Hey Elon, imagine Tesla diverting R&D cash to pay unrelated staff—that’s what Marine Le Pen did with EU funds. She’s guilty of two big financial screw-ups: one in 2019, repaying €300K for misallocated assistant funds, and another in 2025, embezzling €4M+ from 2004-2016 to pay party folks, not aides. Now she’s banned from office 5 years, facing 4 years prison (2 suspended). It’s less a witch hunt, more a trust breach, like SEC catching a corp misstep. Serious stuff!
Something that's interesting to me is that Americans hold this belief because that's the narrative their country feed them.
The American culture of patriotism leads them to a belief in American exceptionalism. They are told that America is leading the world in freedom, democracy, and opportunity. The US curriculum seems to be incredibly US centric when it comes to geography, history, culture, and politics. I would surmise a lot of the media they consume is primarily US produced as well.
I think, historically there was an 'American Dream' aspiration. However, I'd say that started to diminish around 50 years ago, and in western and European countries, has lost value.
I also think that social media has illuminated the systemic issues within the US to the rest of the world, which means that, while children and teens are still exposed to US media, because they can see the realities, they aren't drawn-in by it in the same way millennials and older generations were.
There is so much data available that shows that America is falling behind in all the areas they claim to be leading in.
The only source that justifies their high regard of their country, is what has been systemically and deliberately fed to them from their own country. They've been indoctrinated into their excessive, blind patriotism and people like the OP are blind to it.
I guess, in simple terms, my thought is: If the only evidence you have that your country is great comes from your country telling you its great, is that not a red flag?
3. In 2011, a worker at a Canadian mine discovered an almost perfectly preserved 110-million-year-old nodosaur.
Scientists consider this the best-preserved dinosaur ever found, with its skin, armor, and internal organs remarkably intact.
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Jordan Bardella : "Vous mettriez un Franco-Russe à la tête d’une centrale nucléaire ? Cela ne vous pose pas un problème d’intérêt national ?"
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Gabriel Attal : "Bah, Tamara Volokhova, c’est votre conseillère au groupe ID au Parlement européen, qui vous représente à la commission des Affaires étrangères sur les questions de sécurité et de défense. Il se trouve qu’elle est Franco-Russe, qu’elle assiste à des réunions à huis clos avec des informations confidentielles sur la guerre en Ukraine."
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