Nobody Protests Like The French

Are we, the French, master complainers? Or just top tier civil rights activists?... Hear me out.
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[@user-ef3ez1lf2n]

"How can you govern a country which has two hundred and forty-six varieties of cheese?" - Charles de Gaulle 🤣🤣🤣

[@TheSweetSkeleton-mg9dp]

I thought they had more then that

[@czarcoma]

Create a Department of Cheese?

[@KitsukiiPlays]

@@czarcomayou’re thinking about British now

[@khemaraang]

It's 446 ;)

[@czarcoma]

@@KitsukiiPlays i do not have an idea how the French government is setup. I was actually thinking if something similar in my country. doesn't France have specific organizations within government that works on specific things like tax, or military, or science and education?

[@imo...]

if u don't really get why the french protest so much, hereis something that may help u understand : U are probably from a country where the global way of thinking is " it could be worse " when the french will think that " it could be better "

[@user-aero68]

True. As much as I can find protests in France super annoying, the French are super demanding on themselves and that's a real strength.

[@jash1281]

"it could be worse" is a perverse way of thinking... coz' all in all as long as you're alive, it always can be worse. Hence where do you draw a line and start to fend for yourself, and others. That's one of the point not taken into account in this well put together video. The protests in France are mostly driven by a will of making things better not only for yourself but others.

[@Andovers848]

French people have hope and faith in a better world to happen

[@nekonink6647]

​@@Andovers848 haha no we don't, hence why we're the people buying the most medicine against dépression, or why we're always grumbling about how it's not perfect.😂 However, we do learn to appreciate what we have and défend those all the more. Perfectionism and relarivism paradox de fines Frenchies. (at least from what I see everyday).

[@privatjetconnaisseur]

i wish people in other (and my) countries would protest as good as the french do. we have fascists at 25% and people dont care.

[@gingko19]

Of all the demonstrations I know, my favorite is that of the Nantes bus drivers. During heat waves, they weren't allowed to wear shorts, only warm pants. Women, on the other hand, were allowed to wear skirts. As a result, male drivers started wearing skirts to work! They won their case in 2017. But for me, it's still THE smartest protest in the world. No users were inconvenienced, not even their bosses, and they won.

[@Elfian66]

Indeed it's a very smart way to obtain what they asked. But you can't apply this method to every social fights. When you ask for salary increases or refuse a pension reform, you can't use this kind of method. And in France, striking is a right but not in every way. For example, it's totaly forbidden, and you can be pursuided for that, to let the users of a service use it freely (train or buses for example). Maybe we could have more imagination if we were more protected against disciplinary sanctions in these cases.

[@abarette_]

@@Elfian66 >pursuided Good try, not that one in English though. The correct form is pursued, and the correct word would probably be filed or sued instead.

[@ferretyluv]

I heard of a similar strike among schoolboys in England. Due to climate change, summers in England are getting hotter. The girls can wear skirts, but the boys still have to wear pants. So what do the boys do? Wear skirts! It worked and now they can wear shorts.

[@ferretyluv]

@@abarette_ I think that word can technically exist in English though, but it’s very archaic. We still have pursuivant, pursuant (both a noun and a verb, e.g. “pursuant to X”), and pursue. They both come from the same Old French term, pursuivre, which means “to follow.”

[@Elfian66]

@@abarette_ good to know. I think I wanted to write "pursued" but corrector did not want 😅 in french "poursuivre" is very common and can be used for criminal laws or for disciplinary sanctions or others. But english is not my mother tongue so I dont know every subtleties of english legal language 😉

[@shaihulud4515]

As a german, I must state that we are a bit jealous at our french friends and neighbours - here, often the say pops up that "if this shit would happen in france, we'd be already in the streets!", while your average german guy strays off with his eyes fixed on the sidewalk.

[@elsephiroth666]

Heard a german tech once who said: "I wish my people was like the French. Here we have no retirement until we're at least 67 and if they want to go further, no one would bat an eye. I don't want to die working..."

[@shaihulud4515]

@@elsephiroth666 As he said in the video: Work to live, not live to work!" I can absolutely agree with that.

[@Lolubellule]

XD That's sad !

[@eefneleman9564]

It's the same in The Netherlands. Mostly. Except for crazy climate protesters.

[@ResearcherGirl_]

Same here in Hungary...after many protests without results it kills our spirit. Always admired how French people can stick with the cause and make lot of people joining to the protests.

[@pernille2389]

I love how the French population supports the protests. During the recent farmers strike I didn't hear one person complain even though most roads were blocked around here. What I did see was loads of people bringing food and drink to the farmers, and those of us that has animals to care for took turns to care for otheres live stock.

[@orelliaorellia142]

Your situation is so unfair that everyone agrees with your protest. I find it flabbergasting that the laws supposed to protect you aren't enforced yet but they still will enforce new things you can't do without bankrupt? There is a priority problem.

