It’s hard to put into words how upsetting these images are

Oct 17, 2026 · 8:46 PM UTC

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Replying to @thomaschattwill
My guy you didn't even know Limoges existed before today. shut the entire fuck up
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As it happens, I’m interviewed about my life in France in Le Monde today—what about you?
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Replying to @thomaschattwill
Better than the USA though right?
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There are very good and very bad aspects of both
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Replying to @thomaschattwill
I still don't understand why they're rioting (protesting)
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Most of them don’t either
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Replying to @thomaschattwill
les bâtiments ça se reconstruit pas les vies humaines
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‘Won’t someone think of the innocent buildings?’
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Replying to @thomaschattwill
we really don't care about your condescending tweet. French is well known for revolutionary. You can rebuild buildings, you cannot bring back the dead.
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Replying to @thomaschattwill
Brother, how do you think french republic was first made?
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Replying to @thomaschattwill
Not your country not your business
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Replying to @thomaschattwill
Burned at the hands of your ideological contemporaries...
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Replying to @thomaschattwill
You should be upset. Both at the images and the policies that caused them.
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It seems like the end of things. The end of something specific but also a much larger ending.
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Replying to @thomaschattwill
As An American,,,, I too cried under for the shower for an hour about a building 1000s of miles away i didn't know existed until this morning
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Replying to @thomaschattwill
Why the fuck isn't the military putting this down?
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Replying to @thomaschattwill
You find this more upsetting than the collapsing living standards of the populace?
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Replying to @thomaschattwill
Thomas — for Americans following… What are normal French people thinking? What steps have the authorities taken to contain the violence? Where on earth is the army? Not trick questions. Our media largely ignoring.
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Replying to @thomaschattwill
Reap what you sow
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You literally believe the people opposing this happening in the United States are “unreachable” and you want to appease and justify the people who allow this to happen.
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Replying to @thomaschattwill
Tbf they built that one after the last revolution burnt down the previous one. There’s a building like this in every park in France. Stay in your lane.
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Replying to @thomaschattwill
Are you afraid of the People? Well done
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Replying to @thomaschattwill
This the the red green alliance on display. They don't build things. They don't better society. They don't invent or create useful products. They only destroy. Their ideology is built on grievance and entitlement. Its antithetical to the ideas that built the West.
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Replying to @thomaschattwill
You're there. You're a writer. It's time to write a book about what's happening.
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Replying to @thomaschattwill
The government has to rein in the rioting. If they do not, then everyone will draw the inevitable conclusion: that the government *cannot* rein it in. And that message will reverberate loudly and create a positive feedback loop.
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Replying to @thomaschattwill
You guys only like France when one of their prissy buildings is on fire
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Replying to @thomaschattwill
Look at the Arab world next, see if you’re as upset. Try to put it into words for us.
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