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[–] Lyricism6055@lemmy.world 39 points 9 hours ago (17 children)

They keep alluding to migrants being the violent ones, am I understanding this correctly? Also they mention this was organized crime basically? Any facts to back that up?

I'm wondering how they actually plan on addressing the root issue here of wealth inequality and cost of living issues... The country's finances are not doing well from what I can see...

[–] maya_s_trojan@piefed.blahaj.zone 37 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago) (11 children)

I scanned the reddit frontpage today like I occasionally do to see if there's any news that hasn't hit the Fediverse yet... and let me tell you, the propaganda bots are out in fucking force because I saw numerous videos of the French protests where it was black masked jerks harassing individuals, stealing, looting. Of course it was in the "usual suspects" of subs like /r/publicfreakout.

At least three posts within the first two pages of results on reddit when you're not logged in that are nothing but videos and comments dragging the entire protest.

There is a concerted effort to make the claim the students never cared about education, they just wanted to criminally wreck everything. I don't know who, but someone with a lot of money is pushing this narrative hard.

[–] liverpoolbutter@lemmy.ca 5 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

I saw the same, there is definitely a campaign going on right now. My guess is trying to rile people up about immigration, fire up the base for the US midterms.

I wish I could disagree with you but it seems US voters are so fucking stupid and racist that immigration in a country halfway across the world is enough to get them angry and motivated to vote.

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