I mean compared to the rest of western europe, france is at least good enough at protesting to stop the retirement age from creeping up so much like is happening to its neighbours (especially germany lol). So I wouldnt say its completely useless as much as certain people just suck ass at it.
A lot of the recent more successful european protests have been on the conservative/rightwing side tho (like farmers rights interfering with nitrogen ecological plans), so im sure redditors are actually mad about that.