2y ago

France is banning the sale of fireworks on its biggest national holiday after protesters used them as weapons against police

www.businessinsider.com

The ban is in effect through Bastille Day in order to prevent "serious disturbances" to public order, the French government announced Sunday.

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lmfao did the french gov forget who it's people are?
- Being out the guillotine
  
  The guillotine is too humane.
- Macron out here with the French Revolution Any% speedrun
  
  Can't wait to watch the speed run history breakdown of this in a few years
Maybe I don't understand yet how posts on Lemmy work, but is there no link/source for this post?
Edit: I can't see it on desktop (lemmy dot world) and neither in Jerboa. Edit2: OP edited the post and included the link which now works. Seems the picture broke the link, according to OP.
- Seconding that it appears to just be a photo with a text post. Broken link maybe? The photo looks like it could be from an article.
  
  Can see the link from kbin just fine
- Weird, I can see the link. @histy @Gramatikal (see if mentioning works)
  https://www.businessinsider.com/france-bans-sale-of-fireworks-after-protesters-used-as-weapons-2023-7
- It links to a business insider article
- Oh weird, adding a picture killed the link. Lemme see if I can fix that.
  Sorry, I'm new here.
  
  Now it works for me, thanks!
- If you’re viewing in compact mode on wefwef I believe that’s a known issue.
  
  I'm not seeing it on desktop (lemmy dot world) and also not in the Jerboa app.
- I’m coming here from kbin and see the link fine
  
  Does kbin have any mobile apps yet?
Perhaps the French govt should stop behaving against the will of the French people. 🤷
- this make sense. They can't.
This is some very ironic, animal farm energy here. The government has forgotten who gave them their power.
- Well tbf the Storming of the Bastille was (off the top of my head) two monarchies, two empires and two republics ago. Not to mention any communes, committees of public safety, or directories. How can you blame them for getting confused?? /s
  
  They do still have multiple programs in place to ensure the populace always has bread. They haven’t completely forgotten.
I hate fireworks but this seems like a good reason to keep them around.
Maybe the government should listen to the people?
- That would threaten the profits of the wealthy.
You can have my fireworks when you pry them from my cold, dead fingers. Which are over there, near the fireworks.
I know they did this to weaken protests, BUT… I’d say everywhere in the world would be a much better place if we banned fireworks forever.
- It's always struck me as rather odd that, in the US, one of our major holidays celebrating the military features fireworks considering how awful they can be for many veterans' PTSD.
  
  Why does that strike you as odd? America doesn’t care about its veterans.
  
  I've never met one Veteran that was against planned fireworks displays. It's the backyard ones that are the issue.
  
  I mean when I set off some fireworks I am not trying to mess with some vet. You are right however, I should be more aware of this issue.
So a temp ban. Nice clickbait headline there bastardinsider . com.
It’s alright, we’ll just switch to pipe bomb
So....if the government turns on the people, what do the French have to protect themselves with?
- Guillotines
  
  The citizens just ask the politicians to come to the guillotines, plz?
- Yes, France clearly needs the right to bear arms just like Iran does.
  Remember all the uproar happening in Iran last year? What happened? Did they topple their abusive regime without guns or foreign intervention?
  Everyone was calling them so brave and now it's just silence.
  
  The Iran thing was doomed to failure not because of guns but because of ideas.
  In a war between the strict version of an ideology and the less strict one the strict version is always going to win. The revolution in Iran was for diet Islam against real Islam.
  Look at the Russian, American, and French revolutions. It is trivial to name open atheists/diests/secularists in all three. Can you name a single one for Iran without hours of searching to find maybe one tik tok video?
  Ideas matter.
  
  I don't know about Iran's gun rights to have much input on that comparison.
  From what I remember, I thought the protests were mainly by the youth in universities.
i would love to punch macaroni or whatever his name is
Roll out the guillotines! It’s time to get this party started already. It’s been long enough that the rich billionaires in the world meet their fate.
Can you smell it? Revolution is coming.
- lol, okay there. Let's settle down and wipe the Doritos from your face, Chequito. This protest has very little to do with any sort of revolution, and even if it did, your next in line after Macron is currently Le Pen, who would simply make things even worse. So really, I don't think you understand what the fuck you're talking about.
- And so it begins...

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