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[–] IWW4@lemmy.zip 86 points 1 month ago (2 children)

OMG they really do.

I remember when I lived in Germany, French Truckers had a protest where they parked hundreds of trucks on highways and basically shut down the highways in France.

You know how the French people reacted?

They brought the truckers food and water so they would not go hungry.

The solidarity of the French is no bullshit!

[–] gibmiser@lemmy.world 52 points 1 month ago (2 children)

In america you block a road and your likely to get murdered

[–] Zachariah@lemmy.world 35 points 1 month ago

…by a fellow worker who will not be prosecuted because “they were just defending themselves”

[–] Bieren@lemmy.today 13 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Can’t be late to work. Will get fired and replaced by ai. Which means no healthcare, no house, no food.

[–] idiomaddict@lemmy.world 8 points 1 month ago

That’ll happen either way, if we let the people who would have stood in solidarity with us protest alone and be fired themselves. I’m not telling you what to do, but you’re not protecting yourself

[–] Janx@piefed.social 6 points 1 month ago

If the wannabe oligarchs get their way, that'll happen anyway....

[–] huppakee@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

True, a job means healthcare and a house. Right?

[–] vzqq@lemmy.blahaj.zone 21 points 1 month ago

The solidarity of the French is no bullshit!

Fraternité motherfuckers!

[–] TheJesusaurus@piefed.ca 53 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Everyone should spend time working in France. Yes I realize how insanely privileged that statement is. But something about working amongst a people where the janitor doesn't even pretend to take shit from the CEO and leaves a conversation in the middle because it's break time, is inspiring.

[–] k0e3@lemmy.ca 14 points 1 month ago

At least see first hand how they work. I work for myself so I try to imitate their style. I don't need to go on strike but I'll drop a client if they're being stupid.

[–] tormeh@discuss.tchncs.de 8 points 1 month ago

Had this happen to me in Berlin. Customer rep just looked at her watch and left. Granted, it was at an airport very late in the evening, so circumstances were unusually shit, but still. I was amazed.

[–] DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world 47 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

I admire the French, even envy them a bit. I would like to have been born French.

But, since I wasn't I don't want anything to do with them.

[–] huppakee@lemmy.world 16 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Since you weren't neither do they.

[–] Skunk@jlai.lu 5 points 1 month ago

Ouch, right in my croissant shaped heart.

But that’s true… Merde, that’s true.

[–] pelespirit@sh.itjust.works 12 points 1 month ago

You've been added to the Best of Lemmy: https://sh.itjust.works/post/65027163

[–] cRazi_man@europe.pub 12 points 1 month ago

I'm taking notes

[–] Dremor@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

They also have mobile bars (basicaly a food truck, except you can buy food or drink as it moves along the protest).

Source : I'm French, and protested. It's kinda like those who run to keep in shape. We protest instead.

[–] Prathas@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Dang, I wonder if the true winner here is the food truck owner...

[–] Dremor@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

Depend if you count getting regularly tear gased as a win 😂.

[–] AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space 6 points 1 month ago

If there was another French Revolution, you know that they’d have guillotines on tram tracks

[–] Saapas@piefed.zip 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I have a feeling that there's like one or two of these. It's very often the case when reading a post saying how "X of country Y do this".

I've read some wildly misleading shit about Finland that was like this lol

[–] idiomaddict@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago

Iirc, it’s the train conductors’ union, which makes sense. If they’re not involved, I wouldn’t trust using the tracks.

[–] betelplouf@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 month ago

French unionist here, and the CGT Barbecue is like a national food here