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26 minutes ago, aristocrat said:

Paris might be the most overrated city of all time. Only time I’ve ever seen a human take a poop in the street and a chick pull baggies of drugs from her vag. Hit the Eiffel Tower, the louvre and the get out and see versaille, mont st michel and Normandy. Normandy will change your life 

make up your mind:  good or bad?.  Was the bag incident near the Eiffel Tower? you're never alone with a schizophrenic...

22 minutes ago, SCBills said:


Why did we spend 24/7 news coverage on the “Russian coup” last week?
 

Now ask yourself why American media went all in on that story and isn’t touching the civil unrest, trending into outright anarchy, in France..

 

Macron was at a sports event last nite, I think.  I'm guessing his advisors aren't seriously considering the collapse of the nation.  Oops, looks like it was an Elton John concert.  No excuse for that.  now if it was a Bills game...I'ver got to believe France has a very good internal security apparatus

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1 minute ago, redtail hawk said:

make up your mind:  good or bad?.  Was the bag incident near the Eiffel Tower? you're never alone with a schizophrenic...

I’ve never had any problems in Paris. Although all those African guys pushing you to buy little statues of the Eiffel Tower at the base of the Eiffel Tower are a bit annoying. 😂

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1 minute ago, SoCal Deek said:

I’ve never had any problems in Paris. Although all those African guys pushing you to buy little statues of the Eiffel Tower at the base of the Eiffel Tower are a bit annoying. 😂

Never been.  Always visiting family in London when we're near there.  They really never want to go so we haven't.  I'd like to.

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2 minutes ago, redtail hawk said:

make up your mind:  good or bad?.  Was the bag incident near the Eiffel Tower? you're never alone with a schizophrenic...

 

 

There's no incongruency in the post.

Versailles, Mont St. Michel and Normandy are not Paris.

 

I kind of like Paris, but there are unpleasant elements.

Been to the others as well.

Normandy is really cool.

Got to fold the flag when it was hauled down at the American cemetery at Taps.

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6 minutes ago, redtail hawk said:

Never been.  Always visiting family in London when we're near there.  They really never want to go so we haven't.  I'd like to.

You have to go see Paris! Two hours on the bullet train. Round trip tickets are about $150. 

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Funniest thing I ever saw there.

Right after 9/11, US airline crews had to stay at an airport instead of the normal, contractual downtown hotels, and Charles De Gaulle airport is far away from anything fun.

So, they set up this thing where two times a day a bus would drive you downtown and drop off at L'Opera, picking up twice a day much later.

I always did that.

One day on the bus, we had arrived in the city. Most everyone on the bus was asleep, but I wasn't. I was on the right side and I could see this little battle going on between this old guy in a small car with his wife and our driver. The traffic was quite heavy and the old guy was trying to get into our lane. The bus driver wouldn't let him in. I could see the guy and the bus driver gesturing unkindly to each other.

After about three traffic lights of this escalating situation, we were stopped at a light and the old guy gets out of his car and approaches the bus. The bus driver opens the door, goes down the stairs and while they scream at each other, our bus driver head buts the guy. The guy's head is bleeding and his wife gets out and they start screaming. Bus driver comes up the stairs and gets in his seat and off we go. About two lights later, a cop blocks the bus, comes in and arrests the driver, leaving our bus about two blocks from L'Opera in the left turn lane.

We all just got out and walked.

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8 hours ago, SCBills said:


Why did we spend 24/7 news coverage on the “Russian coup” last week?
 

Now ask yourself why American media went all in on that story and isn’t touching the civil unrest, trending into outright anarchy, in France..

 

 

I don't. It's France. They've been through three monarchies, two empires, one facist dictatorship and four republics since 1793. They had a communist coup in 1870 and a military coup in the 1960s.

 

They'll sort themselves out or they won't. There's nothing atypical going on. 

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25 minutes ago, B-Man said:

 

 

 

Wonder how much the burning of the koran is also adding fuel to the fire. 

14 hours ago, Precision said:

Don't worry, the protests will diminish once France is on their month-long August vacation.  The French are quick to protest unless it interferes with their time off.

It's not the summering crowd that's doing the rioting 

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Typical socialism.

 

 

Macron Floats Shutting Down Social Media Access ‘When Things Get Out Of Hand’ After Riots Rock France


French President Emmanuel Macron said the government should consider shutting down young people’s access to social media after riots erupted across the country last weekend. 
 

Macron told more than 200 mayors during a meeting that France should look into controlling or cutting off social media access for young people “when things get out of hand,” The Guardian reported. His comments come as France faces violent rioting across the country after a 17-year-old Muslim was shot by a police officer during a traffic stop last week. Macron pinned some blame for the rioting on social media sites like TikTok being used to organize the mobs. 

 

https://www.dailywire.com/news/macron-floats-shutting-down-social-media-access-when-things-get-out-of-hand-after-riots-rock-france

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NOTHING TO SEE HERE, MOVE ALONG: 

 

France quietly putting 7000 troops on the streets. 

 

 

Euro News reports:

 

France is mobilizing 7,000 soldiers and increasing its alert status to “emergency attack” level after the death of a teacher in the northeast town of Arras, stabbed to death Friday by a former student with a record of Islamic radicalization.

 

President Emmanuel Macron made the decision after convening an emergency meeting of his security cabinet on Friday night.

 

Macron has described the stabbing attack, which left two other staff members at the school seriously injured, as “Islamist terrorism.”

 

He ordered “up to 7,000 soldiers from the Sentinelle force, who will be deployed between now and Monday evening and until further notice”, the Elysée Palace said on Saturday morning.

 

French authorities have opened anti-terror investigations after the Arras attack.

 

https://www.euronews.com/2023/10/13/one-dead-two-injured-in-france-school-knife-attack

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I heard and interesting podcast talking about how the utopian idea of multiculturalism is proving itself to be an impossibility when one or more of the participating cultures is underpinned by hatred of another including aspirations of eradication. 
 

It thwarts this naive liberal idea that everyone can bring their own culture as is and we will all just coexist. 
 

societal breakdowns keep proving this wrong. 

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