[@robertsteele474]

A lot of people in the UK and here in the US were complaining about the protests blocking the roads in France.😱😉

[@billhanna2148]

@@robertsteele474 Face it Yanks and Brits are just a bunch of conformist slaves programmed so well by corporate welfare they actually feel BAD about protesting against their overlords.

[@Cancoillotteman]

@@robertsteele474 Well, if those were the ones annoyed... Good.

[@MaximilienNoal]

Almost every day a French farmer kills oneself, and people in France know that.

[@tolm1n301]

As a French, the funniest part is that we do not mind about the protest, we could easily have a pic nic 10 meters away from a massive protest

[@Lostouille]

La video sur Paris où y a des gens dans le restau au calme pendant que ça brûle dehors 😂😂

[@DanielCrist]

Here in Myanmar, the people protest even while other protesters are beaten or shot days before. It was 3 years ago when I was volunteering as a street medic in Yangon in the protests immediately following the military coup, when a man in front of me shouted in Burmese, "those of you who are not afraid to die, follow me!" And under the cover of buses and trucks armored with some hastily applied sheet metal, and individually carrying shields cut from oil drums, they stormed the military and police force on that road and drove them back that afternoon. Only a handful of people hesitated in marching forward despite having no real weapons to take on the well equipped troops. It still makes my eyes swell up like a baby just thinking about it. Obviously protesting quickly died out as a realistic option when people were getting shot, and now there's a fully fledged civil war raging, but the beauty of the bravery I saw in those protests is like nothing I've ever seen before.

[@orelliaorellia142]

The protest in Myanmar were incredible. We have a lot of respect for your courage and I wish you will be able to break free of your government. Sincerely from France.

[@DanielCrist]

@@orelliaorellia142 Merci beaucoup. It's not my government exactly, I'm American, but I've lived here since 2016 and got engaged to a Myanmar woman. Thank you for your wishes though, I hope so too - I've been living in hiding from the military since then, unable to leave the country at all, with no help from my embassy for anything. Your embassy has actually been more helpful to me than mine, providing me with COVID vaccines when I didn't have the money to pay for them, and when I couldn't risk going to a public hospital. I think the rebel soldiers will finally be victorious this year. Until then, we appreciate your support

[@orelliaorellia142]

@@DanielCrist My best wishes to you and all your friends!

[@DanielCrist]

@@orelliaorellia142 Merci, vive la revolution!

[@cannotfindmyshoes3]

Courage and strength to you all protesting over there.

[@tiben75]

Yeah but we have so much to lose and so much is lost already.. France changed a lot and we cannot protest that easily now but "Impossible isn't french" so we're not done 👍🏼😅

[@mellie4174]

Here here!

[@tiben75]

@@mellie4174 Merde jsuis grillée. Abort abort !

[@michaelmazzen]

je voyage souvent à paris et j'ai beaucoup d'amis français (en danois). oui, il se passe toujours quelque chose .-) mais ce n'est jamais aussi grave qu'on le prétend dans les médias internationaux. Café du matin dans une rue calme et à 100 mètres une émeute bat son plein :-) personne n'en a rien à foutre...

[@Toxic8arbarian]

Yk I shit on the French a lot as an American but that sounds pretty bad ass so respect my friend 🗿

[@hubertjacquard7052]

@@Toxic8arbarian Thanks for support my friend. ;-) As a french i already knew that Americans could only do shit😉

[@nicklandi2153]

Bah si il manifeste et qu'il n'y a pas de confrontation avec les force de l'ordre ça veux dire qu'il n'y a pas de lacrymogène donc rien à craindre. XD Et les manifestation suive une route prédéterminé donc si t'es à coté il y a du bruit mais pas de risque .

[@orelliaorellia142]

C'est même festif les manifs XD. Il y a de la musique, des banderoles, des chars... On devrait l'inscrire au patrimoine :)

[@mellie4174]

Américaine vivant en France... Et c'est trop vrai ce que t'as dit. Ça fait la charme...

[@plouifasol]

I was doing an internship in Portugal and I was in a group talking about how important it is to demonstrate because, if we don't, the government is going to do whatever they want and we are going to pay all their actions. The group was full of individuals who wouldn't dare to raise their hand even to express an opinion (I guess real life is not like fake virtual one)... Suddenly, this unknown French lady who was nearby approaches me very proud and says that I'm totally right and that I should keep going like this. We said goodbye with our victory fist up. 😂 I hope French keep this up.

[@elibunny12]

I love how they dropped the "ou la mort" from the French motto because it was too much meanwhile the Uruguayan one is literally "Libertad o muerte", which translates to "Freedom or death". I guess the French inspired them

[@jash1281]

One of the first written french constitution included an article saying that "face toward an abusive power, insurrection is not only a right but a duty" it got dropped pretty quickly 😮‍💨

[@samdumaquis2033]

​@@jash1281dropped by the elite

[@abarette_]

@@jash1281 Well, it is still absolutely a right at least.

