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[–] LillyPip@lemmy.ca 8 points 12 hours ago

Oh hey, look at the meme I made and posted 6 years ago on Reddit, the last time this xenophobic moron was in office. It’s almost like we could have predicted this shit.

But no, I was ‘hyperbolic’ and ‘alarmist’ at the time.

(Sorry for the Reddit link, it was this:)

Title: I’m sure Macron would be very happy to work out travel arrangements.

[–] renrenPDX@lemm.ee 1 points 11 hours ago

While I tend to agree, I would be afraid of giving the orange turd any ideas of erecting a golden statue of himself in its stead.

[–] Razzazzika@lemm.ee 11 points 1 day ago (1 children)

What's the opposite of eating the onion? I saw this elsewhere this morning and though haha, that's obviously satire.

[–] Olgratin_Magmatoe@slrpnk.net 5 points 15 hours ago

Throwing up an onion

[–] Ferroto@lemmy.world 22 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Someone's been keeping tabs on the price of copper.

[–] Fuckfuckmyfuckingass@lemmy.world 1 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

At today's market price that'd be $305,000. Not as much as I was expecting. Google says there's approximately 62,000LBS of copper in the statue.

[–] NikkiDimes@lemmy.world 2 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago)

That's only according to the National Parks Service. Others say potentially as much as 200,000 lbs, or about $1 million USD worth

Source: https://copper.org/consumers/arts/2008/february/Statue_of_Liberty.php

It's hard to say for sure since it was made so long ago, was restored in the 80s, and is big as hell, haha

[–] jagged_circle@feddit.nl 11 points 1 day ago

I think we should if they pay us for the shipping charges in French-made guillotines. We need a lot of those in the US right now.

[–] humanspiral@lemmy.ca 38 points 1 day ago (2 children)

"Welcoming huddled masses" is no longer US policy. Statue of Liberty is "woke propaganda", and US should now welcome getting rid of it. No horribly inappropriate/misplaced Ukraine warmongering justification needed.

[–] bss03@infosec.pub 2 points 13 hours ago

The Chinese Exclusion Act actually predates that poem being added to the statue. So, status is quo.

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[–] ivanafterall@lemmy.world 117 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (5 children)

I could legitimately see this happening, by now. Fox News builds it up for a week, then Trump/Musk make a big spectacle of sending it back and replacing it with a giant statue of Trump.

[–] SirQuack@feddit.nl 19 points 1 day ago

replacing it with a giant statue of Trump.

Made of plastic, made in China

[–] treadful@lemmy.zip 66 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Don't bring that thought into reality.

[–] ivanafterall@lemmy.world 90 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (9 children)

You can picture it, can't you. The entire thing covered in shitty gold spray paint. My God, it's becoming so clear now...

Edit: Fun fact, Grok wouldn't create the same image featuring Kamala Harris.

[–] gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

No that’s not right - you gotta lose the torch and make it look like he’s “sending his heart out to the world”

Edit: also, holy censorship, Batman :O that is wild.

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[–] Sixtyforce@sh.itjust.works 58 points 2 days ago (3 children)

wtf I love the French now.

[–] Hadriscus@lemm.ee 40 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Love you too bro. Now riot

[–] Sixtyforce@sh.itjust.works 1 points 6 hours ago

I'm Canadian, I hope they do...

[–] rumba@lemmy.zip 15 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Not just yet... we're waiting for checks notes the government to individually wrong every last one of us directly while not hurting our enemies in any way

I mean not me, My pitchfork is fresh, but I'm not going out until there's a crowd :) Murderbots will be hunting me down in the street.

My real worry is that instead of calling on the military to quell violence, they'll call the military industrial complex who will send in the murder drones.

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[–] surph_ninja@lemmy.world 15 points 1 day ago (24 children)

To whom? Macron, who refuses to respect the will of the voters, and continues to elevate the far right in France?

[–] tomenzgg@midwest.social 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Thank you; people keep getting excited whenever France makes moves towards forms of leadership these days but I can't help but suspect that Macron doesn't want to eradicate the global hegemony America had held through recent history but put France in its place.

Demanding back a gift given in celebration of America's abolition of slavery solely on the basis that France was the one to gift it (i.e. ownership) is too on-the-nose, even if you tried.

[–] surph_ninja@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago

You don’t need to suspect. He’s confirmed it plenty of times. He will shut the country down before allowing the left to seize power.

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[–] neon_nova@lemmy.dbzer0.com 103 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] Kbobabob@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago

Until they replace it with a Trump statue

[–] WaterFoul@lemmy.world 16 points 1 day ago (1 children)
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[–] SoupBrick@pawb.social 48 points 2 days ago

He is not wrong.

[–] nlgranger@lemmy.world 8 points 1 day ago (2 children)

That's rich coming from a party which saved the (partially) far right government from dissolution.

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