• trolololol@lemmy.world
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    5 hours ago

    France burned stuff because the president wanted to increase the age for retirement. Multiple times.

    Who’s the exceptionalist country now?

    • Einskjaldi@lemmy.world
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      2 hours ago

      But that doesn’t mean they actually raised taxes or did anything to solve the budget shortfall that the retirement change was for. That’s just kicking the can down the road.

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      3 hours ago

      They protested endlessly, and got… Nothing. Peanuts.

      Macron has the government that used the most by very, very far the 49.3 article which is basically a pass to ignore the democratic process. He said quite clearly that democracy has no power against him and it is proven true.

      The fascism in France is just less… frontal, than in the US, but it is there and those little protests, as long as they last, won’t change anything.