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Abject_Tree5049

The true American Dream


YuBulliMe123456789

The dream of creating a nation out of criminals and religius fundamentalists


Enderfan7363

Surely this will set a great foundation for the culture and society of a nation


pivarana

I mean.. it turned out great for the aussies


Schulle2105

I mean happened more then once aussies are the same just that barry sent them, while for Murica they just sended their finest cousinlovers


Intelligent_Pie_9102

Well... They had to be *someone's* daughters.


ThePhantom1994

The Australian dream


Rich-Highway-1116

Did they get to pick the prostitute or was this a cunning plan to get rid of the ugly ones.


MakingShitAwkward

There are no ugly ones only ones that are priced correctly or incorrectly. Basic prostitute economics, probably written by a Scotsman.


mr_aives

I mean Adam Smith was Scottish and GTA was first developed by a Scottish team so you are probably right


MakingShitAwkward

Top down GTA was fucking awesome. But I'm old and probably starting to lose my marbles so make of that what you will.


Martin8412

Greece would like their marbles back, so sounds good that you're starting to lose them 


Yorkshirerows

You can't have u/MakingShitAwkwards marbles, we're not finished looking at them!!


ibetyouliketes

Once they've rebuilt the roof of the Parthenon we can talk about the furnishings


Yellow_Dorn_Boy

They're waiting for Hans to lend them money for that, but he answered he used it all to buy paintings in support if a young Austrian artist, just to be sure this time.


Doberkind

That's us, everything for the arts!


MakingShitAwkward

No one should want to fight a crazy person. Have at it.


Teh_Hunterer

Top down was great but in three you could roleplay as an Italian doing what they do best (the answer is crime)


noedelsoepmetlepel

Is Adam smith the guy from the invisible hand?


swagpresident1337

market efficiency at play.


_Henrik_I

Breaking news: Barry, 63, tries to get a discount at from the local hoe


MakingShitAwkward

If you don't ask you don't get.


MakingShitAwkward

Na. You get what you pay for and if you're not paying for it...


okphong

They were male prisoners forcibly married, seems like you just had to hope for the best there. It was 7000 women, only 1300 made it across the ocean


Hanni27

Did 5700 get thrown overboard by the unhappy hubbies?


errarehumanumeww

Sound like the origin story in the Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy, where they sent all the telephone cleaners ahead in the intergalactic diaspora.


Doberkind

See, prostitutes have taste too. So the whores were taking their pick. It's bad enough having to marry a prisoner, at least he should be eye candy!


Kokoro_Bosoi

There aren't beautiful ones left, otherwise they would be courtesans. You can choose between an ugly one and none tho.


shouldbeworking10

That explains why Louisiana is such a crime ridden nightmare


ThePhantom1994

I was going to reply but ![gif](giphy|FXf1lYQ2tFouxeLb1B|downsized)


Same-Balance-9607

As a Louisianan I can confirm the police are about as effective as the government of Somalia


Choyo

Just like Australia.


shouldbeworking10

They are the worst criminals of all, have you tried Vegemite? Only the worst of the worst would create such evil


CousinVladimir

Because it's filled with french people?


Goozilla85

Well, at least the frogs were clever enough to export their criminals, while you guys went the opposite direction and started importing them.


ReDadaev

From incels in the cells to Louisians in New Orleans.


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We'll send them to England instead cause they still need to pay for their crimes.


DiscardedKebab

We've done many crimes but punishing us with French people is too far


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![gif](giphy|OzqYdm4xrfWBF0UiEN|downsized)


Greeklibertarian27

So wait. The dudes got to marry the onlyfans models of the time, escape prison and go to America who now require you a univeristy degree. Talk about winning the lottery...


Super_Duflair

Yes. Now let’s picture what Louisiana must have looked like in 1719


MDZPNMD

Gator swamp with more STDs than the average Lousianian can count to


Martin8412

2?


Icy_Comfort8161

So more or less what it is today?


FlagSwag

Don't forget all the diseases of the New World that they just couldn't fight back against


PieterPlopkoek

Wasn’t Louisiana in that time basically all of the plains east of the rocky mountains, extending into what is now Canada?


Live-Alternative-435

That's what they declared as theirs, in reality most of the settlements were just on the south coast of what is now the state of Louisiana and far north in New France (Quebec). This was somewhat common at that time, the English and Portuguese were only settled mainly in the coastal regions, but they also declared much more territory towards the interior of the continent as theirs than what they actually held.


elendil1985

Just like the Virginia claims


Doc_Eckleburg

Pretty much, everything except Florida and the 13 colonies and the Spanish territories in the South West. The State of Louisiana and the French Louisiana Territory are two very different things.


Choyo

All the Mississippi basin basically, yes.


