The ban is in effect through Bastille Day in order to prevent "serious disturbances" to public order, the French government announced Sunday.
Skellybones 45 points 3 years ago
Being out the guillotine
Techmaster 11 points 3 years ago
They also do it for fun. Just ask Epstein...oh wait, nevermind.
G_Wash1776 42 points 3 years ago
Macron out here with the French Revolution Any% speedrun
Feweroptions 20 points 3 years ago
I think this is a great opportunity to see if anybody has a spine anymore. If the French won't have a proper revolution, we're fucked.
afraid_of_zombies 7 points 3 years ago
No one ever accused the French of
- Being bad at baking
- Not getting good and angry when the government is wrong
- Being ashamed of being French.
I really have to hand it to them. Anglo nations just endure terrible government as an unfixable problem. When you piss the french off they are going to let you know.
reagansrottencorpse 38 points 3 years ago
Perhaps the French govt should stop behaving against the will of the French people. š¤·
TransLinux 1 point 3 years ago
this make sense. They can't.
nooooooo 37 points 3 years ago
Maybe I don't understand yet how posts on Lemmy work, but is there no link/source for this post?
Edit: I can't see it on desktop (lemmy dot world) and neither in Jerboa. Edit2: OP edited the post and included the link which now works. Seems the picture broke the link, according to OP.
Gramatikal 10 points 3 years ago
Seconding that it appears to just be a photo with a text post. Broken link maybe? The photo looks like it could be from an article.
PierreKanazawa 9 points 3 years ago
Weird, I can see the link. @histy @Gramatikal (see if mentioning works)
ReallyKinda 4 points 3 years ago
It links to a business insider article
Odusei 3 points 3 years ago
No problem. I just hope that soon these instances will support pulling thumbnails from the articles to give the links a richer presence here. They're all so uniform and ugly right now.
potterpockets 5 points 3 years ago
Well tbf the Storming of the Bastille was (off the top of my head) two monarchies, two empires and two republics ago. Not to mention any communes, committees of public safety, or directories. How can you blame them for getting confused?? /s
potterpockets 2 points 3 years ago
A tale as old as Roman times
YewmanBean 19 points 3 years ago
I hate fireworks but this seems like a good reason to keep them around.
LollerCorleone 15 points 3 years ago
Maybe the government should listen to the people?
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MasterObee -3 points 3 years ago
Unfortunately our military is way too big to give veterans the proper care they need.
I think the average person wants to support veterans, but when you have 26 million of them it makes it extremely costly.
guyman 12 points 3 years ago
As with most things, take it from the wealthy.
If it ever seems like there's not enough to go around, blame those who have too much. We could solve these problems, but not while protecting the profits of the ruling class.
afraid_of_zombies 5 points 3 years ago
Maybe we should have less wars?
Just spitballing here.
afraid_of_zombies 2 points 3 years ago
I mean when I set off some fireworks I am not trying to mess with some vet. You are right however, I should be more aware of this issue.
MasterObee 1 point 3 years ago
So....if the government turns on the people, what do the French have to protect themselves with?
MasterObee -1 points 3 years ago
The citizens just ask the politicians to come to the guillotines, plz?
guyman 1 point 3 years ago
Yes, France clearly needs the right to bear arms just like Iran does.
Remember all the uproar happening in Iran last year? What happened? Did they topple their abusive regime without guns or foreign intervention?
Everyone was calling them so brave and now it's just silence.
afraid_of_zombies 2 points 3 years ago
The Iran thing was doomed to failure not because of guns but because of ideas.
In a war between the strict version of an ideology and the less strict one the strict version is always going to win. The revolution in Iran was for diet Islam against real Islam.
Look at the Russian, American, and French revolutions. It is trivial to name open atheists/diests/secularists in all three. Can you name a single one for Iran without hours of searching to find maybe one tik tok video?
Ideas matter.
MasterObee 0 points 3 years ago
I don't know about Iran's gun rights to have much input on that comparison.
From what I remember, I thought the protests were mainly by the youth in universities.
MercuryUprising 6 points 3 years ago
lol, okay there. Let's settle down and wipe the Doritos from your face, Chequito. This protest has very little to do with any sort of revolution, and even if it did, your next in line after Macron is currently Le Pen, who would simply make things even worse. So really, I don't think you understand what the fuck you're talking about.
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lmfao did the french gov forget who it's people are?
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