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>The farmers have been anything but peaceful. They've destroyed public & private property, doused it in literal shit, started fires and threatened politicians.

Yeah, so? That's how they like their protests in France (and how we like them in several parts of Europe too).

The French state itself was established on a much more violent rebellion...



>The French state itself was established on a much more violent rebellion

You say that like it is a good thing whereas one of my main wishes for my country is for it never to become like revolutionary France.


You wouldn't want pre-revolutionary France, or pre-civil-war US, either.


It's not how we like them in the Netherlands. I don't care at all what the French like.




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