inside it is another, smaller baby
In a way, that’s true of most of us.
This is a similar argument I make when asking people if they truly believe in god and the religion they do or if it was just indoctrination due to who they were born to. A lot don’t like the cognitive dissonance of thinking about what would have happened if they were born in India
I like to remind them about the devout girl that was kept in a basement and sexually abused by her father. Whatever she did to “deserve it”, they certainly did worse, so they should go through the same. But I personally refuse to worship such a god.
Why is the Canadian baby so unhappy? Shouldn’t they be happy? Or at least saying “sorry!”?
Because they know the top of their head is about to become detached at the mouth
What?
South Park
It’s a badge of honour, much like Americans getting their first gun. The head detaching process is, surprisingly, painless, but leads to decades of bragging about free healthcare and complaining about Newfies (you know we love you 🧡)
I’m not your buddy, guy.
US bullshit aside, Canada has been struggling for a while. Cost of living is out of control, many folks are struggling. Housing prices are completely unmoored from reality, especially in major cities.
It’s bad comparing to pre-covid, but not that bad…
Give us a few months, we’re working on it.
I too would not want to be neighbouring US at the moment
Housing prices. They know they’ll never be able to afford a home, even with help from their middle class parents.
Tf does this mean
Nationalities are just arbitrary labels that you had no power over deciding
No, I’m pretty sure it means Russia sucks.
Por que no los dos?
How sweet. He’s already practicing for russian folk dance.
Shouldn’t the French Baby have a little white flag?
I kid! I kid!
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Please elaborate.
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Its not a joke if it is true… even if it is because of artificially induced conditions. Nobody argues that it wouldn’t be a boon being born in the EU for instance.
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So we get to the problem you have with the comic.
if we can’t control our births might as well joke about it to ease the pain. Where does racism factor into all this?
EU is far better off than most of the world right now. USA is Cooked, not sure I can even talk about the rest.
But certain countries are better to be born into than others. Like, I would hate to be reincarnated into North Korea or Russia. This has nothing to do with the people themselves, but rather the rules and rulers of the country. It’s not racism to dislike the idea of being born without basic rights.
My bad. I just don’t like generalizing large swaths of people and places as better/worse. Just feels like a slippery slope to saying “all Russians bad” or whatever groups of people because you believe are worse off. I get the point, I still think it’s problematic. I’m sorry
You’re not wrong. It’s really pumping up a degree of nationalism that is unhealthy to take for granted. If you change out ‘Russia’ for other countries you start see the baby’s reaction relies on prejudices on politics and current events. If it was ‘Mexico’ or ‘China’ it suddenly feels a little more racist.
It’s not racism, nor is it nationalism. I live in America, it fucking sucks here and I’d like to leave. But it’s still better than North Korea by leaps and bounds, and I would choose to be born here again if those were the only choices. Same with Russia, same with China.
Are you really trying to defend the living conditions in a country like North Korea? It’s not racist to say it sucks there, that’s just a fact.
In that line of thinking: what does the comic say if ‘Russia’ is exchanged for ‘North Korea’? Is the point of the comic just to flatly express that one nation state sucks in comparison? If so, that’s kind of a shitty sentiment–and dare I say nationalistic.
