NoneOfUrBusiness

Native Arabic, fluent English, less fluent Japanese, bad Chinese.

Yes, that ceasefire.

Trump was definitely part of that ceasefire, as evidenced by how Netanyahu rejected this exact same deal when Biden proposed it last time in May. If you have a plausible reason that he suddenly changed his mind from even a month earlier (where there were no mentions at all of a ceasefire) then let’s hear it, otherwise Trump is the only explanation. We all hate the orange man here but objectively speaking Trump is a lot more plausible as a explanation than Biden’s lackluster “negotiations” finally bearing fruit coincidentally right before Trump’s inauguration.

but I scrolled a fair way down in that thread and I don’t think I saw a single pro-Israel comment.

You’ll find them in replies, not parent comments.

Oh my God I’d forgotten over this past year how infuriating Reddit Zionists were.

To Romans the English are probably the weird ones for adopting the word vomit to mean, well, vomit.

I mean so far even if we give him no credit for the ceasefire he hasn’t done anything to Palestinians so far. I mean I get that you hate that Trump won but leopards haven’t ate that particular group of faces yet.

stopped cause tf is up with their writting systems.

FTFY.

we’re really rather good at understanding foreigners trying to speak our language, even when they get half the words wrong and use a really thick accent.

This is actually something I only realized after coming to Japan. It’s surprising how much English tolerates mistakes when a small-ish mistake can completely throw off a Japanese speaker from what you’re talking about. I wonder how other languages compare.

TFW it’s good morning at 8 PM. Time zones are a cruel mistress. I’m now at my local mosque listening to sermons and waiting for the group prayer and free food, then I’ll go home and study for my exam (read: watch anime and sleep).

If people see that as weak, that’s their problem.

You’ve got a good idea there. You as a human have a right to exist and if anyone has a problem with that (which 99% of people won’t, to be clear) it’s frankly their own problem to deal with. And while we’re at itlet’s go a step further: People tolerate and help each all the time, that’s kind of why society exists. We should all strive to be able to live independently, but needing help with something other people can do is half the reason society exists and is frankly nothing to be ashamed of. At least this is how I see things as someone who’s probably on the spectrum and has had a lot of time and opportunities to thonk about what it means to be different from people around you. Basically what I’m trying to say is: Own it, be brazen, you have the right to live and do whatever the fuck you want as much as anyone you see out in the streets.

I hate it.

Can you elaborate?

Just saying you’ll probably have a better time asking this in a casual conversation community. To answer the question though I’m Egyptian and I speak Arabic, English, Japanese and a bit of Chinese.

Wait you wrote this? If so man you have some real talent there.

Somewhere on the longer side of a few hours. Just casual third world country things.

This is peak Onion. If we’re gonna get satire like this for the next four years then Trump 2.0 might be almost worth it. Almost.

It seems it went hard in the other direction with conspiracy theories and what not, but mostly yeah.

I mean no? The have in could have is pronounced the same as of, but at least AFAIK no dialect explicitly says could of. Tell the other person to not mesh the two words together and they’ll say have. I think.

Fluent Japanese speaker here. The font in the article is a bit too small for comfort, but nothing major. The one in your post is perfectly fine, and in fact I wouldn’t even think to make bigger.

Again, I won’t argue that colonial wealth didn’t contribute to the rise of Western Europe, but it was Europeans who invented the steam engine, developed thermodynamics as a science and put half a continent’s worth of resources and intellect into the industrial revolution. Colonialism is only a contributing factor that came after the start of the industrial revolution. Hell, France for example barely had any colonies during the early industrial revolution and that didn’t at all impede its industrialization or rise to power. If you look at, say, Ottoman history you’ll see that the thing European countries had and the Ottomans didn’t wasn’t wealth but rather ideas.

Which is why many in the developing world feel that China’s rise to prominence is the West’s chickens coming home to roost.

As someone from the developing world (specifically the Middle East), we are salty about colonialism, but many of us also recognize that if we don’t learn from the history of colonialism and what allowed Europe to conquer half the world (including us) we’ll always be on the bottom rung of the world. There’s a lot more to learn from the rise of Europe than “fuck colonialism”.

I mean yes, true, but it was capitalists who made smartphones and computers. I’ll just link my other reply here.