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jeanmarc

(1,685 posts)
3. Checked out a few comments
Sun May 7, 2017, 06:16 PM
May 2017

And these people are nuts. I couldn't take much of reading their garbage. Freepers are completely disgusting.

benld74

(9,904 posts)
4. Eff them! My great grandfather fought in WWI for France
Sun May 7, 2017, 06:24 PM
May 2017

I still have relatives over there. I don't communicate with them as I should, but I would be suprized if they were NOT Macron supporters.
As far as surrender monkees statement they like to drag out.
They never heard of the French Resistance fighters? NO because like ALL freepers, they tend to listen out of one side of their mind

roamer65

(36,745 posts)
6. The French fought a brutal Nazi occupation.
Sun May 7, 2017, 06:34 PM
May 2017

These RW scumbags that bitch about the French have no idea what the French people went through during WW2.

I agree with you, fuck them.

VOX

(22,976 posts)
11. Not to mention the decisive role France played in the American Revolution...
Sun May 7, 2017, 08:53 PM
May 2017

Their power played an enormous part in ending the conflict in the colonists favor.

https://www.pri.org/stories/2014-07-04/how-french-won-american-revolution
<snip>
"The [colonists'] victory at Yorktown would not have been possible without the French. French money and credit paid for the campaign. French troops made up half the army there. French military engineers largely directed the siege. And most importantly the French navy repelled the British navy’s attempt to rescue the besieged British army."
<snip>

underpants

(182,802 posts)
5. A talking point that Jonah Goldberg stole from The Simpsons
Sun May 7, 2017, 06:29 PM
May 2017

because Jonah Goldberg coming up with an original idea would be too much to ask.

duncang

(1,907 posts)
10. I wonder if any of them even know
Sun May 7, 2017, 08:02 PM
May 2017

There is a real good chance we wouldn't be The United States of America right now if it weren't for France.

D_Master81

(1,822 posts)
13. All that Surrender stuff is BS
Sun May 7, 2017, 09:18 PM
May 2017

you think had there been a war fought in this country 20 yrs ago where a million people died we would have the stomach to fight another war?

Xolodno

(6,390 posts)
14. God forbid that people have democratic elections...
Sun May 7, 2017, 09:58 PM
May 2017

..and choose their own paths. That would be so un-repbulican.

Archae

(46,327 posts)
15. The entire reason for this anti-France hysteria...
Sun May 7, 2017, 10:06 PM
May 2017

Was back in the early 2000's, France said no way were they going to get involved in the debacle of the Iraq invasion.

And we saw how "Mission Accomplished" that turned out to be, right?

No even the right-wingers going all the way to trump himself are calling it a mistake.

But the nadir of the anti-France hysteria was when that idiot congressman re-named "French fries" in the capitol cafeteria, to "Freedom Fries."

retrowire

(10,345 posts)
16. One of them said
Sun May 7, 2017, 10:06 PM
May 2017

"France will be fully Islam in 20 years"

It's all religion with these people I swear.

THEYRE INVADING!!!

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