Exactly. If the policy was so unpopular that it caused 100000+ people to take to the streets, whoever implemented it probably knew it was going to be devicive/unpopular beforehand, and knew that people were going to run around screaming about it once it was in place. Macron removed the citizenship of un vaxxed French because he knew it would get a rise; he's basically trolling IRL. They aren't surprised that people find their edicts to be totalitarian; they aren't stupid, authoritarianism was the whole point. The whole "just stop complying" LARP is the same imo. Just ask pot heads from the 80s and 90s how "just not complying" with drug laws worked out.

Exactly. If the policy was so unpopular that it caused 100000+ people to take to the streets, whoever implemented it probably knew it was going to be devicive/unpopular beforehand, and knew that people were going to run around screaming about it once it was in place. Macron removed the citizenship of un vaxxed French because he knew it would get a rise; he's basically trolling IRL. They aren't surprised that people find their edicts to be totalitarian; they aren't stupid, authoritarianism was the while point. The whole "just stop complying" LARP is the same imo. Just ask pot heads from the 80s and 90s how "just not complying" with drug laws worked out.