Bill Maher on France 

They didn't leave the U.K. It was an empire. It was British VS British.

America did.

Oh no don't say that there are far better arguments to bring to improve relations

@John Smith works like breaxit works ? Duh

@John Smith I know it was just a little something that came into my head ^^

Walrus TheGreatAtheist i ain't french, i just live there

Walrus TheGreatAtheist u are correct

France has a good healthcare system, but Belgium has a better one ;)

***** wrong answer my little friend....uk.businessinsider.com/the-best-health-care-in-europe-2015-1?r=US

***** cause everyone commenting on something know what they are talking about...and yes u can rank a country by that, since the lack of surveys means that there is little to no interest in the matter.....

+Darthruvious IT WAS not, it was a gift to a french protectorate in the caribbean, which they refused and then it was given to the USA about 100 hundred years after the fact. you don't know jack shit and i am Canadian

+Robert Longwill good for you, but again, ur proving that the rest of the world knows better than the US, generally speaking that is. not gonna argue.... its pointless.

its true in the beginning it is a project between France and USA 21 avril 1865, Edouard de Laboulaye has an idea: to built, in the United States, a monument with "a common work of our two. this professor of law at the College de France and ardent promoter of the American political system invited his liberal friends, to celebrate the victory of the Union on the secessionists of the southern United States. Among the guests, a certain Frederic Auguste Bartholdi, 31, listens to the teacher's words. is seduced by such a project. Napoleon III has sided with the Southerners in order to consolidate his position in Mexico, which has been the subject of French intervention since 1862. It will be ten years before the idea really takes shape. Relations between France and the United States became tense when, in July 1870, America chose to support Prussia in the conflict unleashed by Napoleon III. However, Bartholdi does not give up his plan. so the sculptor will be propose to Ismail Pasha (1830-1895), ruler of Egypt, to build a statue to the glory of his country to open the entrance to the Suez Canal. And if the project did not succeed, the Alsatian then wants to use his sketches to design a New York equivalent. In 1871, he exiled himself to the United States, fleeing Colmar, his hometown occupied by the Prussian armies of Bismarck, and the Commune, whose violence he condemns. In his luggage, he carries two models of statues and letters of introduction of Edouard de Laboulaye.

@@robertlongwill2077 sorry it is not true in the beginning it is a project between France and USA 21 avril 1865, Edouard de Laboulaye has an idea: to built, in the United States, a monument with "a common work of our two. this professor of law at the College de France and ardent promoter of the American political system invited his liberal friends, to celebrate the victory of the Union on the secessionists of the southern United States. Among the guests, a certain Frederic Auguste Bartholdi, 31, listens to the teacher's words. is seduced by such a project. Napoleon III has sided with the Southerners in order to consolidate his position in Mexico, which has been the subject of French intervention since 1862. It will be ten years before the idea really takes shape. Relations between France and the United States became tense when, in July 1870, America chose to support Prussia in the conflict unleashed by Napoleon III. However, Bartholdi does not give up his plan. so the sculptor will be propose to Ismail Pasha (1830-1895), ruler of Egypt, to build a statue to the glory of his country to open the entrance to the Suez Canal. And if the project did not succeed, the Alsatian then wants to use his sketches to design a New York equivalent. In 1871, he exiled himself to the United States, fleeing Colmar, his hometown occupied by the Prussian armies of Bismarck, and the Commune, whose violence he condemns. In his luggage, he carries two models of statues and letters of introduction of Edouard de Laboulaye.

@@robertlongwill2077 totally false. It’s an old false information running on internet

Get the fuck out of here! Your French arrogance shines brighter than a thousand suns. I have lived in France for over a decade, and the cognitive dissonance between your flowery rhetoric and how your society actually functions is at least as big as that of the Americans. Go to a bainlieue and ask the people there about 'Liberte, Egalite, Fraternite'. You would be laughed out of there right back to your cushy, middle-class bubble. Surrounded by people who look, sound and think in exactly the same arrogant, solipsistic manner. There is a reason FN is a mainstream political party: the French are FAR less open, inclusive and concerned about justice than they would like to think. Kinda like Americans...

