▲ 222 ▼ Trump says he's been rejected by NATO, most allies to join mission to secure critical Strait of Hormuz (www.pbs.org) submitted 5 months ago by Redditsux@lemmy.world to c/politics@lemmy.world 36 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] 14th_cylon@lemmy.zip 5 points 5 months ago* (2 children) There exists cities where the streets are older than America itself. i think this is true for majority of cities outside the us of a... permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] echolalia@lemmy.ml 3 points 5 months ago Yes, and Americans know this is true but they forget how it might change their perspective of the world. Its like that old joke: two fish meet in the ocean. The first fish says "hey how are ya, how's the water?" And the second fish says, "what's water?" Most of the people I know are working class and can't travel overseas for vacation (if they even can afford to have one). Seeing it on TV is completely different than experiencing it. permalink fedilink source parent [–] phutatorius@lemmy.zip 2 points 5 months ago In England, I lived in a house built in the early 1600s. It was nice, though there were no longer any right angles or level floors in the place. When I bought a place, I went for something more modern, built in the 1880s. There's a pub not far from here that was built in the mid-800s, though it wasn't always used as a pub. It started as a longhouse: animals at one end, people at the other, fire pit on the floor in the middle. Now that it's a pub, based on the clientele I've seen in there, the animals are at both ends. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] echolalia@lemmy.ml 3 points 5 months ago Yes, and Americans know this is true but they forget how it might change their perspective of the world. Its like that old joke: two fish meet in the ocean. The first fish says "hey how are ya, how's the water?" And the second fish says, "what's water?" Most of the people I know are working class and can't travel overseas for vacation (if they even can afford to have one). Seeing it on TV is completely different than experiencing it. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] phutatorius@lemmy.zip 2 points 5 months ago In England, I lived in a house built in the early 1600s. It was nice, though there were no longer any right angles or level floors in the place. When I bought a place, I went for something more modern, built in the 1880s. There's a pub not far from here that was built in the mid-800s, though it wasn't always used as a pub. It started as a longhouse: animals at one end, people at the other, fire pit on the floor in the middle. Now that it's a pub, based on the clientele I've seen in there, the animals are at both ends. permalink fedilink source parent