Why didn't they just say "in all states..." puzzles me. What other states can we be talking about?
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All countries are states, and a good handful or so countries are federations which call their largest constituencies states, so Germany for example has states, as does Malaysia, as does Australia.
Edit: just reading now that there's no consensus on what a state is exactly, so, fuck knows.
Your neighbour, Mexico, has states for one.
Yeah, but no one actually lives there, right? And if they do, they're certainly not on the internet.
whaddaya mean, the united states is the entire world!
hell, look at every alien sighting and you have your proof.
just, yknow, ignore the 7.7 billion other people on the planet
Then how the bloody hell are we supposed to leave?!
you just gotta double think even harder
They didn't read the fine print from 1945
I have never thought about the alien sighting thing. Are they really all or mostly in the US?
The vast majority. https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/ufo-sightings-by-country
One could certainly note that America also spends by far the most on things like stealth bombers and fighters, or that the most common types of sightings oh-so-coincidentally end up matching the profiles of those stealth planes once they become common knowledge.
I don't remember where I read it (this was years ago) but The US had purposely experimented during the cold war with making people think they've seen ufo's to gauge their reactions and to feed the frenzy to make russia think they have more tech than they actually do.
That's because the rest of us just blame it on CIA weather balloons
There are 3 countries in the world. The United States, Alaska, and Hawaii.
Oh come on. There can't possibly be that many people outside the US right?
Well, there are at least twelve of us
Woah hold your horses there bossman. You and the guy in OPs post. You got a way to go before you can back that claim of "at least" up!
How sure are we that u/colmear isn't just an alt of OP? It could be just OP claiming they don't live in the US!
Your right. I'm such a fool! There's no hope!
Well, you have Mexico, European Mexico and The Surrenders.
YeS BuT YoU SpEaK EnGlIsH!
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You speak English because it's the only language you know.
I speak English because it's the only language you know.
We are not the same.
I feel like this subreddit didn't need bringing over from Reddit, it's clearly just as weak as the original
You know you can just not visit this community, right? Ignore, downvote, block even.
Edit: I apologize, I am actually a time traveler from 1982 when this was not the case
You're incorrect. The National Minimum Drinking Age Act of 1984 made the minimum drinking age 21 in all 50 states.
What about the non-states? Puerto Rico? Guam? What about tribal nations? What about DC?
US states
United states states?
United States states, yeah that makes sense. States within the boundaries of the United States. How else would you say it? If you just say "states" it doesn't necessarily clarify them to be American states but could be ones in other countries.
Ah yes the United States States... my favourite country.
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