'Block Everything' protests sweep across France, scores arrested

Welcome to fascist france

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wNfuduZvjwY

France is under pressure to lower a budget deficit that stands at nearly double the European Union's 3% ceiling, and a debt pile equivalent to 114% of GDP.

Aha! I've found the problem!

They need to raise taxes on their wealthiest citizens!

Ooh, that explains why my package from Paris was delayed yesterday. Fair enough, I'm not even mad about it!

There is a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at heart, that you can’t take part; you can’t even passively take part, and you’ve got to put your bodies upon the gears and upon the wheels, upon the levers, upon all the apparatus, and you’ve got to make it stop. And you’ve got to indicate to the people who run it, to the people who own it, that unless you’re free, the machine will be prevented from working at all!

Honestly, from what I've seen, I actually agree with Macron here. France's debt is unsustainable, something needs to be done, and nobody wants to do anything. Both Le Penne and Melenchon are calling for policies that will increase the debt burden, yet any attempt to reduce it is getting struck down at the mere thought. A retirement age of 62 in a country with an average life expectency of 82 (and many people living over that) is crazy to me, especially at a time when there are more and more old people compared to working-age people. That isn't sustainable, but any mention of raising it gets insane backlash. You can't really raise taxes much more, they're already high, you can for wealthy people, but that will only go part of the way, and with the new NATO targets, if nothing is done, I feel like France will become another Greece.

Nothing justify sending police to beat protestors https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wNfuduZvjwY
What you say just prove you don't know anything about France and economy globally speaking.
a French citizen
You can raise taxes for rich people AND remove public founding for enterprises. LFI ( melanchon) proposes these two :
The "zucman tax" aims to tax the 1800 richest french families at a rate of 2%, Wich would bring 40billion.
for public founding, a senatorial report showed that 211 billion in tax cuts or direct founding were given ( without any requirements of employment or anything) to enterprises (some of which layer of ppl and gave out dividends while being under public founding). Those could be recalculated.
- The "zucman tax" aims to tax the 1800 richest french families at a rate of 2%, Wich would bring 40billion.
  2%. 40 BILLION.
  This will never not blow my freaking mind. No matter how we illustrate it, it's still hard to fathom.

Block everything needs to sweep across the planet!

Yep, that sounds like France.

As long as people with guns and the country's authority to use violence are just "following orders", things will never fundamentally change. The Western European man needs to learn discernment and have humanity and virtue as their lives' priorities, if not for God at least for the wellbeing of their societies. But how do we get there? 😔

Fake democracies

It is not a fake democracy they just voted in an asshole.
- Yes an no, Macron was elected against LePen. This in itself is a problem but macron himself said he was "obliged to the left", then he proceeded to name 7 right wing prime ministers, after his party losing all other non presidential votes. So yes, we voted (reluctantly for some) for him, but he kept wanting to push his policies even after the ppl voted against him several times.
- You're basically proving their point for them. If a wrong election turns your democracy into a police state, then you were not living in a true democracy in the first place. And don't get me started on a democracy where the same assholes get elected for 40+ years