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[–] Razzazzika@lemm.ee 4 points 14 hours ago

What's the opposite of eating the onion? I saw this elsewhere this morning and though haha, that's obviously satire.

[–] jagged_circle@feddit.nl 8 points 17 hours ago

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.

We should. You should demand we do. Am American, and I fully support this.

[–] Ferroto@lemmy.world 16 points 22 hours ago

Someone's been keeping tabs on the price of copper.

[–] surph_ninja@lemmy.world 14 points 22 hours ago (8 children)

To whom? Macron, who refuses to respect the will of the voters, and continues to elevate the far right in France?

[–] tomenzgg@midwest.social 7 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

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.

[–] surph_ninja@lemmy.world 5 points 19 hours ago

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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[–] humanspiral@lemmy.ca 34 points 1 day ago (1 children)

"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.

[–] jagged_circle@feddit.nl 2 points 17 hours ago

Hasn't been since before ww2

[–] WaterFoul@lemmy.world 16 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] TriflingToad@sh.itjust.works 3 points 15 hours ago

welcome to Lemmy btw :)

[–] Sixtyforce@sh.itjust.works 49 points 1 day ago (3 children)

wtf I love the French now.

[–] Hadriscus@lemm.ee 32 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Love you too bro. Now riot

[–] rumba@lemmy.zip 12 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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.

[–] Hadriscus@lemm.ee 3 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] rumba@lemmy.zip 2 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago)

secretly program

I fear Asimov's three rules are not going to make it into the GOP Murderbots.

[–] ripcord@lemmy.world 10 points 1 day ago

I mean, they're the country we probably owe the most to.

[–] Grandwolf319@sh.itjust.works 0 points 16 hours ago

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

[–] nlgranger@lemmy.world 7 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

That's rich coming from a party which saved the (partially) far right government from dissolution.

[–] MyNameIsIgglePiggle@sh.itjust.works 1 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

There's a big difference from the far right and full blown nazis

Yeah, that difference is about 8 years.

[–] ivanafterall@lemmy.world 108 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (4 children)

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.

[–] SirQuack@feddit.nl 17 points 1 day ago

replacing it with a giant statue of Trump.

Made of plastic, made in China

[–] treadful@lemmy.zip 62 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Don't bring that thought into reality.

[–] ivanafterall@lemmy.world 80 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (3 children)

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.

[–] gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 2 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago)

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.

[–] Nurse_Robot@lemmy.world 22 points 1 day ago (2 children)
[–] jagged_circle@feddit.nl 3 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago)

Tacheon particles traveling backwards through (what you perceive as) time are clouding visibility into the near future

[–] RQG@lemmy.world 52 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Images from the Future are usually not as clear.

[–] obinice@lemmy.world 24 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Wait until that 20/20 hindsight

[–] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Far fewer visionaries emerged in 2020 than those of us with a penchant for puns would have liked 🫤

[–] SolarMonkey@slrpnk.net 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)
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[–] humanspiral@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 day ago

Could you set the arm at a slightly lower and rightward angle? Open palm, maybe?

[–] RobotToaster@mander.xyz 12 points 1 day ago

They'd probably melt it down instead, just to avoid giving it back.

[–] hakunawazo@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

A giant dump would also fit to the current timeline.

[–] ivanafterall@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago

They're the same picture.

[–] neon_nova@lemmy.dbzer0.com 98 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] Kbobabob@lemmy.world 3 points 20 hours ago

Until they replace it with a Trump statue

[–] RymrgandsDaughter@lemmy.world 4 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

Y'all can come take it, I'm not gonna stop you but I'm also not going to pay for it

[–] _cryptagion@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 22 hours ago

Well, no, it would be us paying for it. Taxes aren't yours, they're ours.

[–] SoupBrick@pawb.social 47 points 1 day ago

He is not wrong.

[–] Grass@sh.itjust.works 36 points 1 day ago (2 children)

has the us ever truly stood for the values the statue is said to represent?

[–] jagged_circle@feddit.nl 2 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago)

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.

[–] ricecake@sh.itjust.works 44 points 1 day ago

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.

[–] ThomasCrappersGhost@feddit.uk 2 points 22 hours ago

Thought that this was a joke originally.

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