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You don't.
Worse, I may be a human today and a bot tomorrow. I may stop posting and my account gets taken over/hacked.
There is an old joke. I know my little brother is an American. Born in America, lived his life in America. My older brother... I don't know about him.
I don't get the joke. Care to explain it, plz?
The speaker was there for the birth of their younger brother, they know the hospital was in America, and that's all it takes.
Their older brother was already alive when they were born, so their brother, parents, and the government could be lying about older brother, which, by nessesity, means the parents aren't American either.
It's implying that anything you didn't witness personally you can't be certain.
Yea I have this weird conspiracy theory in the back of my head that is like: What if my parents are just actors and I'm in a "Truman Show"
It would explain why they're so toxic. This could just be some subtle torture chamber.
Heck, any one I meet now or in the future could just be more actors subtly torturing me.
Then they could also have actors saying that I'm being paranoid.
Like, this is the perfect torture chamber. So subtle you could never tell.
What a cleve joke. No sarcasm or irony. Thank you for explaining it!
Great explation. One exception:
As the speaker didn't witness the birth of their own parents, the speaker simply does not know if they are Americans. It is not a joke about immigrants. As you correct state, lt is a joke about an unwillingness to believe what one did not personally witness.