[@SL_Tabs_]

The old devise of the Third French Republic was "Liberty or death". Chose in 1860 until 1940

[@elibunny12]

​@@SL_Tabs_ oh wow, I didn't know that! So Uruguayans are sneaky little copycats!

[@Hollytargaryen]

I live in France (from UK), and love that the French express their dissatisfaction with the government.

[@eefneleman9564]

As a Dutchman, I stand behind the French protests. About 300 km behind. We Dutch just complain, we could take some lessons from the French.

[@abarette_]

clicking the Belgium button isn't that hard. :p

[@glockenrein]

Yes! Here in Germany French protests are legendary, especially the burning cars - we Germans are far too attached to our cars for that. 😂

[@autarchprinceps]

True, but there was the group of retired people in Germany who kidnapped their bank manager for loosing their money with speculative investments. That was also quite legendary.

[@irenebodle7071]

So true lol. Us Germans are so obsessed with cars 😅

[@Majestic8573]

burning cars are the results of mass african immigration in the hood, stop laughing you'll experiment it sooner than you think...

[@johnmollet2637]

LOL, as an American I would assume that you Germans have much better cars.

[@johnmollet2637]

@@autarchprinceps Nice.

[@Christopher-xd5in]

Its so bad even introverts are here. Laughed my ass off. Thank you. Merci.

[@MrDrewwills]

To quote the inspiration John Stewart. "The work of making this world a place you would want to live in is day in and day out banging on close doors, pick up those that are fallen, and grind at issues till they get a positive result and even then have to stay on to make sure that result holds." Bad systems exist because they benefit someone whose powerful enough to make them stick, so they will never let them go without a fight. I have so much respect for the French. They understand what it takes to make the world a better place and keep it that way.

[@frufruJ]

I'm over the moon that Jon Stewart is back at The Daily Show!

[@joelgrea6654]

Too bad most of them don't understand what would make the world a better place. By the way, I'm french.

[@MrDrewwills]

@@joelgrea6654 Idk, I think not letting the government force you into spending more and more of your life working is a pretty good cause.

[@joelgrea6654]

​@@MrDrewwills That's the point, French people, like all people on earth, want to spend more and more than the earth can sustain. It's like stabbing our loved ones in the back. They'll suffer because of our greed.

[@MrDrewwills]

@@joelgrea6654 I get what you're saying, but the government isn't increasing the retirement age because they want to save the earth. They're doing it to save themselves money.

[@user-ef3ez1lf2n]

I love this French culture of protests. Government should know that people aren't happy with their decision.

[@ferretyluv]

Yeah but, seriously, considering how they reacted to the retirement age thing with rising life expectancy, that was a little extreme for raising it by only two years.

[@meslegumesbioenunclic3267]

il s'en foutent !

[@Zift_Ylrhavic_Resfear]

@@ferretyluv The government passed the law without letting the elected deputies vote on it. They straight up ignored democracy, probably because they knew the law would never pass. This is very serious, and the fact that our protests didn't work means the government is no longer under democratic control. We need a new constitution that doesn't allow such a thing to happen.

[@louisrobitaille5810]

If the protests were country-scale, *maybe* they'd do something. So far, it's only a few thousands of people, i.e. a tiny minority. Not worth their time. It's kinda normal in a democracy. The minority will always be unhappy by design…

[@labobinette]

@@ferretyluv Why should we work longer ? With all the technological progress and automation, if anything, the retirement age should go down.

[@elainebelzDetroit]

"The genius of France can be seen in a glance, and it's not in their fabled fashion scene. It's not that they're mean, or their wine or cuisine- I refer, of course, to the guillotine." --T-Bone Burnett, "I Can Explain Everything"

[@KasaiRayquaza]

"Stop premature Christmas decorating!" Preach, my child.

[@Sakurazukamori91130]

What a timely subject! Since the farmers' protests were 2 weeks ago and Mahorais'protests started 3 weeks ago (And yes started, they are still going on)

[@Lolubellule]

It's always a timely subject, I can't recall a year without a protest. XD

[@orelliaorellia142]

The educational system is protesting too by the way. And I think the SNCF was on strike this week end. The government is pissing us a lot recently. I'm sure French would not hesitate to protest during the Games too XD.

[@donnanoble9772]

​@@orelliaorellia142 If you ever thought the Games would be peaceful, you're wrong! It is going to be absolute chaos, and we're here for it! So buckle up, cause you're in for a treat!

[@giovannacasadio9600]

Here in Italy, they are still protesting

[@abarette_]

I love how that protest (probably still ongoing, I've seen some tractors walk around a supermarket last week) includes turning signs upside-down. Sure it's inconvenient, but at least you're not stealing or breaking them. It's kind of like how some countries turn their flag upside-down when they're in war or something lol

[@giovannacasadio9600]

In Italy, the pension age is 67 for men and 65 for women. Soon, it will be that you have to die before getting it. Great video.

[@marilyn8490]

Being from a place where employers always have the upper hand and workers have relatively few opportunities to protest (my state is a "right to work" state, which equals very few unions), I am amazed people can protest on a regular basis.

