A Buttery Pastry posted:

It means embracing a spirit of thrift, frugality, and hard work.

Quorum posted:

For some reason, white supremacists have a hard-on for the Holy Roman Empire and its various descendents and bastard children with Christian Scandinavia. I wonder why this could be. I mean, this map is literally just HRE.jpg plus the most Normanized bits of England and the populated parts of Scandinavia, leaving out the bits that stayed with ancestral belief practices longest.

YF19pilot posted:

It's the twelve "super states" representative districts as envisioned by the US Parliament.

QuoProQuid posted:

In the Fallout universe, were the states intentionally grouped together in ways that would undermine the power of the state governments? I can't imagine New York City working well with Charleston.

Peanut President posted:

New Mexico and "Arrizona" being split along an east-west line instead of a north-south one is pretty interesting.

HookShot posted:

steinrokkan posted:

(I recently read a book of essays from 1930s that contained a hateful takedown of the Straussian waltz as a taste ruining pop-culture fad)

Quorum posted:

I agree, the 4th Crusade is responsible for everything that is wrong with the Middle East today, and modern-day Venetians and Frenchmen should be punished for it.

Flipperwaldt posted:

what if you froze it and lifted it all out in one piece

Patter Song posted:

Fair enough, but New Orleans sure as hell is "the South" and it was a pretty vibrant place throughout the 19th century. For whatever reason, people seem to forget that one of America's most important ports, a critical city to the entire economy of everything west of the Atlantic seaboard, is in the Deep South.

Schizotek posted:

These are the same people whose historians repeatedly named entirely unrelated foreign pantheons after their own, even if they were monotheistic. Sometimes they wouldn't even be bothered to record what the natives actually called them. I'm looking at you "Scythian Ares".

fishmech posted:

Considering this map was made well past 1993 and isn't meant to be historic...

Golbez posted:

Really illustrates what a pretty great choice for capital location Washington was. The true center was closer to Baltimore, but that wouldn't have flown with the south.

Orange Devil posted:

That's probably also (one of) the reason(s) US presidents in official speeches regularly use the phrase "these United States" rather than "the United States".

computer parts posted:

Iraq and Syria were made out of existing Ottoman provinces.

Quorum posted:

Incidentally, this is a fascinating example of a distinct brand of historical revisionism which marks the period of Reconstruction and the early 20th century. Basically, following the trauma of the Civil War, white Northerners (principally) found themselves with a problem: Jamestown was inconvenient. Located in the former Confederacy, and the site of the first imported slaves in the New World, it was frankly problematic that it had in fact come before Plymouth, which had become invested with all the virtues of the Progressive Era: religious reformism, moral purity, temperance, et cetera. So what you see is that Jamestown gets neatly sliced out of the American founding myth, replaced almost wholesale with Plymouth. This is where Schoolhouse Rock and modern America at large get the popular image of the first settlers being Pilgrims on the Mayflower with buckled hats, when in fact the Mayflower came thirteen years after the Susan Constant, and was a delivery vessel for Jamestown on which the Pilgrims hitched a ride. It's also why the popular image of The First Thanksgiving involves merry Pilgrims eating turkey with jolly Indians, rather than hungry Englishmen giving thanks to God with no natives in sight; it's just a more politically palatable image, especially once it's been thoroughly whitewashed. The narrative worked, too-- I did archaeology at Jamestown for a while and I was always surprised how many people walked up to me and were genuinely surprised that the Pilgrims did not live at Jamestown and in fact came later.

This picture is basically emblematic of that whole movement, and it always makes me laugh to see it posted since it's been one of my areas of study. I'd quarrel with it in one regard, though: if from Jamestown came slavery, then from Plymouth came religious fundamentalism, and between the two you can explain quite a lot of America's modern problems.

A Buttery Pastry posted:

To celebrate the eminent reign of Donald J. Trump, here's the world in its full post-climate change splendor. Yes, a few people will have to move, but Germans will be able to enjoy a nice tropical beach resort without ever leaving Germany. Gonna have to go to Antarctica to go skiing though.

Negrostrike posted:

a bunch of loving racist songs for Japan. Good job whoever made this crap.

Patter Song posted:

The California state on that map is clearly reaching out to steal Las Vegas

HookShot posted:

YugoGREECEia

Pakled posted:

The one for Canada would probably be "The War of 1812 was a draw."

ekuNNN posted: