Happy Bastille Day! Bonne Fête!

If lefties want to complain about ethnonationalism, let them look no further than the last few words of the first verse of La Marseillaise:

marchons, marchons
qu'un sang impur
abreuve nos sillons!

let us march, let us march
that (an) impure blood
water(s) our furrows!*

The French hymne national calls on French folks—by implication, those of "pure blood"—to irrigate their farmland with the "impure" blood of their twisted, misbegotten foreign enemies. With France being the ethnically diverse country it is today, I guess the term "impure" is up to interpretation (which takes the ethno out of the nationalism), but hell, I'm all for the basic, motherland-first spirit of this.

I'm not saying people have no right to complain about where they live, but if they're making it their home—which is always a choice whether they're born there or not—they should at least love the place where they live. If you're living in France but hate it, then fuck off. Find a better country since you apparently believe such a country exists. Same goes for people living in and benefitting from the USA. If you're not thankful for what the country gives you, what reason do you have to stick around? So you can turn it into the same sort of third-world shithole you left? That shithole is still there, so why not save a few steps and just move back to it? Spare the happy natives, expats, naturalized citizens, and yourselves some stress.

Though he was born in 1809, Abraham Lincoln, in his trademark top hat, knew and heeded the 1789 clarion call of boobies, and he would not be stopped by prostrate simps of ambiguous sex in headscarves, nor by over-theatrically dying men with one sock, no pants, an exposed nipple, and a bit of pubic thatch.

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*Why the parentheses for "water(s)"? Because in the French version, the verb abreuver (to water or irrigate) is preceded by a que ("qu'un sang impur"), meaning "that," which usually introduces a subjunctive locution. In older English, the subjunctive mood would arguably be required in such a construction as well, but it's not so clear in modern English. I express this ambiguity with parentheses. The subjunctive makes its appearance in weird and varying ways in English. I think I know more about the French subjunctive than the English, to be frank. In French, and sometimes in English, the subjunctive is used in cases of emotion, necessity, unreality, anteriority, consequence, etc. 

In English, you might see the subjunctive expressed this way:

Hanson! For this mission, it's important that you not fail.

It's necessary that you be there by five, and no later.

If I were king, I'd skin you and wear you as a skin suit.

In French, you might see:

Je suis contente que tu aies trouvé ma culotte! —dit-elle. (emotion)

Avant que je ne meure, j'aimerais bien te b—, te donner un baiser. (anteriority)

Il est absolument impératif que vous mangiez toute la grenouille. (necessity)

Assieds-toi de façon que je puisse te voir en train de chier. (consequence)

You get the idea. Now go party.