A far-left French MEP has called on the United States to return the Statue of Liberty, claiming the nation clearly doesn’t appreciate the monument or what it stands for. French MEP Raphaël Glucksmann made the provocative remark on Sunday while addressing approximately 1,500 activists at his Place Publique party congress. Glucksmann criticized certain American political […]
  • Sirus@lemm.eeEnglish
    10·
    3 days ago

    Dear God no. Trump will make a giant golden statue of himself you fools!

    • Grass@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      62·
      3 days ago

      perfect for people to dream about the symbolic gesture of toppling it after they shoot him through the skull, but only in a dream because the only ones willing to riot and take up arms are the ones allied with him even while he actively fucks them over.

    • Showroom7561English
      31·
      3 days ago

      Let him do it. It would be the most vandalized statue in modern history.

    • realcaseyrollins@thelemmy.clubOPMEnglish
      23·
      3 days ago

      I feel like Trump would have a bigger replica made in red, white, and blue and I don’t know how I feel about that.

  • Beryl@lemmy.worldEnglish
    91·
    3 days ago

    Raphaël Glucksmann isn’t even remotely far-left, he’s more a center-left kind of guy. In fact, the french wikipedia article about the party he cofounded explicitly states “left to center-left”.

    • casmael@lemm.eeEnglish
      4·
      3 days ago

      Anyone who isn’t literally crushing orphans right now is radical left. Simply advocating for increasing the monthly orphan squishing quota is not enough anymore.

  • Wahots@pawb.socialEnglish
    51·
    3 days ago

    I appreciate the thought, but there’s something else they could do that would be much easier than moving an entire statue across an ocean, and it would save the world a ton of trouble in the process.