Setanta wrote on Oct 20
th, 2026 at 1:11pm:
Frank wrote on Oct 20
th, 2026 at 12:40pm:
Enquiring mind wrote on Oct 20
th, 2026 at 10:37am:
greggerypeccary wrote on Oct 20
th, 2026 at 10:31am:
Frank wrote on Oct 18
th, 2026 at 9:54pm:
Time for deadly force. And mass expulsion.
Past time, actually.
That's right, folks.
Frank is using the internet to incite violence.
I fear Frank's vision is starting to bear fruit.
Every old boy deserves
fruit, no?

You have two be totally spineless, dishonest and stupid to try equivalence betwen Paris and Wangaratta.
And so you two are readily on hand to be jusf that: totally spineless, dishonest and stupid. Anything else would be totally out of character for you clowns.
Both extreme-left driven events.
Hardly. The protests in France have become positively mainstream. I propose that this is just the beginning. Late capitalism is starting to fray. These are the strains of heightened class war - a clearly emerging billionaire class versus kids who struggle to afford basic groceries, never mind the hope of ever owning their own homes.
As an old-style leftie, you'll know exactly what I mean. The current economic superstructure can't survive without something starting to give.
Historically, there are three options: the rise of fascism and world war, a so-called revolution led by a vanguard party/class, or the rise of consensus-driven social democracy.
All the advanced capitalist states have experienced similar historical shifts, including our own. We've been fortunate to not have succumbed to the former two extremes, but we've also been fortunate to have had the excesses of war and economic crisis kept far from our shores.
France? Not so much. As the first state to stage a bourgeois revolution, the French have popular revolt in their DNA. If the French don't go the way of their Vichys in the National Front, I put it to you that this revolt will spread further afield, much as it did in 1848.
Mind you, the fascist parties have never been stronger, backed by the billionaires. Elon has signalled his Nazi sympathies directly. He also backs the German AfD, much like the regime currently occupying the US White House. The two are aligned in perfect class symmetry, despite their mutual loathing.
The developing world, while subject to similar capitalist strains, is subsumed into the global economic superstructure, subject to capital from China, Europe or the billionaire class in America. In the midst we find Russia, increasingly a vassal of China, but a dangerous and volatile ally, conjoined through natural resources and state corruption. Russia's population is currently neutralised, controlled by a criminal oligarchy through propaganda and brute force. Vlad knows that if he gives an inch, he'll be overthrown, but this won't stop agents of the same kleptocracy resuming control.
Russia's allies have been taken out through war or ruin - Syria, Venezuela, Iran. It has bought friends and used political interference - Orban (now gone), Farrage, the AfD, DL. Vlad is believed to be the richest billionaire in the game, all dark money. DL had access to these funds long before he became prez. He now gets his cash from the billionaires, foreign kleptostates and the US government itself.
Now, you'll observe this to be a classic Marxist take. I doubt, however, that you'll note any specific inaccuracies. This is exactly the state the advanced capitalist countries find themselves in now. Mark my words, Setanta, we are entering a time of acute class struggle. The only real question is this:
Which side are you on?