France still burningFollow

wait, so Gbaji is protecting america from the french reality?

So, realistically a government should allow widescale violence for weeks straight? Think it's just a phase?

How the fu[/u]]ck will rioting get you employed?

How does that make socialism sound better?

Let me see if I've got this straight. So, under socialism, we vastly increase taxes in order to pay for government provided benefits for all citizens. And at the end of the day, we end up with twice as much unemployment, just as much racial stratification, and just as many people living in slums and being generally unhappy. Oh. And riots, although people argue about whether they're rioting because of the slums they live in, or the fact that they're made to feel like second class citizens due to laws restricting their expression.

What was the point of all of that again? Regardless of the specifics of *why* these people are unhappy, it's still hardly a ringing endorsement of the system. The whole reason socialism exists is the assumption that the costs are worth it because "the people" will be happier under a socialist system. Clearly, at least in the case of France, they are not. So one has to question what the benefits of all of that taxation and huge government programs are?

I hear that they're going to have to raise production in the Peugot factory...

The oppressed, The oppressed,
Put Sarkozy to the test
Stuff a rag inside a Molotov
Let fire do the rest

Riots in
All the towns
We just want to burn 'em down
Cerfew orders are refuted
When young teens are 'lectrocuted


They won't take a hard stance
After all, kids, this is France
And surrender here is never second best

Mass arson is the way
to brighten up our day
The oppressed! The oppressed! The oppressed~