[@Cynim]

As a French-speaking Swiss (bonjour de Lausanne!), it’s interesting to watch about France and about the French from your point of view, since you’re also very much Anglo-Saxon as well. Keep it up! Et comme on dit chez nous en Suisse Romande: tout de bon! Pourquoi pas un jour une petite vidéo sur les Francophones qui ne sont pas Français? 😉

[@juliad368]

Coucou voisin Suisse. Vous en Suisse vous avez de la chance votre gouvernement vous demande tout le temps votre avis. Vous vivez dans une vraie démocratie quoi. En France on est dans une pseudo démocratie.

[@amahashadow]

I can confirm, as a french, that we don't always need excuses. My first year of uni, within the first hour of the first day, a girl crashed the lessons and declared that we should go on strike. 20 years later. Never learned why. By noon all 3 uni in Toulouse were on strike. It lasted 6 weeks 🎉😅 (edit) obviously we found excuses on the second day about not having enough teachers, but I never learned why we actually started.....

[@unikracoon1913]

The Paris commune is one of the coolest things to have ever existed, On par with John brown

[@jash1281]

Guess getting asked by the politics that ditched you, let you endure months long siege and bombing to give back your guns, canons and to go back to be obedient "corporate slaves" can piss someone out

[@loonakara9941]

Francaise au quebec ici et ca nous fait bien rire de voir qu ils prevoient et previennent le gouvernement de chacune de leur manif et en ont appelé une la "revolution tranquille" et surtout, pour les profs qui ratent des cours pour les manifs, ils doivent les rattraper parce que "quand même ça se fait pas"🥲😂

[@ROBANN88]

personally i think one of the more interesting protests is when people of Sweden protested against Homosexuality being categorized as an illness, by calling in gay to work in the same way one would call in sick.

[@AlexDings]

Lol that's amazing

[@helluvastart]

French people are the best people in the world. been in French Canada and France, both are good.

[@juliad368]

I’m French. Your comment is sweet. But no one is better that anyone else. No country is better. I’ve travelled a lot and have found that every country is special in its own way.

[@julienladureau7581]

@loicsuberville you should totally do a video on words starting with “French” (ie: french toast, french fries, french doors…etc) and why they’re called like that BTW, I’m French/Australian and i LOOOOVE all your stuff!! Keep up the good work 👍🏻

[@chilpericl6884]

Si je peux me permettre, l'épisode de la Commune de Paris (the township/municipality of Paris) en 1870 est un prototype de l'application du communisme -Le mot "communisme" vient même du mot "commune" en référence à cet épisode- Je me suis rendu compte que Marx avait théorisé le communisme (et lui avait donné un nom bien avant , au minimum en 1848 avec le _Manifeste du parti communiste_ )

[@BlackSilveria]

Et la Commune fut exterminer par l'état français la semaine sanglante

[@JuniusMajor]

Le Manifeste du Parti communiste a paru en 1848.

[@chilpericl6884]

@@JuniusMajor Autant pour moi J'avançais visiblement une croyance fausse de ma part

[@scotsam7590]

The French have nailed it. We should all learn from them. Viva la revolution!

[@tomlebeau3168]

"In a country where most people work to live rather than live to work" What a great sentence to hear when you are French! (btw, I'm young and I don't care if I need to work until whatever age, it's a good resume of the French mentality) :)

[@bobiboulon]

Well, when go to a protest despite knowing that you risk loosing an eye to a "non-lethal" weapon wrongly used by a CRS, it shows that you really are serious about your demands.

[@CalebA_Guitarist]

I think the French are just keeping tradition alive

[@sensufr219]

😂😂

[@maelshanti]

For me the recent protest of the "mégabassines" at Sainte Soline was really striking and amazing

[@maccurtis730]

Here in America, we put up a sign for the employer "They are not dead just Japanese" Employers thought it was the Revelation, and the dead were coming back to life the Japanese were dead-tiered.

[@czarcoma]

Great how you can make light of any topic, French related or not, and just make it fun, engaging, entertaining.

[@Atlantonat]

"lets go protest ! Lets goooo ! " Ptn tu m'a tué ! merci xD par contre c'est Mai 68 ! Pas 78 :)

[@dominuspyro]

LEZGO

[@CaptainDangeax]

Brittany is the western point of France. The only highway crossing the region and connecting others goes from Fougères on the north down to Rennes then Nantes on the south. Sarkozy wanted to install a toll for trucks crossing the country, but they installed toll porticos on the local highway looping Brittany (so only used by locals). This goes in a massive protest where the porticos were destroyed by fire, and the whole project was abandonned for the whole country.

[@CoolKidsArmy]

The protests in Belgium with the tractors is just SO Belgium 😅❤ Food trucks are making money on the highway bc of them😂 Much love and support from Belgium 🇧🇪✌️

[@AlexDings]

Made me think of that amazing video where someone rates the top 5 croissants in Paris and juxtaposes that with violent protests going on around him. Can't believe you didn't show that 😀

[@mast3rbank]

I am french and i laughted a lot. Loic spoke the truth.

