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[–] 110 points 8 months ago (3 children)

And Florida is killing people they don't like

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  • [–] 29 points 8 months ago

    "Ohio isn't in the midwest."

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  • [–] 52 points 8 months ago (8 children)

    Isn't just living in Ohio the same as being in an active warzone?

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  • [–] 8 points 8 months ago (4 children)
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  • [–] 4 points 8 months ago (2 children)

    DROP THE GUN! DROP THE GUN! GET DOWN ON THE GROUND! :BLAM: :BLAM: :BLAM: :BLAM: :BLAM: :BLAM: :BLAM: :BLAM: :BLAM: :BLAM: :BLAM: :BLAM: :BLAM: :BLAM: :BLAM: :BLAM: :BLAM: :BLAM: :BLAM: :BLAM: :BLAM: :BLAM: :BLAM: :BLAM: :BLAM: :BLAM: :BLAM: :BLAM: DROP THE GUN!!! DON'T MOVE!

    …oh, sorry, I thought we were imitating US cops…

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  • [–] 15 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    Nah, more of a "crabs in a bucket" situation. Nobody wants to be here. A not-insubstantial amount of the population was either dumped out the gate of the nearest military base upon retirement or is otherwise descended from those that were.

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  • [–] 24 points 8 months ago (3 children)
  • [–] 31 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (3 children)

    Imagine the people running your country are literally fucking and eating kids.

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  • [–] 79 points 8 months ago (25 children)

    ...Ohio is part of the midwest.

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  • [–] 67 points 8 months ago (18 children)
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  • [–] 41 points 8 months ago (16 children)

    The point is to demonstrate that Germany, Austria, Poland are not very far away from Ukraine. It compares the situation as described.

    Imagine living in Minnesota, living life as you are used to, while there is a war in Ohio

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  • [–] -5 points 8 months ago* (2 children)

    Nobody know where those places are. Miami to NYC is a better comparison.

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  • [–] 0 points 8 months ago

    Oh, but isn't everyone from the US? And even if you're not, at least have decency to learn the relevantΒΉ geography in school

    ¹…relevant being the US, of course. But learning in school in the US seems to be largely unavailable

    /s

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  • [+] -18 points 8 months ago (10 children)

    Idk, the US is huge, Ohio to Minnesota is a very long distance.

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  • [–] 23 points 8 months ago (9 children)

    Do you get lost trying to find your way out of rooms with a single door?

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  • [–] 0 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    Wow, so you resort to insults? Yea we're done you, you win by being the first to resort to name calling.

    Why should anyone engage with your sophostry?

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  • [+] -22 points 8 months ago* (6 children)

    Don't let a handful of half wits convince you your comment isn't dumb and pointless. Regardless of your worthless contribution here, my point is living 500 miles away from something isn't all that close. At least 500.

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  • [+] 8 points 8 months ago (2 children)
  • [–] 2 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    Between Ohio and Minnesota is a lot more than a 6 hour trip however far it is, and 6 hours at 70 is 400 miles.

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  • [+] 5 points 8 months ago (1 child)
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    Indiana and Wisconsin both are known for tageting out of state drivers actually. Like their locals will be passing you, and they will ticket you for going a few over when everyone was passing you. It's about raising revenue you see. Ohio probably too, lots of nazis and klansman, or whatever the klan turned into, they are big into the police force there, Indiana even moreso.

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  • [–] 4 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    And an ICBM can cover a distance of 500 miles in about 1.8 minutes, assuming a very rough average speed of 15,000 mph.

    500 miles is nothing in a war zone.

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  • [–] -5 points 8 months ago* (5 children)

    eh, true midwest isnt till indiana. ohio is closer to west virginia/kenfucky

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  • [–] 4 points 8 months ago (3 children)

    I see the Midwest as more of a cultural region than a physical one. Ohio and Indiana honestly both perfectly fit in with the Midwestern culture, so I welcome them into the "Midwestern" moniker

    Personally, I see the Midwest as a triangle with Ohio, Minnesota, and Missouri as the corners. Kentucky and Arkansas are too southern culturally (and honestly, the southern half of Missouri is too) Oklahoma is almost southwestern culturally, and Kansas, the Dakotas and Nebraska are very western culturally (and honestly Western Minnesota and Western Iowa are pretty Western culturally too)

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  • [–] 2 points 8 months ago (2 children)

    Yeah the transappalachian great lakes region and the great plains. The real question is is west Pennsylvania midwestern

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  • [–] 2 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    i don't think you can be appalachian and midwestern, too. i think an argument can be made that the midwest is the mississippi and great lakes watersheds without mountains north of the missouri compromise line

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  • [–] 12 points 8 months ago

    Oh look at that DC is in Russia. Fitting analogy.

