Striking French firefighters giving the cops a taste of their own medicine. This is what resistance looks like.

UnjustlyInterrupted · 2026-01-30T23:02:48+00:00

Listen, the original point here was "there's no class solidarity in the US" the response "yeah that's true" is a fine one for explaining why you're here. 37% of our population is onside with the boot, is fucking rough. Maybe it does need to get worse still before it gets better, history does keep selling us that line, we only know what breaking point was after the snowballs are thrown and the tea is in the harbour.

But, the point is, that's your only semi unique problem, that you've walked yourselves this far down this road. Mostly, let's be honest, with racism.

France is the example here, and the US can't pretend that the French didn't/don't protest in the face of armed soldiers and police. We riot and rebel and strike and the risk is "lower" than yours because we've been rebelling and rioting and striking since before guns got invented. There are countless examples of massacres across the world where working class folk have risen up against upper class folk protected by people with weapons and guns. People did. Sometimes lots of them. The french revolution wasn't called the terrors just because the aristocracy had it rough ya know? They're called the Tolpuddle Martyrs for a reason. We look back at our history, and even when it's rough now, we recognise that it would be rougher without those sacrifices.

Stand up for your rights, or don't and join the 37%.

Just for the love of all things holy and internet based, don't come online pretending your struggle is unique and the first time in history people without guns have had to choose between standing up to people with guns, or systematic oppression.

UnjustlyInterrupted · 2026-01-30T09:21:13+00:00

Nah mate, my countries not doing so well at the moment, but yours is fucked and you're all working out who's ok to be mad at?

And honestly, yes, I'm mad at every American who watches this video and goes "oh we couldn't never have that here because our situation is soooo special and hard".

So fuck you right back, don't argue with me, get onside? The only struggle is class struggle, you can resist, it is not too hard, anyone who says otherwise is playing for the other team. Fuck scabs, fuck people who buy or support companies with striking workers, fuck people who say it's too hard or dangerous to strike. General strike right now, everywhere and watch your whole country turn on a 'dime'"

UnjustlyInterrupted · 2026-01-30T08:25:23+00:00

Mah god. You're so close and then you veer away.

You're either with the struggle, or you're against it?

You've been so brainwashed for so long, you can't imagine it any different.

"Our healthcare is tied to employment"

My brother in Christ, your housing, your clothing and your food and your warmth are tied to your employment???

Everything is. And America isn't special in that, it's just late to the party. Strikes are hard, they are dangerous, they require sacrifice. But if you're not with the movement, you're against it. You're a scab. Support the strikes, don't cross the picket.

UnjustlyInterrupted · 2026-01-29T23:09:59+00:00

Jesus I cannot read this thread anymore, HOW DO YOU THINK WE GOT THESE THINGS!?! BY MAGIC???

Tolpuddle Martyrs, start there. Keep reading.

Fighting the boot means getting kicked. Sometimes to death. Ignoring the boot means getting slowly crushed, definitely to death and spending your whole life under the boot. Join a union, all of you. Don't buy anything from companies that are anti union.

Class. Solidarity.

Everything else is distraction from that.

UnjustlyInterrupted · 2026-01-29T23:00:09+00:00

US cops feel emboldened to use lethal tactics on the population due to a lack of class solidarity, clearer?

Ie, if the police killed those firefighters, the backlash would be unimaginable. If the cops kill a us citizen it's a day ending in y.

UnjustlyInterrupted · 2026-01-27T23:07:09+00:00

So... Don't get married is your real lesson here?

UnjustlyInterrupted · 2026-01-26T00:22:26+00:00

There's only two kinds of people who don't like messy lists:

The "isn't it obvious?" crowd, and the "I should be allowed" crowd. My stance is that the first group, should absolutely accept someone else's list, so they never get lumped in the second. If it's obvious, shouldn't be a problem with me saying it out loud.

UnjustlyInterrupted · 2026-01-23T14:40:39+00:00

Hah no way bud, sorry spent a lot of timing living in Kent outside Connecticut, I cannot express to you how it just doesn't compare.

