either football being banned, increasing the drinking age, or making for-profit companies illegal to operate...arguably all good things for the country, but alas, americans are dumb and will not revolt because of real, serious, emergent issues.
My hot take is that we basically can't. I have a whole diatribe on this but the short version is 1) every citizen of France can be at the capitol building within 1 day using low-cost trains/public transit 2) France's police force doesn't kill protesters (or if they do, not nearly as often)
Police that don't actively want to murder their people. The French are allowed to protest cuz their public was never dumb enough to give cops that much power.
I had a teacher who would talk about traveling in France in 1968. DeGaulle( a man who was impossible to work with at the best of times) had been in power & at war for 20 years, making his reign a natural enemy for an ascendant youth movement.1/2
Their geographic distribution allowed them to shut down roads leaving the central government trapped. DeGaulle fled by helicopter and goes entirely missing for six hours. It was temporary but they had removed the head of state in 27 days. The French remember what it feels like to win. 2/2
People that will do it with me. I’ll fully admit that I am just too scared to act alone. If I had a group and we could watch each other’s backs? Yeah, I’d be feeling very very French
Narrow street to put up barricades...and:
- Get the Garbage trucks on board and redirect them to the White House.
- Organization, public speakers.
- Mask, Safety Goggles (tear gas), bullet proof vest (cuz USA).
- No weapons, because shooting unharmed civilian is bad.
The optimist in me is saying probably a few more bits of nonsense. My first guess will be in a few weeks from now, especially if there's a Trump 2028 sign on the horizon.
Hunger might do it. When a sandwich costs $200, then only the people that expense everything they do as business expenses will eat. Eventually people will break the law to not starve.
Americans are trained to lie down and die but I was also trained to be a boy so maybe human nature overpowers dogma
Ban of cell phones and Ipads. Government mandated screen-time limits for home devices. The only reason we're not protesting like the french is because we're distracted.
What about our carceral system ? Like, we have fewer people in jail than y'all per capita, for sure, but our prisons have an occupancy rate close to 250%, conditions are abysmal and guards beat a dozen guys to death per year.
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wth the brutalisation of the police post "gilets jaunes" mostfrench fear hitting the street right now
If they ban Genshin and Leauge, Gooners wouldn't like it
- Get the Garbage trucks on board and redirect them to the White House.
- Organization, public speakers.
- Mask, Safety Goggles (tear gas), bullet proof vest (cuz USA).
- No weapons, because shooting unharmed civilian is bad.
Vive la Révolution!
Americans are trained to lie down and die but I was also trained to be a boy so maybe human nature overpowers dogma
Martial law or war against an ally are others
Unfortunately I doubt anything targeting queer people would be enough
I have no faith in this country righting itself
It ain't great, is what I'm saying.