• weeeeum@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    You gotta give credit to the fact that in the time the United States has had it’s 1 republic, France has had 5 of them.

    Or the fact that Europe tears itself apart like every 50 years

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      10 months ago

      It’s probably because French citizens are smart enough to put their own well-being before their governing powers well-being.

      Yeah we’ve been together for 200 years, but it’s not going well at all.

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            10 months ago

            You talking about the time they decided to start a war with the entire world, or the time they decided to start a war with the entire world?

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              10 months ago

              the one with the whole “there’s one acceptable phenotype and everyone else can be either worked to death or put to death” thing. Holly-something…

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        10 months ago

        It’s probably because French citizens are smart enough to put their own well-being before their governing powers well-being.

        In what way do they do this?

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            10 months ago

            “Everything is so bad. Yet they set nothing on fire? How do they expect to fix?” —some twitter lady’s french husband, commenting on the state of American politics

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              10 months ago

              From this extremely boring Finnish perspective, you guys in America set things on fire all the time. If that happened here once, we’d give the event a name and would talk about it for decades.

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                10 months ago

                fair, but we only set things on fire if the local american football team wins. or loses. or ties. or the game is cancelled. or at parades.

                what’s wild is that we party like the french protest but we don’t really protest.

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        10 months ago

        Whatever happens in politics, i will stay away from it – is the mentality of people. So no revolution or whatever we live the way goverment lets us