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  • [–] 11 points 8 months ago

    The Midwest ends somewhere around poland/the northern Baltics in that map, I was under the impression that those areas have been freaked out.

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  • [+] 11 points 8 months ago (5 children)
  • [–] 10 points 8 months ago

    We did that already, but with Minnesota.

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  • [–] 28 points 8 months ago

    Imagine having fully operating concentration camps where people from all over the country is arbitrarily "detained" and put in, and just going about your day like usual.

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  • [–] 8 points 8 months ago (17 children)

    is this an accurate representation of the US landmass ? I was under the impression they were much biger than that..., but they're roughly the size of Europe ?

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  • [–] 7 points 8 months ago* (12 children)
  • [–] 9 points 8 months ago* (11 children)

    Screenshot of a map of the continental United States on top of a map of Europe, accounting for the map projection. The US stretches from just west of Ireland all the way to TΓΌrkiye and interior parts of Russia.

    It looks just slightly bigger than in the OP's screenshot

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  • [–] -1 points 8 months ago (8 children)

    The two "maps" are wildly out of proportions anyway. Looks like Sweden is the size of the entire US West Coast. When in reality it's about the size of California

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  • [–] 2 points 8 months ago (5 children)

    Given how the US border is distorted (Maine is north of the 49th parallel) I'm guessing this is one of those maps that distorts things as you move them around to keep the area constant. Like look how big Greenland looks up in the corner.

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  • [–] 1 point 8 months ago (4 children)

    Greenland is not in the image

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  • [–] 2 points 8 months ago (3 children)

    Then what is the unlabeled landmass at the very top left, northeast of Iceland?

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  • [–] 2 points 8 months ago* (2 children)

    The landmass in the very top left on the image in this post. Is Iceland.

    Greenland is not northeast of Iceland either. It's northwest.

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  • [–] 2 points 8 months ago* (1 child)

    One of the most common criticisms of the Mercator map is that it exaggerates the size of countries nearer the poles, while downplaying the size of those near the equator

    For example, let's move Russia towards the equator

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  • [–] 1 point 8 months ago

    Mercator does compensate for that by introducing reference rectangles. But of course, that doesn't help when people making posts using those maps, are unaware of how to read them. And also just remove said reference rectangles

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    [–] 8 points 8 months ago (2 children)

    The one thing that this overlay is making me realise is that there are actually some parallels here. The North and Midwest kind of seem the same type of people, same with the UK being the northwest, Iberia basically being California/Nevada and Italy being a spaghetti western country with far right tendencies.

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  • [–] -2 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    Italy is more like california I think. Spain is a lot poorer. Greece is like lousiana maybe, spain could be like the texas gulf coast maybe. Central Europe is not unlike the upper midwest in the industrial heartland. Western Europe like the northeast corridor in the US.

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  • [–] 15 points 8 months ago

    There is an active war in Ohio.

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  • [–] 7 points 8 months ago

    If you drive from the east coast to the midwest and back, as I have, you'll get a sense of how weirdly huge the United States is. There comes a point where your primitive monkey brain is confused that people still speak the same language.

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  • [–] 7 points 8 months ago

    Imagine being from the US while your government is run by pedophiles who are turning the country into an authoritarian dictatorship. But meanwhile all you do is complain there's nothing you can do about it, how you're a victim (even though you voted for it or were stupid enough not to vote) while you defended the second amendment after yet another school shooting because you might need it in case of a tyrannical government. Keep in mind, the people who voted for the other option still voted for right wing, as there's no left wing representation in that country, because apparently the left is such a tiny part of the population they don't have any political representation.

    All dystopian fiction writers would say this story wouldn't sell so wouldn't be worth writing about, because it would be too far fetched. Americans: "hold my beer..."

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  • [–] 7 points 8 months ago (4 children)

    Something makes me think that the US should be flipped horizontally here. So that Florida is over Spain.

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  • [–] [S] 5 points 8 months ago (3 children)

    And New England would be sort of over Old England.

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  • [–] 2 points 8 months ago (2 children)

    I was going to say that but my US geography isn't that good or any good really :-)

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  • [–] 2 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    New England is, roughly speaking, all the metacarpal states up there between New York and Maine, where the yankees you outlanders keep blaming the rest of us for being actually come from.

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  • [–] 11 points 8 months ago* (3 children)

    I'm in SW Romania. I can drive to Ukraine in a day.

    And yea, just kinda... living my life. Not much else I can do.

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    [–] 11 points 8 months ago

    I am disturbed by the lack of Great Lakes.

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  • You still need to eat, drink, have shelter while there's a war or a fascist take over. The point of modern society though is to make that band of ability to do that so narrow you cannot afford to take a day off. Because fuck being part of the masses I guess.

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  • [–] 5 points 8 months ago

    the Great Lakes not so great again??

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  • [–] 5 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    I mean Ohio already looks like a warzone anyway

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