• tino@lemmy.world
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    6 hours ago

    Paris has been redesigned in the XIXth century to contain revolts: the wide avenues are hard to block with barricades , and in straight line, so it’s always visible from the main police barracks that are located on the big squares at each end. Also, since 1930, almost all strikes have to use the same route between 3 places: Republique, Bastille and Nation.

    So basically, we’ve been storming the Bastille weekly for 2 centuries.

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    4 hours ago

    The Irish revolutionary, Gilles O’Teen will be there again this time around as well. And all other future times in this seemingly endless cycle! /s

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    7 hours ago

    But MAGA keeps telling me France has burned entirely to the ground because of Muslims! They wouldn’t be saying that just to promote Islamophobia and racism, would they? /s

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    7 hours ago

    I think the previous time was the yellow vest movment (gilets jaunes) ; and the gouvernment got saved by Covid…