French Gov spokesman evacuated from office as protestors use construction vehicl

[ignhelper]

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-46771363

[GoogleyGareth]

Holy shit.

[Ruski]

It wasn't reported on but the Gilets Jaunes also broke into other government buildings as well.

France is fucked.

[thatswordguy]

Can we borrow some of your finest protestors over here in America?

[Jrose14]

i wouldn't really call rioters the 'finest' protesters

[ペゴボド]

probably more effective though

[Resonant]

Debatable, the French Government are shitting in their pants and are desperate for solutions, waving a sign around wouldn't have caused that.

[Shift28]

This shit is a protest right here. If neoliberal stooges wanna blame us for killing the planet, and take our money while we barely get by then they are gonna learn fast what happens.

Good on the yellow vests, the longer they keep this up the more likely macron has to make the corporations stop the problem they created.

[Mr. Someguy]

It's a riot. Lets stop conflating the two, they're very different things.

[Shift28]

Im not 100% great on my history, but its something I like to learn about all the time. From what ive seen in my limited experience tho, for a mass movement Picket signs dont fucking work.

infact pretty much every peaceful movement over the years had a violent one behind it driving things forward and backing it up.

You can extract minimum concessions, but real change comes from riots and property damage basically.

Malcom X, The black panthers and others were backing up MLK, as a result the authorities preferred him and it drove change forward.

Bagat Singh killed police and colonials and forced the authorities to cooperate with Ghandi.

Ending Slavery was violent, Ending Feudalism was violent, Labor rights were violent.

[PiddlezMcFuzz]

I can't help but think that the mantra of non-violence is just a tool to keep change from actually happening. Sure, having the majority of protesters do their thing peacefully sets a great example and is the idealistic way to do it, but like you said, the violent parts are what actually force change. D.C. was in flames multiple times during the Civil Rights Movement, but nobody remembers this nowadays because MLK is the only part taught in schools.

[Resonant]

I'd recommend checking out a documentary or two on the singing revolution. The baltic states breaking away from the Soviet Union, very largely non violent had some moments of amazing humanity at the end of a long and bloody regime.

[Borealis]

The difference now is that capitalism is about a quadrillion times more powerful than slavery or feudalism since capitalism is the way for 97% of the planet now and it is tied to no ideology or creed, just greed.

[Shift28]

Thanks I will.