Ultimately, the #GiletsJaunes protests represent a revolt against slavery in reverse. France is being colonised by Africa and the French people have been reduced to the status of tax slaves to pay for the Africans. This is the underlying dynamic even if most of the Gilets Jaunes don’t grasp it yet. They are reacting to the symptoms, not the disease.
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Cool story, bro. Money is equally distributed among the population. Also, the money is only allocated to people who live legally in France. If they are living in France, they have to work. Kinda self-defeating.
@ Checkmate
To be frank, it all comes back to the root of corruption in France: the elite public servants are in bed with big national firms. There is even a word for describing being employed by a big national private firm after making your career in civil service: pantouflage. In the end, the interests of the State get conflated with these of the big national private firms and the power of the State is used to further their agenda. There lies corruption in France. It is not about campaign donations, like in the USA, but it is still just as devastating for our democracies. Forbidding civil servants from working in big private firms for a few years after quitting civil service might well be a first step in reclaiming the power for the French people.
France is being colonised by Africa
Right!
So all the hundreds of millions of Euros France pours into the pockets of corrupt leaders in Burkina Faso, Côte d'Ivoire, and other French speaking former colonies to make sure they keep speaking French and not English so France can have a monopoly on their natural resources and dump all their toxic waste there is tax slavery? Ok.
slavery in reverse
Yrevals?
@Kanna
"la pantoufle" is initially a sum of money that covers the studies years in "Ecole Polytechnique"(i.e. the best of the best). Which has to be paid, either through 10 years working as a civil servant, or by the private employer who wants a polytechnicien at all costs. Hence "pantouflage", whose meaning has broadened since.
@Indicible : you told mostly everything. i'd just add that there is indeed racism amongst the Gilets Jaunes, but no more than in other parts of the population. It's definitively not their common driving point.
For consequences of colonialism..... No, I think gilets jaunes are actually a symptom of what happens when oppression stops. Being white is no more a guarantee of living in comfort. Some of them are 20 euros from collapse every month. As long as we could plunder the riches of other continents, even our poors were not so poor. Now that we have to share with liberated people, well, it's getting harder for everyone. Harder for me, a well-paid guy, is annoying. Harder for someone who lives at the edge of poverty is far, far harsher.
So much for you Salt-rightists liking dictators.
What, Le Makron doesn't do it for you, cakzal...?!
Strange then, that there weren't any Franco -Africans amongst the Gilets Jaunes in the scenes I watched on BBC/Sky News.
And surely they're also affected by the rising living costs.
Confused?
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