EU farming protest exploding. Gas ,water cannons, and rubber bullets deployed in Brussels.

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    Serious question: Isn't this sort of thing pretty routine in most of Europe over everything from politics to soccer games, and without much result?

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    So, anything different this time?
     

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    Serious question: Isn't this sort of thing pretty routine in most of Europe over everything from politics to soccer games, and without much result?

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    Etc. Etc.

    So, anything different this time?
    Citizens doing it vs illegal's? That would likely be a main one. In Germany the farmers have support of a political party(AFD), that is not really a thing in the past as illegal people can not vote...even in the EU.
     

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    Serious question: Isn't this sort of thing pretty routine in most of Europe over everything from politics to soccer games, and without much result?

    See:




    Etc. Etc.

    So, anything different this time?
    One could make a defensible argument that the whole _point_ of the EU was to make such protests irrelevant. Who need fear protests, when authority is a) far away, and b) detached from accountability?
     

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    Citizens doing it vs illegal's? That would likely be a main one. In Germany the farmers have support of a political party(AFD), that is not really a thing in the past as illegal people can not vote...even in the EU.

    I don't think the Paris yellow jacket riots were predominately illegals, but maybe.

    One could make a defensible argument that the whole _point_ of the EU was to make such protests irrelevant. Who need fear protests, when authority is a) far away, and b) detached from accountability?

    I don't know enough to have an intelligent opinion on the whys of it. I just note that this seems to be a reasonably common thing in Europe and it makes a stir then disappears.
     
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