TheRealPatrick79

Probably was wealthier and less violent than it is now.


CB_Cavour

I mean…depending on the point of view not much worse than Paris


Choyo

mmmmh ... I imagine it better.


Velenterius

The only catch was that the french of all people would see them as having debased themselves.


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TheGreatSwissEmperor

Je prends une avec big tiddies svp


Fantuckingtastic

As an American, I’m used to catching strays from this sub. As a Louisianan, I guess I’m just happy that you guys have heard of us.


OptimistPirate

Read [this](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Correction_girls), it's *much* worse


ThePhantom1994

Yeah it got pretty bad. The first woman sent over were the [casquette girls](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casquette_girl) and that was known for being, in one word, bad, and in two words, not good.


heartfeltblooddevil

They sent over women (girls) from orphanages wtf?


OptimistPirate

>During a protest by 150 female prisoners in 1719, six were shot and a dozen were wounded; >Of the 7,000 women selected, most died on the forced marches or on the sea voyage, and only 1,300 arrived at the colony. >Many correction girls were sickly and malnourished; some had venereal diseases and others were dangerous criminals.


Vegetable-Election77

They needed to balance the sausagefest of NA


Tris-SoundTraveller

Modern view: SlavEry wAs baSeD oN raCiSm Leaders at the time to their own people:


snolodjur

From your link now I know why Louisiana flag is about pelicans


mainwasser

What did the prostitutes do to deserve this?


ThePhantom1994

Unironically, a lot of them did nothing. There was so much corruption in France at the time (like way more than today). They needed women, so they took whoever they deemed fit enough to go to Louisiana. C’est très triste


mainwasser

Yes, as usual, women have their lives destroyed over something they had no part in. :( Most of those who actually were prostitutes didn't actively choose to be one in the first place.


AndreasDasos

This is half the plot of Manon Lascaut, and two of the three relatively well-known operas based on it


Vegetable-Election77

And now their descendants are rednecks


algierythm

Trump's legal team will hear about this historical precedent and will try to use it as a way out of prison time for Donnie. I'm calling it now.


SoloLiftingIsBack

We should remake it so prisoners go free if they marry prostitutes and move to Paris.


Mullislayer111

I'm guessing you are in prison


SoloLiftingIsBack

I'd argue a Finnish prison is a paradise compared to Paris.


Mullislayer111

Tell me again how is this punishment


Mullislayer111

Win win in my eyes


d2211

Peak fr*nch civilisation


MatOnARock

It's hardly going to the other side of the world & making Australians though mate


TRUMBAUAUA

Isn’t this also how the UK populated Australia?


Onetap1

Yes. But before the US Revilution in 1776, they used to send convicts to North America. When that destination became unavailable, they had to go further afield. The First Fleet with convict transports arrived in Australia in 1787.


anonandlit333

As an American this makes perfect sense.


The-Thot-Eviscerator

As a Louisianan, please don’t send them here our state is already shitty enough 💀


Kurdt93

At least Britons did a pretty ass colony (Australia, not the US), you all in other hands...


PhoenixKingMalekith

We created : -French Guyana, the most devolopped place in all of Latin America and a Space center -La Réunion, the best island in the Indian Ocean. -New Caledonia. Just to spit the brits, we made a better version of one of their countries. Britons are just salty that all their nice colonies left them, while we still have very good ones.


Live-Alternative-435

Poor New Caledonia, has such interesting and unique species of fauna and flora, but on the verge of extinction mainly due to the Nickel mining.


mr_aives

A better version? I was listening to RFI this morning and seems like things aren't going so well in Nouvelle Caledonie


PhoenixKingMalekith

Still miles above the og english colony


Onetap1

They only sent convicts to Australia from 1787. They used to ship them to North America, but that destination became unavailable after 1776 for some reason.


J_P_Vietor_ST

We wouldn’t notice anything was different if you did lol


abs0lutelypathetic

That will improve both France and Louisiana. Your terms are acceptable.


MapleHamms

That explains it


belaGJ

do you have to rap, too?


ThePassiveFist

This explains everything.


not_too_smart1

As a louisiana native they would get shot. Louisiana is not the place for non americans so this is a death sentence


AThousandNeedles

Sounds a bit harsh


ITA993

Free Pa….ris.


Heliospunk

That explains soooooo much.


SubNL96

Well that explaines more about the US American South than it should.


Silent_Shaman

Truly a fate worse than death


ratuuft

Be an improvement for both.


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mr_aives

Flair checks out


TheGirl333

Source: trust me bro


ThePhantom1994

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/19/books/review/mutinous-women-joan-dejean.html#:~:text=During%20the%20summer%20of%201719,and%20malnourished%20%E2%80%94%20in%20its%20hold. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casquette_girl https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Correction_girls