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[-] MunkysUnkEnz0@lemmy.world 87 points 1 year ago

In France, when they piss of the farmers, they protest by bringing the farm equipment to them. Some are loaded with poop.

[-] khannie@lemmy.world 51 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

My french friend told me that the dairy farmers once protested by dumping a massive amount of milk on the streets of Paris one time. Apparently the smell was..... Well you can imagine.

The French know how to protest.

[-] ArchmageAzor@lemmy.world 43 points 1 year ago

The difference is that the French have spines

[-] Tikiporch@lemmy.world 18 points 1 year ago

That and ICE has enough money now for an armored division.

[-] ArchmageAzor@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago

That has no bearing on it. If the sides are uneven, you fight unevenly.

[-] Tikiporch@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

This is something you say when you have no skin in the game.

[-] ArchmageAzor@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Oh please, the entire world has skin in this game. The world's most powerful country has been overrun by fascists, and half the people who can stop it before it leaves its borders are too "scawed" to do anything and the other half is rooting for the fascists.

[-] KMAMURI@lemmy.world -2 points 1 year ago

So many cowards with big mouths and big guns sitting at home waiting for the rest of us to straighten out their mess.

[-] Tikiporch@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Nobody asked you for help. Just pointing out it's easy to ask someone else to become Tank Man.

[-] KMAMURI@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I'll remember that no one asked for my help. I'll remember that in fact when I offered help I was told to go away and fuck off long before your drumphkins was brought to power twice. I'll remember that you're fascist lovers and refuse to fight for yourselves. I'll remember that you don't need me or my countrymen even when we are in your country volunteering to help. No worries there. I have lots of first hand experience to solidify those memories.

Good luck with that when you really do need us to help because at this rate it's coming faster than you can imagine. You and your countrymen have guaranteed my skills will not be offered to assist nor will those of anyone who will listen to me and people like me and read your comments.

Being a coward is easy. Standing up to fascists is hard. Back to the couch.

[-] MunkysUnkEnz0@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Whoa whoa now.... Some of us would love all the help we could get over here.

You brought up a great point. It's not going to stop at our borders..

I've been begging people to do a general strike and explain that they're worried about losing their jobs, but they won't have one when society breaks down or they're in the Gulag.

[-] wanderingmagus@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 year ago

Ask the Russians how their armored divisions are doing. Drones are cheap.

[-] Tikiporch@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Ukraine has trained military personnel and instruction from the finest minds in the West. And actual armor of their own. This is no comparison, you need to temper your expectations.

[-] KMAMURI@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

They didn't at the beginning. They had a half assed army barely supplied, a navy with no ships and an Airforce that was basically grounded. Using equipment from the 1970' and 80's. Look it up. Their military was at best backwater until the Russians invaded Crimea. Quit making excuses.

[-] Tikiporch@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

I'm aware. What little Ukraine had to start with is more than any collective group of counter protesters in the USA have access to right now. They also had sovereignty that world powers could throw weight behind. What world power is going to sponsor US citizens to fight their own government?

These aren't excuses, this is reality.

[-] Triasha@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Counterpoint, there are more firearms in possession of the American civilian populace than there were in the Ukrainian military during the February invasion.

If the American politiy doesn't want to be governed, it's going to take a whole lot of concentration camps to make it governable.

[-] KMAMURI@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

You won't get support until you organise and resist. It's pretty simple. Ukraine didn't have a backer either. People had their kids and Baba's filling glass bottles with styrofoam.

You'll never gain my support again, ever. Allowing threats of annexation of Canada and silence from all of 'murica on that subject. Instigation of economic warfare on us was just another strike. Now it's the complicity of the American people to complete fascism and arguments against doing anything to stand up for yourselves and your neighbors.

I'll meet you at the border though when they press you into service for the water wars. No matter how prepared I am.

[-] drhodl@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Americans are yellow, cheeseburger eating, surrender monkeys....!

[-] hanrahan@slrpnk.net 17 points 1 year ago

Unless you're a clinate portestor in France, then you're a terrorist and treated as such. Farmer protestors are a.protected species world wide. eg the UK

https://www.monbiot.com/2024/02/29/outrage-farming/

Sunak leads a government that has introduced the most draconian anti-protest laws in our democratic history. These laws are deployed exclusively against official enemies: environmental campaigners, republicans, feminists, Muslims. If you belong to one of these groups and you block a road, you might go to prison. If you are a farmer and you block a road, the prime minister might join you.

[-] Gert@sh.itjust.works 13 points 1 year ago

2019 the French destroyed 60% of all speed cameras in the country in protest to raising fuel taxes,

[-] MunkysUnkEnz0@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

flock cameras should be next

In Northern Ireland they load them with fuel

[-] Sp00kyB00k@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

Same here in the Netherlands.

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