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I’m English and we will readily admit that the French are champions of the protest.
EDIT: If they bring the farmers in, it’s game over.
4.7k u/Trifusi0n 27d ago The French firefighter’s protests are next level. They use all their firefighting gear at the protest. Police use tear gas, they’ve got breathing equipment Police use water cannon, their water cannon is bigger. Last time they protested they wore their protective gear and set themselves on fire. 247 u/kukaz00 27d ago Lmao setting yourself on fire to prove a point is as French as it can get. Props to the French for not letting themselves be trampled by politicians. 12 u/rockadoodledobelfast 27d ago Sounds more Vietnamese to me. 🤔 1 u/ProfessorPetulant 27d ago Or Tibetan. 1 u/rockadoodledobelfast 27d ago That's what I had originally wrote, but turns out he was Vietnamese. 1 u/ProfessorPetulant 27d ago https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-immolation_protests_by_Tibetans_in_China 13 u/Dodara87 27d ago The buddhists did it better 9 u/Gebus 27d ago and that one Tunisian street vendor Mohammed Bouazizi who set himself on fire and started the Arab Spring 3 u/FisicoK 27d ago It was most mediatic one worldwide but people setting themselves on fire for various reasons does happen occasionnaly on different countries, sometimes it has a lasting impact and you hear about it non stop, sometimes it barely gets reported 1 u/6jarjar6 27d ago Depends if the media that you read wants you to know about it or not. 1 u/Nyechoo 26d ago I present you the true France WMD ! https://www.reddit.com/r/discworld/s/lsTLAha0Ei 1 u/Ort-Hanc1954 24d ago Let's not forget Jan Palach and the other protesters who immolated themselves in Eastern Europe.
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The French firefighter’s protests are next level. They use all their firefighting gear at the protest.
Police use tear gas, they’ve got breathing equipment
Police use water cannon, their water cannon is bigger.
Last time they protested they wore their protective gear and set themselves on fire.
247 u/kukaz00 27d ago Lmao setting yourself on fire to prove a point is as French as it can get. Props to the French for not letting themselves be trampled by politicians. 12 u/rockadoodledobelfast 27d ago Sounds more Vietnamese to me. 🤔 1 u/ProfessorPetulant 27d ago Or Tibetan. 1 u/rockadoodledobelfast 27d ago That's what I had originally wrote, but turns out he was Vietnamese. 1 u/ProfessorPetulant 27d ago https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-immolation_protests_by_Tibetans_in_China 13 u/Dodara87 27d ago The buddhists did it better 9 u/Gebus 27d ago and that one Tunisian street vendor Mohammed Bouazizi who set himself on fire and started the Arab Spring 3 u/FisicoK 27d ago It was most mediatic one worldwide but people setting themselves on fire for various reasons does happen occasionnaly on different countries, sometimes it has a lasting impact and you hear about it non stop, sometimes it barely gets reported 1 u/6jarjar6 27d ago Depends if the media that you read wants you to know about it or not. 1 u/Nyechoo 26d ago I present you the true France WMD ! https://www.reddit.com/r/discworld/s/lsTLAha0Ei 1 u/Ort-Hanc1954 24d ago Let's not forget Jan Palach and the other protesters who immolated themselves in Eastern Europe.
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Lmao setting yourself on fire to prove a point is as French as it can get.
Props to the French for not letting themselves be trampled by politicians.
12 u/rockadoodledobelfast 27d ago Sounds more Vietnamese to me. 🤔 1 u/ProfessorPetulant 27d ago Or Tibetan. 1 u/rockadoodledobelfast 27d ago That's what I had originally wrote, but turns out he was Vietnamese. 1 u/ProfessorPetulant 27d ago https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-immolation_protests_by_Tibetans_in_China 13 u/Dodara87 27d ago The buddhists did it better 9 u/Gebus 27d ago and that one Tunisian street vendor Mohammed Bouazizi who set himself on fire and started the Arab Spring 3 u/FisicoK 27d ago It was most mediatic one worldwide but people setting themselves on fire for various reasons does happen occasionnaly on different countries, sometimes it has a lasting impact and you hear about it non stop, sometimes it barely gets reported 1 u/6jarjar6 27d ago Depends if the media that you read wants you to know about it or not. 1 u/Nyechoo 26d ago I present you the true France WMD ! https://www.reddit.com/r/discworld/s/lsTLAha0Ei 1 u/Ort-Hanc1954 24d ago Let's not forget Jan Palach and the other protesters who immolated themselves in Eastern Europe.
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Sounds more Vietnamese to me. 🤔
1 u/ProfessorPetulant 27d ago Or Tibetan. 1 u/rockadoodledobelfast 27d ago That's what I had originally wrote, but turns out he was Vietnamese. 1 u/ProfessorPetulant 27d ago https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-immolation_protests_by_Tibetans_in_China
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Or Tibetan.
1 u/rockadoodledobelfast 27d ago That's what I had originally wrote, but turns out he was Vietnamese. 1 u/ProfessorPetulant 27d ago https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-immolation_protests_by_Tibetans_in_China
That's what I had originally wrote, but turns out he was Vietnamese.
1 u/ProfessorPetulant 27d ago https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-immolation_protests_by_Tibetans_in_China
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-immolation_protests_by_Tibetans_in_China
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The buddhists did it better
9 u/Gebus 27d ago and that one Tunisian street vendor Mohammed Bouazizi who set himself on fire and started the Arab Spring 3 u/FisicoK 27d ago It was most mediatic one worldwide but people setting themselves on fire for various reasons does happen occasionnaly on different countries, sometimes it has a lasting impact and you hear about it non stop, sometimes it barely gets reported 1 u/6jarjar6 27d ago Depends if the media that you read wants you to know about it or not.
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and that one Tunisian street vendor Mohammed Bouazizi who set himself on fire and started the Arab Spring
3 u/FisicoK 27d ago It was most mediatic one worldwide but people setting themselves on fire for various reasons does happen occasionnaly on different countries, sometimes it has a lasting impact and you hear about it non stop, sometimes it barely gets reported 1 u/6jarjar6 27d ago Depends if the media that you read wants you to know about it or not.
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It was most mediatic one worldwide but people setting themselves on fire for various reasons does happen occasionnaly on different countries, sometimes it has a lasting impact and you hear about it non stop, sometimes it barely gets reported
1 u/6jarjar6 27d ago Depends if the media that you read wants you to know about it or not.
Depends if the media that you read wants you to know about it or not.
I present you the true France WMD ! https://www.reddit.com/r/discworld/s/lsTLAha0Ei
Let's not forget Jan Palach and the other protesters who immolated themselves in Eastern Europe.
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u/Morepork69 27d ago edited 27d ago
I’m English and we will readily admit that the French are champions of the protest.
EDIT: If they bring the farmers in, it’s game over.