No shit. Police exist to serve the state and control its citizens. They themselves like to claim they serve the public but they always end up abusing the powers granted to them. Police everywhere love to beat up protesters, especially if they are left-wing protesters.

NZ’s involvement in a defence pact with the U.S. is a bit of a waste of time to be honest. They aren’t committed to the alliance as a nation or a population.

NZ seems to want to live under the U.S. nuclear umbrella while morally objecting to it.

As an Italian, I can tell you this is pure demagoguery. It keeps the old, tradition stuck-up population in agreement with an over traditional, conservative government, touching an aspect that is at heart to many and not an issue at all. If that was the issue, they would have waged war against sushi places, kebab shops, ethical restaurant and shops. But they don’t, because that’s a tax-paying given as of today. Lab-grown meat would be another type of plate, it would not be mixed to the traditional dishes, it would have its own aisle at the supermarket and its own restaurants…it would not replace anything. But it’s new, it’s scary and that’s the perfect thing to be actively engaged to get the trust of an overly scared aging population attached to the old ways, giving the impression to be working hard without really losing anything in the process

Why would they ? There's very very few rich people even in favor of the protests, let alone who is behind those protests. What is the government gonna do, freeze a bank account with -49.30€ ?

Saw this too, how did they end up in a drone from Iran?

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I think we are among the lowest working hours in the world. Many people working fulltime jobs under 40 hours/week.

And if it would be about wages why are poor people getting more children? Why is the global south getting more children than rich western societies? It does not add up and your logic is just plain wrong.

I am guessing it is more like "western designed components, manufactured in China, sold on AliExpress".

Didn’t Canada’s population grow because more people trapped indoors meant more babies?

I believe the robots we use in cars are mainly to produce the main body and larger parts. Engines and smaller stuff like circuit boards etc are still made by hand.

Phones are really small and need precision. Perhaps that's why robots aren't used

Does anyone know if protestors or protest organisers can be charged assuming they don't do anything illegal?

I have not heard of this happening in France. But then again the movements do not rely on external funding and don't have key leaders outside of unions. Not very comparable to the "freedom trucks" in Canada.

India has problems, so does every country on the earth. Doesn't mean that you can be racist against them. US had like 90 shootings in this year alone, highest of any other country. Does that mean that I can be racist against americans?

Yeah, that makes sense for the typical hypocrite politician. It's not that we can pretend they would plan their travels in advance.

Y'all are mixing private, public, and personal property that's wild...

No one's burning anybody's house. Destruction of personal property is rare af.

And what would you do if your "democratic" government tried so hard to pass a reform against 70% of your country's population (90% of workers) that blatantly helped corporations and disserved citizens? They didn't even manage to get token assentment from small businesses.

We fucking tried to make it go peacefully but through some regalian magic trick it didn't even get voted in the constituent assembly. So yeah we're thrashing against the bourgeoisie bc it's the only thing that seems to get us heard.

Let’s do pollution per capita then

13,000 police. Say allocated for two weeks, 14 days. The average police officer will need probably a cake per day on average, based on my inventing that fact out of thin air.

So 182,000 cakes.

The police, as seen by them being excluded from this pension reform, are a force of oppression against these demonstrators.

Police in Europe has been started as professional paid wage slaves and they stayed the same till now. Somewhere along the way like-minded people like the privileges they got with becoming riot police (aka beating up leftists) and increasingly flocked into these positions.

The argument of „protect and serve“ can be at most be done for the classic patrol cop who is a first responder. Riot police is nothing else than a paid private army to protect the state from its citizens.

I don’t bet on the lives of human beings. I find that to be quite insulting & revolting.

Probably because of the rampant issues India have with raping women and marrying kids. They also buy cheap oil from Russia. No wonder not many redditors are not liking India’s government much currently.

I don’t hate Indians they are lovely people that are generous with their time and know how to feed their guests but as a business I hate selling things to them.

The wink emoji is an excellent indicator of your maturity level. Make sure the teacher gives you an extra juice box at lunch time today.

You can do things about your crimes. Just maybe not things that involve (state sponsored) crimes against humanity and society instead. You can lick boots and play devil's advocate all you want. You're still a shit head who turns your gaze away from the damage done because it didn't personally effect you or your family. Sociopathic.

Also lmao at throwing a hissy fit because people who don't live there dare comment:

A) tons of countries have drug problems and related crime. (And tons of people "live in fear in their own country" for other reasons. But that's another discussion) Not just the Philippines. You're a complete imbecile if you think this problem is unique. Some countries come up with actually humane solutions (Portugal). Some come up with insane, disgustingly inhumane solutions (Philippines). Most fall somewhere in between. Your country is not immune to criticism. No country is. Get over it.

B) You're literally posting on a public website made for discourse. If you didn't want people to discuss it and comment on it, maybe you should have kept your shitty, crimes-against-humanity enabling views to yourself.

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I would argue that all these hateful bigots are already afraid of India's rise.

They are afraid that China and India will call the shots for the next century, that hurts their fragile ego.