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[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 hours ago

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

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 hour 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.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 46 minutes 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.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 hours ago

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

[–] [email protected] 13 points 6 hours ago

This feels appropriate

[–] humanspiral 30 points 7 hours ago

"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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 hours ago

Thought that this was a joke originally.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

Y'all can come take it, I'm not gonna stop you but I'm also not going to pay for it

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 hours ago

Well, no, it would be us paying for it. Taxes aren't yours, they're ours.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 hours ago

THAAAAAT'S THE SPIRIT

[–] [email protected] 47 points 13 hours ago (2 children)

wtf I love the French now.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

Love you too bro. Now riot

[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 hours ago (1 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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

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.

Some programming wizard needs to secretly program empathy into these

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 minutes ago* (last edited 6 minutes ago)

secretly program

I fear Asimov's three rules are not going to make it into the GOP Murderbots.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 8 hours ago

I mean, they're the country we probably owe the most to.

[–] [email protected] 97 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago) (4 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.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 6 hours ago

replacing it with a giant statue of Trump.

Made of plastic, made in China

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

A giant dump would also fit to the current timeline.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 hours ago

They're the same picture.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 12 hours ago

They'd probably melt it down instead, just to avoid giving it back.

[–] [email protected] 56 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

Don't bring that thought into reality.

[–] [email protected] 71 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago) (7 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.

[–] humanspiral 6 points 7 hours ago

Could you set the arm at a slightly lower and rightward angle? Open palm, maybe?

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[–] [email protected] 93 points 18 hours ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 59 minutes ago

Until they replace it with a Trump statue

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