Article seems super right wing. Maybe just stop the right from stealing from the people. I applaud them for saying hell no to BS reforms and pressures to impoverish the populous. I’m cheering for the kids with the jerry cans.
BBC is generally centre leaning left. But I see where you are coming from. I think this article does provide balance to the many articles talking about police brutality by showing what these riots, which were not about reforms, can do to a community.
You’ll also note the the journalist does not really spin anything here: they use the verbs “to say” and “to tell” when giving quotes. There are no opinions provided by the journalist. It does not sensationalise anything. If I wanted to spin this story, I would have worded the lede like this:
Zartoshte Bakhtiari hasn’t slept more than three hours a night since the violent riots erupted in France a week ago.
I think if anything there is a tiny note of French-bashing here, for lack of a better term. It really shows that they shot themselves in the foot and now mayors are petitioning for heightened security.
I think now is a good time for a friendly reminder; political left & right can vary drastically by nation, they can be similar but don’t expect labels to line up perfectly (confederative is a good example of a changing definition across nations). When it comes to the tone of the article though, I think you hit the nail on the head. In my experience, the BBC has some bias when reporting on other nations, especially if they were once a British colony (seriously yikes). I’m not surprised they’re doing a little French bashing, it’s kind of an old habit for the British lol.
None of the “kids with the jerry cans” are doing any of this because of reforms. The riots have very real consequences for already neglected communities seeing their libraries, schools and local businesses burning down. Are you confusing the riots with the protests earlier this year about the pension system reforms?
I think they are missing the point, they should be fighting to end arranged marriages. What else besides money and looks would play a factor in an arranged marriage? Let your children meet people and form a relationship and they are likely to find someone who loves them for whom they are and then get married.
Need hasn’t been a factor for these types of people ever. It’s not about amount in terms of survival, it’s a high score system. Earn more than the one who came before you, gain over other companies, get noted in some top # company scoreboard.
The entire system is set up to award this aggressive, destructive behavior as success. The largest change in recent times is the numbers getting so massive that it takes the most destructive and cutthroat policies to even get close to out doing those who came before.
I intellectually understand the concept but personally cannot grasp it. The rise of the billionaire and the staggering record profits of some of these companies is just beyond the pale.
I've no doubt that this guy is being entirely self-serving and disingenuous, but the sad fact is that the UK still does still import half of its oil and gas.
Plus side of reducing oil production is that prices will go up and will drive the introduction of renewables as they become attractive and help save the world.
Downside is that we will all feel poorer during this transition
I'm in favour of cutting, but it's important to be clear about the implications.
We need big companies to really champion the move to green tech and renewables, and reinvest some of the profit. I don't think customers should shoulder the burden when you consider the last few years of recoding breaking profits
Even if we can try and do replace it with green alternatives, it is going to take a massive change to get to where we need to be. Let alone for it to be cost effective and productive enough not to destabilize the entire world. We all saw how some reacted to higher gas prices.
But climate change is wrecking the world as we speak so.....dam. Destabilization either way. We took too long and dragged our feet. Ironically cause of the actions of oil's dark money and propaganda.
I think we're at a crisis point with the climate, we're hitting so many new records and milestones with a rapid pace.
As you say it's all destabilising. What I absolutely don't accept is that the customer should feel the brunt of that chnage. These companies have made record profit in the last few years, what a wonderful opportunity to reinvest and fix so many of the problems they have caused.
Crazy thought: how about we get Greedy Oil Mogul and his ilk to fund the rapid transition, since they stalled progress in order to keep profiting from the current state for so long.
So… What? Laid off Twitter employees can never again work in the industry that they have experience in? This is all so fucking stupid. Maybe don’t fire them if you don’t want them working for someone else. Non-compete contracts are a thing, but your beef would be with the individual not the corporation.
I’m so over these big tech companies that are run by jealous narcissists and sociopaths.
Musk sure is tiresome. What ‘trade secrets’? Does he really think Meta doesn’t have the engineering capacity to make a twitter clone themselves? IG was already set up like a twitter where you have to post a photo. I’m still waiting for him to sue Microsoft, too.
I joined it with a fake account so I could check it out and immediately left once I realized there isn't a place to just see the people I chose to follow. I was being bombarded by so much shit that it was just an awful time.
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