long enough that they turn on their personal generator and wait it out. >

NATIONWIDE strike.
It's not about cutting the power to their houses.
It's about cutting the power to their factories and revenue generating businesses.
No Manufacturing
No Banking
No Credit
Emergency power? Watch the price of fossil fuels go through the roof as everyone scrambles to use emergency power generators for their businesses and homes.
The one thing wealthy people hate more than poor people sticking up for themselves, is losing money. >

That's when they send out their private (and at times taxpayer funded) armies.
Resistance is important. >

The French don't mess around, last time that happened a castle got taken apart brick by brick and a lot of people lost their heads. >

As a Brit I’m extremely jealous of how the French people always remind the politicians whose actually in charge >

As an American, I wish we took more after our French heritage and history than our British. >

I feel the whole surrendering French meme is a psyop designed to make sure we don’t resist the ultra rich. >

Always has been. The French have been one of the winningest nations through time >

Charles III, the present King of England, is descended from William the Conqueror, the first Norman king. Sometimes a people have been conquered so thoroughly, they've completely forgotten that they are vanquished. Isn't it fair to say that England is France's oldest colony? >

Always been a fan of French protests >

They know how to get shit done. >

Take away luxury and force them to be warm by burning their money.
Seems like we could learn a few things >

I mean this is why they're pushing anti-strike legislation. The wealthy don't want us plebs realizing the power of withholding our labor. >

What is a slight bit more inconvenience to me when it will make them realize that losing their workforce for weeks could bottom them out and make them 'one of us'.
I have no loyalty to them when I can be removed for any reason, they need to learn to respect what loyalty earns. >

Which is why I think it's BS that the rail workers won't strike for their contract. >

What's bullshit is that every single labor union in the country isn't joining them and shutting it all down until there is meaningful PTO, healthcare, and maternity legislation passed.
What we need is a god damn general strike. >

Exactly. Who gives a damn if it shuts down the whole country? That's literally the entire point of a strike. Prove if you don't get what you deserve, you'll just shut the whole damn thing down. History has proven its effectiveness. >

You'd be surprised at the amount of right wing bootlickers in blue collar labour unions. >

They're also mostly living paycheck to paycheck and can't afford to strike even if they wanted to. The working class rarely has emergency funds anymore, thanks to stagnant wages, rising inflation, and poor budgeting skills. The time to strike was decades ago. Now they're trapped and mostly too dumb to even realize that their captors are the GOP motherfuckers they keep voting into office. >

The French people just know how to strike. God I wish the rest of the world could follow their steps >

Except they really don't.
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They have strikes, set a few cars on fire, riot in Paris suburbs, then nothing.
No changes.
Marcon was literally elected on the basis that he'd reform various employment laws which are just completely bonkers, and the moment he tried to, strikes. Strikes everywhere. From the same people who voted for him. >

Aren’t most of the strikes to ensure no changes? >

Some are. 
Some are because change is wanted. 
Then there's the strikes just because why not.   
About the point you have people coordinating with the strikes to turn and sell baguettes, wine cheese at to the strikers it's a bit of a farce. >

Is it possible that maybe specific groups protesting specific things are hijacked by larger groups of generally angry individuals? >

Yes, which is why protests always end up with suburbs of Paris burning >

The Parisian way >

Mmm...French union soup. >

French union coup >

French designed coupe >

The Japanese had the best protest in recent memory. The bus drivers were on strike but instead of striking the boring American way, they kept on driving the buses but refused to take any money from passengers. That’s how you hurt them and not others. >

This is sadly illegal in most countries in the world. Strike like this will not succeed if drivers will owe the lost fare to the transportation company. >

When has dissent and revolt ever been legal?
Edit: wrong spelling for dissent 😒 >

It's quite literally legal to strike in France, so yeah it's a bit different still. >

Striking may be legal, but I doubt cutting power is. >

Definitely, although I thought they were arguing about striking in general, not this specific case. >

meanwhile in the USA: idiots attacking substations because of dragshows >

Yeah, but the queers be yucky and that infringes on my right to never have my world view touched by yucky stuff. 
It's right there in the constitution 🇺🇲🦅🇺🇸🦅 >

whilst ashamed and secretly holding fetishes for these exact things >

I don't know why nobody realizes, it's okay to be gay. >

Plenty of people realize it's okay to be gay, but there are still a lot of people that were raised ultra religious or had the gay beaten out of them at a young age and lash out on anything that makes them think of these "uncomfortable" thoughts.
The whole argument that homosexuality is a choice is a really obvious manifestation of those thoughts. As if they think everyone is attracted to both sexes and only homosexuals act on those urges. >

It’s worse than that. The idea isn’t that they chose to be gay, it’s that they are gay and choose to act on it, making them a sinner and openly defying their god.
None of which actually holds any water when examined closer, but the distinction is that homosexuals are actively choosing to sin by giving in to their carnal desires rather than being good god-fearing Christians. >


rather than being good god-fearing Christians.

