wtf I love the French now.
I could legitimately see this happening, by now. Fox News builds it up for a week, then Trump/Musk make a big spectacle of sending it back and replacing it with a giant statue of Trump.
They’d probably melt it down instead, just to avoid giving it back.
Don’t bring that thought into reality.
You can picture it, can’t you. The entire thing covered in shitty gold spray paint. My God, it’s becoming so clear now…
Edit: Fun fact, Grok wouldn’t create the same image featuring Kamala Harris.
Why is it so low res
Images from the Future are usually not as clear.
Wait until that 20/20 hindsight
Far fewer visionaries emerged in 2020 than those of us with a penchant for puns would have liked 🫤
Fwiw: that you know of
This is pretty funny tbh.
He is not wrong.
has the us ever truly stood for the values the statue is said to represent?
Depends on what you think it represents.
It’s traditionally a symbol of opportunity, or new start style liberty.
America has, for a long time, been a place of hope or opportunity for immigrants. Not necessarily welcome, kindness, or prosperity, but hope.
With the visibly growing xenophobia this has tragically waned, but even still we have some of the highest immigration rates in the world.
The poem at the base of the statue, The New Colossus, makes its meaning pretty clear.
Not like the brazen giant of Greek fame,
With conquering limbs astride from land to land;
Here at our sea-washed, sunset gates shall stand
A mighty woman with a torch, whose flame
Is the imprisoned lightning, and her name
Mother of Exiles. From her beacon-hand
Glows world-wide welcome; her mild eyes command
The air-bridged harbor that twin cities frame.
“Keep, ancient lands, your storied pomp!” cries she
With silent lips. “Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!”The US never lived up to the promise the statue made.
Give it back to you? How about you pay repairations to Haiti or Algeria or any of your other former colonies before you act like you’re worthy of the Mother of Exiles?
how fucking dare you come into this comment section with a logical retort!
how fucking dare you!
whelp, Reddit cancer is here folks. time to gtfo.
Shut up yankee.
