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The ban is in effect through Bastille Day in order to prevent "serious disturbances" to public order, the French government announced Sunday.

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[-] tdawg@lemmy.world 118 points 1 year ago

lmfao did the french gov forget who it's people are?

[-] Skellybones@lemmy.world 44 points 1 year ago
[-] md5crypto@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago

The guillotine is too humane.

[-] G_Wash1776@lemmy.world 38 points 1 year ago

Macron out here with the French Revolution Any% speedrun

[-] tdawg@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago

Can't wait to watch the speed run history breakdown of this in a few years

[-] Feweroptions@sh.itjust.works 19 points 1 year 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.

[-] tdawg@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago

The fight for progress never stops

[-] afraid_of_zombies@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year 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.

[-] Kuinox@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Won't happen.
90% of the population was against the recents riots.

[-] LollerCorleone@kbin.social 36 points 1 year ago

Maybe the government should listen to the people?

[-] nooooooo@lemmy.world 36 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year 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.

[-] ReallyKinda@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago

It links to a business insider article

[-] Odusei@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Oh weird, adding a picture killed the link. Lemme see if I can fix that.

Sorry, I'm new here.

[-] nooooooo@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Now it works for me, thanks!

[-] Odusei@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year 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.

[-] jiji@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

If you’re viewing in compact mode on wefwef I believe that’s a known issue.

[-] nooooooo@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

I'm not seeing it on desktop (lemmy dot world) and also not in the Jerboa app.

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[-] reagansrottencorpse@lemmy.world 35 points 1 year ago

Perhaps the French govt should stop behaving against the will of the French people. 🤷

[-] atlhart@kbin.social 23 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

This is some very ironic, animal farm energy here. The government has forgotten who gave them their power.

[-] potterpockets@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 year 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

[-] ethman42@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

They do still have multiple programs in place to ensure the populace always has bread. They haven’t completely forgotten.

[-] potterpockets@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago

A tale as old as ~~Roman~~ time~~s~~

[-] bighi@lemmy.world 19 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I know they did this to weaken protests, BUT… I’d say everywhere in the world would be a much better place if we banned fireworks forever.

[-] Confused_Emus@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago

It's always struck me as rather odd that, in the US, one of our major holidays celebrating the military features fireworks considering how awful they can be for many veterans' PTSD.

[-] Marsupial@quokk.au 23 points 1 year ago

Why does that strike you as odd? America doesn’t care about its veterans.

[-] MasterObee@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year 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.

[-] afraid_of_zombies@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

Maybe we should have less wars?

Just spitballing here.

[-] MasterObee@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

I absolutely agree, I'm conservative and am fine with cutting 80% of our foreign military activity.

Using that money to help folk here including veterans.

[-] afraid_of_zombies@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

I feel like agreeing is some sorta trap for some reason.

All I know is I protested the Iraq war and I protested our involvement with the "moderates" in Syria.

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[-] afraid_of_zombies@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year 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.

[-] galloog1@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

I've never met one Veteran that was against planned fireworks displays. It's the backyard ones that are the issue.

[-] YewmanBean@slrpnk.net 18 points 1 year ago

I hate fireworks but this seems like a good reason to keep them around.

[-] jafo@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago

You can have my fireworks when you pry them from my cold, dead fingers. Which are over there, near the fireworks.

[-] MasterObee@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

So....if the government turns on the people, what do the French have to protect themselves with?

[-] Gatsby@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago
[-] MasterObee@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

The citizens just ask the politicians to come to the guillotines, plz?

[-] Etterra@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

So a temp ban. Nice clickbait headline there bastardinsider . com.

[-] Coreidan@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Roll out the guillotines! It’s time to get this party started already. It’s been long enough that the rich billionaires in the world meet their fate.

Can you smell it? Revolution is coming.

[-] MercuryUprising@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year 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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