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Saladman posted:Yeah, that might be fair. Now think about how many Swiss or French you'd have to ask to label a map of Germany and list any state besides Bavaria on it. And they wouldn't be able to, and who cares? It's not any more relevant to a typical Parisian than it is for an American knowing which country is Austria. I think these arguments miss the actual point: for all the pride a sizeable amount of Americans seem to take in their nation being the world's hegemon, they know startlingly little about the world they're supposed to be the hegemon of. The damning thing isn't that the average American can't distinguish between Slovenia and Slovakia, but e.g. that most of them can't identify Iran on a map, while it's supposed to be an important enemy power to them. This doesn't matter to, say, the average Moldovan person, as Moldova can neither project power world-wide nor has it any ambitions to do so.
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Pope Hilarius II posted:I think these arguments miss the actual point: for all the pride a sizeable amount of Americans seem to take in their nation being the world's hegemon, they know startlingly little about the world they're supposed to be the hegemon of. The damning thing isn't that the average American can't distinguish between Slovenia and Slovakia, but e.g. that most of them can't identify Iran on a map, while it's supposed to be an important enemy power to them. This doesn't matter to, say, the average Moldovan person, as Moldova can neither project power world-wide nor has it any ambitions to do so. Unlike say the Brits and French who can't place most of the places maimed and by their nations, and in some cases still beholden to them economically.
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TinTower posted:YouGov have just released a poll with Labour over thirty points ahead, which would mean… this: Apparently the next general election in the UK will only happen in 2025? It'll be difficult to hold on to such an advantage for so long.
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Phlegmish posted:Apparently the next general election in the UK will only happen in 2025? It'll be difficult to hold on to such an advantage for so long. Mid-January 2025 at the latest. The perfect storm of Truss creating a sterling crisis, mortgage crisis, and pensions crisis in her first proper week in power (apparently we were hours from a run on pension funds on Wednesday) could be as lethal as Black Wednesday was to John Major's Tory government in late-1992.
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Phlegmish posted:Apparently the next general election in the UK will only happen in 2025? It'll be difficult to hold on to such an advantage for so long. An election has to happen at most five years after the last one, but if the sitting parliament chooses to or it loses a vote of no confidence it can happen earlier. Admittedly, neither of those are likely any time soon - Truss and her gang won't willingly leave until their golden parachutes are good and ready, and you'd need a significant amount of the tories to join a NC vote when it would be very likely to lose them their seats.
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TinTower posted:Mid-January 2025 at the latest. Oh yeah, looks like the Tories did lose the 1997 elections in a landslide, despite it being years later. I can see the comparison. I haven't been paying much attention to UK politics, but apparently Liz Truss is making Boris Johnson look sane and rational, which is quite a feat. One of the Brits I play Vermintide 2 with was complaining about her a few days ago, and he's not even particularly left-wing.
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Grape posted:Unlike say the Brits and French who can't place most of the places maimed and by their nations, and in some cases still beholden to them economically.
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Even her father dislikes her. 
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Pope Hilarius II posted:I think these arguments miss the actual point: for all the pride a sizeable amount of Americans seem to take in their nation being the world's hegemon, they know startlingly little about the world they're supposed to be the hegemon of. The damning thing isn't that the average American can't distinguish between Slovenia and Slovakia, but e.g. that most of them can't identify Iran on a map, while it's supposed to be an important enemy power to them. This doesn't matter to, say, the average Moldovan person, as Moldova can neither project power world-wide nor has it any ambitions to do so.
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By 2025 Brits will be resorting to cannibalism and either fighting for or being raided by one of several warring neo-barbarian factions.
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FreudianSlippers posted:By 2025 Brits will be resorting to cannibalism and either fighting for or being raided by one of several warring neo-barbarian factions. Sixteen hundred years only to end at the same place.
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FreudianSlippers posted:By 2025 Brits will be resorting to cannibalism and either fighting for or being raided by one of several warring neo-barbarian factions. I think by 2023 Brits are going to be burning wheelbarrows full of hyper-inflated pound sterling just to keep warm.
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FreudianSlippers posted:By 2025 Brits will be I admire your wild optimism
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Guavanaut posted:There's a whole cohort of old Anglo Boomers who can obsessively name and place the countries where 'the immigrants' are coming from. They're just incapable of linking it to any larger Philosophy of History.
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That's America's Prostate
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That’s an exclave of Mississippi.
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The borders are too organic to be a real US state. 3/10, try again.
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Reminds me of this map (found this copy on Reddit by image search, but not sure what the original source was): Also apparently there's a Canada version: 
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RIP Galveston and the rest of Texas's coastline.
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First of May posted:That's America's Prostate Uncomfortably close to America's Penis
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Kevin DuBrow posted:Uncomfortably close to America's Penis America has a penis, Europe has the Hapsburg jaw
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Teriyaki Hairpiece posted:America has a penis, Europe has the Hapsburg jaw ha i see it
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wow when you overlay the netherlands and randstad over holland it's really eye-opening [costanza voice] then who are the dutch??
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I'd like to see Tokyo, Shanghai, Cairo, New Delhi and etc
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Count Roland posted:I'd like to see Tokyo, Shanghai, Cairo, New Delhi and etc Houston and Dallas
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DFW would approximately cover the northern bulge of the country; groeningen, drenthe and friesland
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Count Roland posted:I'd like to see Tokyo, Shanghai, Cairo, New Delhi and etc Teriyaki Hairpiece posted:Houston and Dallas  Which I guess is also an exercise in "what the hell do the colors on these maps actually denote", since a few city shapes I tried weren't really that apparent, and the map sure didn't show off Cairo's bullshit sprawl. i say swears online posted:DFW would approximately cover the northern bulge of the country; groeningen, drenthe and friesland Dang, you called it.
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oh that's really funny the area you chose lol
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Netherlands friends, how would you feel if everything north of Zwolle was paved over?
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Teriyaki Hairpiece posted:Netherlands friends, how would you feel if everything north of Zwolle was paved over? There's something north of Zwolle?
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The San Francisco borders are absolutely deranged.
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they should just drain san francisco bay, easy
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Just remove the tops of the mountains that encircle us and dump it all into the Bay, then this place would be as flat as the Netherlands. Problem solved.
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Family Values posted:Just remove the tops of the mountains that encircle us and dump it all into the Bay, then this place would be as flat as the Netherlands. Problem solved. Solves weird climate, housing crisis, golden gate suicides and let’s you ride a bike around town. Folks this plans a winner.
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Platystemon posted:The San Francisco borders are absolutely deranged. I mean they're doing metro areas rather than cities proper, that should just have been labeled the Bay Area.
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