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Those weak French, amirite?
Them absolutely rioting over a small increase in retirement age made me feel shame as an American. I love how willing the French are to remind their government of what happens when it gets out of line. Like, "don't make us break out the guillotines."
The French are not weak.
Nailed it friend
They might have been steamrolled in back to back world wars, but they used to be a threat to takeover the world.
Also internally they've had some of the most badass revolutions.
The French definitely won WWI, do they not teach history in schools anymore?
No, not really.
They didn't win WW1, they just lost less hard than Germany.
This is the whole concept of any war of attrition though.
They were in like 3rd place after British and Spanish.
depends what time you’re talking about. napoleon fucked shit up.
Which is why the lourve is full of Italian art, apparently
No? The Spain's heyday was a completely different time period from France and Britain's, and during the Napoleonic wars France was first place and lost on foreign policy.
The men who raped her were French too, and they outnumber her at least 50 to one, so your low level troll doesn't even work the way you think it does..
Was "Those weak French, amirite?" trolling, or was it making fun of people who falsely call French people 'weak' as a form of nationalistic bigotry?
I read it as the latter. "The French are still weak," would be clear bigotry, the 'amirite?' makes me lean more towards making fun of them.
Of course, we can't definitively say due to the lack of clear tone in written language.
You're correct, evidently amirite wasnt sarcastic enough lol
Not American so this might be a stupid question, but does anyone actually say that? The French have serious islamophobia issues, but I don't know anyone who would call them weak.
Yeah, its an American based stereotype AFAIK and the right winger trump types would be the most likely to spout it
At this point it's entirely a self-referential joke. People bring it up to reference the stereotype itself, not to actually call the French cowards.
You clearly havent seen boomer american FB and X accounts then, theres never a chance they dont get to make fun of the french