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They're really quite good at this.
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It’s just new. The Macron government don’t give a flying fuck about protests and does what it want.
But prior to his presidency it was working.
Now is it a new way of managing a country and will it continue or worsen in the future? Probably yeah… But still about that point, protests used to work, it’s just today (last decade) politics that don’t care.
Macron has been president for almost a decade. And the guy before him was even worse I can't remember his name but I remember him threatening to absolutely ban demonstrations of any kind. Macron was seen as a new kinder president who was gonna hear the people.
It's just not true. Protesting is fine but people are genuinely delusional thinking they work as effectively as people believe. The media tries its best to portray them as negative and effective because that placates people the right way. It supports those who think antifa are terrorists and gets the other side to think they don't have to vote or engage because they protested.
It's literally like some MkUltra shit and you can see it in how angry people get when you point it out and how ineffective they've been.