Paris burns after police murder youth
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TopCat
Putin fanboy
Ah. Apols for confusion. Hope you are well mate.
NoXion
Craicy the Squirrel
Complete and utter denial to face up to a problem is surely not going to have negative consequences down the road. Fuck's sake.
mojo pixy
...שלא נמצא בשמאל
Sweet FA
✪ Three rounds Lord, in my .44 ✪
Tiktok's to blame.
TopCat
Putin fanboy
We had a little riot in Thornton Heath in 1982. They blamed CB radio.
NoXion
Craicy the Squirrel
That fucking cretin Macron is blaming video games: French president urges parents to keep teens at home as government orders buses to stop at 9 p.m.
Because if there's one thing that video games encourage, it's going outside.
Or the police's. And, bizarrely, here we are again.
'The teenagers flatly said their daily lives had little to do with the minister’s vision of France — a nation ostensibly secular, colorblind and of equal opportunity.
When the minister started singing the national anthem, “La Marseillaise,” some refused. “I’ll never sing it,” one young woman in a Muslim veil told her.'
France’s Ideals Are a Harder Sell Among Diverse Youth (Published 2021)
France has long sought to create a secular, colorblind republic. But a clash between a government minister and a youth conference shows how those values are being questioned by a new generation.
Flavour
hang the bankers
All year long we’re pummeled with words about the thousand threats that surround us: terrorists, migrants, endocrine disruptor, fascism, unemployment. In this way the unshakeable routine of capitalist normality is perpetuated—against a background of a thousand failed conspiracies, a hundred averted catastrophes. As to the pallid anxiety which they try, day after day, to implant in our heads, by way of armed military patrols, breaking news, and governmental announcements, one has to credit riots with the paradoxical virtue of freeing us from it.
This is something that the lovers of those funeral processions called “demonstrations,” all those who taste, over a glass of rouge, the bitter enjoyment of always being defeated, all those who give out a flatulent “Or else it’s going to blow up!” before they prudently climb back into their bus, cannot understand. In a street confrontation, the enemy has a well-defined face, whether he’s in civilian clothes or in armor. He has methods that are largely known. He has a name and a function. In fact, he’s a “civil servant,” as he soberly declares.
The friend, too, has gestures, movements, and an appearance that are recognizable. In the riot there is an incandescent presence to oneself and to others, a lucid fraternity which the Republic is quite incapable of generating.
The organized riot is capable of producing what this society cannot create: lively and irreversible bonds. Those who dwell on images of violence miss everything that’s involved in the fact of taking the risk together of breaking, of tagging, of confronting the cops. One never comes out of one’s first riot unchanged. It’s this positivity of the riot that the spectators prefer not to see and that frightens them more deeply than the damage, the charges and counter-charges. In the riot there is a production and affirmation of friendships, a focused configuration of the world, clear possibilities of action, means close at hand. The situation has a form and one can move within it.
The risks are sharply defined, unlike those
nebulous “risks” that the governing authorities like to hang over our existences. The riot is desirable as a moment of truth. It is a momentary suspension of the confusion. In the tear gas, things are curiously clear
and the real is finally legible.
From "Now" by the Invisible Committee, published in France in 2017.
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i like their writing style and think it offers an insight into a more universal (or at leash, quite French!) truth about rioting which is true beyond the anarcho-insurrectionalist current, including this week's events
This is something that the lovers of those funeral processions called “demonstrations,” all those who taste, over a glass of rouge, the bitter enjoyment of always being defeated, all those who give out a flatulent “Or else it’s going to blow up!” before they prudently climb back into their bus, cannot understand. In a street confrontation, the enemy has a well-defined face, whether he’s in civilian clothes or in armor. He has methods that are largely known. He has a name and a function. In fact, he’s a “civil servant,” as he soberly declares.
The friend, too, has gestures, movements, and an appearance that are recognizable. In the riot there is an incandescent presence to oneself and to others, a lucid fraternity which the Republic is quite incapable of generating.
The organized riot is capable of producing what this society cannot create: lively and irreversible bonds. Those who dwell on images of violence miss everything that’s involved in the fact of taking the risk together of breaking, of tagging, of confronting the cops. One never comes out of one’s first riot unchanged. It’s this positivity of the riot that the spectators prefer not to see and that frightens them more deeply than the damage, the charges and counter-charges. In the riot there is a production and affirmation of friendships, a focused configuration of the world, clear possibilities of action, means close at hand. The situation has a form and one can move within it.
The risks are sharply defined, unlike those
nebulous “risks” that the governing authorities like to hang over our existences. The riot is desirable as a moment of truth. It is a momentary suspension of the confusion. In the tear gas, things are curiously clear
and the real is finally legible.
From "Now" by the Invisible Committee, published in France in 2017.
---
i like their writing style and think it offers an insight into a more universal (or at leash, quite French!) truth about rioting which is true beyond the anarcho-insurrectionalist current, including this week's events
mojo pixy
...שלא נמצא בשמאל
When the minister started singing the national anthem, “La Marseillaise,” some refused. “I’ll never sing it,” one young woman in a Muslim veil told her.'
France’s Ideals Are a Harder Sell Among Diverse Youth (Published 2021)
France has long sought to create a secular, colorblind republic. But a clash between a government minister and a youth conference shows how those values are being questioned by a new generation.www.nytimes.com
No I just like the irony of having a national anthem that says 'aux armes citoyens!' but when they actually do, it's all "oh but this is terrible, I blame the parents!"
friedaweed
Me and me girl named Jane
Got to give it to the French, they know how to riot..
ash
Inittogether
We used to (and I’m not talking about the trainer riots!)
newme
Giant in Pastyland now
And how to ignore that the president was groomed at 15 by a woman 24 years his senior.
friedaweed
Me and me girl named Jane
ash
Inittogether
Totally they don’t let themselves get walked over by the Govt and Toffs like we do - total respect !!
friedaweed
Me and me girl named Jane
T'is very difficult to ignore something you had no knowledge of in the first place. What's your point caller? Is this about the riots or the Graduate?
ash
Inittogether
Like we’ve got no political comparisons here
ska invita
back on the other side
from 2005 -spot the differences with today
Gary Younge: Riots are a class act
Gary Younge: France now accepts the need for social justice. No petition, peaceful march or letter to an MP could have achieved this.
friedaweed
Me and me girl named Jane
In 1990 I was sharing a flat in east London with a Marseillais of Algerian descent. Nothing much has changed in France or the UK in that time. Let it burn.from 2005 -spot the differences with today
Gary Younge: Riots are a class act
Gary Younge: France now accepts the need for social justice. No petition, peaceful march or letter to an MP could have achieved this.www.theguardian.com
cupid_stunt
Chief seagull hater & farmerbarleymow's nemesis.
Poor kid, family & friends. 
The cops never seem to learn that if you go round killing, people will react.
Nice weather for it too.
The cops never seem to learn that if you go round killing, people will react.Nice weather for it too.
teqniq
DisMembered
Informative thread which gives some context to what is happening as a result of this execution:
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Thread by @MathieuRigouste on Thread Reader App
@MathieuRigouste: Since the beginning of the revolt for Nahel, executed by the French police, international media have trouble understanding the situation. Here are some elements for a critical analysis, based on my...…
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savoloysam
Pigman's pigman's ha ha charade you are..
Got to give it to us Brits. We're sure know how to do nothing but accept being fucked up the arse by the powers that be.
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