I spent over an hour last night surfing various videos of the riots on youtube. Wow! Just...wow...

The whole thing is the spirit of cognitive dissonance making itself manifest.

The left in France believe the cost of EU membership makes a stable welfare state impossible. The right believes EU membership is responsible for the out of control immigration problems. When they finally realize their problems are of their own making, maybe they can agree on the solution.

I thought I would add this article for additional input. I agree with the point that it makes more sense to stand up and fight than run away. The Gulch was a means to an end, not an escape.

https://townhall.com/columnists/arthu...

They knew what to steel.

But will any provider supply service to these phones? They have SNs...

" Apparently the French do not believe anything will get better under macron. "
That is an easy one, the near term future for France looks increasingly grim.

In setting up the EU, France thought that they could hold joint leadership with Germany. Germany would
stay as the production powerhouse and France would take the moral, intellectual and political leadership.

This is not working, Germany has a mixed economy with the faults of too much central planning, but
somehow the German character copes with that, the economy continues to grow, well at least until the
suicidal global warming stuff puts up power prices so high that firms move out, this is happening. The
French economy on the other hand wobbles left, and slides down.
Without a strong economy, there can be little leadership however high the moral and other strengths
(for want of a better word).

The extreme left and right in the streets know that something is wrong and they have the courage to
say so, unfortunately their prescriptions will not work.

Take that Tim Cook!
https://youtu.be/YjU33cPBFgk

One of the comments is funny:

"Ne pas casser svp ."

Do not break, please.

Good one.

Free coffee at Starbucks, for rioters,
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Dt6i71fWk...

https://youtu.be/1_7h6_cv3Ik
https://youtu.be/SCsOH_lhtPI

While not paralyzing the whole of Europe, the protests are not limited to the location of France.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/busine...

I am sure the left finds an excuse for these demonstrations, denigrating the protesters as being "deplorables".

Correct.

Remember when Obama wanted new money, he always announced "this needs to be done RIGHT AWAY".

What was the rush? He did not want anyone to think why this needs to be solved right away?

No US Second Amendment.

Central planning authoritarians that push their Marxist ideology at a global level need lots of money. To justify taking that money they invent top priority crisises that all need be solved right away. Where does each protester think all this money is going to come from? Someone other than them?

Looks like our "occupy" movement in a drastically more violent reincarnation.

It is a shame what the left turned Paris into, which decades ago was a beautiful city.

I don't give it a long time when the same will be seen in the US as well. The left is right on track.