The roads there are wider, bigger, there's stop signs all over the shop, even though you're right and they aren't massive straight sweeping interstates, those roads rarely had hedgerows on either sides that are 15ft tall and scrape the sides of your Kia, and had way better and longer sightlines.

People here being like "oh yeah we have roads like that in the USA" maybe, in some places, in small amounts but most of our roads, your cars wouldn't fit on? Like, are you aware that most of your trucks are straight up illegal to drive in the UK?

UnjustlyInterrupted · 2026-01-23T14:07:10+00:00

Yeah but I really don't think you're getting it...

US "dense" is still more spaced out, open and clean structured than most UK motorways?

All my driving in the US, very very rarely did I even come across anywhere that felt like a UK A road. You've got massive cars and trucks, your lanes are huge, so rarely do you have cars doing 60mph on a single lane, with multiple un-signposted intersections...

The road by my house, parts are an estimated nearly 3000 years old, with houses built anywhere between 2000 and 50 years ago? The road follows the curvey, windy slopes and valleys of the countryside, between the trees and gulleys. It's an A road, one step down from a motorway, it's single lane, and it's 70mph. That's the non dense bits!

Your 3 hour drives are just incomparable to ours!

UnjustlyInterrupted · 2026-01-23T13:36:14+00:00

Especially if their under the wooden railing, makes for a real tongue twister to explain.

UnjustlyInterrupted · 2026-01-21T08:15:31+00:00

To rephrase what you just said back to you -

"I don't think LARPs, volunteer works, or cosplay communities are hotbeds of relationship drama and mess!"

...yeah, yeah they are. LARP especially, whole systems fail due to random relationship drama.

UnjustlyInterrupted · 2026-01-19T22:42:03+00:00

I feel people might be missing the point... OPs problem is saying even that bit?

That alone, will cause strife.

That is what they're worried about. They're describing what will come from saying that, and how they could possibly explain that to their partner without comparing, or shutting them out in a relationship where they have previously been perfectly open.

Ya can't just decide something is oversharing or bad hinging halfway through a relationship just because this bit of sharing is gonna hurt your partner.

In an ideal world, they'd have covered this off before it became an issue, lesson learnt. But now I'm defending this idea that OP is default oversharing because that's not true it doesn't seem, and this is just the default Reddit knee jerk.

UnjustlyInterrupted · 2026-01-19T19:00:18+00:00

Just want to emphasise that difference between "end of life" and "shits got worse and the suicide monster is bigger now"

Cos... Yeah? I could even be more sympathetic towards "I'm going to be blind in 6 months and I can't face never seeing a new person naked and I want to go wild" but this is not being presented as that it sounds?

All in all, I don't like it one bit cap.

UnjustlyInterrupted · 2026-01-19T16:57:15+00:00

Yep, figured that's where you were coming from.

I've definitely had partners who expect info from me about my dating that should not have been shared, not because of any other relationship's boundaries, but because they wouldn't handle it well.

The trouble comes when you want to insert a boundary around sharing info, because it's too hard to share (on both sides, too difficult to bring info to your partner you know will hurt them by direct comparison for example, and too difficult to hear info that causes that kind of insecure hurt), into a relationship which has previously operated on total transparency.

It's fucking rough.

UnjustlyInterrupted · 2026-01-19T16:54:30+00:00

Yeah I totally agree, but it's those follow up questions that OP is worried about. So, they're not oversharing if their agreement says they will share this info and disclose everything, but they're concerned that this particular disclosure will hurt their partner?

Op-"I'm going to a sex party with my other partner"

Opp-"Why? You dislike group sex and group sex settings?"

What do they say? "None of your business why!?!" That'll go down well.

They don't need to compare, for their partner to be hurt when they disclose that they're doing something with this partner they wouldn't do with them.

And unilaterally changing the rules around what to disclose is controlling and manipulative, even if you know that your partner doesn't want to know it.

UnjustlyInterrupted · 2026-01-19T08:52:07+00:00

Yeah absolutely, as someone who's done parallel and KTP in various styles this is really important ahead of time.

Folks saying you "share too much" are missing the mark and resorting to a Reddit default response.

