“We gave it to you as a gift, but apparently you despise it. So it will be just fine here at home"

  • Olgratin_Magmatoe@slrpnk.net
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    As an American I support this move. Every fucking day they should have to answer for why we lost the very fucking symbol of freedom.

  • gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works
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    Ngl I love this energy.

    I’m very serious when I say this: France should make this a core part of their foreign relations strategy with the US for as long as orangeboi keeps talking and perhaps planning to try to take over Greenland and Canada. It’s both hilarious and deeply appropriate.

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      I love the thought of one of the new french submarines sneaking over, tying a big rope aroud the statue, and towing it home.

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      The oxidation is what’s keeping it together, if you clean the oxide off and don’t seal it then it oxidizes again and takes material with it. It’s similar as to why stainless lasts so long.

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        I would certainly hope some kind of sealant would be used. It would be astounding to see it fully polished and shining in full sunlight.

        Probably wont happen in my lifetime though, or likely ever.

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          The issue is you need to recoat sealants every 10-15 years, you only need to chat oxide every 50 to 100 to access damage and most of the damage is on the internal iron structure that the dielectric force is slowly eating at a faster rate then the copper skin.

          There was a bunch of news about it around iirc 1980 when they cleaned sections to rebuild the inner scaffold in some areas.

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            I mean, isn’t that kind of symbolic though? France does regular maintenance on their democracy, we wait until it’s on the verge of irreparable corruption before we (hopefully) go in and fix it before it collapses

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              I mean maybe but we did that already out was the 1980s and they had to shut down and iirc permanently close the torch lookout.

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      The oxidation makes it cool imo

      Like a testament to time (which is kinda ironic given the us democracy failed that)

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      Doesn’t the plaque there even specifically focus on an incredibly open immigration policy?

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    What the fuck is happening to our country? In what timeline did we ever see a future where we would lose the Statue of Liberty???

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      What’s even funnier is that the MEP in question was (probably falsely) accused of being paid by the CIA to be a pro-american mole in the French Left last year

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        I don’t know the story, but if I were a CIA plant I’d do something similar. It’s loud and obnoxious, but it’s just a gesture and it wouldn’t actually hurt my bosses.

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        Putting us a same intellectuel level as American is not what I call a great move for French left…

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    Please, we’ve been MUCH worse people between then and now, you ain’t seen nothing yet.

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        So they see an authoritarian rushing towards fascism in opposition of the will of the voters to protect capitalists from rising leftism, and decided the Statue of Liberty would be more at home with an authoritarian rushing towards fascism in opposition of the will of the voters to protect capitalists from rising leftism… but in Europe!

        Genius.