Key point. I could even agree with them 100%, but if I'm flying half the globe, taking 2 weeks off and paying a lot of cash to watch a tournament only to see it all go to waste then to hell with them. In real life 99% of these situations only impact innocent people who want to get on with their lives.
@MichaelNadal Imagine the French postponed the RG and Nadal got into form and won RG without even dropping a set the whole tournament in September
Nadal’s used all his luck up. His cat with 9 lives has ran out!@MichaelNadal Imagine the French postponed the RG and Nadal got into form and won RG without even dropping a set the whole tournament in September
Your brain is just mush at this point.
It is time for the big bad wolf to be displaced by the new litter of pups.Nadal’s used all his luck up. His cat with 9 lives has ran out!
Liberal is the wrong word. The elderly and older people in France support the social democrats and the conservatives. The younger ones support the “far left” and the “far right”.
It is not strange at all. The European “far right” is traditionally not libertarian. Supporting protectionism for both goods and labor is internally consistent. Supporting a welfare state and immigration restriction, too.
My spelling of labour (instead of labor) should show you that I'm not American.
LOL. They forcibly aided big business to profitability, at workers' expense, using all the oppressive powers of the state apparatus. That is far right, as far right as it gets. Left-wing means supporting the labour movement against big business, and right-wing means the opposite. When you have a situation where the labour movement has been crushed and smashed to bits, that is far right.
Ah British then? Because Brits are closer to Americans than Europeans and don’t understand European politics.
LOL.
They made big business more profitable by crushing the working class and smashing their trade unions to bits, and I mean far more than just oppression. Without the labour movement's existence, capitalism would have no weekend, no sick pay, no holidays. If you can't work, just drop dead.
They are both right-wing, with Le Pen more narrow in the French nationalism.
Read a book about Stalin's Gulags, where millions perished. You'll change your mind. Or pick up a book about Mao, another Communist who killed 50-80 million innocent people.
115 million people died in two capitalist world wars alone. Bear that in mind. Stalinism wouldn't have existed without capitalism isolating socialist revolution in a war devastated Russia.
Is capitalism also a word which everybody understands differently to you and just means “stuff I don’t like”?
It's about class struggle. They wiped out the labour movement, and forcibly aided big business to profitability at working class expense. Fascism is capitalism as a time of rotting crisis, when the ruling class is compelled to hand over all their political power to Nazis, in desperation, a desperate bid to restore capitalist "order".
Private ownership of the means of production, where corporate profit is the main aim. WW1 was a war for spheres of influence between rival imperialist powers.
You are right.. ruling regime don't care about these. They are so arrogant that they can even order to shoot few peoples after voted to power. This happens in most of the the developed Nations who preach others about democratic principles and values.
Except the protests are about more than pension reform:
LOL.
In other words, blame evil capitalism for everything. I'm sure historians will be writing in the distant future that your dear Vlad's imperialist (mis)adventure was yet another "class struggle" against the Western capitalist pigs!
Uh?
The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles. The Nazis wiped out the labour movement and forcibly aided big business against the working class, and was in power because of the most rotting capitalist crisis. That is far right. Left and right is not about the size of the state or government, but whether it's pro-labour movement or pro-big business in the class struggle.
The protest is more about the manner in which the decision was made. I work with several french colleagues and everyone vehemently denounces the manner moreso than the increase alone.
Just repeating your incorrect and already by me debunked statement doesn’t make then correct.
I didn't know actual tennis players knew so much about class struggle and social issues.
You don’t have to. if somebody says everything is explained by class struggles - then a simple BS detector which every human has goes on
Bro, every half-educated moron knows full well that promoting Big Business ranked pretty damn low among Hitler and his henchmen's priorities. Stop repeating nonsense to push your wacky anarchist agenda.
Shoulda said Macron's party, but fair enough.
So what do you call the Night of the Long Knives? They crushed the labour movement, crushed the beefsteaks in the Nazis' own ranks who had illusions in "national socialism", and allied to big business, strictly on the Nazis' terms of course. The big business class wouldn't want to hand over all their political power to the Nazis unless they were at their most desperate, and they were.
Good for the French. It should be a race to lower the retirement age, not to raise it. We are not rats in a rat race.
Of course macron knows that he would meet fierce resistance… the French always bring up fierce resistance when their benefits are cut and he has faced this resistance plenty of times.
Exactly. The arguments only start when people don't want something.
In the 1970s and 1980s, British workers tended to go on strike a lot, and it had a clear political dimension too compared to today. Strikes in Britain are now on the rise again in the last year or so because inflation is eating into people's living standards, where prices soar but wages stay the same or barely improve, so it compels strike action, even among those layers of workers in traditional "middle class" white collar jobs who have rarely or never been on strike before.
I would love a lower retirement age, but then the standard of living would go down. People also height their standard of living being low… that’s why communism wasn’t very successful