[@thibautmanchon4852]

I'm french, I never go to the protest because I mostly disagree the ideas but I love seeing people go to the street and show their disagreement with the government. I think it's basically how a democracy should work.

[@lillybrooks7662]

Well, I agree 100%, I’m still stuck in the US, until I am able to get to France permanently, but we could use a lot more of that type of gumption in the US!!!

[@bonbahoue]

J'allais écrire un truc du même genre mais vous l'avez parfaitement dit.

[@CasparSG]

There's nothing more democratic than protesting.

[@ArandelaGriffe]

Les Manifestations en Espagne sont pas mal non plus, pour les droits civiques ou contre les amnesties. En parlant de révolution celle des Catalans était FUN : -Catalans : Nous voulons l'indépendance, l'euro et rejoindre l'UE -Madrid : Euh, les gars c'est nous qu'avons l'armée, les planches à billets et faut notre accord pour intégrer l'Europe... -Catalans : ... ah... OUPS

[@secretsdunefeechannel]

🤣🤣🤣

[@abarette_]

devient un bel enfer l'UE quand même ^^"

[@aidanclarke6106]

The US age of retirement is: NO!

[@cheezarose]

Is it really? Meaning is there really no set age of retirement because that sounds kind of dystopian,ngl.

[@AT-rr2xw]

@@cheezarose Well, there is kind of, but retirement money may not be enough to live a life, so a lot of elderly still work. And some feel the need to work due to external pressure or just boredom due to lack of things for them.

[@bartmannn6717]

As a famous German cabaret artist ("comedian") once said: "The US is capitalism in its final stage."

[@random_toaster]

​@@cheezaroseunless you are filthy rich, retirement will never be an option here. Work till you're dead... government needs your money to fund the lazy.

[@billhanna2148]

@@random_toaster Correction, they need your money to fund obscene defense budgets to rule the world.

[@yannick7230]

We can all laugh with the french, but to be fair it's probably one of the absolute best countries to work and live in.

[@orelliaorellia142]

Rightly said! Par ailleurs mes chers camarades de l'éducation nationale, rendez-vous le 26 février 😉

[@aysun9354]

On parle de moi ! 😊

[@nekomiaou]

Il y a manif le 26 ? Je ne suis pas dans l'educ nat, mais mon fils y est, je peux venir quand même ?

[@orelliaorellia142]

@@nekomiaou Oui contre les annonces de réformes. Je suppose que tout le monde peut venir mais je ne sais pas si c'est possible de se déclarer en grève si on ne fait pas partie des métiers concernés par le préavis.

[@TUBEED00]

I think sometimes it's a little too much in France but in Germany we could learn a lot.

[@WillKemp]

I think it's awesome! I wish people in Australia (where I live) were more inclined to get off their arses and get out into the streets and protest, but they're generally too apathetic, so the politicians get away with all the corruption they want.

[@patapompon]

Demonstration is indeed a form of socialisation. I have "demo friends" that I now only see at demonstrations, which means that I see them more often than some of my closer friends. It is also a great way of knowing your colleagues better by going together on strike and/or at the demonstration, and not only through an after-work at the bar (although, you can hit the bar with them after the demonstration). And, living in Paris, it is included in the sum of other social events and activities of the weekend, you know, some volunteer work in the morning, a restaurant at noon, a demo right after, and maybe a movie or an exhibition late afternoon if the demo ends without the police kettling you for hours. I sometimes plan lunch and Saturday night event according to the itinerary of the demo.

[@abarette_]

Exactly lol, it's like going to a soirée except well it's not the night. Usually.

[@gusper314]

*This video is like watching a real-life film on Asterix and Obelix!* 💥☝🏻🤣😂😂😂😂😂

[@Lolubellule]

XD Nice

[@carmelasantana3091]

I think the French way of protesting is spot-on. It gives the government a real-time view of a proposed change. It takes the temperature of the nation, and it focuses on what really matters. The protest also has to be registered in advance, and you don't get paid for missed work, so you're out there on the power of your convictions.

[@OldFartsStreaming]

Oh hell yea, we always say the same phrase! when they protest shit is literally going down...recent farmers strike in france

[@orelliaorellia142]

Shit and farmers protests are always going together XD. The government should be handling the matters cautiously, because I don't think any farmer would see any problem dumping shit in front of the Olympic village this summer if things aren't resolved at the time XD.

[@OldFartsStreaming]

@@orelliaorellia142 oh they didn't lol not to long ago the French farmers filled the entrance hall of a parlament building with dung 🤣 surprised me that he didn't mention it.

[@abarette_]

@@OldFartsStreaming damn I did not hear about this 😂That's what living in Belgium does to me I guess. btw it's "they wouldn't" not "they didn't" (because you answered to "[...] would see any problem [...]")

