French MEP says US should give back Statue of Liberty
French MEP says US should give back Statue of Liberty
Raphaël Glucksmann, a center-left member of the European Parliament, has strongly criticized President Donald Trump's radical change of US policy on the war in Ukraine.
Is that the one that says "give us your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free"?
Yeah we're not using it.
"Give us your water, your precious metals, your rare-earth minerals. Give us all your shit or risk invasion."
I hope we can some day reach a state of politics that aren't purely performative in nature.
Where policy is made to address an issue of the contituency, not to dunk on opponents or generate media attention.I agree, but at the same time politics these days are necessarily intertwined with social media and it's culture.
Politics is just the entertainment branch of the military
Very hard disagree. Hearts and minds.
Dafuq else do you expect a random French opposition member to do? Sit there quietly and look pretty? That seems to be the leading strategy for the US Dems and also an irredeemable dereliction of duty. If you are forced into the opposition, be performative. Be loud. Be ungovernable, if necessary.
It's nice to wish for a world where a fascist regime doesn't have full control of the USA, but unfortunately we don't live in that world so please don't denigrate the work of politicians who at least are doing the bare minimum of saying something about it.
I do agree with you that politics have become mostly circus without much bread, but I'd say we should never give up on our gift of making light of the hardships.
I mean, dunk as it may be, it's a good one. I'd even go as far as calling it a sick burn and a smart jab!
Edit: plus populism is the playing field now, memes and smartass quips are how you win the base over. I'm not saying I agree with this particular way of going about things, but reality is undeniable nonetheless. We'd be wise to master the tools.
Ok this is the pettiness I'm here for lmao
I agree. We've failed to live up the the aspirations that statue represents.
I always wondered about how that monument in Civilisations games lets you change government type with no turns lost to riots
I guess we get to see if that works IRL
As an American, I agree
Seconded.
This would be hilarious.
Would be great if France then gifted it to SA.
as an american, i am fully in support of france saying 'fuck you' to the usa.
It would only be fair, and the ego of Trump would shatter into billion parts.
The French should demand payback for the military and financial aid given to the colonials from 1775 to 1783. Putin's Sock Puppet does not hold the cards for that one.
I mean, he's got a point.
Where else are they going to put the huge, gilded statue of Trump?
“Give me your rich, your wealthy,
Your crass oligarchs yearning for tax-free status,
The corrupt billionaires of your teeming shore.
Send these, the non-domiciled well-to-does to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden toilet!”
Good idea. We haven't stood for what it represented since... ever really.
There was a time when it was a solid deal for white Europeans.
The liberty is no longer Where it was expected to be