Macron was voted in to prevent a fascist from being in power but he just makes a police state
MCA did. They said it was cancer that took him, but nobody ever asks who pulled the trigger on the cancer gun. Partying is not a crime!
france declares hunt for the lmfao guys as party rocking is now a national issue
They are flying police helicopters around all day to catch kids lighting fireworks. Not even a bit.
Is kids lighting fireworks even a thing this year? Over here in Germany, where fireworks and partying are also prohibited due to the lockdown, i haven't heard a single firecracker all day and people normally start to blow up trashcans and shit right after xmas is over.
Same here. And no, it's really quiet compared to normal. A pop here and there.
"I need a submachine gun and body armor to subdue these dangerous armed partiers"
Unless Reuters just chose a misleading photo from somewhere else
I was in Paris on New Year's Eve about ... 15 or so years ago and equipment like that was normal for the cops even back then. They're about as militarized as in the US, and seem to be comparably racist as well. Probably the worst cops in Western Europe.
I’m really just amazed fascists even try the overt approach anymore when this is so much more productive.
they need the overt approach to make the other one more palatable. good cop bad cop routine.
this is kinda necessary right now, no?
Social distancing, quarantine, and PPE? Yeah, very necessary.
Forcing people to do it with SMGs? Doesn't seem necessary to me.
Yeah it's shitty that chuds and conspiracy-theorists are endangering themselves and others, but the problem, IMO, is that capitalism means that "re-open the economy" conspiracy theories are profitable, and capitalism also forces people to have to go do pointless jobs or do dangerous jobs without enough protection to be safe from the people who decide to do a party in the middle of a pandemic.
Yeah I wonder how many clips China emptied shutting down parties. Wonder how many parties of stinky white frenchies those bullets will end up in as opposed to Muslims simply minding their own business.
Yeah, this is classic Shock Doctrine, grab power for the state during crisis, never give it up after.
They've grabbed and not given it up ages ago. This isn't a new thing, French cops where equipped like that even before Bataclan and the like, and they murdered a guy at an illegal party just last year when they were chasing a a crowd of ravers off a cliff with tear gas., just as a recent example of how bad the situation is. A close advisor of Macron dressed up as a cop to beat up yellow vest protestors, dozens of people lost their eyes due to rubber bullets less than two years ago. There's regular riots in Paris suburbs because of yet another black or algerian kid getting beaten to death in the streets, or raped while in custody, or whatever else the pigs feel like. And that isn't a new thing, there's been mass murders of algerian protesters in the 1950s that are still not resolved today. France rules its pauperized areas with nothing but racist contempt, it was Macron's predecessor Sarkozy who said that the suburbs should be "cleaned up with a Kärcher", likening their inhabitants to filth to be blasted away with a pressure washer power tool popular with boomers.
What we're seeing in that pic isn't shock doctrine. It's the status quo installed by decades of it.
France needs a new republic.
And to finally admit Vichy France was just France and start facing up to their shit for the last 100 years in particular.
ACAB, and fuck France, but this is kinda necessary right now, no?
Not the tacti-cool shit and the fucking rifle, no.
What is the plan, here? It looks like Michael Bay writing COVID policy.
Wearing a french fry serving tray as a hat and BMX armor with his SMG.
Like what the fuck dude?
The Beastie Boy's seminal work in favour of reviving Soviet Cosmism as a driving ideology of FALGSC "Intergalactic" was a real eye opener in my youth.
its quite surprising how quickly some standard neoliberal can impose fascist policies just to not do concessions to the workers
He was the neoliberal LesserEvilTM, of course he will cater to fascism, it's their job
Oh no, can't believe neoliberalism would do this who could have known?!
