Footage of people rioting and beating up pigs right in front of the motherfucking Arc De Triomphe in Paris today. Part of the ongoing insurrectionary wave sparked by protests against a fuel tax last week. Let it not be said that people in France do not know how to throw the fuck down!!
Serious commentary: These protests actually represent a crucial dilemma as far as fighting environmental catastrophe goes. This fuel tax was put in place in order to discourage fossil fuel use and to encourage a transition towards a more eco-friendly France. But of course an increase in taxes that doesn’t have an immediate benefit is not popular with quite a few working class people. Point being theyre missing the big picture of what these taxes set out to accomplish and that they may have to sacrifice a bit to in order to prevent a disaster which is going to hit hard IN THIS CENTURY.
It tells me that if we truly want to push for enviromental sustainability we have to ensure the masses are properly educated on what climate change is, the threat it poses, and what and why we have to do and possibly sacrifice to combat it.
On the other hand. Since Macron is a neoliberal asswipe these taxes place the blame for climate change on the consumer and consumer habits instead of the actual major source of the problem – the capitalist mode of production. Within this context I can see why people would riot since as reports DO show countries with greater inequality will have harder times selling policies such as this.
In conclusion we need to expand education on the matter of climate change and harm minimization and deliver a leftist approach to climate change that targets it at its core instead of blaming the working class for a problem it is not creating
@property-is-theft They understand what climate change is and how we need to take action on it, they’re angry that the taxes are being raised for working class people and not the upper class. This extra tax will now be taken almost exclusively from people who have absolutely no other options but to continue buying gas. The working class of France is being torn to pieces with taxes targeted at them, and this is just one out of many examples. They want alternatives to gas and oil, and they think that forcing the people who drive a lot to pay more money is a direct attack on those who can afford it the least. Almost all of the people driving a lot are the workers who can no longer live near cities, as they become more and more expensive. No person who has the money to afford this tax will really care, but those who cannot afford it, who certainly cannot afford any alternative at their current prices, will be forced into deeper poverty. They’re not idiots, they are struggling proletariats.
Yeah, how will increasing taxes on something middle-class people have no relevant alternatives (due to various lobbying) be eco-friendly? Tbh the government had it coming, with the Loi Travail, the 49.3, Parcoursup and all that shit…people have been boiling for quite a long time now and the elites are absolutely disconnected from the reality and always so patronizing (sans mauvais jeu de mots)…
I don’t think this way of doing things will do anything else than making any reforms or concessions painfully slow and destructive. We’ll see in the next few weeks, I guess.
I’ve waited 2 years for this post to hit my dash again. Totes worth it
It get better this guy, he wanted to work for the police but they didnt want him because he was to “unfit” now he spends his freetime trolling and running from the police. he is by now a pretty famous comedian and just to show you
thats him dressed up as sonic and blocking real trafic photograph machines and stuff
thats him spraying a guy who smokes in a zone where its forbiden with a fire extungisher
Ptdr vous avez vu la boutique de l’élysée ??? Y a t-il quelqu’un dans le monde qui voudrait acheter un tshirt “croquignolesque” à 55€ ??? Un bracelet “fraternité” en or ???? Franchement tous les jours je me dis impossible que macron se ridiculise TOUS les jours de l’année mais chaque jour immanquablement il me prouve le contraire
“T-shirt blanc marqué sur le torse par la célèbre expression du Président de la République : “Croquignolesque”.”
These rare color photos of Paris were taken over 100 years ago.
In 1909, a wealthy French banker named Albert Kahn wanted to document the world using a new color photo process called Autochrome Lumière, so he commissioned 4 photographers to take their cameras all over the world.
One of the cities they documented was Paris.
Starting in 1914, Kahn’s photographers, Leon Gimpel, Stephane Passet, Georges Chevalier and Auguste Leon, documented life in Paris using color filters made from dyed potato starch grains.
They made these color photos over a century ago (with a small amount of color enhancing done on the original shots).
In addition to the many shots of Paris, around 72,000 Autochromes from around the globe were created through Kahn’s project.
I figured I would subtitle a great skit from a functionally now-defunct, but beloved French satirical show. It’s from 2003, on the brink of the Iraq War.
After 30 years on the airwaves, this show has died yesterday, for good this time. A billionnaire took over the channel a few years back and had tried to axe the show back then, but everyone went up in arms about it, including our president.
So instead, he did a death by slow suffocation : cutting budgets, firing the old writers, until the result was unwatchable.
Here’s a loosely translated bit of a report by Les Jours:
In recent weeks, the atmosphere was akin to “The Walking Dead” in the staff. Shootings canceled left and right: three weeks in May, two in June. And the teams are warned at the last moment. “We are not even given audience figures anymore but only views on Facebook,” an employee recently told us. For weeks, there were not even any official voices of the Guignols on the sets, Yves Lecoq (the 200-voice man) was injured and no longer worked. Same panade among the puppeteers who left little by little : a dozen recently. On some recordings, there were not enough puppeteers to manipulate latex figures. Solution ? “Corporate told us that we would do a shot / counter-shot, said a team member, disappointed, with the same person who operates two puppets. The employees also describe filming “in impossible security conditions, in a very small office, with electrical equipment that blocks the door”.
Paris just passed a new law that allows anyone to plant an urban garden within the city’s limits. Upon receiving a permit, gardeners can grow plants on walls, in boxes, on rooftops, under trees, or on fences. They can cultivate greenery in front of their homes or offices. They can grow flowers, vegetables, and fruit. Paris mayor Anne Hidalgo’s goal is to create 100 hectares of living walls andgreen roofs by the year 2020, with one third of that greenery dedicated to agriculture.
Plume de Lynx 