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Sad Baguette Noises

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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
- tbf, both equally fantastic accomplishments, vive la France! 🙏
- I'm a crepe
  I'm a weiiiiirdoooooo
- And subsequently cutting off the heads of almost everyone else.
- And for wildly over-pronouncing crescent.

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.
  Meanwhile, in France: French President Emmanuel Macron on Wednesday congratulated "President Donald Trump", saying he was ready to work with the US vote frontrunner "with respect and ambition" like "we managed to do for four years".
  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.

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.
- Wut? The US was still in the middle of economic disaster when WW2 began. What reason did the US have to enter Europe until Germany's allies attacked us?
  
  The US was still in the middle of an economic disaster
  So was everyone else, even Germany was starting to run into food shortages. If anything this would be a reason to go to war, as the only thing that ended up getting us out of the great depression was the war.
  What reason did the US have to enter Europe until Germany's allies attacked us?
  Stopping fascism, and the holocaust. We've started wars on way less justified grounds than that.
  
  Yeah but you should know by now the US is a pile of shit for taking too long to get into any major conflict, but ALSO the US is a pile of shit for involving themselves in other countries conflicts.
- America was on the sidelines converting most of a continent from a depression era economy to a war time economy and tooling up every manufacturer that made metal into making weapons. FFS, Singer (yes, the sewing machine company) made 1911 .45s.
  Then we started sending war materiel to the allies measured in millions of tons.
  Then we launched an invasion force of fucking biblical proportions just to get a toehold in France. All while fighting in Italy and Northern Africa, AND while fighting the Empire of Japan across the world's largest ocean (with our best base and most of the best (7th) fleet wrecked).
  Sorry it took a couple of years.
- Had us in the first half
- 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.

Fucking Belgium, on the other hand...
- What other hand?
  
  Oof. May Leopold rot in hell.

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?

Its* knees
- Needs more upvotes 😂

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!

At least they've got Clair Obscur

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.

Do not damage la buildings!

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.

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