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2024-01-30 Europe

Operation Starve Paris: French farmers begin 'indefinite' tractor siege of the capital as it's warned the city only has THREE DAYS of food, Toulouse is 'cut off' and hay bales are used to build blockades

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Posted by Skidmark 2024-01-30 00:15|| || Front Page|| [40 views ] Top

#1 "Come on, man! If we run out of food, we can just go to the grocery store and get more."

Once again, we see the war between the People of Words and the People of Things. I would explicate further, but there is insufficient room in the margins.

Posted by SteveS 2024-01-30 09:49|| 2024-01-30 09:49|| Front Page Top

#2 If a Foucaultian city, isn't hunger a "social construct?"

Posted by M. Murcek 2024-01-30 09:52|| 2024-01-30 09:52|| Front Page Top

#3 Depends on the pendulum's swing.

Posted by Skidmark 2024-01-30 10:29|| 2024-01-30 10:29|| Front Page Top

#4 Have the Dutch farmers been mollified?

Posted by Bobby 2024-01-30 10:41|| 2024-01-30 10:41|| Front Page Top

#5 Les Halles of academe. Just made meself cry (okay, not literally) imagining a world in which bazillions of college kids had read Braudel instead of that MF.

Posted by Count Galeazzo Grelet1495 2024-01-30 10:48|| 2024-01-30 10:48|| Front Page Top

#6 Ruled by Uncle Tom in a DV helmet, svp.

Posted by Count Galeazzo Grelet1495 2024-01-30 10:51|| 2024-01-30 10:51|| Front Page Top

#7 Given it's Paris and our literary moment in the obscure, can Dr. Pangloss commentary be far behind?

Posted by NoMoreBS 2024-01-30 13:23|| 2024-01-30 13:23|| Front Page Top

#8 Possible, seeing how soon they may be eating their own ass.

Posted by swksvolFF 2024-01-30 15:49|| 2024-01-30 15:49|| Front Page Top

#9 Best of all possible worlds

Posted by Frank G 2024-01-30 18:26|| 2024-01-30 18:26|| Front Page Top

#10 How Candide of you Frank!

Posted by NoMoreBS 2024-01-30 19:06|| 2024-01-30 19:06|| Front Page Top

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