It’s not racism, nor is it nationalism. I live in America, it fucking sucks here and I’d like to leave. But it’s still better than North Korea by leaps and bounds, and I would choose to be born here again if those were the only choices. Same with Russia, same with China.
Are you really trying to defend the living conditions in a country like North Korea? It’s not racist to say it sucks there, that’s just a fact.
But certain countries are better to be born into than others. Like, I would hate to be reincarnated into North Korea or Russia. This has nothing to do with the people themselves, but rather the rules and rulers of the country. It’s not racism to dislike the idea of being born without basic rights.
If somebody tells me I need to power through several bad arcs to get to the good stuff, I kinda just immediately lose interest.
I agree that we seem to use language differently, and it’s pretty interesting to see. Both of us have been upvoted by at least one or two other people as well, so it seems some people agree with you and some with me despite our completely different takes, so I don’t think either of us are really wrong.
According to the dictionary, ‘is’ and ‘was’ are respectively a present and past tense singular of the word ‘be’. The definition of the word ‘be’ (or at least, the one I find relevant here), is “having the state, quality, identity, nature, role, etc., specified”. This seems like a significantly more important part of the sentence to be emphasizing here.
On the moon he is the alien.
As opposed to who? I still just can’t understand why you would emphasize ‘he’, when there are no other subjects that we could be talking about. Like, obviously we’re talking about Neil, so why would you put emphasis on it? On the other hand, the fact that he actually ‘is/was’ an alien is pretty surprising to think about and thus the important bit. That is to say, it makes more sense to emphasize the fact that he is an alien, and not the fact that Neil is the subject.
The emphasis is not being placed on was because it’s past tense, it’s being placed on was because the shitpost is ironically somewhat accurate. You can replace it with is if you’d like for the same meaning. On the other hand, everyone knows we’re talking about Neil as there is no other relevant subject, so bringing attention to the word he doesn’t really make any sense.
Perhaps it would read better if they had said “…he actually was an alien”?
Why would he be italicized? ‘Was’ would be italicized because the emphasis is being put on the fact that he actually was an alien.
This is fire.
Yeah, the entire joke is a subversion of expectations. The only reason the joke works at all is because the format is being used “incorrectly”.
Well-priced for the content of the game itself, with or without 20% off.
You have such a way with words.
Right, but what if they’re hot?
Drama aside, then is used for time, whereas than is for comparisons.
I am taller than her
And then we watched a movie
An example correctly using both back-to-back would be:
Good question, linking the article directly definitely would have been better. I’m not the OP if you didn’t notice, I just saw the article link.
The Reddit post directly links to an article. It’s not in English though.
I don’t see how the entire screenshot would be any harder to photoshop. But you can look through this thread and find multiple different people confirming it on their ends too.
I see you’ve already seen that one, but the point is multiple people are having different results. Unless you think like 10 different people are independently lying about it.
Imagine one day an app comes along that only lets you upload videos that are at least four hours long, and it becomes incredibly popular among kids and teens. Would somebody be stubborn and out of touch for not using it?
The cop’s baton is technically a type of club. I guess his name is Sam.
I genuinely don’t see the issue if you were to replace Russia with NK. NK is a worse place to live from what I understand, so it would work even better.
The difference between this comic and nationalism, is that nobody is singing praises about how good the other countries are. The France/Canada babies aren’t exactly breaking out into giddy smiles here. If saying “X country isn’t the worst place ever” is nationalism, the word doesn’t mean much.