We should. You should demand we do. Am American, and I fully support this.
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What's the opposite of eating the onion? I saw this elsewhere this morning and though haha, that's obviously satire.
I think we should if they pay us for the shipping charges in French-made guillotines. We need a lot of those in the US right now.
Someone's been keeping tabs on the price of copper.
To whom? Macron, who refuses to respect the will of the voters, and continues to elevate the far right in France?
Thank you; people keep getting excited whenever France makes moves towards forms of leadership these days but I can't help but suspect that Macron doesn't want to eradicate the global hegemony America had held through recent history but put France in its place.
Demanding back a gift given in celebration of America's abolition of slavery solely on the basis that France was the one to gift it (i.e. ownership) is too on-the-nose, even if you tried.
You don’t need to suspect. He’s confirmed it plenty of times. He will shut the country down before allowing the left to seize power.
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"Welcoming huddled masses" is no longer US policy. Statue of Liberty is "woke propaganda", and US should now welcome getting rid of it. No horribly inappropriate/misplaced Ukraine warmongering justification needed.
Hasn't been since before ww2
This feels appropriate
welcome to Lemmy btw :)
That's rich coming from a party which saved the (partially) far right government from dissolution.
There's a big difference from the far right and full blown nazis
Yeah, that difference is about 8 years.
wtf I love the French now.
Love you too bro. Now riot
Not just yet... we're waiting for checks notes the government to individually wrong every last one of us directly while not hurting our enemies in any way
I mean not me, My pitchfork is fresh, but I'm not going out until there's a crowd :) Murderbots will be hunting me down in the street.
My real worry is that instead of calling on the military to quell violence, they'll call the military industrial complex who will send in the murder drones.
My real worry is that instead of calling on the military to quell violence, they’ll call the military industrial complex who will send in the murder drones.
Some programming wizard needs to secretly program empathy into these
secretly program
I fear Asimov's three rules are not going to make it into the GOP Murderbots.
I love to hate on the French but in reality they are far more based than other European powers.
Let’s not forget the Napoleonic code
I mean, they're the country we probably owe the most to.
Y'all can come take it, I'm not gonna stop you but I'm also not going to pay for it
Well, no, it would be us paying for it. Taxes aren't yours, they're ours.
I could legitimately see this happening, by now. Fox News builds it up for a week, then Trump/Musk make a big spectacle of sending it back and replacing it with a giant statue of Trump.
replacing it with a giant statue of Trump.
Made of plastic, made in China
Don't bring that thought into reality.
You can picture it, can't you. The entire thing covered in shitty gold spray paint. My God, it's becoming so clear now...
Edit: Fun fact, Grok wouldn't create the same image featuring Kamala Harris.
No that’s not right - you gotta lose the torch and make it look like he’s “sending his heart out to the world”
Edit: also, holy censorship, Batman :O that is wild.
Could you set the arm at a slightly lower and rightward angle? Open palm, maybe?
Why is it so low res
Tacheon particles traveling backwards through (what you perceive as) time are clouding visibility into the near future
Images from the Future are usually not as clear.
A giant dump would also fit to the current timeline.
They're the same picture.
They'd probably melt it down instead, just to avoid giving it back.
This is pretty funny tbh.
Until they replace it with a Trump statue
Thought that this was a joke originally.
He is not wrong.
has the us ever truly stood for the values the statue is said to represent?
My family came to the US via Ellis Island as poor Jewish immigrants escaping pogroms of Eastern Europe.
Yes, the US once was a land of opportunity that did help the lives of many poor & oppressed families.
They slammed the door shut shortly before ww2. So the statue had meaning for like 30-40 good years.
Depends on what you think it represents.
It's traditionally a symbol of opportunity, or new start style liberty.
America has, for a long time, been a place of hope or opportunity for immigrants. Not necessarily welcome, kindness, or prosperity, but hope.
With the visibly growing xenophobia this has tragically waned, but even still we have some of the highest immigration rates in the world.
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