SparkMandrill83 asked what happened to the orange vests protesting in a different thread. That got me to thinking, for a while there a bunch of different Western countries had protests by various farmers, truckers, orange vests, etc. France, Netherlands, Canada, etc. Whatever happened with those protests? Did the states crack down on the people, did they just disappear? There is so much unrest and crap going on it is hard to keep track of everything.
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I still remember it clearly with the farmers protests in the EU.
The media just copy/pasted their usual 'le evil nazis literally genociding cute puppies' bullshit. Then the handlers infomed them that this was not some impotent controlled opposition march, but actual productive people who would have the power for an outright revolution.
Within 2 days there were 0 articles about the protests just seemingly out-of-place commentary how the benevolent lords of the EU sadly had to delay the policies leading to the protests, but wich are totally 100% supergood and necessary because climate change.
While the media was in full gatekeeping mode, i was watching videos of armored police vehicels being pushed aside by tractors, police being covered in menure and outright beaten. Stuff that you normally would have on 24/7 rotation in the statemedia with the usual lies intermixed.
I was talking with some local farmers recently who already are hearing stories of farmers partaking in the protests suddenly seing strange people posing as joggers photographing their equipment.
I don't think it's far-fetched to imagine Von der Leyen and the rest of the tyrants seething and planning the most cruel retaliation.
To emphasise this, consider the difference in reporting between the civil disturbances in Ireland vs those in the UK right now. The Irish citizenry are going further than the British, frequently setting fire to refugee housing every week, but the British govt is actually cracking down harder. This is because the British cops think they can't lose against their own people, given the scale of the opposition and the tools on each side.
Contrastingly, the Irish government thinks it CAN lose, because it's smaller. So in Ireland the same thing you describe has happened from the political side - cautious re-examination of immigration policy, gradual de-escalation of condemnation (they don't go much further than 'it's unacceptable' in their soundbytes these days), and growing media silence on all these mysterious fires...
yeah. i see a general attempt by known left-extremists in newspapers to suddenly switching back to 'both sides are bad, look we totally also criticize the left'.
they are trying to lul the populance back into their enlightend centrism farce.