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    At least france has the balls to pull this shit.

    The US just saw their failing rail system cause a serious chemical spill, then when the rail workers unionized and asked for time off they got told by the president they have to keep working.

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      Worse than that. Major public opinion was against the rail strikes because they didn’t want to pay more at the supper market. Americans are just capitalist zombies doing whatever their corporate overlords tell them to do.

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        American here. Yep. Most of us are clueless fucking morons who have been brainwashed into hating unions and the “laziness and entitlement” that comes with it. These dipshits will pay money for a sticker to put on their car to show that they support the class traitors that are the overly militarized police that constantly destroys our property and kills us. Most of us are indoctrinated, nationalist cowards who worship sociopathic oligarchs because they’re “job creators”. And anybody who doesn’t chug the Kool Aid is called unamerican and becomes socially excommunicated. Being aware and intelligent and having basic critical thinking skills is too threatening to their fragile worldview to be permitted to have a seat at anybody’s table. And I’m tired of being gentle about how stupidly dangerous or dangerously stupid their active efforts against knowledge, class consciousness, justice, and democracy are.

        Last night, my wife and I tried to come up with a list of things to be proud of our country for. Ready? Because it took like an hour to come up with this.

        • Americans with Disabilities Act
        • no pay toilets
        • National and State Parks
        • pop culture as an export (music, movies, jeans)
        • military technology
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          I agree but dont forget that you also have the privelige of even saying these things without repercussions in the first place.

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            Ridiculous there is a lot of countries where you can say whatever you want that’s not especial to the US , they brainwash us into believing we are the most freee country but reality is that we are , but we are not the only one.

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              I didn’t say the USA is the only country—its just a perk. Sheesh.

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          Ridiculous. The USA isnt the only country with national parks. 🙄

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            I’m not sure why you think that’s what I said, because I didn’t. I said that America’s state and national parks are something to be proud of, not that nobody else has national parks.

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      The French are absolutely fucking based with how they protest, my meme is a joke, not a serious dig at them

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      That’s not true at all.

      We’ve had way more than one serious chemical spill caused by the failing rail system.

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      What will the 2nd amendment fans have to say about this? How are citizens bearing arms preventing the government from becoming tyrannical and acting agasint the people will? Did arms prevent the government from the evil commie masks and vaccines?

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    What I think is interesting is that we usually have pretty good scores in term of productivity despite having a lot of holidays and strikes.

    If anything it should be a testament to the idea that it’s ok to be against “too much work”. It’s not being lazy, it’s understanding that you work better when you are properly rested.

    At least that’s the way I see it. Don’t work more, work better.

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      We work with a lot of teams from France and during July, guess what, nothing bad happens. Despite everyone acting like everyday is a crisis, it somehow is never a big deal

      The bosses need to chill and realize people enjoying life doesn’t mean everything else falls 8 months behind

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    If only we were as badass as French people when protesting for workers rights, most other places are full of entitled bootlicking pussies who make memes about people who actually get out there and fight for their rights.

    stares at OP

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      I respect the fucking shit out of the French willingness to strike, protest, and burn for their rights. I wish my country had a quarter of their fervor.

      That doesn’t mean I’m not going to tease them :)

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        C’est fair, mais at least, you wish to protest. The funny part of the meme is that France is actually constantly the country incarnation of r/antiwork (in all respects, good and bad), not just recently, and that’s therefore a thing some French people (esp. the right) are throwing around a lot as an offensive statement, which would explain the 31 downvotes (probably mostly frenchies with left tendencies who took it the wrong way) .

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      I love the French and how they respond to any infringement on their rights, that doesn’t mean I’m not gonna make jokes XD

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        On another meme I saw the response (dont forget to do the french accent in your head)

        typical anglo’s, as afraid of culture as they are of seasoning

        I liked that

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    Never understood why repeating the last word from the top text at the bottom is done in some memes.

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      That’s ironic because I’m friends with a French person and they tell me France is one of the most bigoted countries in western Europe. Particularly towards women.

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        Ah shit, we got got, they are onto us. He has THE friend that said we are all bigoted especially toward womans !

        Noooo!

        In all seriousness, having lived in France for 35 years and traveled extensively throughout Europe this is not AT ALL my experience.

        Religions has very little impact here and to my delight it seems like it’s on the downward trend.

        https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religion_in_Europe?wprov=sfla1

        As you can see we are not a particularly religious country and I think it doesn’t play as much as in other countries in Europe.

        Also, we have fairly stricter than usual laws concerning religious displays in schools and other public spaces.

        At least I highly doubt we are one of the most bigoted country considering our laws concerning religions and considering the rather low rate of religious people here.

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      I heard their army designed some new tanks. They have 15 gears!!

      14 of those are reverse. The other one is a safety measure for when the enemy is attacking from behind.

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          Yes, send me your credit card number, the last 4 of your SSN, and your mother’s maiden name and you’ll get your refund within 4-19 business days. Offer valid only in the continental U.S. and Hawaii. Alaska can fuck itself.

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          Thank you so very much for the constructive criticism! Please, explain what the criterion I did and did not meet for a funni meme in your eyes

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            Low hanging fruit is valid criticism. Since everyone is on me to elaborate on that here we are. It’s a picture of a map, that uses a controversial subreddit to make an unfair and broad generalization. There was almost no effort inserted at any point.

            AKA, Low Hanging Fruit. Now leave me alone. I can’t believe everyone in this thread is so thick.

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              It may or may not be valid criticism, but it’s certainly not constructive. How is OP supposed to change based off your comment? Do you really think they learned something from it?

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                Effort and no they didn’t.

                low-hanging fruit

                lō′hăng′ĭng

                noun

                The thing or things that are the easiest to obtain or achieve in an endeavor.

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                  constructive

                  kuhn-struhk-tiv

                  helping to improve; promoting further development or advancements

                  Has being told to come up with higher effort ideas ever helped you to improve your work? It’s never helped me, I’ve only ever been frustrated by it

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          constructive criticism

          You keep using zees werd. I do not sink eet means what you sink eet means