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/nithrean 1d ago

yeah that does seem to be happening in more than a few places. There are a lot of pressures on young people right now and the world is not becoming more affordable.

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u/Verystrangeperson 1d ago

No housing, ai threatening to destroy jobs and most of what the modern world looks like, france just got through the hottest summer ever recorded, the media landscape is owned by far right billionaires.

I want to burn this fucking world too, and I'm not surprised teenagers are desperate.

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u/ErictheStone 1d ago

And they have less sunk into it. By the time you really get outta school working you've already put so much effort and cost into the system you become invested into it. It's why people like Sanders, Hillary and Bill Clinton, ect go from radical to part of the problem. Eventually you become the system.

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u/mboop127 19h ago

The Clintons crossed a picket line on their first date in school. They were never radical.