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this post was submitted on 12 Jun 2024
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As a French, the fact that no white flag was mentioned in these comments like it would have inevitably on reddit shows the quality of the chaps in here.
Liberté, égalité, fraternité. The Americans learned it from you lot. Might do them well to remember.
Wasn't the American revolution like a decade before the French one?
Yep, you're right. After a quick search, it looks like the American Revolution started in 1765, and the French Revolution started in 1789.
However, I know French policies and political development had a profound impact on the ideas central to liberal democracies, as it could also be said of American policies and political development.
You sure wouldn't hear that from me. French forces have been badass for a long time.
I don't really care about glorifying past military victories but rather about the fact that the white flag internet meme appeared when the French government refused to follow the USA into Irak War II. https://edition.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/meast/03/07/villepin.transcript/
Fucking good on them. That war was bullshit.
I had no idea that's where those jokes came from, that's so ridiculous
Fun fact: the white flag of surrender became widely known in Europe because people were surrendering to the French.
Y'all fight in the streets better than us. We've got no leg to stand on.
Way to ruin it.