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Private Speech posted:Though it does still come ahead of the US, as shown by this fabulous graphic: The graphic is missing the asylum process by which an unskilled individual with no relations in the US can get a green card. It's particularly popular with Chinese immigrants for obvious reasons.
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Jaguars! posted:Yessss This is the politically loaded maps thread; basically everyone who reads this regularly should know that flag instantly.
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Pakled posted:An illustration of the Anaconda Plan We should change Kansas' name to Kanzas. It looks cooler.
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GreyjoyBastard posted:gently caress you winfield scott owned "We got all these boats lying around, and they got practically no boats, I guess we should do a blockade" Such military genius.
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Pakled posted:An illustration of the Anaconda Plan Arkansas just wants someone to hold 
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Pakled posted:An illustration of the Anaconda Plan Shouldn't the anaconda be going up the Mississippi?
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a pipe smoking dog posted:Shouldn't the anaconda be going up the Mississippi? General Scott's plan was to simultaneously attempt to cut off any Western reach from the Confederacy as well as seizing the Mississippi River to split up the south and provide US supply routes. So to have the snake curling around the west side and then pointing its head down towards the Mississippi is probably the best way to represent it in snake-form, rather than having two heads or a weird full loop.
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Is that from a board game or something? It makes so little sense that I can't imagine it's from anything that's supposed to relate to the real world (e.g. most brazenly, Switzerland less stable than Nicaragua, China "decentralized" and Turkey a "rising star"). Also it's kind of odd that 7 countries are highlighted, but of them Angola and Japan do not have stars for their capital city's location. Edit: Actually Luanda and Tokyo do have stars, not sure why I didn't see them before. I guess those 7 are highlighted because they're "aggressive states"? Which also makes zero loving sense. How are Angola and Japan aggressive? And how is Germany aggressive if you don't subscribe to the admittedly-popular "lol Germany is conquering Greece" meme? Saladman fucked around with this message at 22:29 on Jul 3, 2018 |
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Jul 3, 2018 21:52
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Why doesn't America have 50 stars? 
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Jul 3, 2018 21:55
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kikkelivelho posted:Behold Steady but governed by incest-rape-Americophiles with engineer degrees and/or the closest possible relatives in industries that are handed out on a gold platter to them. But it's still better than the USA SMDH.
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I assure you the map 100% serious.
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kikkelivelho posted:Behold Didn't Turkey have a coup attempt recently?
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kikkelivelho posted:I assure you the map 100% serious. I've lived through the killing of the Finnish welfare state, the capitalismization of the Soviet Union, the Non-Paedophile-Bombization of Ireland, and I will live through the collapse of the USA. You can quote me on that in 10-20 years.
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Jul 3, 2018 22:06
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kikkelivelho posted:I assure you the map 100% serious. Where's it from?
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Jerry Cotton posted:Steady but governed by incest-rape-Americophiles with engineer degrees and/or the closest possible relatives in industries that are handed out on a gold platter to them. What the gently caress does any of that even mean? Especially your first sentence and "non-paedophile bombization of Ireland"? Seriously what the gently caress are you talking about.
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Jerry Cotton posted:Steady but governed by incest-rape-Americophiles with engineer degrees and/or the closest possible relatives in industries that are handed out on a gold platter to them. yeah things could be a far worse when look at things going on. Count Roland posted:Where's it from? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=feU7HT0x_qU he has a point
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Saladman posted:What the gently caress does any of that even mean? Especially your first sentence and "non-paedophile bombization of Ireland"? Seriously what the gently caress are you talking about. The Irish are papist terrorists. I'm assuming he's a member of the Orange Order
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HookShot posted:This is the politically loaded maps thread; basically everyone who reads this regularly should know that flag instantly. If that's really true, I'll crank up the difficulty
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kikkelivelho posted:Behold New Mongol Empire 2030
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Rising Stars (of fascism) - at least US and Turkey Also lol at the rising star of Myanmar
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actionjackson posted:If that's really true, I'll crank up the difficulty For whatever reason, that one I knew immediately, but the Mongolian flag I got confused with Cambodia. And I generally think flags are pretty dumb and generic. Also re: cool flags, the Japanese have the goddamn best municipal flags ever: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Japanese_municipal_flags Why does everyone else in the world have "three colors, as bars" as their flag? I have to give props to Ghaddafi for being original for his Libyan flag. Kiribati at least has a distinctive flag.
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Lycus posted:Didn't Turkey have a coup attempt recently? That map is so loving laughable, Turkey is literally the opposite of a rising star of stability right now. E: actionjackson posted:Rising Stars (of fascism) - at least US and Turkey 
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Saladman posted:Why does everyone else in the world have "three colors, as bars" as their flag? I have to give props to Ghaddafi for being original for his Libyan flag. Kiribati at least has a distinctive flag. It's a revolutionary symbol. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tricolour_(flag) Specifically, tricolor flags have been associated with republicanism and revolution from tyranny since the Dutch in 1579, and more powerfully and recently with the revolutions of 1848. The horizontal ones draw inspiration from the Dutch, the vertical ones from the French.