[@OldFartsStreaming]

@@abarette_ thanks and that is why people don't like Belgians 😜... Hope you have a great day on the internet. (Obviously I was joking, not sure if Belgians have sarcasm)

[@liendel328]

For the record, the gilets jaunes were at start protesting against the raise of the gas prices because a mot of people needed their vehicles for work, and were already barely maling a living. It then widened to all the issues people had with the government.

[@zemissphere547]

J’ai fait les manifs contre la réforme des retraites. C’était pacifique et sympa (sauf sous la pluie battante), tous échangeaient dans les cortèges, il y avait des bandas… quel fut le résultat ? Je suis au regret d’annoncer que rien ne se fera sans violence, malheureusement. Les changements majeurs ont eu lieu après avoir coupé des têtes ou jeté des pavés. C’est l’histoire qui le dit.

[@orelliaorellia142]

Pas toujours. Les grèves de 1936 ou mai 68 ont été efficaces sans décapiter personne.

[@erwannthietart3602]

​@@orelliaorellia142les 2 sont en contexte exceptionnel. Deja l'élite avait connu guerre mondiale et leurs impact direct De Gaulle evident et 1936 les mecs sont de la clique WW1, les violences ils connaissent et n'aimerais pas déstabiliser le pays avec. Ensuite De Gaulle tirait légitimité du peuple, on lui a retiré ça en 1968 le gars c'est retiré peu après. Alors qu'en 1936 le gouvernement ressortait a peine d'années difficile avec tentative de coup d'etat emeutes multiples, avec effect crise 29, la pire crise de chommage de France de l'époque etc... il y avait risque réel de dégénéré en violence. L'immense majorité de nos manifs ont lieu lorsque le gouvernement se sent en confiance de pouvoir l'ignoré, pas aidé par Macron maintenant qui se casse de France a chaque Grève donc donne pas l'impression au peuple d'etre écouter (et dailleur pas qu'une impression le peuple est juste pas écouter sauf quand ça l'arrange lol). La violences bien que devant rester a titre exceptionnel reste un outil de taille pour montrer ses convictions en cas de manif, pres a risqué beaucoup pour le mouvement

[@Traivons_World]

“Stop premature Christmas decorations” Yes

[@PeterNiallLancaster]

The French do love a good protest and a small minority love to join the protests to smash windows, burn cars and throw stones at the police. More often than not it seems that the French are protesting against change. They may sit around moaning about things - the French aren’t happy unless they have something to moan about - but they quite like things how they are. They don’t like change. Protesting is part of the French democratic process. If the protests are big enough they get taken seriously and sometimes government policy is changed because of it. Obviously that perpetuates protesting because it is seen that it can change things or more usually prevent change or even cause things to be changed back to how they were. It’s vey different from the UK where the usual thing is a polite strongly worded letter to your MP that gets forwarded to the minister responsible who replies via your MP with some meaningless political guff telling you what great things they are doing for the country totally ignoring what you wrote about. I think the French way is better.

[@leo-paulgrain3832]

Actually it's been a very long time since our protest changed anything. The pensions protests were the biggest protests in 25 years. Macron said something like "lol i don't care" and passed the bill anyways. Worst, he did it without the approbation of the "Assemblée nationale"(the congress), because our elected representative were going to vote no, as 70% of french people wanted. Something that is possible in no other european "democracy". Everywhere else a law need to be approved by the congress. France is not a real democracy and our protests change nothing.

[@galaxielbreizh3475]

Nobody in the world likes to give back "un acquis" something your ancestors fought for. Can you imagine if the French Supreme Court had decided to revoke abortion rights? As a French citizen, I went to the streets and on strike for the first time while in high school in 1986. We had followed the Universities in protest vs. the Devaquet law. I still remember the chant!

[@orelliaorellia142]

French don't protest against change. They protest against stupid changes that worsen a situation or suppress rights and they protest to gain positive changes and more rights. The yellow jacket protest asked for instance more referendum when important decisions are made or the teachers who protest so positive changes are implemented in the educational system (when they are not fighting against stupid things the government want to implement instead because they don't want to put in the necessary money).

[@macbaar6073]

we Swiss are extremly lazy in this point.... I am over 600 months old and remember no protest like in France... or UK... or anywhere else....

[@flyingfish00]

Maybe because your democracy looks less to a dictatorship than in the other countries

[@fredericjaquet3729]

Oui mais c'est parce qu'on a le droit d'initiative, de référendum et que chez nous ça a une notion exécutoire alors que chez nos amis gaulois, malgré le non au référendum sur l'europe, ils l'ont quand même eu dans l'oignon...

