DominicO
my language doesn’t have gendered pronouns so we just use “siya” for singular they and “sila” for plural.
I’m curious what other languages specify if “they” is singular or plural and how?
third world countries where multinational corporations have been buying up land and propping up and collaborating with authoritarian governments for decades: first time?
don’t forget the US-backed Filipino dictator Ferdinand Marcos Sr… he oversaw a borderline ethnic cleansing campaign against moro muslims in mindanao, had thousands tortured and killed and sometimes had their mutilated bodies strewn on public areas(this is what we call salvaging), created an oligarchy that lives on today and, with his wife and children and billions of public funds, was flown out of the country by orders of Reagan when his regime was toppled by the 1986 revolution.
and now his son, who continues to deny his father’s crimes and refuse to return the billions they stole from us, is president.
Filipino here, I’m curious how american politics got this, for lack of a better word, wild?
don’t get me wrong, my country is far from better, but over here, the closest we have to MTG is probably Cynthia Villar or some other overly-vocal conservative oligarch in the senate, but they’d never pull stunts like this over here.
chatGPT doesn’t chastize me like a drill instructor whenever I ask it coding problems.
non-american here. I knew the conservatives in your country were bad but holy shit
well obviously wet bugs are cleaner since they’re surrounded by water all the time