“We gave it to you as a gift, but apparently you despise it. So it will be just fine here at home"
Oh my god I just said this the other day. It would be very funny if that somehow happened and they sent it back to France. We really don’t deserve it.
“We changed it to reflect who we are now.”
“It’s a Roman salute!”
Which was very specifically adopted by the fascists in Italy.
And the fascists in Germany.
And the fascists in the US
I hate Illinois Nazis
From the fascists in Italy, yes. It just explains why a Roman salute was used to begin with.
That is… accurate.
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.
I agree. We dont deserve it anymore.
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.
I love the thought of one of the new french submarines sneaking over, tying a big rope aroud the statue, and towing it home.
Clean the american grime off (the green copper oxidation) when you get it back
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
Oof, yeah that is problematic
The oxidation makes it cool imo
Like a testament to time (which is kinda ironic given the us democracy failed that)
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???
She is definitely an immigrant so ICE will take care of it. No doubt.
Doesn’t the plaque there even specifically focus on an incredibly open immigration policy?
That’s really funny.
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
That is even funnier!
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.
Putting us a same intellectuel level as American is not what I call a great move for French left…
I’m surprised she hasn’t up and left.
I mean, her feet are chained. Which also feels appropriate…
I wouldn’t be surprised if Trump deports her for domestic terrorism.
Deports her…
from France?
I meant the Statue of Liberty. Lol
He’s been trying to deport the Native Americans, I’m sure he’ll try.
Please, we’ve been MUCH worse people between then and now, you ain’t seen nothing yet.
“Give it back so we can burn it”
If its possible, that would be hilarious and deserved.
omg I was yapping to my french friends about France maybe doing this, and here we are!
Did Macron decide to respect the will of the voters, and stop empowering conservatives yet?
A socialist MEP said this, not the President of the Republic.
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.