[@lucacortese2870]

Toujours aussi efficaces tes vidéos, j'adore l'humour est dingue ! Étant trilingue j'ai comme la sensation que je peux profiter au max de tes vannes 😂

[@packmanbp]

As a French myself and as I've been trying to inform myself since the "gilets jaunes" events I must say I'm sad about the state of protesting in the country : recent events have shown that even peaceful and joyous protests (as in people playing music and singing and stuff like that) will be met by increasingly violent answers from the police (aka the government) : the Sainte Soline protest is a very good example. And so I fear that in the near future pretty much the only way left to be heard will be to go straight from protest to riot, which the government will then very happily paint as "terrorists running havoc in the streets, now please go back to work for 3 more years thank you very much"

[@FF-li6zj]

The burning 7 series was a) in Munich and b) a protest against terrible customer service.

[@louisrobitaille5810]

1:23 "Oh my god! There's a man bleeding over there!" I wished he'd replied: "Nah, that's where we get our red wine." 😂

[@maxbarr3954]

4:59 you don't imagine at which point this is true,its very common that after a protest we rendez-vous with friends at a restaurant.This really is a way of socialisation

[@BrawlLegendLink]

Retirement at 62, rioting over an increase to 64. Meanwhile in Germany: Retirement at 67, probably will become 70 soon

[@alfinou_13targaryen]

they should have protested the first time someone changed it to 67 then!

[@raphaelmarche4544]

And you German people accept that like it's no big deal ? Poor people :/Glad I'm not German for that

[@moemuxhagi]

1:25 *"BONNE NOUVELLE !* Vous n'crâmez pas !"

[@secretsdunefeechannel]

Belmondo !!! 🤣🤣🤣

[@moemuxhagi]

@@secretsdunefeechannel enfin quelqu'un qu'a la ref !! 😆😆

[@secretsdunefeechannel]

Fane de Bébel oblige ! 😍@@moemuxhagi

[@twocents-Thomas-Zadro]

When we see a car burning in Germany, we call for the firefighters, in France, the only call which might be made is to ask someone what the protest is against this time. Greetings from the opposite side of the river Rhein and "Vive la France" ;-)

[@TiKallisti]

Liberte, egalite, Pfefferminztee!

[@jon546]

Loic fait mieux l'accent français en anglais que moi qd je parle 😆

[@KingCodd]

“if god hates gays why are we so cute” this man is on to something

[@mahdiandhismonsterfriends6053]

Love everything about your videos

[@giantsquid7878]

Happy Mardi Gras, today I get to king cake in French class

[@cheezarose]

King cake is actually not eaten on Mardis gras.

[@giantsquid7878]

@@cheezarose well we had it anyway

[@kirstenpaff8946]

I lived in France from 2019 to 2020. The protests were kind of scary. I didn't realize that mass police presence was normal, so I was absolutely convinced that there had been a terrorist attack when I saw the riot police out in full force for the first time. Businesses boarded up their windows every Friday and there were smashed windows everywhere. Going into the city center to window shop on the weekends required dodging mobs, riot police, and tear gas. I felt deeply unsafe both around the protestors and the police. I wasn't even in a particularly large city.

[@NLTops]

As a Dutchman I've always appreciated the French love of protesting. We have a similar love of complaining. It's just culturally inherent and it's motivated by the same incentive of standing up for your perspective. If we don't talk about what's going wrong, it will not be fixed. But if we would throw a protest for everything we complain about then we would all be living in tents before long. As for the joke of leaving trash at the French president's house... I think the Dutch farmers protests had farmers dumping manure at some building of the central government.

[@piyushgurung9690]

And I thought my bro just does funny videos on linguistic confusion... hats off..👏

[@sdhproductions8877]

In the U.S., it is written into our constitution that we have the right to PEACEFULLY protest injustice, which is how it should be. However, when a protest causes harm to people, then it has gone too far.

[@orelliaorellia142]

Oh, but it is peaceful in France too. It never becomes riots and if you burn a car or broke things you can be arrested. Protests are very loud and colorful display of our unhappiness and revendication. Not riots.

[@DanielCrist]

@@orelliaorellia142 In America many people would consider causing inconvenience to be the same as causing harm. For instance, blocking a road in America, chaining yourself to a tree, or doing anything else that might interrupt schedules or commerce is not considered peaceful protest and will get you assaulted by the riot police, and a large portion of the public will unfortunately side with the authorities on that. You can protest in America as long as you do it quietly and out of the way.

[@orelliaorellia142]

@@DanielCrist Seriously? In France blocking roads or slowing down the traffic are two form of authorised protests. When you organise a protest you need to give the schedule and wich roads you will take to go from point A to point B and these roads will be closed for the day. Inconveniencing people is like the main point of being on strike or protesting. It is to pressure the power (boss, government) to listen to the revendication and to do it fast because the more time passes and more people will be angry against them (especially if the revendications are deemed legit by the rest of the population)

[@DanielCrist]

@@orelliaorellia142 Yes, and I completely agree. If no one is effected by the protest, it doesn't create any pressure for change. But in America, people are very self-focused, and the government is very focused on corporate donations.

[@RichTiger7]

Well done, as always, Loïc!!

[@jonskleinman]

My brother went to "disco demolition" at Comiskey Park. I didn't have tickets to the game so I didn't go. The Sox had to forfeit game two of the double header because the grounds crew could not clean up all the broken vinyl on the field in time to start game 2.

