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