Satakunta Thank you for the comment, it's not everyday that I get such ignorant and stupid ones. Also, you shouldn't assume things about people you talk- no, insult so bravely. I am actually French with foreign parents, struggling with life and yet happy. I love my country. Oh, and just in case you'd want to yell at me some more, know that you'd make both of us a favour not to. You see, I've decided I don't like talking to people who can't even make a simple discussion with valid arguments to back their reasonning. You lost the debate the moment you called me names. Adieu ! x)

Such fancy words, btw people ask former French colonies and they will tell you how amazing you guys are. Btw if you really have any clue about justice then how about you guys dismantle the louvre museum and give back the artefacts to the people it belong to in the first place.

....oh, so that's why thousands of cars burn in and around Paris from time to time.

konradfat I am French and I also have nothing but respect for the UK and the Brits, their history and their culture. I just wish you guys could vote for UKIP and get out of the EU so that we could progress towards European federalism ;) Cheers

MrDimibanez I respect France too but we are not voting for a fascist party. I think we should focus more on the EU and stop living in the past British Empire. The US is the one who lives on past glories like WW2 and think they still apply today. Not us.

Steven Smith Well... I don't think most British people think like you and I am absolutely sure that the UK's political doesn't as well. Of course there's Farage's famous "charisma of a damp rag", but there's also Thatcher's "we want our money back", not taking into account that the UK (and the City in particular) benefited immensely from the european construction and gave it its main orientation, namely the liberal shift of the 70s-80s. Not to forget as well that the worst idea of the european construction, the great enlargement, which happened way too soon and without a sufficiant political union in the EU, comes from the UK. And there is a reason for it. The UK's strategy since they entered the EU has always been to keep the EU as weak as possible. Any progress towards federalism is always swiftly rejected by the UK. Myself, like most believers of the european project, I am tired to wait for the Brits to change their minds and become reasonable. Again, to me it has nothing to do with hatred towards the UK, I love England and I visited it plenty of times (never been to Scotland or Wales though, but I hear it's very nice). But visibly your people don't want the EU. If they don't undestand that nothing other than agriculture and financial profits is made in England, we can't spend more decades trying to explain to you guys why you're wrong. Of course, in the final analysis with such a deindustrialised country, the only outcome from the departure of the UK from the EU would be an almost absolute enfeoffment to the US, since the threat of blocking euro transfers to the City is more than dangerous for the UK. But at some point we have to stop wasting our time on countries who don't want to move forward. The EU is at a time of crisis, mostly because of its bad economic choices (liberal choices, imposed mainly by Germany and England but weirdly enough also by France who clearly doesn't benefit from them) and its apathy (reinforced by a few countries like the UK or the Netherlands who often actively participate in the lack of european initiative). For both these issues, the rest of Europe would clearly benefit from a departure of the UK.

MrDimibanez Well we are having a referendum in 2017 I think so you may get your wish then. Personally I think we need to stay in but become less self-centered. Some of us want to turn the EU into the new British Empire, but I think the EU needs more power and individual countries should have less.

How history turns. France nearly voted in a far right party, UK leaves the EU, Italy votes right wing, Germany votes right wing for the first time since ww2, lol. Europe is doomed.

thanks ;)

I don't think so(as a French)... But thank you anyway.

Mic thunder One thing I don't like about France is it's strict marijuana laws, but most of the U.S is just like that too...

If I could speak French more fluently I would love to visit & maybe dream of retirement there.

+smackroscoe it's not a problem 😉 the most important thing when you speak French is your pronunciation ;) if you speak fluently but with a bad pronunciation it will be hard for a French to understand you. (sorry for bad English ) goodbye😉

+jacqueline KLEIN And now English is the language of the world - get over it!

+MrStig691 your wrong english languange became the diplomatic langue for everyone after the ww1 before that it was french for like 400 ans lol, its funny to think that in 1800 with the napoleon wars all the court at this time was using french for diplomacy lol

^^ False.

