That’s honestly the most French thing I’ve heard in a while. Not because of the war memorial but because of the cigarette
Meh. He didn’t harm anything. He just broke the rule of, “keep off the memorial.”
Basically, a non-event. Why is this news?
Sir, this is not the onion
Someone in editorial thought “ah, this will make people angry, and anger leads to clicks.”
Clicks lead to hate, hate leads to the dark side
the dark side leads to nachos. why are we against this again?
Serious question for you: I wonder if you would feel different if your parent had died in the war being memorialized?
I’m trying to figure out if you are saying “This doesn’t affect me so I don’t care” or maybe, “Memorials serve no purpose” or something else. Cheers,
That’s not the point. The point is nothing at all actually happened.
It’s the monument equivalent of shouting, “you’re ugly” at someone. Disrespectful, sure, but newsworthy? No.
I wonder if you would feel different if your parent had died in the war being memorialized?
Exactly as I commented. “Ah, this will make people angry, and anger leads to clicks.”
i went to dallas and stopped by the jfk shooting museum. real neat. real somber. there’s a yellow x on the asphalt where he was shot, and every few dozen minutes when there’s a break in traffic there’d be a tiktok kid popping out there to get a cheery selfie or video. at first, I thought “they don’t quite understand where they are, they’re just dumb kids” and then the constant stream (i promise i got it by the third one) of them made me realize they were all ragebating us olds.
Life imitates art:
I definitely interpreted this title as someone lighting a 110-year-old cigarette.
Me, too. I had a whole internal discussion about which scenario would be more stereotypically French…
There’s a genocide going on, we have thousands upon thousands of homeless people, the world is heading to a climate catastrophy, but let’s be outraged by someone lightning a cigarette with the flame of a war memorial.
People dying of hunger because of politics, capitalism and violence, it’s none of our business. But that man lighting his cigarette, what a fucking outrage!
Sir, this is a Wendy’s
Based
I like to disrespect authority like the next punk but disrespecting war memorials is fucking disgusting. I would have liked to punch that fucker. And smash his fucking cigarette.
