the onboard fully loaded battery
Now that's a tiny, unimportant detail that the article failed to mention! It makes you believe that the car ran only on self-generated power when it's not the case.
Not a failed decolonization, not stuffing people into projects on the periphery of cities, not using them as cheap and expendable labor,
In Europe only the rich live in city centers. Most people live in the periphery. The cars and the shops that the protesters are destroying belong to people who live in the periphery as well, and probably it was everything they had managed to build in a life of work.
What you have here is not too different from what the US was facing and still in some part is. It's the same racial problem the US has. These people are not some sort of immigrant who "have no right to be here". What you're dealing with is people who came from the former colonies to France when France decided to abandon them. And these people are French. They always were. They came to France and back in the 60s when France had a need for cheap labor (like most of Europe), they were very welcome. They were stuffed into housing projects that were quickly slapped together at the periphery of the cities (after all, who wants to deal with "those" people as neighbors, right?), in housing that was even at the time substandard and which saw little, if any, improving.
They were never taken by force into France as animals and made to work for free to build France's economy, as it was done to African Americans. They came to France by their own will, looking for a better future. Their colonies weren't "abandoned" by France, it's them who rejected to be part of France, and rightly so.
These people were pretty much left alone by the state, barely accepting their existence.
France has a generous welfare state, it's no neoliberal paradise.
It's a whole lot easier to ban an asshole for breaking a rule if the rule exists.
How so? Can he sue me if I ban him and there is not a specific rule to cite as the reason? Or maybe if there is such a piece of text I can sue him if he keeps sending hateful patches for GCC even though I told him to go away?
When the central bank started reacting to COVID with what we call printing money and responding to the crisis, a lot of people in the private sector felt that printing of money could lead to hyper-inflation and these private sector people decided to respond by creating cryptocurrencies.
Since the government is devaluing my country's currency, I will create my own currency, which has no value at all. Surely something might go wrong with this plan?
Happiness is twin floppies.