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soumerd_retardataire@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

Oh, ok, so that’s because we’re not concerned by this, they’re not “us”, understood.
(it’s not geographical since europeans will be more impacted by deaths in the west than, e.g., in Africa, it’s more of a tribal thing)

I also hesitated to post « If you always agree with “the”( only) point of view of mainstream medias, then you should find it weird », because it’s different in foreign medias that we never read(, iranian, venezuelan, russian, chinese, zimbabwean, …), we usually call “foreign medias” those who are still in the west and aligned with our international policies. But i thought that this sentence was even more im14andthisisdeep material than showerthought, do you agree ?

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breadsmasher@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

Theres been a bombing

Place is implied. The logical implication would be local to the speakers.

Theres been a bombing in some place

We know the bombing took place elsewhere.

If you were in Afghanistan, and a bombing took place in america, “theres been a bombing” would imply it’s local to afghanistan.

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- soumerd_retardataire@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  As i said previously :
  
  There’s been a bombing
  
  Place is implied. Could be anywhere in the west, if i’m in France it works for the south//north of France, the United Kingdom, America, Australia, or any country i feel like i belong to, that is in my tribe.
  But if you say afterwards :
  
  There’s a bombing in some place
  
  And that place is in the Middle-East, or in Afghanistan, we would say “yeah, of course, like yesterday and probably tomorrow, no need to ne surprised”
  
  But thanks for wanting to correct me, it’s nice to have a chat with other people than from Lemmygrad for once.
  
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  - DmMacniel@feddit.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    do you know how the English language works? The place hasn’t been implied at all. And thus it default to local when there are no further question to clarify.
    
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    soumerd_retardataire@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    And what you consider local is the countries you consider belonging to, i.e., the west, ⟳ .
    
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irmoz@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

Oh, ok, so that’s because we’re not concerned by this, they’re not “us”, understood

Lmao you’re trying really hard to make this deep

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- soumerd_retardataire@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  Yes and no, while i do agree that this is considered normal behaviour, i also long for a world in which we would be able to say “there’s a bombing !” with as much anguish whether its in ‘the U.s.’/Europe, or in the Middle-East, Africa, etc. It’s not that much normal i think
  
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  - irmoz@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    We are able to do that lmao
    
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    soumerd_retardataire@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    Yeah no, we don’t , double standard is everywhere.
    
    Just take what’s happening in Palestine if you want the most recent examples, some lives are more important to us than others, there’s a difference between what we proclaim our values to be and our practice of them.
    
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