[@florentbarnades640]

LOIC SUBERVILLE DEMISSION !!! pardon reflexe français

[@ResearcherGirl_]

can you recommend a book or article about French protests and how non-violent movements were successful in the past?

[@Adrak-Hiano]

Not sure, because they were hardly any. Pacifist revolution is a myth.

[@Lcngopher]

Disco demolition night was actually done between games of a doubleheader between the chicago white sox and detroit tigers. Chicago would have to forfeit the second game due to damage to the field

[@Pyedr]

The one time I visited Paris there was a transit strike. I got a LOT of steps in that week.

[@kahinaharrache5026]

My husband literally protested against premature Christmas decorating 🤣

[@goffrd137]

The anti disco backlash was at its core an anti gay movement because of the association of disco and clubs that catered to the gay community. There's a number of videos about it on KZbin

[@andhereismyspout]

I would love to watch you do a full video of snippets talking about the craziest protests. That segment was too short.

[@ishanadkarni4342]

loved it

[@johnbarker8305]

In Canada, our Prime Minister agreed that public protests are opkay but not if they are against public policy This is the guy who the courts found his use of The Emergency Act uncoonstitutional. Although the media reduced this to unjustified. This, for the record, is like the police saying your murder of 6 people with an axe to protest Xmas trees is not illegal but merely excessive If protests were no allowed against public policy this means the following would be unprotestable - the Residential Schools system (look it up. It is inhuman) - imprisoning Japanese citizens without warrant or trial in WWII - segregating universities by race - forcing Jewish businesses to close and extort money from them when they try to flee the country See what I mean? If you cannot protest against public policy then all protests become Middle Eastern. There are no democracies in the Middle East (save Israel) and people are struck down hard when they try. Unless it is an anti-Western protest, in which case the mostly majority Arab speaking people have lots and lots of English signs because it is intended for the West anyways

[@snowman8052]

Non, nous ne protestons pas sans arrêt!! Je proteste fermement contre cette accusation !!!! 😂

[@dianethoroughman9541]

I like premature Christmas decorating! 🎄 🎄🎄

[@paweborkowski6959]

Don't think the public knowing what they want and the willingness to protest is unique to France. Comparing what you said with my observations from where I live, I see that the non-protesting part of the nation carry on working and are too tired from work to get involved and thus often turn their anger towards the protesters ('okay, I agree with them, but I need the train to get me to work', etc.) If the French public visibly support the protest, then, to me, it is unique.

[@GmailDaniel]

Le sport national de la France ;)

[@Skektik]

We germans love the frenchs protests. And ,except for the french bread, thats probably the only thing we like about 'em.

[@raphaelmarche4544]

That's kinda harsh man. Why would you guys hate us that much ?

[@pernille2389]

I think the Germans secretly loves the French, just like we Danes , very secretly, loves the Swedes ( don't tell the Swedish)

[@Skektik]

@@pernille2389 probably😂. I'm gonna go to France for a while next month, we'll see what we think of em then 😉

[@donnanoble9772]

Ah, don't worry, there is probably just as little, if not less, we like about you!

[@Skektik]

@@donnanoble9772 at least respect the bread, man.

[@tssss8620]

The police is violent, not the strickers. There are no "confrontation". This is a repression. Please don't talk if you don't know.

[@TOMCATnbr]

C'est tellement vrai 🤣

[@loicmarceau5599]

In loving memory of Louise Michel ♥️

[@alicemilne1444]

3:00 You got the year wrong there. It was May 1968. And the people who protested then are known as les Soixante-Huitards. I was 12 then and remember that time in Paris. 4:00 The Gilets-Jaunes protests started in November of 2019. I was caught in the very first roundabout blockage near Troyes on 19 Nov. that year.

[@aysun9354]

C'est devenu une culture ! Culturel ! Vive ma France et ses manifestations ! 🇨🇵❤️❤

[@yannick7230]

I was in the north of France for 2 weeks and only saw one tiny protest, I'm kind of disappointed.

[@rbelu1]

We obviously are right, we're French 😇 You forgot the very subtle type of protest used by French farmer: they love to pour out manure or set fire to straw bales inf front of public admistration buildings. Lovely. And we also have ZADn (Zone A Défendre meaning Area we Must Protect) like Notre Dame des Landes or recently "Les écureuils de l'A69" (literraly meaning the squirrel of 69th highway because the sleep in trees to protests against the new highway)

[@TheUnderlord404]

Im french, since i moved in canada i always got that tickle in my belly when i see riots in France

[@GhostBear3067]

My brother has a French coworker that plans out attending protests like most people plan a vacation.

[@schroddie]

You should read "Sacrés français! : Un Américain nous regarde" by Ted Stanger, if you haven't already. It's a really good book. The most ridiculous strike I saw when I lived in France was at the university in Paris when some students went on strike for getting "better chairs." I almost fell out mine.