Understandable, we should pay up

NGL the USA becoming a French Colony would fix 90% of the political issues currently plaguing it.
- Eh, it would probably end up like Haiti
  
  Comparatively, check out how the US handled Bikini Atoll and Puerto Rico

How considerate to have a guy in the corner translating to Italian.
- That's alright, I know a little Italian
  
  Me too
- Mama Mia spaghetti carbonara!

France demands a mineral deal and a thank you
- The US should be more thankful. And should wear a suit

Unfortunately, this didn't really happen
- Thanks for this. We need a way of flagging satire or misinformation more clearly. I don’t think it’s enough to have it buried in the comment sections.
  
  I would say it's obvious satire but then i remembered the reality we live in
  
  Personally I take everything here very seriously as the community is clearly called credibledefense
  
  Well. Seeing as this is NCD…
  
  Maybe we should put these types of posts into a community and say that it's non-credible in the name.
  
  It may be satire, but it could absolutely be real life. France is kinda lame and French people kinda suck.
  Edit: if i had said the same thing about America, all you (lemmy users) Americans would all be like "yeah fuck smerica!" And I'd have up votes. But this is the leftist shithole called lemmy
- it should though. everyone should go hard on these parasites. fascists always get a free ride from all the authorities. that's how they get into power. they never suffer consequences, because all the consequences are fake and designed to stop people from being too free or too communist, both of which fascists also work to stop, so the nation's enforcement mechanisms see them as friends and go really ridiculously easy on them.
  france needs to nail america's dick to the wall, and declare that no more american goods will be coming into france until these scum pay their debts. maybe even give a 'we brought you into this world, and we can damn sure take you out of it.'
  
  Your history lesson seems to forget America helping France, both financially and strategically, during and after WW2. I dislike the US position right now, but to suggest they've somehow been freeloading is patently false, and the rest of the world, Europe in particular, has relied heavily on the US since the end of WW2.
  
  It's not like the USA oligarchy would pay... It would come from taxpayer's money.
  And they're already flooded in debt.
  Anyway, I wouldn't oppose (nor is my place to decide, haha)

Start with musk's fortune and go down the wealthiest Americans list.

whats with the little guy in the corner
- Sign Language Interpreter.

Ah, same as with Haiti.
- It only took Haiti 122 years to pay off the French.
  Liberte, egalite, fraternite. 😑
- yes but the americans deserve it.

Sorry, that deal was made with the French royal family, not the republic. It's null and void.
- It doesn't matter. The debt was repaid in 1795 by James Swan, a banker who assumed the debt from the U.S.
- If you transfer debts and loans they're still valid, it's what the ussr Russia exchange did.
  
  The debt was already paid anyways

I don't think France would want to open up the indemnity/ reparations conversation...
- i mean they did give us democracy, existentialism, and the blow job.....
  
  ...menage à trois.....soixante-neuf....
  But aside from those, what have the French done for us?
- They aren't? They are talking about a loan which has nothing to do with indemnity / reparations.
  They financed the US independence movement / war out of self interest to screw on England and any way they got paid with the Quasi-War.
  Looking at history the US were never a reliable partnet, cough remember the maine cough.

Eh only if the use that money to rebuild Haiti

- Grow up

Checking if I'm still banned from this community after I said Ukraine was not gonna enter NATO.
Edit: yay, now I can say "I told you so"
- You were never banned from this NCD.
  But congratulations for predicting that Trump would be elected and now celebrating it, I guess?
  
  Nah actually my comment was Ukraine wouldn't join NATO regardless of acting president because it wasn't within the USA's interest similar to how they stalled F-16 access for 3 years.
  Also yeah I was banned from the reddit copy NCD lol: https://sh.itjust.works/c/noncredibledefense
- I'm still not sure you're correct, they could always join after the US leaves.
  Probably better off just trying to join the EU though

Yeah, uhuh. I think if you look at the papers, that debt was owed to a king whose head ended up in a basket. 🧺. That was, hmm, quite a few French republics ago.
Meanwhile, why don't we discuss that little Normandy caper that one time
- This is a joke about the US's recent demands for Ukraine to 'pay back' the aid given to defend its independence against Russian imperialism and genocide.
- Such a fragile ego, so easily hurt.
- Sure let's talk about Normandy.
  https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rape_during_the_liberation_of_France
  
  More specifically, Lilly estimated that U.S. servicemen committed around 3,500 rapes in France between June 1944 and the end of the war.[10]
  Rape per capita in 2022 France: ~116 per 100,000 men
  Rape per capita in 2022 England and Wales: ~234 per 100,000 men
  Number of American troops in France during WW2: ~2,300,000
  Estimated American rape per capita in WW2 France: ~152 per 100,000 American soldiers
  By those numbers, it would be safer to be a French woman with an American soldier in WW2, than to be a woman with an English man today.
- Since you decide to be salty and whiny about a joke, let's educate you a bit: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Succession_of_states
- The UK did pay the US back for WW2 support. Took 60 years to pay off.
- By the rules of "we got there first", France would owe Canada for that one.
- You wasted a perfectly good opportunity for a Hamilton reference. I was very sad when it didn't arrive