Apple Stores in Bordeaux and Lille Looted During French Protests

Those aren’t protests. They’re riots.

The stopped becoming protests when they started looting small business owners. I watched a guy kicked in the back of the head for trying to defend his comic book shop from them.

As a French citizen, I am outraged by the images the world has seen. The individuals responsible acted with complete ignorance and a total disregard for society and for all those who simply want to live in peace and earn an honest living.

Ah, here come the mostly peaceful protests again…

What were they protesting again?

Students over deteriorating school facilitiesin or something similar.
Funny is in videos I can see only some ‘sort’ of people.

If you think it was about the high cost of living I have a bridge in Brooklyn I can sell you really cheap. What a joke.

Watched a video this week which made sense. It basically said how today's youth is bombarded with nothing but bad news: the climate is screwed, the economy is shot, AI will do all the work and at the same time basic things (like a house) are out of reach for most. In short: they have little to look forward to.

I'm in my fifties and seeing this video made me realise how my generation never experienced this. We basically got a degree, found a job, bought a house, paid off a mortgage and there would be a pension at the end of it all. That's basically our life with hopefully some fun in between.

Today's youth is confronted with a whole different reality. Even for us - in our fifties - a pension is now debatable. The age to retire is being raised again and again and even we wonder what will be left for us. So that youth now comes out to protest.

At the same time there's a certain group of people - of a certain religion - who take every opportunity to turn any normal/peaceful protest into a mini war. It's always the same people and at the same time the proverbial elephant in the room we can't talk about. Problems with these people are on the news pretty much every day, fighting out their drug territory wars on the streets of Brussels with automatic guns.

Look up Brussels and do some reading on its problems. It's not a pretty story and - regardless of which side you're on - not something that can be ignored anymore.