#France Attacks

[nando161mando]

For the third consecutive evening, France is witnessing unprecedented demonstrations in support of Palestine. Thousands are now chanting in solidarity with Gaza at Place Saint-Augustin in Paris.

[renonv]

I have nothingggg so here’s a snippet i started working on bc I kept thinking about ouiaboo Russia and his little fascination w François

[originalartblog]

pamper tiny chuuya tooo pleaseeeee (also can i see tiny verlaine and rimbaud) 🙏

I tinified them :)

[sissa-arrows]

French ticket inspectors pushed a young Maghrebi/Arab man (19 years old) under a train. For a 2€ ticket.

He survived but got badly wounded. They tried to pass it off as an accident and white people are pretending it’s one but the Arab and Black witnesses are saying he was pushed on purpose.

[lordadmiralfarsight]

Revolution fetishism is a horrible political view, especially in this context

Okay, rant incoming, partially related to recent events, but also to earlier thinking on my part.

There are, on the Left, a fair few people that romanticize or outright fetishize the concept of Revolution, of violent popular uprising to wrest power out of the hands of a corrupt elite and give it to the people. Very romantic, very righteous (self-righteous pretty often), very good and nice and sexy. And by the grace of revolutionary fervor and ideological purity, everything will be better after.

Except no.

See, a lot of this romanticization of Revolution comes, to my knowledge, from my own country of France. We have romanticized our Revolution a fair bit, and honestly, looking at the first part, fair. A serious go at giving women rights, a no-cause divorce, abolition of slavery, privileges thrown out, equality between people proclaimed loud, enfranchisement given to minorities ... in 1789. A LOT of good and progress, especially for the time.

But then it got fucky, VERY fucky. The Reign of Terror, under the caring leadership of Maximilien Robespierre, was a fucking nightmare on Earth, caracterized by mass executions on political basis, and by this I mean anyone that opposed Robespierre got beheaded. Political plurality? You mean anti-revolutionary sentiment ! Unacceptable, kill everyone.

A rumor of the time said the Place de Grève was covered in a layer of blood that was ankle deep. Is that an exageration ? Yes, certainly. But the fact it got to that point should tell you something about how intense the murdering was. And that was just one square in Paris, there was the rest of the country to consider too.

But surely, after Robespierre fell victim to his own system and was executed, something better emerged, right?

No. Sweet mother of fuck, NO.

What followed was roughly 70 years of political instability and violence, warfare and civil war, several dictatorships, including attempts to restore absolute monarchy, that undid most of the good brought by the first part of the Revolution. And finally, France stumbled onto political stability in 1870 when the temporary 3rd Republic, that was supposed to wait until the presumptive heir to the throne (who wanted an absolute monarchy) croacked did what temporary things do best and became the permanent system (until its fall).

This was not thanks to the Revolution. It was pure randomness.

Did the French Revolution bring good things? Yes, it did. In its first part. The second part brought chaos and misery for multiple decades. And it took a lot of work and efforts to bring back what the Revolution, the peaceful part, had brought in.

And far too many people on the Left fetishize and romanticize the whole thing, as if we couldn't have had the first part without the second, as if the progress and hope and betterment somehow needed the chaos and murder that came after.

Yes, there would have been a period of conflict, European monarchies would not have accepted quietly a realm the size of France doing away with monarchs. But did we REALLY need the political purges ? Did we REALLY need the paranoia ? Did we REALLY need the massacres ?

But you will find people that answer yes, and say the spilled blood somehow made it pure, or good. And those same people are looking at what Hamas is doing and are cheering. These people don't celebrate the first part, the progress and hope. They claim to be, but they aren't. They celebrate the Terror. They yearn for the unjust "popular tribunal" AKA mob "justice". They dream of executing political opponents or anyone they think is "bad" on light or even absent charges.

And That's why they cheer for Hamas rockets and massacres. That's why they sing when Israeli children are murdered. That's why they attack Jews that don't live in Israel. Because they hope to vicariously live this period of unchecked violence.

Know who was celebrating the RIGHT part of the Revolution ? The Israeli working with Gazan to build understanding. The Gazan protesting against Hamas. The Israeli Arabs risking their lives to save the lives of fellow Israeli and of foreigners, regardless of skin or creed. The Gazan trying to improve things in their homes against the wishes and efforts of Hamas.

Know who IS celebrating the RIGHY part of the Revolution ? The Israeli protesting the way the IDF is bombing Gaza. The people decrying the hypocrisy of blood-thirsty leftists. The people calling for Peace and working to make the political change to allow it.

But the Robespierres of the time, drunk on their own self-assurance, condemn and insult them, claiming that blood must be spilt. But it doesn't have to be. The French Revolution started relatively bloodlessly. It didn't need some great orgy of violence. Oh it wasn't clean, but it was far cleaner than the armchair Robespierres would like it to be. Because it didn't need to be.

