WHAT THE HELL'S GOING ON IN FRANCE?

What the hell's going on in France? I'm going to give you a quick little TLDR. Long story short, this happened in Paris. Or, like, outside of Paris. So it's like the suburbs of Paris, I guess you could say. This is France, all right? This is what it somewhat looks like. Got Paris, right? September, middle of September. There was a protest over the classrooms and the school conditions. Okay, France is in a debt crisis, a lot of it has to do with with pensions, a lot of overspending. There's a lot of different reasons. We've got, no nurses in our school, we've got leaky buildings, we've got, buildings are like cracking. We've got classrooms that are like, way too overcrowded. The straw that broke the camel's back was the heat wave. Right. And they didn't have any cooling systems or air conditioning, and there was too many people and the buildings were bad. These teachers and these students start protesting and blocking off the school. But it started getting picked up on social media. More teachers and more students are walking out which led to more shortages. Other people, other schools are like, hey, we have the same problem. So they start spreading to these other cities out here, and they start walking out. And so then it picks up on social media and other people are like, this is a real problem, fuel costs right now, food costs, energy. It's not just the schools. Everybody starts saying, we're ****** And then you've got the president or whatever you want to call him. He's proposing more cuts. They're going into a fiscal crisis. They want to fix the budget. So what do they do? They're they're they're calling for more cuts to some of these services. You don't do that when people are pissed off. And then to top it all off he lost a lot of his power recently. So he doesn't have a very strong coalition. And so the opposition parties are kind of like, let's really rail into him and tell these people, hey, guess what? That's not all he's been doing wrong. So they start stroking the flames a little bit. Now what happens when police get involved, they start arresting people. Then it starts getting violent. They threw a crowd control grenade, and a kid grabbed one of them and he lost his hand. And so by early October, they were sitting in like 250,000 people that were protesting. But then the unions jumped in. You've got other groups jumping in. Then the, the, the politicians started stroking flames even more. Then they had the nationwide day of action, which was Friday, and there was as much as 800,000 people that took to the streets. And it got wild. The vast majority of all of the protests were, were actually just people protesting. It's just that in the city where there was like a concentration that's the videos that came out. But then it ended up leading to some burning of some, like some actual historic buildings Limoges or whatever. That that one was burned to the ground. In Lyon they burned the town hall, and so now Macaroni, macaroon, macaroon, Maroon Five. Macaroni. He's saying, all right, we're going to make some reforms. And so now it's going down. Of course, just like every year's protest, those reforms aren't going to actually change anything, but it gives them enough time to kind of strategize again.