pastermilMar 17

nation of professional protesters

https://sh.itjust.works/post/56935952

Show threadZinkMar 17

Middle aged American here, and when I was a kid the culture around me regarding france was basically “lol they surrender.” And that whole stupid thing probably peaked in 2003 with Freedom Fries.

But now?

I honestly wonder if any other nation’s population has their heads on straight as much as the French. The only place in Europe where I have spent much time though is up in Sweden, and the nords seem pretty good at life-ing too.

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Middle aged American here, and when I was a kid the culture around me regarding france was basically “lol they surrender.”

Copied from my earlier comment elsewhere:

Have an extensive history of military might, from rampaging barbarian hordes, to a continent-conquering emperor, to a foreign legion famed as being one of the most badass fighting forces in the world, and nobody bats an eye. But get embarrassingly outflanked one time, and you never hear the end of it!

"Ha ha France surrender" nah m8 - Lemmy.World

Lemmy

Mar 17 at 2:16pmWeb
Show threadlambaliciousMar 17
One post that I read somewhere else on fedi was in the lines of, you can’t reasonably think French are cowards, they made snails into fine cuisine.
Show threadmercMar 17
There was the loss in WWII, but there was also the loss of all their colonies after WWII. Some of them they fought for and lost like Vietnam and Algeria. The reputation of the French for losing wasn’t accurate, but it also wasn’t based on nothing.