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America stole its goverment from France
Rosseau Montisque. Im sorry we Anericans ripped you off@
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Re: America stole its goverment from France
I hear there's rumours on those internets...
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Yeah, but we can't trust them. I bet he read it on Wikipedia!I hear there's rumours on those internets...
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Re : America stole its goverment from France
Everything has been stolen from France at some point.
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Except the French, but that's only because no one wants them
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"Rosseau Montisque. Im sorry we Anericans ripped you off": You probably refere to Rousseau and Montesquieu. And what's new, when you see the price paid for Louisiana?
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If that includes the election process many here call undemocratic and stupid(you may include me), then I don't know why you should be sorry or what's so brilliant about it.
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They only stole the ideas not the system itself. The French should've pattented it, they would be the biggest superpower now. Most democratic countries have founded there thinking on the ideas of Montesquieu and Rousseau.
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And what's new, when you see the price paid for Louisiana?
One year and a half of the US government ressources at that time, if I remember well....
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Re: America stole its goverment from France
You paid for Louisiana?
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A patent is usually only valid for a period of time, often 25 years. So not bonanza then.
And I thought that Louisiana was sold partly as better to sell now than for either Britain or the USA to annexe it, as what happened later to much of Spain's land.
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Re: America stole its goverment from France
Duh!
Reinvent the British and you get a global finance center, edible food and better service. Reinvent the French and you may just get more Germans.
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That's allright, you're welcome. I mean, if it weren't for enlightened French philosophical influence America could've turned out a Christian fundamentalist, conservative, brutal capitalistic country that tramples the weak both at home and abroad.
Re: Re : America stole its goverment from France
That's allright, you're welcome. I mean, if it weren't for enlightened French philosophical influence America could've turned out a Christian fundamentalist, conservative, brutal capitalistic country that tramples the weak both at home and abroad.
Reinvent the British and you get a global finance center, edible food and better service. Reinvent the French and you may just get more Germans.
Ik hou van ferme grieten en dikke pinten
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SFTS, don't forget we also stole the french fry and Paris Hilton.
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More like borrowed the french fry, we don't cover it in mayonnaise. The same doesn't apply for Paris Hilton.
Reinvent the British and you get a global finance center, edible food and better service. Reinvent the French and you may just get more Germans.
Ik hou van ferme grieten en dikke pinten
Down with dried flowers!
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Just a technicality, but Rousseau was actually a Genevan; today, we would call him Swiss, not French (though he lived in France much of his life; also in UK, Prussia, Poland, etc. etc.).
Montesquieu, a born and raised Frenchman, listed Aristotle, Thomas Hobbes, Rene Descartes, Nicolas Malebranche, John Locke as his influences.
So I guess we'd better apologize to some other countries as well for our thievery.
Ever since that cool invention, the written word, we've all stood on the shoulders of giants.
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Apology accepted! Aynthing else you would like to have?
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Hand over the chocolate and cheese please.
Reinvent the British and you get a global finance center, edible food and better service. Reinvent the French and you may just get more Germans.
Ik hou van ferme grieten en dikke pinten
Down with dried flowers!
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Four big elephants on a giant turtle?
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The french fry is Belgian
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You mean the French stole it from the Belgians!? How ironic!The french fry is Belgian
Wonders about the
Belgian waffle...
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Rosseau Montisque? Isn't he the Mexican porn actor?
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Well didn't he take his ideas off of rome and Locke (who was english so thus at the time one of our own.)
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Cough Cough...Greeks and Romans
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Gotta say we took it from them really.
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What's the return policy on this? Ours appears to be broken...
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America didn't steal the French Fry, they just made a very similar invention, the ever glorious Freedom Fry.
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Should we do a list of Democratic Monarchies vs Republics. Which column is Haiti in again? Latin America? Australia? New Zealand? Denmark?
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"One year and a half of the US government ressources at that time, if I remember well...." Yep, but it was the French Louisiana, not the actual one, going from Canada to the actual Louisisna... So good bargain...
French mustard is not French. In fact no decent French will eat so-called French Mustard BUT will stick with the moutard de Dijon, genuine one...
French Fries and Mustard are named from the makers (Mr or Mss French, who could possibly be from French origine).
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Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities. Voltaire.
"I've been in few famous last stands, lad, and they're butcher shops. That's what Blouse's leading you into, mark my words. What'll you lot do then? We've had a few scuffles, but that's not war. Think you'll be man enough to stand, when the metal meets the meat?"
"You did, sarge", said Polly." You said you were in few last stands."
"Yeah, lad. But I was holding the metal"
Sergeant Major Jackrum 10th Light Foot Infantery Regiment "Inns-and-Out"
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