French MEP demands the US 'give us back the Statue of Liberty'

c/world · u/paul@lemmy.esquiretheduke.nohost.me · 228 points

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u/dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world · 11 points

That, or maybe they'll hire Carmen Sandiego.

u/FartsWithAnAccent@fedia.io · 7 points

Damn it Krang

u/Chodi_MacCunt@lemmy.laitinlok.com · -1 points

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u/capt_wolf@lemmy.world · 35 points

And I know just who they're gonna get to take it back!

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u/JacksonLamb@lemmy.world · 20 points

Good idea.

While we're in a returning things mood, France needs to pay back the "reparations" it made Haiti pay to France for no longer being French slaves. Several trillion in today's currency.

u/archonet@lemy.lol · 16 points

Truthfully? They're not wrong to want it back.

There's **(for now)** a plaque at the base with a poem stating "give us your tired, give us your poor". Clearly _not_ the attitude our government and a large portion of our population has, right now.

I can only hope we'll remember how immigration built this country before they simply remove the plaque.

u/frustrated_phagocytosis@fedia.io · 3 points

Please let this occupy their attention, the more ridiculous the better

u/Chodi_MacCunt@lemmy.laitinlok.com · 0 points

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