It's too bad that the sensible areas of US are on both sides of the continent. Would make a split much simpler if they were closer together.
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I don’t consider it an ally of the American people, either.
Maybe France will end up liberating the North American continent once again. 😉
You could find an area with an "oppressed" French minority, and start by stirring an uprising in there. Once the pot begins to boil, try adding some French commando forces in disguise.
They could start in la Louisiane and Orléans, and teach you how to pronounce these names correctly
Louisiana is French.
La Louisiane*
I am talking the blue part, which is not part of Canada.
So am I. The correct name for the region in blue is "La Louisiane", which got morphed into "louisiana" in the USA somehow.
I can’t blame them. I wouldn’t want to be an ally with the U.S. either.
Dear French friends. This will be telling if we see another liberal loss in the midterms. I say you give us 2 years. If we can’t pull this shit show back. Feel free to leave us in the wind. But if we need your help to stop these people if they block elections. I hope you will be there for us when in need.
Don't pretend the solution to your problem is voting. Americans need to learn how countries like France resisted in WWII.
That’s what these fascists want tho. They want a violent uprising to create a state of emergency. All we need to do is be peacefully against their bullshit. I hold no doubt that Trump will kill US citizens with drones. Given the chance on us soil. So I will go the full anti-aggressive stance. I will use my words but in no way create a threatening position. I’m simply going to vote them out in less than 2 years now. It’s already been nearly 6 months since the election. 18 more till the next. We can make it. There’s a limit what the senate can get passed. Unless the GOP upends senate rules. There’s limits to what permanently can be done. And they are focused on taxes now. Next year. Who knows what they will push through reconciliation next year. But this year is only Tax breaks. So again there’s really limited approaches that can be accomplished. By these fools. But there’s plenty of damage to the federal work force. That is being done. But I hope the courts can stop that.
Sorry mate, but it’s too late.
Even if you protest peacefully, your chances of getting hurt are still very high. That’s kinda the way these things usually happen. So I’ll just ask you this: Would you rather go down holding a sign or next to a burning building? lol You’ll be a terrorist either way, what with Trump blanket labeling protests as illegal.
Also: The police are already armed like the military. We’re already at the full scale escalation. They have weapons you paid for, and they’re ready to use them on you. Just think about how regular every day cops make shit up so they can have a little fun. It’s over homie.
Get a gun before you can’t.
They are declaring states of emergency left and right, just because last year 2kg of fentanyl was intercepted at the border or something like that. The don't need any excuse to wipe their ass with norms, rules and regulations.
We can make it. There’s a limit what the senate can get passed. Unless the GOP upends senate rules. There’s limits to what permanently can be done. And they are focused on taxes now.
I'm sorry to say but that's delusional. 18 more months of the current program and the US is likely ungovernable. DOGE is dismantling the bureaucracy, rendering its institutions useless right now. It will be extremely hard even to undo the damge done so far, rebuilding the IRS, USAID, NOAA, EPA, etc.
The head of Project 2025 let out this, in July of last year:
We are in the process of the second American Revolution, which will remain bloodless ― if the left allows it to be.
Two yeas is a God damn long time to wait, Putin is knocking on the door of Ukraine and probably other Baltic countries.
And we like it or not EU is dependent on gas, be it Russian (direct or though 3 partirs) or US.
And sorry but you (US) fucked up bad this time.
PS: in 2 years maybe Greenland is US territory.
I finally bit the bullet and applied for my passport. I may just be leaving to get out of this shit show for the foreseeable future.
France should take the Statue of Liberty back. The US gov will probably replace it anyway, by one of Donald having is golden balls sucked by a sexy eagle while driving a cybertruck, or something.
For 53% of American people, the United States is no longer an ally of US.
The time to express that was 4 months ago. Now you can only buy a leopard-proof mask and pray.
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France has always been a bit different. They left NATO for a bit to push back against the US/UK dominance and they developed an independent nuclear deterrent and delivery systems. They are a shit country in many ways, probably more like the US than they realise. They held onto colonialism for too long, have a stupid political system and their police and security services have done some shitty things. But hard not to admire their independence even if some of their motivations for independence (eg maintaining colonial possessions) might have been suspect.
Many countries caved to the US and became client states, heavily reliant on US defence industry and an extension of the US military, not because we were free loaders as Trump claims but because the US pushed their interests so hard and for so long. We cancelled our own weapons programs and shuttered our factories to support US jobs ahead of our own. Most of us are so dependent on the US it has been hard to conceive of a world without them. Being against the US alliance was basically equivalent to being against national security and being a fool or a supporter of potential enemies.
Trump is breaking people's world view. The French leadership were decades ahead of the rest of us.
The French people are amazing! They actually fight against oppression. Look up the gilets jaunes movement. The media barely covered it but they protest loudly, disruptively and even violently, looting etc. French descent people tend to do the same, eg the student fees protests in Montreal, in which the students won!!
A small correction, France never left NATO completely. They left a lot of the joint command structures and stopped hosting NATO's HQ in Paris, but they never cancelled the treaty or anything like that
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