Meanwhile I as a German look at the French with envy everytime they burn down their capital the moment their goverment does something that slightly inconveniences them.
As an American, same.
We should all be so based.
I had a discussion with my friend regarding socialism and the argument they had against socialism is everyone don't need to work hard and I was like, isn't that good tho?
(just gonna shoehorn this anvil into this elevator here...)
We still need labor to have a functional society, so you need some level of guardrails to ensure enough capable people are working. Socialism doesn't have a great answer for how to do that.
For cutting off the heads of the elites, and crepes.
How do you cut the head of a crepe off?
Very carefully.
By dropping a big heavy knife
PS: poor gp. They even put an oxford comma
I'm a crepe
I'm a weiiiiirdoooooo
And subsequently cutting off the heads of almost everyone else.
And for wildly over-pronouncing crescent.
Remembered for this by the Americans.
I sometimes think they get so fixated on this as some kind of psychogical distraction to avoid remembering their own country spent most of that war sitting on the sidelines making a profit.
Tell that to my dead grandfathers that killed Nazis to save your asses along with global freedom and democracy. We have our warts like EVERYONE yet we're first to fall on the sword and eat shit like this. Fuck that. I'm not conceding my fucking country or its name. Especially to 250 year old allies with whom we formed the first West free of monarchs.
You hit the nail on the head! This is exactly why I think the American attitude to the French is so peculiar:
Especially to 250 year old allies with whom we formed
American culture should remember the role the French played in the American War of Independence (and the French great great great great great grandfathers who died for you) instead of defaulting to that weird and crass "cheese eating surrender monkeys" nonsense.
The ones with brains know. I'm not special. Remember which voices are typically loudest.
I'm not interested in mouth breathing MAGA crowd though.
I made this point here because too many people on the American left spout this particular rhetoric.
Idiots come in all ~~sizes~~ sides
Oh, sure. Let me rephrase. I'm not interested in the knuckle dragging mouthbreathers of any stripe.
Too many seemingly otherwise normal, educated US people seem to blindly lean in on this particular rhetoric.
I was listening to Dennis Leary's Asshole this morning realizing it was always both sides in this particular way. I knew maga when they were working class Dems. They didn't suddenly change values ten years ago
I haven't heard that song in forever! I'd forgotten how catchy it is.
Yes, exceptionalism seems to know no political boundaries.
It really is. Most generic 90s guitar music ever. Sandler did the same.
Americans when a country surrenders to a heavily armed death machine: lol, surrender monkeys!
Americans when a country surrenders to a diaper wearing fascist old man: USA! USA! USA!
Americans when a country ~~surrenders to~~ rallies behind a diaper wearing fascist old man
He won with a majority the second time through. This isn't a fight Americans lost.
I mean, maybe this was 11D chess to give Airbus monopoly status in the global civilian aircraft market. But on its face that looks like the French taking a huge L.
That's what politicians do, especially if they don't like the winner. Yeah of course Macron thinks trump is a petulant man child, but it doesn't make sense to needlessly antagonise people as unstable as trump.
It's like if you're walking down the road and see a crack head, you're not going to flip them off and call them a twat. Because A: they might attack you and B: having a reputation as someone who is easy to get along with is a good thing.
it doesn’t make sense to needlessly antagonise people as unstable as trump.
I remember when people used to say that about Vladimir Putin
The difference is that Putin isn't unstable. He's just a dick. Everything he does is deliberate and as such it doesn't make any sense to be nice. He doesn't care and is going to do what he wants regardless.
Buuuut, your bread and pastries will have way more cachet than German bread and Austrian pastries do. And your cuisine and wine will have somewhat more cachet than those of Spain or (debatably) Italy.
The pettiest French foodie: worth it.
Hey, – on the plus side – no one bothers to look very hard at why you're still taxing your former colonies for you having colonized them?
Meanwhile the UK keep their aura of Europe's saviors, nonwhistanding the fact British troops evacuated swiftly from Dunkirk in may-june 1940, leaving the French alone against the Wehrmacht...
Didn't we (UK) also bomb the French fleet albeit to avoid the Germans from repurposing them?
My take is shit happens in war, the US did what they could when they could. But the same dignity needs to be given to the French.
We were allied then, we sure as hell need to be allied now
Hell yeah, more than ever comrade!
Yeah, the French are pussies for ~~not joining our dumb war in Iraq~~ surrendering early in WWII
The propagandening!
Meme: about France
Comments: yeah but other countries blah blah blah...
Or for finaly loosing every war since charlemagne... Or having the healthiest family from slavery ?
They actually won most wars. The loosing streak started in 1812 against the russian empire. Just a passing phase, a mere blink in history.
And for getting their asses kicked several times by Nelson.
To be fair, at that time fighting the royal navy was like the toughest kid on the playground picking a fight with a hyena.
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