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Tareq I. Albaho, PhD's avatar

As a resident of the Paris region, I can tell you all the natives are thoroughly fed up. The city has been effectively evacuated of its residents to make way for this spectacle. Life in Paris, usually a rich tapestry of life and culture, has been suspended for a few weeks. Many Parisiens have left - those who can afford it - and the rest are staying within their "quartiers" far from the city centre that has become a fenced-off enclave.

Restaurants, cafes and bars in the city centre have closed. Hotel occupancy, during what should be the peak summer season, is around 20-30%, apart from cheaper hotels around the periphery that have been fully reserved for police forces brought in from elsewhere.

Friday evening it started raining, and carried on for about 24 hours. Rare for Paris in the summertime. The heavens literally rained down on this parade.

I did not watch the opening, nor will I, and cannot wait till these "people" evacuate and the city is restored to the people who live in it.

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Feral Meryl's avatar

I find it hard to believe anyone with the lifeblood of this Earth flowing through their veins could see this as anything other than a complete inversion of what it is to LIVE. In other words, evil. I’m not religious but this disgusts me. It’s outright psychopathology. If we needed further confirmation of what we have allowed society’s ‘leaders’ to become, then it’s all there in plain sight. This isn’t a celebration of individuality. It’s the corruption and degradation of what it is to be human.

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