The USA's oldest ally
The USA's oldest ally
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Europe: USA help me
USA: No problem. Who are we fighting against?
Europe: Russia.
USA: What I’m saying is this: You have a group on one side and you have a group on the other, and they came at each other with bombs-- and it was vicious and it was horrible. And it was a horrible thing to watch. But there is another side. There was a group on this side. You can call them the good guys-- you just called them the good guys-- that came violently attacking the other group. So you can say what you want, but that’s the way it is. I think there’s blame on both sides. If you look at both sides -- I think there’s blame on both sides. And I have no doubt about it, and you don’t have any doubt about it either. And if you reported it accurately, you would say.
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Wtf I can't get over how this guy talks.
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Dude... Saying Trump is the USA is a low fucking blow. 70% of us hate his fucking guts, and the 30% that don't hate him are literal seditionists who don't understand what the USA is supposed to represent.
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45% approval rating according to the latest poll:
https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/polls/favorability/donald-trump/
Remember to vote.
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I might be the most conservative dude on Lemmy, and hate trump so much.
All that bs about the election being stolen. I don't know how he's leading. That's the conspiracy. How the hell is this happening again. Sorry, trump hate is well covered,.I'm not original here, just reeling.
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In the olden days, we used to have something that we called a "conflict of interest" where, oh lets say that someone who said the above had much of their wealth tied up in the bank accounts of the aggressor party, and then we might choose to listen to what they had to say a little less bigly. Now, the alternative facts reign supreme, and we very well might join with said aggressor party as soon as 2024 or 2028.:-(
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Tbh that's something I'm afraid of. That Biden will win this year, but Trump will keep running until the end of time (which is when he either wins and becomes dictator, or dies)
I'm also afraid he will never die, and I think he will, but sometimes I still think there's a monster under the bed that's gonna eat my toes and I can't fight that with logic.
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Then France goes bankrupt and, as a result, the monarchy is abolished, given over to an Emperor, unabolished, abolished again, unabolished, abolished, given to the former Emperor's idiot nephew, and finally finding an actual democracy between the couch cushions.
19th century France was a trip, and intervening in the American Revolution sorta set it all off.
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American Revolution was the kickoff, but there were a lot of other things building up for a long time, and they'd have found another way of going bankrupt fighting the English sooner or later.
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They love us really.
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Abolished is one way to put it... I suspect Louis had stronger words when it was his turn to meet Madame Guillotine.
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Was a great time, the American and/or French revolution also started nationalism. We had a lot of "fun" with that concept.
At least the French revolution also brought us the metric system and the decimal clock.
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GENERALS GTHERED IN THEIR MASSES!
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We'll never forget how Lafayette helped the young USA.
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Given the level of political debate that's coming out of the US of late, I wouldn't be surprised that a large amount of Americans would think Lafayette is a brand of gay French mayonaise.
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I’m takin this horse by the reins makin’ Redcoats redder with bloodstains
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When we were on death's door, when we were needy
We made a promise, we signed a treaty.
We needed money, and guns, and half a chance,
Uhh who provided those funds?In return they didn't ask for land,
Only the promise that we'd lend a hand-
/c/UnexpectedHamilton (except there isn't one)
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Yet another reason the frogs are a bunch of bustards.
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200 years of propaganda later - "Hurr Durr France surrender duh"
French soldiers died in fighting alongside the US in Afghanistan. It was a deeply unpopular war, but after 9/11 the US invoked NATO article 5, so the French along with other European nations sent young men to die alongside American soldiers.
I don't think the freedom fries and "France surrendered" remarks are the problem.
It's the "Russians should invade them, and I'll encourage it." remarks from the next president.
Tens of thousands died defending France in 1940. They didn't turn tail and run, they were surrounded and cut off from supplies. They fought until it was impossible to fight.
More like 20 years.