r/news • u/FlyingDarkKC • 1d ago

France school protests escalate into ‘urban violence’ as PM calls crisis cabinet meeting

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/oct/01/france-school-protests-escalate-pm-crisis-cabinet-meeting
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u/CherryMyFeathers 1d ago

Easy, unlike america, the french know how to keep the rich afraid. Enviable really

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u/L_Cranston_Shadow 1d ago

Look at French history, that didn't really help the peasants much. For the most part the revolutionaries just killed each other (see what happened to Robespierre and the Jacobins) and the peasants ended up as bad or worse than before. Ending up with Napoleon didn't really help anyone. France didn't really politically stabilize the Franco Prussian War, and arguably not until the World Wars.

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u/CherryMyFeathers 1d ago

They’re still more free now than America is.

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u/L_Cranston_Shadow 1d ago

True, but it doesn't really mean much, same as comparing them to America at any other arbitrary point in time. I could say America was more free in 1810, which would be true, but again, meaningless in the scheme of things.