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3mo ago

What year is it?

Anglois caca, mais c'est drôle quand même

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Everyone always jokes about the French protesting everything ..... yet they're the ones with better worker rights, better social benefits, better public health, better wages .... meanwhile, the US never has mass protests and they have the worst worker rights, low wages, low taxes for the rich, high taxes for the poor, no public health care and few supports for the poor yet the country has the wealthiest people in the world.
There seems to be a pattern and the French figured it out a couple hundred years ago but the Americans haven't.
- When France had issues similar to the USA, people in charge completely lost their heads... Literally
  
  Oh yeah, the best device to cure headaches.
- Also the average French person understands how democracy works, with paper ballots and checks.
  Americans tend to blindly trust any old oligarch putting up software to vote on. And are incapable of introspection on the matter.
  The two systems are not the same. Like comparing religion and science.
- I don't know much about French history, but I've always wondered why oppressors would choose to oppress in a country known for actively overthrowing oppressors.
  
  Napoleon, the guy who declared himself emperor, was pretty successful in his oppressive reign.
  
  He got in just as everyone got all of their anger out on the LAST oppressor. They were le tired. Lol

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