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What year is it?

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Anglois caca, mais c'est drôle quand même

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Seems like s poorly chosen question, then.
- Probably just for the memes.
  
  Oh I see

Everyone always jokes about the French protesting everything ..... yet they're the ones with better worker rights, better social benefits, better public health, better wages .... meanwhile, the US never has mass protests and they have the worst worker rights, low wages, low taxes for the rich, high taxes for the poor, no public health care and few supports for the poor yet the country has the wealthiest people in the world.
There seems to be a pattern and the French figured it out a couple hundred years ago but the Americans haven't.
- I don't know much about French history, but I've always wondered why oppressors would choose to oppress in a country known for actively overthrowing oppressors.
  
  Napoleon, the guy who declared himself emperor, was pretty successful in his oppressive reign.
- When France had issues similar to the USA, people in charge completely lost their heads... Literally
- Also the average French person understands how democracy works, with paper ballots and checks.
  Americans tend to blindly trust any old oligarch putting up software to vote on. And are incapable of introspection on the matter.
  The two systems are not the same. Like comparing religion and science.
  
  We need to write a new constitition. This time, we have to ban electionic voting.
  You can't hack paper.

I wish Americans were as brave and as passionate and as educated about their republic as the French.

What's going on? What are they protesting now?
- Gestures vaguely
  
  Saunters meandering path downward

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