Paris, France
Paris, France
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- drgs7
It worked, French PM to announce suspension of fuel tax hikes
https://www.afp.com/en/news/15/f…- cheese eating surrender monkeyhans_glib
- people used to protest against hunger and war, now they tear cities apart for lower fuel prices of their shiny new expensive carsmekk
- this and get cheaper diesel for their old clunky peasant tractors, don't forgetOBBTKN
- yeah nice, riot down everything and conserve the right to pollute. fucking dickheads.mekk
- I get your point, but, first, change the energy model or get a REAL working alternative to fosil fuels, and accesible to this people...OBBTKN
- Don't crush them with expensive fuel prices, knowing they've not got alternatives now, and talk about you're doing this for environmental reasonsOBBTKN
- Macron insists on taxes for Tech Giants like Facebook, Amazon and co. lets see how long? News say protesters get strongly acquisition over facebook. Connection?api
- +1 OBBTKNNairn
- mekk, it has more to do with people being unfairly taxed. Those revolting are far from being able to buy a "shiny new car".dyspl
- I bet most of them don't even have a car.mekk
- at least they surrendered to their own people this time.Gnash
- And that's how you protest to get shit done.Maaku
- unless you live inner city in paris, acar is very much needed. and these protests go way beyond that taxe. it's years of mistakes and austerity governing...dyspl
- This is only a temporary delay in the tax isn't it?yuekit
- One thing that stands out to me is that for the past couple years there has been a lot of handwringing over populism and how to address it...yuekit
- elites admitting they failed to address the concerns of the middle class etc. But now years later, they still have no real solutions.yuekit
- So Macron is a pushover?chukkaphob
- French know how to Party - I'll give them that!mugwart
- since 1798api