Just weeks after hugely disruptive protests and strikes over pension reforms in France finally died down, businesses in the country are grappling with the fallout from a week of rioting.

  • foxblood@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    I get your point. Actively contributing to politics either by joining a party or by protesting is supporting democracy.

    But looting stores and robbing people en masse only discredits peaceful protests.

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      1 year ago

      I agree, looting stores is not the way to go. But peaceful protests are way to easy to just ignore

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        1 year ago

        The required mass of people is definitely higher. But if you are interested, I can recommend reading about the Monday demonstrations which brought down the eastern Germany regime. They were (by a broad majority) peaceful.

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      1 year ago

      The purpose of a protest is to show that you have the numbers for a riot. If the people in power know you’ll never follow through on it, they can ignore you.