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Romain's avatar

The boxer you mentionned during the Yellow Jackets uprising : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=649toUuqz7Y

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Jack Heart's avatar

That's it, you get that Fred? We'll save that one for your report Romain which I will put on VT.

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Jack Heart's avatar

Here you go Romain, you're up on VT, if Johnnys smart he'll headline you in the morning. We'll put you up here and on the Human tomorrow...

https://www.vtforeignpolicy.com/2023/03/on-the-ground-report-from-france-by-romain-forlini/

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Romain's avatar

Not all French people would agree at all with this perspective but the facts amply support it. Some of the grey areas could have been more fully developed and sourced had I known you would publish me more widely but I wrote in a handful of hours in a stream of thought. I will give you a more solidly sourced version if you wish to publish it on the Human.

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Jack Heart's avatar

This one's fine Romain

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HP's avatar

The first thing that these fine people dismantled in former Yugoslavia was a pension fund and that fact my friend, should tell you something...

I have seen all this before...my problem is the following: don't burn your cities, burn politicians' houses and their cars...not your or your fellow citizen's property, and yes I know many of those protestors are paid to do just that, set tires and cars on fire...

Move children and women away from the protest, guys like this boxer should be in front sections armored with baseball clubs or something similar...if they start to beat you, you beat them back.

Third problem: these people, ordinary people don't know what they are really up against...if you don't know who you really fighting, then is really hard to win.

I see next week as crucial, this will explode naturally or people will step down and all this will be forgotten in a few weeks.

I wanted to write about this uprising with the title "Are we too much Civilized to fight", but decided not to do it, it is your story to tell, not mine...

I have many issues with this uprising and from your article, I can recognize that you also have problems with how this is led by certain individuals, who are there mostly to pacify the masses and steer the anger of the people into more peaceful waters.

Protect your families from evil and don't forget, whatever happens next... you are not alone.

Sometimes we don't choose the battle, the battle on the horizon chooses us to do what is right and sometimes this is the only way to fulfill our destiny.

Godspeed my friend and Good Luck.

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Jack Heart's avatar

Magnificent

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Greg's avatar

When you had tens of thousands standing outside Wall Street in '08 and not a single attempt was made to bum rush the office and make sure nobody went home that night it showed not just myself, but the entire upper crust what your true colors are. A yellow strip on your back is all they saw as they spat at you from the ivory towers.

America is victim culture incarnate. Underdog culture was laughed at by the National Socialists and Fascist as worshiping the weak. Rome would've thrown you into the pits themselves as nothing more than lion food. People wanted someone to cry for them and they gave it to you as payment for the trillions looted and mommy and daddy's retirement going to zero as they work as a Wal-Mart greeter in their 70's and 80's.

"Are we too much Civilized to fight"?

No, we're too domesticated. I've been coming around on Stalin the last couple years myself but out of ignorance to the man. I like his level of ruthlessness. Something Strasser himself knew had to be done. Perhaps if only he was allowed to lead the Gestapo things might've been different as the disappearing traitors somehow disappeared in the chaos of the era. Ahh Savitri Devi might've saw the potential of the Lightning and the Sun. A creatively generous spirit with a golden heart of Hitler mixed with the ruthless calculating efficiency of Stalin. What terror this world would see if a man truly existed. What terror indeed.

The forest is growing thick and full of rot strangling the seedlings below eagerly waiting for their chance. It's time clear things a little more than a little less.

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Orage's avatar

Underdog culture, along with Superhero comics, to compensate for impotence in action. A slew of Jewish comic artist sprung up, Stan Lee, Will Eisner, as much as I loved Spirit and the Secret Life of Plants as a young adult. I'd rather have the hard-boiled characters of Cinema Noir and the writings of Chandler and Hammett. Formed by experiences of the Great Depression, the dustbowls, the crushing of working men and bonus army, corrupt police and judges and the fake hard dames looking for a buck.

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Orage's avatar

Where are the Jack Londons, Upton Sinclairs, Steinbecks, Vonneguts, and Hunter S. Thomsons? Jack must be feeling lonely on that vast continent of beauty and riches.

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Romain's avatar

What more can I say? You said it from the heart

It is quite certain that you have been through the fire and seen these things with your own eyes...

For those who blind themselves, these things are eventually understood viscerally when one is hit in the face with the consequences. This is what is happening in France little by little. With pain comes lucidity.

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Greg's avatar

It wasn't something expected or even wanted Romain. As Sethikus Boza always says on Black Earth Productions when the force takes you it takes you where it wants and to places you never wanted to even go, but to places that needed to be traveled. I tell people if your "experiences" are all love and light rainbows and unicorns you haven't seen the truth or come close to it. Visceral is the only word for it indeed and like the strongest of warriors you must be broken to be made stronger and it must break you completely.

I always wonder if I saw or predicted anything or as Archaix with his simulation theory would say you didn't see or predict anything. You simply saw the whole game that's already happened and now you have to do the hard part of walking through it without that awareness. Perhaps its why I personally pulled away with intent that I could change things from happening only to realize in all likelihood I was just confirming its eventuality.

If the point of all this was to drive me into insanity then it worked as it drove me blindly walking into the woods naked to lay down tore up against a tree just staring at the sky blankly. I have no answers anymore to anything.

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Romain's avatar

Thanks for the kind words Greg.

Hang in there, it's when you're really down deep that everything gets better

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Stephen Gerard Parker's avatar

A little off topic - Warner's RESTRICT Act is yet another attack on the 1st amendment - going after VPN's now

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Dwight Davidson's avatar

Are the French people willing to rebel against/reject the 500 billion that the French government extracts from their west African colonies, in the name of freedom, despite the fact that it would severely contract the French economy and their lifestyle or will they wish to continue their government's colonialism policy into war like the Portugese in Mozambique and Angola until they decided, like the French earlier and Americans over Vietnam, that the dead bodies of their sons is not worth the 500 billion?

Let's see how much liberty, equality, and fraternity the French have in their souls.

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