Ya might have to strangle them slowly, rather than try to club them to death all at once like the EU appears to be trying! The result is the same in the end, technology and market forces might be their greatest foe in a few years and that can bring anybody down sooner or later. Food is a global business these days and are subject to global economic forces.
That appearance can only be the result of seeing the overreactions of childish entitled cunt farmer vandals and doesn’t come near to describing reality. In no way are their actions useful as a measurement of what is asked of them. They literally had decades already to adjust and innovate. These type of european farmer protests are not a new phenomenon. Nor is governments giving in.
I must say … if they can make asbestos burn, they have rare skills.
We had a similar thing in Canada at the end of the pandemic with self-entitled morons blocking the capitol over nothing but stupidity and propaganda. Then they had a lot of young people with them, because 2 years is forever when you are 18 years old, time is expanded for them, and a lot of living happens in your late teens and 20s. They didn't understand, like the stupider older ones that highways and public health are provincial responsibilities, not federal ones and the border required US cooperation too.
When they spray shit on your streets and parliament, they are spraying shit on all of you which is what parliament stands for and represents.
They have civil courts there? If someone sprayed pig shit on my street or property, I and my neighbors would sue the fucker for the expense of cleaning it up and for punitive damages, and even in Canada, it would break them, and they would have to sell the fucking farm.
The French don't fuck around, they are confiscating tractors and putting them in jail while they do it. The French are like that though.
They’re jailing tractors?
One should have inferred the drivers driving the tractors were cuffed and led away.
Yeah but one can never be certain when you say "the French are like that"
I mean, French jailing tractors, I heard crazier things.
Nobody protests more than the French. It's funny, in most countries people talk first, then protest if talking doesn't work. In French, they start with the protest, and the bigger and badder it gets, the more negotiating power they have. They're overdoing it. Over recent years, with all the damage done, like with the Yellow Vests and retirement age changes, they too are fed up more quickly with vandalism.
www.bbc.com
They might want to back off on the farmers for now or provoke them into stupidity and have public support turn against them and hope for the best with the next election. There are lots of things to clean up, road transport, power generation, industry and agriculture where you can.Basically if you want it your way, act like a pigeon playing chess.
Europe farmers protests: EU scraps plans to halve pesticide use
The announcement appears to be a concession to farmers who have been protesting tighter regulations.
So Von der Leyen killed it. It was part of the Green Deal, which is the brainchild of Frans Timmermans, who didn't get the position Ursula has, who left EU politics last year to return to national politics in NL, running as the leader of the green/labor coalition we hoped would defeat the right and then he would become PM (he still might, far-right + center-right formation collapsed yesterday).
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Me too
We all are sometimes.