• k0e3@lemmy.ca
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      1 day ago

      They’re both kinda wrong. There are plenty of protests in the US, just not reported as much because the media works with the administration.

      Their response suggests that they think the French have never sacrificed their lives for anything, which is absolutely stupid.

      • GreenKnight23@lemmy.worldBanned from community
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        22 hours ago

        it was a tongue in cheek reference to how the French initially refused to get involved in the American revolutionary war until they directly benefited from it.

        and how they would allow their own people to starve while the aristocracy overindulged.

        I also thought it was particularly indignant for someone in another country to tell me, an American, what I should sacrifice and how I should rebel when they don’t know the first thing about what my country is going through. they don’t live here, they don’t know what every day is like. they don’t understand the risks.

        I think it’s a pretty funny that Europeans praise unity and solidarity and then attack Americans just because they’re Americans. I used to think that Europe was light years ahead of us, but now I’m thinking you’re just as fractured and broken as us.

        I wonder who will come to your aid when Russia starts expanding? surely they won’t expect the fascist loving all knowing piece of shit Americans to help.

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          11 hours ago

          The French monarchy refused to get involved until it benefited him. Which has fuck all to do with any modern Frenchman’s to opinions.

          • GreenKnight23@lemmy.worldBanned from community
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            10 hours ago

            so history can’t form culture. cool.

            so those hundreds of years of art culture spurned on from the aristocracy don’t mean anything to the modern day French?

            I’ll keep that in mind next time someone wants to tell me about the Louvre.

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              10 hours ago

              Lol. The fuck are talking about?

              The diplomatic decisions of a monarch are not reflective of even his subjects at the time, let alone create lasting culture, especially not when that monarch was literally overthrown and executed.

              And trying to pull that on someone hundreds of years and multiple governments separated from the offending king when Trump is literally the elected president right now is just abject nonsense.

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          21 hours ago

          We (as in the rest of the world) definitely do have a better understanding of you than you do of us. That’s what happens when a country that thinks it’s always right meddles with everyone else’s business.