[Burkeman1]

I think the potential is even grater for blatant lies about crime and media silence in France than here in America. France is a semi authoritarian state ruled by about 1000 famlies and has been for centuries. It has only a veneer of democracy. The population are sheep and even people who "work" in France are partially on the dole.

[SauronOfMordor]

France is a semi authoritarian state ruled by about 1000 famlies and has been for centuries. It has only a veneer of democracy. The population are sheep and even people who "work" in France are partially on the dole.

The underclass is needed by the elite, both in the US and in Europe. The underclass is the threat the elite hold against the middle-class: keep paying taxes and don't complain, or we will unleash our animals against your neighborhoods

Visualize Paris or New York or Los Angeles the day after the welfare checks didn't come

[aculeus]

Europe = HMS Titanic ping.