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Vive la France...protests & violence against Macron’s carbon tax (Video)
Posted on 11/24/18 at 9:10 am
Posted on 11/24/18 at 9:10 am
Won’t be long...the people are rising up!
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BREAKING: Massive riots are currently taking place in central Paris, as protesters protest rising fuel prices. Fireworks have been confirmed thrown at police officers. Multiple officers have been injured. One protester has died since the protests started
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Posted on 11/24/18 at 9:13 am to Covingtontiger77
Our fricking leftists here suck. They are supposed to be "outraged" all the time, can't riot worth a shite.
Posted on 11/24/18 at 9:13 am to Covingtontiger77
Macron needs to up the tax another 10% to show those science deniers who's boss
Posted on 11/24/18 at 9:16 am to upgrayedd
This post was edited on 11/24/18 at 9:17 am
Posted on 11/24/18 at 9:17 am to Covingtontiger77
The guillotines have been silent for too long
Posted on 11/24/18 at 9:19 am to Covingtontiger77
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protests & violence against Macron’s carbon tax
Don’t they know the only way to combat climate change is giving the government more money and power?? Are they anti science??
Posted on 11/24/18 at 9:21 am to upgrayedd
Yes. Upvote.
Posted on 11/24/18 at 9:21 am to Covingtontiger77
The French are like our progressives, they riot about everything.
Posted on 11/24/18 at 9:36 am to Covingtontiger77
The rioters in France wear fluorescent safety vests? Impressive.
Posted on 11/24/18 at 9:51 am to Oddibe
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The rioters in France wear fluorescent safety vests? Impressive.
All motorists in France are required to have a safety vest by law. They're the ultimate nanny state
Posted on 11/24/18 at 9:54 am to Covingtontiger77
Was that one guy literally waving his white flag at the police? 
How very French of him.
How very French of him.
This post was edited on 11/24/18 at 9:55 am
Posted on 11/24/18 at 9:59 am to Covingtontiger77
What the frick are the police doing in that video?
Posted on 11/24/18 at 10:52 am to upgrayedd
quote:Really? I never knew that.
All motorists in France are required to have a safety vest by law.
Jesus, that is sad. Soon, they'll all have to wear floaties at the beach. They'll have their gross, hairy euro titties hanging out, but they'll have big orange floaties on their arms. Soon, Pierre. Soon.
Posted on 11/24/18 at 10:53 am to Covingtontiger77
Impossible. People, especially enlightened European socialists, will happily pay carbon taxes to save the planet.
Posted on 11/24/18 at 1:12 pm to upgrayedd
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All motorists in France are required to have a safety vest by law. They're the ultimate nanny state
No joke.
Power is centralized in France to the ninth degree, and the president is in many ways a king. Macron unliterary lowered the speed limits across the country last year, for example, to "fight climate change."
It's strange to spend time there, as an American, because they are so statist, and they are so socialist.
Americans take a certain joy in free will, and we all enjoy the privilege of making mistakes. The French government insulates society from the cost of their behavior. You have a small upper crust that is rich, your lawyers, doctors, bankers, and government officials - and then you have everyone else, and while they're comfortable, they're poor by any objective measure. Those people are taxed to annihilation, but enjoy things like a wine list, when they go to the hospital. They also enjoy a silly amount of vacation every year.
This post was edited on 11/24/18 at 2:38 pm
Posted on 11/24/18 at 2:10 pm to Vacherie Saint
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Impossible. People, especially enlightened European socialists, will happily pay carbon taxes to save the planet.
While India, Russia and China DGAF. The cleanest countries in the world are supposed to subsidize their lack of environmental standards, interesting policy.
Posted on 11/24/18 at 2:27 pm to FredsGotSlacks
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While India, Russia and China DGAF. The cleanest countries in the world are suppostted to subsidize their lack of environmental standards, interesting policy.
This is what I never understood about the Paris Climate Accord....the developing countries like Russia and China got paid to create more carbon and prosper while the USA got fricked. It made no sense whatsoever and yet the MSM was all about it!
This post was edited on 11/24/18 at 2:30 pm
Posted on 11/24/18 at 2:32 pm to Covingtontiger77
Posted on 11/24/18 at 2:32 pm to ABearsFanNMS
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This is what I never understood about the Paris Climate Accord....the developing countries like Russia and China got paid to create more carbon and prosper while the USA got fricked. It made no sense whatsoever and yet the MSM was all about it!
Our leaders are bought and paid for, obviously.
Posted on 11/24/18 at 3:10 pm to Vacherie Saint
There’s this astonishing ignorance about energy in the west. You have these politicians who believe that there’s some miracle alternative to fossil fuels.
There isn’t one, and there may not be a viable alternative for decades.
These taxes will just make poor Europeans even poorer - and you can’t assume that the extra funding for fossil fuel alternatives will get us any closer to “green energy.” That’s not how research works.
Much of it is unproductive, and researchers have a limited capacity to absorb extra funding. The more you poor into research, the more likely it is that you’re simply wasting your money.
There isn’t one, and there may not be a viable alternative for decades.
These taxes will just make poor Europeans even poorer - and you can’t assume that the extra funding for fossil fuel alternatives will get us any closer to “green energy.” That’s not how research works.
Much of it is unproductive, and researchers have a limited capacity to absorb extra funding. The more you poor into research, the more likely it is that you’re simply wasting your money.
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