I'm not a militant atheist.  I don't pretend to have a better understanding of the mysteries of life than any of you.  I attended a Catholic mass for a funeral just this past weekend without a single complaint.
But I am so fucking tired of being told how to live my life and how my children's lives should be lived based on someone's imaginary friend.
If there is a single, omnipotent being that has created all that was and all that ever will be I'm pretty sure they don't give a fuck who has sex with who.  It seems like a really small and petty detail to worry about when they have the whole universe to think about. >

Do it do it do it do it >

They're going to have to be careful in their execution.  If they have actual addresses and are only cutting power to those addresses it could be safely done.  I am a bit concerned though if they cut power instead to neighborhoods or whole apartment complexes because the MP has an apartment there then you run the risk of cutting off power to someone who needs a constant power supply for necessary, life sustaining medical equipment.  Sure they should have a generator and probably will be awake and alert enough to start it up, but these are factors you have to watch out for when intentionally shutting off the electricity because killing someone accidentally is not a good way to run a strike. >

I am thread hijacking a bit BUT:
I love pointing to French protesters when people talk about how the trees guns to "fight a tyrannical government" when they never actually protest anything the government does (let alone start shooting people over what the government is doing)
The French prove how people can demand things from their government and make real change without a gun. I wish Americans were more like the French in fighting for their rights and their demands from government. 
Can't even imagine how much things could change if people took to Washington DC the way the French take to Paris when the government does shit they don't like >

Don't you think that confidence was earned through revolution?  We haven't had that, yet. >

The American Revolution literally inspired the French Revolution. >

The American revolution was not a revolution in the same sense, in the sense of classes rising up to displace ruling classes.
It was a war of independence to transfer the highest level of rule from British elites to American settler elites without actually unseating classes domestically in either case. 
The French Revolution actually displaced the power of the king and aristocracy by overthrowing it where it was seated. America's never done anything like that. Americans have never risen up and overthrown an actual american government. It's had one major rebellion and that was pro-slavery and was itself a project of regional elites. >

It was a class rising up to displace the ruling class: the bourgeoisie overthrowing the regime of the nobility. >

The power in England in the late 1700s had already transferred from the nobility to the bourgeoisie. Parliamentary rule had been in effect for like an entire century. >

I don’t agree with that. The House of Commons was still dominated by the gentry class. All the powerful positions in government were held by the gentry, and even William Pitt was eventually given a noble title. >

It is very hard to argue the house of commons were dominated by the gentry in any meaningful way. They were present, but their powerbase had shifted to cities and industry. The age of land lords gaining their power from taxing the serfs was over, just because they had a title doesn't mean much. They were economically identical to the American Bourgeosie. >

Can they pop over to the UK and do some "get shit done" training? >

Well, you got shit done... You brexited >

Yes, we took back control and then handed it to a bunch of non-elected corrupt criminal assholes. >

You make it sound like it wasn't the plan all along. >

It's okay....with all those millions back in the NHS coffers we're as healthy as can be.
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.....right? >

Read French Onion......took me a minute to work that out.... >

French union soup >

I love how the French people just take no shit whatsoever. I’ve been to Paris twice, and each time something was being protested. The French will shut things down, zero shits given. The rest of the workers in the world would do well to heed this example. >

I'm sure lots of countries could get behind this thinking for the better, but none more than Canada right now. We are being squeezed in all damn directions right now with no relief in sight. >

Could you elaborate? Non Canadian but neighborly. >

Housing prices going through the roof and corrupt politicians purposefully strangling public healthcare so their rich corporate buddies can roll in with private healthcare and suck the common folk dry. In return these fat government fucks are given big donations to their political campaigns and guaranteed cushy executive positions that will make them set for life. >

Similar to American life. >

I forgot to mention. Public healthcare is already dead. They’re done with the strangling part and have already declared that they will be bringing in their private corporate buddies. >

goddamn, how the fuck do Americans get off thinking the French were ever pussies
schooled us every time >

Vive la république et vive la France >

Jesus the French are the best, I can see why the British are so jealous of them. >

Americans have to take notes on French protests. If the French and Americans (US) switch places for a day the French would last an hour before striking over our shitty healthcare, education system, you name it. >

We would have that kind of power here in the States if Americans would wake up and channel all that energy they're wasting into crying about the second amendment into reforming worker conditions and pay. >

No the main reason is that French people can go on strike without having to fear being fired by their boss. Up your labor protection laws and national strikes should follow 😊 >

Our Healthcare is also tied to our jobs which makes it difficult to organize a general strike. >

It’s almost like every aspect of the American way of life is forbidding you to protest. It’s a feature not a bug >

Why threaten? Do it already >

Because Minister of Interior Gerald "the rapist" Darmanin and Paris chief of police Didier "the butcher" Lallement are just waiting for an opportunity to turn things into a bloodbath. CGT and CFDT will never condone illegal actions, they have too much to lose. >

French workers are fucking badass >

I wish the people of the UK had half the strength and courage that the French do >

America this is how workers should protest >

I agree, but if they did this, both politicians and corporate news outlets would probably accuse them of being terrorists and the union leaders would probably have their homes and offices raided by authorities. >

It's what is happening in france as well. Just reading the article here puts that into perspective. The article is 90% elite prospective and one statement from the protestors. Then goes on to describe what police are going to do. >

Tucker Carlson: when patriots take out the power it’s terrorism, but when liberals do it it’s a protest, why is that? >

The French proletariat is so based. They'd roll tanks on us here if we threatened that (USA) >

And a lot of Americans would actively cheer on the tanks as they crushed the strikers >

People all over the world need to come together and strike like the French! >

Nice! Vive La Revolution! >

God I love the French. >

64 seems like a pretty reasonable age to retire >

It's 64 but you have to work 43 years so for most people, that would be 67/68 years old (if you don't work those 43 years, your pension will be lowered a lot).
In the 80's, it used to be 60 years old with a minimum of 37.5 years worked, so almost everyone could leave at 60 >

All major news outlets: “Now don’t you go getting any wild ideas, Americans….” >

The French don't fuck around with their strikes >

What Ontario needs to do now that the Conservative government has started to dismantle our healthcare system and hand it over to corporations. >

The French really know how to protest properly >

We need this level of solidarity in the us.