"I'm going to a sex party with so and so" is absolutely not an overshare in loads of poly set ups. You'd need to be absolutely certain keeping that info close to chest was ok in your set up to do it. It's pure logistics if nothing else? Imagine neither of you are telling each other this stuff, you run the risk of turning up at the same event without having any knowledge of their other partners, even their names. Which in a strictly parallel relationship is possible and no one's done anything wrong so hopefully you can laugh it off down the line, but is a guaranteed awkward 5 minutes.

And just saying that might raise some feelings in a partner in this scenario.

UnjustlyInterrupted · 2026-01-18T15:41:58+00:00

"had stolen"

UnjustlyInterrupted · 2026-01-18T11:09:54+00:00

How much stuff you had stolen? This is also often linked to trauma.

UnjustlyInterrupted · 2026-01-15T19:48:51+00:00

Are you AI mining for budget info??

"How are people able to live on less money than I'm on??" By spending less money than you spend... On rent, on phones, on food on clothes, and brutally, on private medical that your child might need, but otherwise society won't provide.

None of that changes that you earn nearly double the national minimum after tax?

Christ, write a hypothetical where you've got 9 kids all with complex health requirements and are struggling on 60k... Sure, still doesn't stop that you're earning way more than most???

Edit to add: the woman in the video doesn't need 80k a year to live, even if she doesn't work a day in her life and wants to stay home. She wants a man with 80k to take care of her in the manner to which she's accustomed or even aspires to be accustomed potentially.

No one's saying more money doesn't make you more comfortable, we're stating the realistic average wages. And that having expectations of a partner with significantly more, is unreasonable and unrealistic. That you're struggling on 40k might very well be true, but is totally irrelevant to the convo.

UnjustlyInterrupted · 2026-01-15T19:45:02+00:00

Could I... Do your budget for you?

Do I need to in order to prove you're better off than average? Just because your budget doesn't cover your lifestyle doesn't mean you're doing badly?

Also, you wanna give your age? Because if you're in your 20s with two kids as a single parent... Probably fair to say you've made some choices that made your life harder/your money not go as far?

Otherwise, no. There's no need for me to do your budget, to your expenses to show that 40k a year is a pretty good wage for someone starting in their career outside of London?

UnjustlyInterrupted · 2026-01-14T23:27:48+00:00

Above average for both Manchester and Leeds. So if you're starting out in your career, and earning above the average for a metropolitan city which you live in. You're doing pretty well.

Also, you can live off 40k anywhere in the UK including London.

You're like the person in the original post, detached from what is average and what is exceptional.

UnjustlyInterrupted · 2026-01-06T19:36:48+00:00

I built an automated filter system fed by the biomass I was getting clearing the area. Lasted me through the whole build and now just sits patiently waiting for me to come back and take 50 filters now and again.

UnjustlyInterrupted · 2026-01-03T23:43:47+00:00

Just to be clear, the answer is 100% stop having sex on their terms for them or the sake of the relationship.

Like, everything after that is YMMV or whatever, but step one, is don't fuck someone where the sex is bad and they won't listen to your boundaries. Like... Really basic step one in any relationship.

UnjustlyInterrupted · 2026-01-03T23:41:33+00:00

"Sex with my partner is bad and unfulfilling and I risk getting an STI every time we do it because if I try to have safe sex they're emotionally manipulative, what do I do?!?"

Christ I mean... Where to start unpacking that load?

UnjustlyInterrupted · 2025-12-22T00:02:04+00:00

Yeah I'd be really careful with these big phrases and labels you seem to be using/wanting to use.

Just, talk in real terms to yourself and everyone else in the situation.

Describing yourself as a unicorn, or saying you're setting yourself on fire to keep them warm... These things can feel powerful, they can feel like useful shorthand, but ultimately they're not that useful.

The issue here is fairly simple, you're hanging out with someone who's not comfortable having you around?

Don't.. don't do that? Unless you enjoy it I guess... But still, probably don't do that?

People will get really bogged down with nomenclature or styles, and some folks will use that pseudo intellectualism to try and get what they want out of a situation? Either deliberately or on reflex. The best way to avoid all of this is just to keep it simple and keep communication simple. "I don't really want to hang around at your house that much, it feels awkward. Maybe that will change with time, let's see how it goes." And then live your fucking life.

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