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kikkelivelho posted:Behold lol Argentina
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HookShot posted:This is the politically loaded maps thread; basically everyone who reads this regularly should know that flag instantly. I thought it was their naval ensign  I thought the national flag war had a brown background but I now realize that was from civilization IV.
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Saladin Rising posted:Yep, along with crackdowns on freedom of speech and the press, arrests of reporters, arrests of leaders and members of opposition parties, mass purges of anyone deemed disloyal, arrests of anyone related to the Gulen movement (knowledge of Gulen not required to be arrested as a Gulenist), and a whole host of other things related to Erdogan's plan to seize power and slowly become the new dictator of Turkey. To be fair to Turkey, it's been a fascist nationalist quasi-dictatorship for like 100 years now. In the 70s it was on the brink of civil war with (tens of?) thousands of people being killed in far left-far right street violence. The current stuff going on is not THAT unusual from a Turkish perspective and if you squint and say that Erdogan's grip on power is now secure you could reasonably predict it will get more stable from here onward
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Redeye Flight posted:It's a revolutionary symbol. But also it's easy to design, easy to manufacture, easy to copy. And bearing in mind that one of the biggest purposes of flags had long been "identifying a thing at a large distance", tricolors are typically pretty easy to make 'legible' that far away, as long as you're judicious in your color choices.
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The Scandinavian flag pattern (cross) is a religious thing right?
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Saladman posted:What the gently caress does any of that even mean? Especially your first sentence and "non-paedophile bombization of Ireland"? Seriously what the gently caress are you talking about. When I were a lad there were a lot of bombings on the British Isles perpetrated by Irish Roman Catholics. Roman Catholics are literally all either paedophiles or paedohile apologists. What's so hard to understand? e: Not that all religious people aren't highly probably paedophiles or paedophile apologists but it's more pronounced with catholics. (USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)
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actionjackson posted:The Scandinavian flag pattern (cross) is a religious thing right? Yes, the primary Nordic Cross flag patterns were specifically adopted to affirm each state's Christian faith originally, ultimately seeming to derive from the extremely similar black and white cross flag the Teutonic Knights used.
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actionjackson posted:If that's really true, I'll crank up the difficulty  Saladman posted:For whatever reason, that one I knew immediately, but the Mongolian flag I got confused with Cambodia.
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icantfindaname posted:To be fair to Turkey, it's been a fascist nationalist quasi-dictatorship for like 100 years now. In the 70s it was on the brink of civil war with (tens of?) thousands of people being killed in far left-far right street violence. The current stuff going on is not THAT unusual from a Turkish perspective and if you squint and say that Erdogan's grip on power is now secure you could reasonably predict it will get more stable from here onward Yeah the guy really gung ho in leaping into wars on their border, deeply alienating every neighbor they have sans Georgia, and full on leaning on the Kurdish conflict is reasonably symbolic of stability. Also in case you haven't been paying attention, Erdogan is not a cold calucated Putin, he's more a semi-competent Trump. Drama, explosions, and insecure ego are his bread and butter.
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Jerry Cotton posted:When I were a lad there were a lot of bombings on the British Isles perpetrated by Irish Roman Catholics. Roman Catholics are literally all either paedophiles or paedohile apologists. What's so hard to understand? lol yes indeed, when people are talking about "pedophile island" over there it is Ireland they think of. Not the fine upstanding sturdy Protestant land of Britain. Also congrats in knowing exactly jack about the Troubles dumb Finnish guy.
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Lord Hydronium posted:Why the hell do I know this one hmm. . . well I think of the sun over the ocean as a Central American motif, but I don't recognize that flag as that of any Caribbean nation. That bird looks like either an albatross or a frigate bird, which suggests to me that it is maybe somewhere in the Pacific Ocean. Kiribati maybe? holy poo poo I got it right! I really just guess a pacific island nation at random, could have just as easily gone for Tuvalu or elsewhere Looking at Latin American symbols again, they always put their suns over mountains/volcanos.  
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fishmech posted:Yes, the primary Nordic Cross flag patterns were specifically adopted to affirm each state's Christian faith originally, ultimately seeming to derive from the extremely similar black and white cross flag the Teutonic Knights used.
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Thanks to that World Geography game app I can 100% any national flag along with any of the sub-national ones they've included. I've probably played it way too much since I can distinguish Chad/Romania, Monaco/Indonesia, North/South Ossetia and Sierra Leone/Galapagos Islands.
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poo poo, you guys got me owned. I'm pretty good with capitals but not as much with flags. Aren't Monaco and Indonesia exactly the same except for the actual flag size? Can you detect that on a quiz?
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