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[–] fosforus@sopuli.xyz 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

It’s probably because French citizens are smart enough to put their own well-being before their governing powers well-being.

In what way do they do this?

[–] Johanno@feddit.de 10 points 10 months ago (1 children)
[–] reverendsteveii@lemm.ee 5 points 10 months ago (1 children)

"Everything is so bad. Yet they set nothing on fire? How do they expect to fix?" ---some twitter lady's french husband, commenting on the state of American politics

[–] fosforus@sopuli.xyz 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

From this extremely boring Finnish perspective, you guys in America set things on fire all the time. If that happened here once, we'd give the event a name and would talk about it for decades.

[–] reverendsteveii@lemm.ee 2 points 10 months ago

fair, but we only set things on fire if the local american football team wins. or loses. or ties. or the game is cancelled. or at parades.

what's wild is that we party like the french protest but we don't really protest.