Archived Hat's off to the French people, but what exactly are the Yellow Vest Protests accomplishing? (AskVoat)
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Archived Hat's off to the French people, but what exactly are the Yellow Vest Protests accomplishing? (AskVoat)
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[–] we_kill_creativity [S] ago
I literally am just trying to educate myself by asking some questions. If anything I'm helping get the word out about said concessions.
[–] WORF_MOTORBOATS_TROI 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
Oh. Well like any popular uprising there are factions protesting anything and everything.
The straw that broke the camels back to start the protest was that they were instituting numerous taxes meant to control greenhouse gas emissions in compliance with the bullshit climate change treaty they negotiated with the world. This was the straw that broke the camels back largely because France has been economically stangant for like the last 10 years. While the US went into recession and then recovered and has boomed back in the past couple years, France has been stuck at like 1% growth that whole time. Point being, that initially and for most people, the protests are about economics.
Many protesters are also protesting globalism and the EU because France has simultaneously been importing hordes of niggers and muslims and handing them piles of cash for doing nothing while having the economic stagnation that I listed above. Imagine busting your ass in the same job with little career progression or wage increases for a decade while your country imports people who are as different from native french people as there are anywhere on the planet and are as useless to your country as any immigrants that can be found, and just hands them a weekly check for nothing when you are working your ass off to earn yours. Some of the protesters are actually globalists and socialists so their demands are to give their pet niggers more free shit and have the government raise wages for everyone, because they believe in magic and think this will fix the economic stagnation.
As to what they have accomplished, France has temporarily postponed all those climate change taxes and have tried to propagandize the protests as just simple tax protests and "they don't like taxes and are just being greedy with their money so we're just going to be nice and soften the blow a little bit by postponing, but really the protesters are just concerned about taxes." Those continuing to protest want the temporary things made permanent, they want macron out of office, and many want all kinds of other stuff but like I said earlier there's not as much consensus as those other things as there are on these two.
[–] RedditSureDoesSuck ago
Are they holding the "leader" hostage still? They arrested some spokesperson last I heard. You'd think at some point they'd have some kind of leadership.