And that's my point, really. The people fantasizing about and fetishizing the Revolution always dream of torrents of blood washing away the injustices, of seas of corpses forming a fertile ground upon which progress can grow. But that horseshit. All you get with that is, like the Place de Grève, a sinister place that stinks of rot and death, and flocks of scavengers gorging on your crimes.

All you get is a chance for a Napoleon to arrive. Or Stalin's USSR that so casually carried on with the crimes of the Tsars. Or Polpot who murdered 25% of his population.

If you look at the French Revolution, the right lesson to learn is that you need to know when to stop, and that's before you get to indiscriminate killing. Because once you get to that point ... people that thrive in those settings get in power and perpetuate them.

And to apply that to the situation in I/P ... knowing when to stop means realizing that Israeli are still humans, that Gazan are still humans, that their lives have worth and should be protected, that supporting child killings when it's done by "brown people" is not anymore alright than supporting child killings when done by the IDF. And you people should very well consider the possibility that people inside the IDF are doing all they can to reduce Bibi's ability to order war crimes.

And you should recognize that there are efforts on the part of the IDF, sometimes token efforts, sometimes more than just that, to limit the number of dead civilians. Point me to a case where Hamas did the same. Point me to a case where they tried to get Israeli civilians out of the way instead of targeting them.

Hamas is not a Revolution you want to succeed. It's not about being free. It's about killing. This isn't a "glorious revolutionary action", it's a prelude to the wholesale slaughter and ethnic massacre they dream of. It's a tiny window into their ideal, blood soaked world.

Violent revolution should be a last resort, when there is no other option available, when the system is so utterly broken and shattered that nothing can move, and it should be stopped as soon as the system is unfucked enough to negociate. The I/P situation is not at that stage. Look at how much efforts the fascists of both sides have to invest in maintaining this. Look at how much time and money and efforts they have to invest to keep each other in place. And despite this, people of both sides reach for peace, argue and protest for it, even at the risk of their very lives (especially true in Gaza).

And if you refuse to consider all this, if you insist on following Robespierre, remember this : La Veuve came for him too, in the end.

[batshikns]

some hetalia sketches i did during school today <3333

[sscarletvenus]

happy independence to the Algerian people, whose relentless struggle for freedom from 132 years of brutal French colonization finally prevailed on this day - July 5, 1962.

"The Algerians also showed me what they had to do to get those people off their back. The first thing they had to realize was that all of them were brothers; oppression made them brothers; exploitation made them brothers; degradation made them brothers; discrimination made them brothers; segregation made them brothers; humiliation made them brothers. And once all of them realised that they were blood brothers, they also realised what they had to do to get that man off their back."

- Malcolm X

Today Algeria, and Tomorrow Palestine.

[etapereine]

2021 uae tour stage 5 and look who's on tadej's wheel lol

[miqdadsworld]

It's been weeks since the war on Gaza began, yet the horror remains vivid. The world shouldn't grow accustomed to these images, shouldn't become desensitized.  The suffering continues, with Israel's relentless attacks claiming innocent lives in Gaza, children among them, every single day. This is not a conflict; it's a massacre, and it must end.

[jloisse]

🇫🇷🇵🇸Une bannière accrochée par des étudiants de l'Institut d'études politiques de Paris, dans le cadre de leurs activités en faveur de la Palestine et de Gaza.

[girlactionfigure]

Breaking 🚨🚨🚨

jonnydaniels

[mixaaasblog]

‏🚨MY FRIEND CAMPAIGNED 🚨

‏ guys, today I will publish a link to my friend hazem tannera campaign. He is a 25-year-old

‏who lost everything he owned in this war, like the rest of the people of Gaza.. He is now far from his family, stuck in Egypt without a job or source of income, trying to help himself and his family through this link. I ask everyone to share his story and support him because he deserves it., but the war destroyed his dreams and ambitions.

‏IF all A person who donates a small amount can reach his goal and complete his dreams🍉🙏🏼

‏Note: he verified from @nabulsi

[sissa-arrows]

On Friday a group of 5 white supremacists attacked a group of 3 young North African men in Lyon. 2 of the young men got superficial wounds but one of them will have scars on his face, the 3rd one spent 5h in surgery and will be paralyzed.

One of the 5 white supremacists was arrested. He is supposedly the leader of the group.

1: The police refuses to say if they are still investigating to catch the rest of the group.

2: The man who was arrested is a known white supremacists we KNOW where they hang out we know where they plan these attacks but the government doesn’t do anything. I don’t live in Lyon and I still know which bar I should avoid if I don’t want to be attacked because I’m North African.

3: France refuses to admit its own racism so fucking much that I had to search multiple articles before knowing that the “3 young men” were North Africans. Every single article says “Young men” the people condemning it say “young men” like people are collectively refusing to call it an anti Arab racist attack and just saying “racist attack” because that way it can be drowned in the statistics of general racist attacks and they can deny that anti Arab racism is rising.

Source

[lewishamiltonstuff]

Biden would risk a wider regional war than stop Israel from committing genocide.

[ellavei]

me summarized France with Spaus:

(he used to curse the House of Habsburg every day)