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DBH2019 t1_j63y9qe wrote

Reply to comment by wewhomustnotbenamed in AP Stylebook includes 'The French' in list of 'general and often dehumanizing 'the' labels. by wewhomustnotbenamed

Does the book also have a picture of the Fr*nch folks two moods during war: The Guillotine or a white flag?

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jimthesquirrelking t1_j647awm wrote

That's pretty reductive, there's a third mood, brutal racism and imperialism to Africans and African nations

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Hspryd t1_j649btw wrote

You forgot the mood where France is the country with the most military victories in the history.

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RoboJesus4President t1_j65e88c wrote

Those kinda stop counting after they folded when it really mattered.

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Hspryd t1_j65i5pf wrote

Love the good ol « when it really mattered » speaking of History continuum haha !

I hope every conscious existences draw values out of their short lives and recognize that their choices and perspectives do matter in the era they’re born in.

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p314159i t1_j65hbqp wrote

I'd probably stop fighting too after getting everything you ever dreamed of in the last war and it still not being worth it only having to do it fucking over 20 years later.

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ShadowDragon8685 t1_j66l3cb wrote

Let's also not forget that thanks to a combination of French generals preparing really really hard for the last war for twenty years, and the Nazis' perfect willingness to invade literally anyone, the Nazis managed to bypass the French army more or less entirely and go running rampage throughout the rest of France, having seized the capitol while the bulk of the French military was still manning the Maginot Line.

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jimthesquirrelking t1_j64c8aj wrote

Frogs Mad 😡🐸

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glorilol95 t1_j64g2jm wrote

Without those frogs, you would just be another British colony.... 1500 years of history while your kids can barely picture their country on a map lol

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Jrubas t1_j64txhe wrote

Without us, the French would be speaking German right now, so I think we're even.

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glorilol95 t1_j652qr7 wrote

nice of you to dismiss, UK,Canada,australia etc ....how american of you

bruh you owe france you entire fucking existance....from your lands to your entire fucking constitution. you country as you know it would never exist.

france is the last country who owe you something, pull your BS elsewhere

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Jrubas t1_j6575m0 wrote

Perhaps you've forgotten - or never knew, since you clearly have something against America - that our production capabilities kept the Soviet army in the fight. Khrushchev himself stated that without shipments of Spam from America, the USSR wouldn't have been able to feed its army. If they couldn't feed their army, the Germans would have knocked them out of the fight. If the Germans had knocked the Russians out of the fight, the UK, Canada, and Australia - hell, even the US itself - probably wouldn't have been able to stop the Germans. The Russians suffered millions upon millions of war deaths. Translate that to the Western front (because Russia's out of the war) and what you have is a German victory. So yes, the French would be speaking German right now.

Maybe it's time Europeans showed a little gratitude and stopped with this snobby holier-than-thou bullshit. The French helped us and we helped them. We wouldn't exist without them and without us there'd be swastika flags all over Paris.

Idk where Europeans get off thinking they're so much better than us when a full half of it spent the 20th Century under fascism, Nazism, or Communism. If they were so much better than us, they wouldn't keep sending people to death camps.

Or, you know, relying on a Russian dictator for most of their natural gas lol.

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Bushmancometh t1_j65lr9q wrote

Man we went from shitposting to actual butthurt real fast. Supposedly Americans are the thin skinned ones lmao

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m0le t1_j64x0mq wrote

Vietnamese in the background like "what, we don't matter?"

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