''In Europe'' couldn't really get outside there could you.

And the British still used French because their kings were subject to the French throne.

Exactly, there wouldn't be a USA if us British hadn't been fighting France instead of the Americans.

+Flying Spectacles As I recall, us Yanks whipped the Brits, partially, because the Brits marched into battle wearing large white X's across their chests. The unbeatable Brits got their asses handed to them, by 13 small colonies.

do you even know how small britain is compared to usa?

+Paul Petrea No, we didnt get our ass handed to us by the colonies, we were at war with France which actually mattered to us so we were fighting them instead of the colonies, if France hadn't been at war with the UK then the UK would have steamrollee the colonies.

+Paul Petrea 13 small colonies plus france netherlands and spain, france netherlands and spain were enough on their own to win the war, the americans would have lost immediately without their help,with their help the americans almost lost

It would have still been America, they would have just got their independence later.

+Anusgossen France wouldn't still be France without the US.

+majorevangelism XD fucking bullshit xD

majorevangelism they could have let you to your fate during world war 2

wat

All the real people who are big in this country, like the auto industry, oil & gas and NASA already did. The idiots still hang onto the English system. Ironic since the republicans hate the English.

Might? The French military and economic support was the major deciding factor that fought back the English. The ''American'' army and economy at the time was pretty friggin helpless.

Maraak .Nor Yes but they did it to fuck the British. It's ice but it was especially tactical.

Maraak .Nor You say that as if it was a one way road. We were allies. We inspired and helped one another for a time (I hope we can repeat that trend in the future). Now Americans go around pretending that we won WW2 for the helpless people of Europe. Is your perspective all that different? All I'm saying is, don't repeat a trend that causes dissonance, start a trend that leads us invariably back to mutual cooperation. We can obviously learn so much from France. After all, we destroyed our cultural heritage from the outset in a desperate attempt to free ourselves from British rule. We have a cultural vacuum and France has more culture in one city than we have in our entire country. But can the people of France please admit that maybe there are some positive trends that have come about as a result of our disentanglement with the gravity of the old world?

Perhaps that would've been a good thing. France treated their nations terribly. So did the British but the British former countries are the best run.

Well said Robert!

Bravo!!!!!

merci monsieur from Britain :)

wow prix nobel de la paix mec.

merci, c'est gentil, mais çà ne fait pas avancer le smilblick

The Craftzy Lady x

Just like the Germans. But it seems they don't deserve the same share of hate that we do.

@@puccaland What do you mean ? Did the Germans say they were sorry for not invading a country which was fully cooperating with the UN ? It is George Bush and the American government that should excuse themselves for destroying this country and leading a bashing campaign against France in the year 2000's.

@@puccaland Oh alright. Have a good day then

@@puccaland In fact, after french/russian/german opposed to the iraq war, Condoleeza Rice adviced GWB : Pardon to Germany, Ignore Russia and Punish France... So they did. The french bashing mostly came from there.

But the french were the reason why the mess even exists in the first place. Seach sykes-picot

Tacet Mahemium Mais ferme ta gueule. On dit ça depuis 50 ans et depuis 50 ans nous sommes toujours la cinquième puissance mondiale. Idiot.

I remember the first time I read a youtube video's comment section.

Check back further you will be amazed with the level of ignorance lol

Was that Einstein?

*Vive "Viva" is spanish ^^

Excusez-moi

Viv(E) la France 🇫🇷🇺🇸

xS/UpRE xF/R Well I am french, and if you go to san Francisco, itis doing quite well in all subjects you are talking, they even quite well evolved concerning ecology!

LOL. Thanks for the laugh.

Turlututur That's 75% for people making more than 1 M euros a year so this doesn't concern this many people. Besides the highest source of revenue (stock exchange) is still not submitted to taxes.

