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Jasper Tin Neck posted:I'm not either, but I'd guess it has a lot to do with the fact that New Jersey's biggest population centres are suburbs of either New York or Philadelphia, so it's a state mostly characterised by sprawl, a stereotype of suburban middle-class aspirations similar to the stereotypes about e.g. Essex in England and of course the shores. No, if anything those are Connecticut's stereotypes. Stuffy (and moneyed) suburbs in the orbit of other state's cities. Jersey stereotypes are trashy, tacky, and very very Italian-American. And their sprawl stereotypes focus on stuff like chemical plants and rat king highways. The latter is dead loving true btw, driving around northeast Jersey's highway system is loving hellish. EDIT: Upon looking into Essex stereotypes nevermind, had it right the first time!
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Apr 11, 2022 22:24
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This is a strange game, the only way to win is to not play. 
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Apr 11, 2022 23:04
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Turkey should be removed, too.
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Platystemon posted:Turkey should be removed, too.
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AAAAA! Real Muenster posted:Hungary too while they're at it. Now that’s thinking four-dimensionally.
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Tei posted:This is a strange game, the only way to win is to not play. Pretty sure Finland is worried about a certain somewhere deciding to play games regardless of consent.
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Happy to see the notorious Swingers Counties of Småland are appropriately noted as MILF territory.
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Grape posted:Pretty sure Finland is worried about a certain somewhere deciding to play games regardless of consent. I am not a expert, but I think is good to have a buffer zone between the two blocks. Sharing a border mean things like planes "checking" the reaction times of the other block. A accident or somebody trigger happy would quickly lead to a situation where is in the hands of politicians to de-escalate or escalate the accident into war.
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Washington Post is trash, but here's some good snark: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/03/08/whom-it-may-concern-nato-is-already-russias-border/ 
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Apr 12, 2022 01:54
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If this war has proven anything, it's that Belarus should just be considered a constituent part of the Russian Federation at this point.
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Apr 12, 2022 01:56
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Tei posted:I am not a expert, but I think is good to have a buffer zone between the two blocks. Sharing a border mean things like planes "checking" the reaction times of the other block. A accident or somebody trigger happy would quickly lead to a situation where is in the hands of politicians to de-escalate or escalate the accident into war. 1. Tell that to the Finns. 2. They've lived as a buffer zone for like 80 years, meaning recent events are seismic enough to make them change their minds about that being viable or intelligent.
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Apr 12, 2022 02:44
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how exactly does the inland empire work that its a complete non-entity in the american cultural consciousness even less than say Hartford but also the 13th largest metro area. why isn't it just merged with LA? It's really big in area sure because you're including the entire county so why is it one metro area then? i don't understand it.
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Apr 12, 2022 03:01
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Tei posted:I am not a expert, but I think is good to have a buffer zone between the two blocks. Sharing a border mean things like planes "checking" the reaction times of the other block. A accident or somebody trigger happy would quickly lead to a situation where is in the hands of politicians to de-escalate or escalate the accident into war. You mean a buffer zone is good to prevent the kind of thing that is currently happening? Also, they are just bad, period. And what about just not doing those things? They are not inevitable.
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Tei posted:I am not a expert, but I think is good to have a buffer zone between the two blocks. Sharing a border mean things like planes "checking" the reaction times of the other block. A accident or somebody trigger happy would quickly lead to a situation where is in the hands of politicians to de-escalate or escalate the accident into war. 1) NATO and USSR/Russia have bordered each other for years with no buffer zone. 2) Planes "check" each other's response time all the time without bordering each other. The US does it to Russia, Russia does it to the US. The USSR even shot down a commercial flight because they thought it was a spy plane. The difference is they "check" NATO countries with lightly loaded fighter planes or bombers generally, but they have "checked" non-NATO countries with planes with nuclear warheads on them. You tell me which you'd rather have overhead
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people don't hate people from new jersey, they just hate italians
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Certainly a Take on the Falklands.
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Las Malvinas son World Cup Winners
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Alaois posted:people don't hate people from new jersey, they just hate italians Unless from NY, RI, or CT, in which case it's classist inter-Italian hatred.
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Apr 12, 2022 05:59
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how does England share a land border with France? if the Falklands don't count as "England" (and they shouldn't) then neither should Gibraltar
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Las Malvinas are closer to Uruguay’s capital than to Argentina’s. The implications are clear.
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oxford_town posted:how does England share a land border with France? 
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oxford_town posted:how does England share a land border with France? Post-Brexit UK is England.
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Wikipedia says the Chunnel is "defined as a 'Land Frontier', and not widely recognised as a Land Border", so therefore the map about World Cup winners sharing a continguous border is Incorrect and I am upset. Groda posted:Post-Brexit UK is England. Currently we still have our claws into the colonial possessions of NI, Wales, Scotland, and Kernow. Would an independent Wales be feasible? I can see indy Scotland and a united Ireland, but not Wales. (Sorry to the Welsh nationalists.)
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Apr 12, 2022 10:23
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 TFW when you hate Norway, Gotland, Aland, Zeeland, Albania, and Yugoslavia (except Slovenia), but love the rest of Denmark and Sweden. I really can't figure out why Sweden and Denmark are on that map, but Norway isn't. Or what the that bureau off the coast of Latvia is supposed to be. Or why they have a bureau in what appears to be a small farming village in Latvia. Or what mutation happened to northern Greece.
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Apr 12, 2022 10:37
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oxford_town posted:how does England share a land border with France? The map seems to be based on noticing of the France/Brazil border. They should have made it clear if they consider England to border France, Spain or both.
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Apr 12, 2022 10:57
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Saladman posted:
And for some reason they draw Södertörn as an actual discernible island southeast of Stockholm... which it technically is, though no one who lives there would ever know.
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oxford_town posted:Wikipedia says the Chunnel is "defined as a 'Land Frontier', and not widely recognised as a Land Border", so therefore the map about World Cup winners sharing a continguous border is Incorrect and I am upset.
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Apr 12, 2022 11:25
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Europe and South America share a contiguous border because you can go from European coast to South American coast without crossing any non European or non South American territory.
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Apr 12, 2022 11:58
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And also French Guiana is an integral, indivisible, eternal part of La République Française, of course.
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Saladman posted:
looks like a EU map with MNK partners (whatever that is) colored in, leaving a handful of countries as grey. also lol Scotland all hosed up
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Scotland looks like a discount Netherlands Netherlands looks like they got greedy with the land reclamation
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Carthag Tuek posted:looks like a EU map with MNK partners (whatever that is) colored in, leaving a handful of countries as grey. Croatia’s in the EU tho
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Not a single Parisian district (?) voting Le Pen. Makes sense considering the city's demographics, but it's still striking. Marseille actually does have a few working-class areas where the FN does well, if I remember correctly.
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Phlegmish posted:Not a single Parisian district (?) voting Le Pen. Makes sense considering the city's demographics, but it's still striking. Marseille actually does have a few working-class areas where the FN does well, if I remember correctly. Is it really just the rural areas that are voting for fascists again? We really must get to 100% urbanization asap.
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3/5 of these would've broken the streak: it's fate
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mobby_6kl posted:Is it really just the rural areas that are voting for fascists again? We really must get to 100% urbanization asap. I don't think that's quite correct, most of the support for the Front National seems to be coming from economically depressed areas, e.g. the mining basin in the north. It's not specifically a rural phenomenon. Paris just happens to be particularly unreceptive to the FN, as it consists mostly of educated middle-class professionals and (the descendants of) non-European immigrants, neither group being likely to turn out for Le Pen. That's my take on it, at least.
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