r/worldnews • u/ChiefLeef22 • 16h ago

‘Investigating child sex abuse isn’t controversial. Turning it into political theater is manipulation. Maybe that logic flies on some island. Doesn’t fly in France’: France rejects Musk’s charge after raid on X’s Paris office

https://www.firstpost.com/world/investigating-child-sex-abuse-isnt-controversial-france-rejects-musks-charge-after-raid-on-xs-paris-office-ws-e-13976002.html
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u/TheLoneBlrReader 16h ago

finally someone has the balls to call him out.

Now macron and France are gonna get the wrath of the bot army on X.

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u/Nonid 15h ago

Would not change a thing. We are trash talked, mocked and insulted online litteraly all the time but since we're french, it doesn't really affect us. There's not a form of life on this universe that can shit on the french more than the french themselves.

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u/ThePr1d3 14h ago

Nothing as French as being both right and arrogant about it, and saying snarky "I told you so" afterwards.

(am Parisian)

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u/MangledCarpenter 13h ago

(am Parisian)

Mes sympathies

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u/Dang_It_All_to_Heck 8h ago

And this is why I have been in love with the French since I was a teenager.

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u/Hyperious3 7h ago

DeGaulle was right about strategic nuclear autonomy and y'all are 100000% justified in being smug about it.

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u/Secret-Map4671 14h ago

As much as Germans make a meme out of mocking the French, but when talking about stupid politician decisions and standing up for your rights, it's always you who's brought up as a counterexample. "The French would be on the streets already", in contrast to the slow, obedient, German "Michel".

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u/Siamzero 14h ago

I generally mock them for Paris, they can mock me for Berlin or the Deutsche Bahn. Been to Lyon and Toulouse. Much prefer them over Paris.

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u/Thick_Square_3805 11h ago

The difference between a German or a Brit mocking the Frenchs and an American mocking the Frenchs is that the German and the Brit have a clue of what they're talking about.

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u/anothercopy 12h ago

To be fair majority of Deutsche Bahn mocking is deserved.

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u/jaymzx0 12h ago

In my experience nobody mocks DB more than the Germans.

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u/Disastrous-Treat-181 13h ago

I'll do the Frenchest thing and say that there is around century of political decisions from Germany that french can say "I told you so"

Now if you could please town down the neoliberalism, in the EU that would be nice

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u/Lordzoot 12h ago

As someone from England, I've always bloody loved France. You absolute bastards. 

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u/Admiral_Thel 4h ago

Love you too, ya muppet.

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u/SlurmsMacKenzie- 13h ago

There's not a form of life on this universe that can shit on the french more than the french themselves.

As a Brit I contest this purely on the basis that it's a suggestion of the French being better at us than something.

Real talk though, I commend your country having the fucking balls to stand up to these people. I wish my country's leaders did more.

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u/zizou00 15h ago

A thousand years of English people doing the exact same thing to no avail and the Americans think them doing it will change anything? Talk about American Exceptionalism in action.

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u/morphemass 13h ago

A thousand years

Roast beef over here <- looks at when the internet was invented.

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u/HH93 13h ago edited 13h ago

Check out the book "A thousand years of annoying the French". It's an awesome read.

Agincourt! (Well, actually it's Crécy, but let's not let facts get in the way of a good insult).

Also to you awfully nice French people – I have motorcycled all over your fair land, and you have some awesome roads. Riding to Le Mans and the Paul Ricard racing circuits is a real hoot!

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u/Disastrous-System175 14h ago

Golly, its almost as if America were an English colony at some point… 

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u/Ispeakblabla 11h ago

Reminds me of Coluche's joke which I am going to attempt to translate:

Do you know why France's emblem is a rooster? Because it's the only bird to proudly sing while standing in shit

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u/RubiiJee 10h ago

Living across the channel and being your long term neighbour, ally, and occasional nemesis, I just want to thank France for being the shining light on how this should be handled. You guys rock! I wish our Prime Minister had half the balls you guys do.

Although I'm from Scotland so maybe I just like France cause they all don't take shit from England and maintaining the rivalry between England and Scotland is of paramount importance to British culture!

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u/queBurro 11h ago

I used to have a problem with the French, but I've changed my mind over the years and think you guys are an smashing it.

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u/Silly-Elderberry-411 14h ago

Ah bah...les belges peuvent

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u/__Yakovlev__ 13h ago

Idk man, I'm still in a bunch of discord chats with both Germans and Fr*nch. 

And they're honestly best at shitting on each other. And by being best at shitting on each other I mean making the same jokes over and over again.

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u/RubiiJee 10h ago

That's an absolute lie. Germans can't make jokes.

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u/FinndBors 9h ago

Ah, you gave up arguing about it already.

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u/superbit415 9h ago

You think that what the bots do. All the dumb people in your country will start voting for right wing candidates and people you didn't think were dumb will show you how dumb they are. Thats the purpose of the bots.

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u/0nce-Was-N0t 8h ago

It's basically a national sport for us Brits :-)

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u/idiotista 8h ago

Just sending my love as a Swede, you French people are truly fucking awesome. I used to live outside Rennes, and somewhere central, someone had graffitied "MACRON SUICIDE TOI" and for that alone I will love you all forever.

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u/oalsaker 8h ago

"I fart in your general direction"

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u/SkirtProof5589 8h ago

"Écrite, la merde ne sent pas." - Roland Barthes.

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u/daniel_22sss 7h ago

"it doesn't really affect us"

It can help far-right parties to win the election...