Turlututur Thank you for correction, it is really 75%. What a bargain, eh? Are you ready to pay it?

borzix1 The tax concerned the companies that were paying employees more than a million per year, not the employees themselves. And if it concerned me as a millionaire, I'd rather pay taxes for every Mrs Muhammad in my country than to be a part of the 6 trillion dollars that the wars in Irak and Afghanistan cost to America.

du5ty5 So you would rather finance the takeover of your country by another civilisation's representatives for whom you as a non-Muslim is just an infidel to be slaughtered whenever and wherever they can find you. (See for yourself: Quaran, Verse 9:5.) Even such financing your own subduction is better in your eyes than fighting them in their lands to keep them as far away as possible. Congratulations! You can have the gold medal in dhimmitude!

You should see some documentary here about ww2 and France,and look at the comments.

Là bas, ils vont au Mexique se faire soigner. Pour nous ça serait quasiment comme si on allait se faire soigner en Albanie.

TNCMAD Je vois pas le rapport...

Timsit Edouard Pour moi, il est très clair. Vous dites que vous ne pensez pas que notre système social est meilleur que celui des états-unis or s'ils sont prêts à se faire soigner au Mexique, c'est qu'il y a un réel décalage...

Le système des états-unis est horrible. Je n'aime pas le fait que les personnes doivent payer comme 10000 USD parce-que ils ont cassé leur jambe ou quel'que chose. Pardonnez ma grammaire, le Français est mon deuxième langue.

Oui mais je n'ai jamais dit que le système USA était meilleur ni parlé de qualité de soin. Je dis juste que le système français est un gouffre financier et donc non viable. Faut arrêter de rouspéter pour le plaisir...

yeah, because getting cancer from coal burning tomorrow is so much better than getting cancer if there's an accident at nuclear power plant

666Tomato666 no caloric plant either.just hydro,solar and wind.

martina Petrasek ask people that lived near Banqiao Dam about safety of hydro.

finn mott get a life go see the world

poor you

Ahahah yeah brits and french dont like each other ahahah but I forgive you lol

Fair enough :D

so you don't like" frogs"..eh asgeir???

Frog stew YES.. naw orleans style

David Harrington what is a frog? some type of acronym for French resistance of jermany.... no, wait, Germany, Am I right?

You could be on to sumthang herebro..

Frieda they still use coal-fired power plant and get some electricity from France

Who does?

Germany

Nuclear power is considered 'green' because it does not produce any greenhouse gasses or other atmospheric pollutants like gas or coal.

Frieda Nuclear energy is considered green because it does not pollute. Germany isn't green at all, most of their energy comes from coal or from buying french nuclear energy.

Well according to the WHO it is the best, and I have read we have the cleanest water in Europe, and no acid rain like many neighbouring countries, but I suppose we can all be wrong?

Yes, we have the best healthcare. If is not France the best, can you tell us where it is? Maybe Cuba?

NHS have a way better ranking system then WHO. 2014 rapport says 1:UK 2: Switzerland 3: Sweden

oksAjax in the UK lol My English friends here in France say its horrible,beds in the corridors and BIG waiting lists; actually in my home country Australia its the best because a mate of mine told me so, when in fact i know it's ratshit! lol

so we are judging from eyewitness accounts now :/

worst debt/GDP ratio in the world : France : 15th, 96,8% USA : 11th, 105,8% source: Business Insider (october 2016). Have a nice wake up call, mate 😁

Well, my "wake up call" shows it's increasing steadily and constantly. Just nine years ago, the % was in the 60's, and in 1980, it was 20.76%. And this year, in the first quarter of 2017, it increased by 62.350.000.000 Euros just in the first quarter. That's an increase of almost 1.000 Euros for every single citizen in just 3 months. Source: countryeconomy.com/national-debt/france Happy to be Norwegian, not a single Eurocent in debts, in fact our investment funds ("Oljefondet") passed 8.000.000.000.000 NOK (859.000.000.000 Euros) in May this year, that's around 170.000 Euros for every single Norwegian.

maybe, but the good thing is France doesn't have acid rain