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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

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.

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

The ones with brains know. I'm not special. Remember which voices are typically loudest.

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

I'm not interested in mouth breathing MAGA crowd though.

I made this point here because too many people on the American left spout this particular rhetoric.

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

Idiots come in all ~~sizes~~ sides

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

Oh, sure. Let me rephrase. I'm not interested in the knuckle dragging mouthbreathers of any stripe.

Too many seemingly otherwise normal, educated US people seem to blindly lean in on this particular rhetoric.

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

I was listening to Dennis Leary's Asshole this morning realizing it was always both sides in this particular way. I knew maga when they were working class Dems. They didn't suddenly change values ten years ago

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

I haven't heard that song in forever! I'd forgotten how catchy it is.

Yes, exceptionalism seems to know no political boundaries.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

It really is. Most generic 90s guitar music ever. Sandler did the same.