What now? I kinda didn’t pay too close attention to the news.
Something something orange-krasnov did something stupid again?
Argentina. Finally, a country that Trump can buy.
Summer skiing coming soon to the US?
What a funny coincidence, both those countries absorbed the majority of Nazis that got out of Germany and weren’t kidnapped by the Soviets.
I wonder when Russia is leaving it.
US government is prioritizing killing civilians, so it makes sense that they don’t care about health.
poor taiwan
Actually, California just rejoined independently
New Zealand doesn’t exist.
Poor Taiwan, only excluded due to pressure of China.
What is this new Zealand you speak of? Some sort of mythical place?
I don’t know, but I heard private gardens are illegal there
Tolkien made it up
I can’t even see a Zeeland, clearly the whole thing is another Aussie prank and they should be kicked out for Insubordination
Zeeland is a province in the Netherlands (the origin of the name). So it’s on the map, but it isn’t new and it’s hard to even see a rough shape of where the Netherlands is. But it’s there.
Argentina is going above and beyond to try their hardest to be a US colony.
When even North Korea has more common sense…
Don’t let the boys over at .ml and hexbear hear you say that.
#MapsWithoutNZ
Yeah, that’s a new one, to just cut off the whole timezone…
Nothing going on over there except that square box that lists terrain types and distances and shit.
#MapsWithoutAQ
And AK, for that matter.
You guys just don’t get it because your health care system spends money on sick people. Here, we cash in on sick people, so it’s only good business to make more of them.
I hate my country.
Leela: Look, I know there are no car-chases, but this is important. One of these two men will become President of the World.
Fry: What do we care? We live in the United States.
Leela: The United States is part of the world.
Fry: Wow, I have been gone a long time.
“Wait… He can’t do that! It’s against the constitution!”
“Is that so? Well, I happen to know a place where the Constitution doesn’t mean squat! The US Supreme Court!”
Taiwan is presumably red because if Taiwan was green China would be red. So, the WHO just sighs and goes “ok, Taiwan, would you mind accepting ‘observer status’ or something?”, and Taiwan’s rep just sighs too and says, “sure, we get it.”
Taiwan isn’t member of the UNO, and thus ain’t member of the WHO either.
It had observer status until China got it kicked out in 2016
Countries using an electoral-college system to elect an executive leader in national popular elections:
USA
Nigeria
Wow the same map as “Countries with claimed royalty that will scam you out of money with no repercussions”
He’s more going for Emperor than king isn’t he? More stylish.
Can someone be an Emporer without also being a King/Queen? You are very right though
Emperor Dom Pedro II of Brazil comes to mind. Brazil immediately became an empire after it got its independence (thanks to the then Portuguese prince Dom Pedro I, who quit the job to become king of Portugal when the chance showed up)
Interesting. I kind of assumed that Emperor was an additional title where one ruled over their kingdom (where they were king) and other states.
Nah, for example the OG Emperors, the Roman Emperors, had a cultural prohibition against kings so they used the title Imperator.
Honestly there’s a case to be made that a real Emperor wouldn’t have a kingdom title.
Man, Nigeria better be careful.
California should be shaded green.
WA and NYC too, plus oregon is working on a cooperation agreement? There’s a couple other states funding WHO cooperation and state research groups as well
Is California a country?
Not… yet.
Not ever. Even when every male under the age of 50 is conscripted into one of Trump’s pointless wars against former allies, Democrats won’t do shit because resistance is illegal and they have an unshakably legalist worldview. Calexit was already a complete joke before their government started executing their own citizens in broad daylight with no repercussion - legal or otherwise.
Americans: stop with the escapist fantasies and start finding actual ways to fight back because your elected representatives aren’t going to do it for you.
Tbf, (1) Republicans were the same as well, prior to Trump, so this was not a R vs. D issue so much as an anti-establishment vs. establishment one; and (2) the USA has literal actual nukes, making anarchism far less attractive in practice than it might naively sound in theory. Also, (3) people are just as uneducated this year compared to roughly one year ago, i.e. vulnerable AF, and (4) Mask owns everything now, so having to return to an era where not only do you lack satellites but this time the other side does have them, plus drones… is not a tiny wrinkle in an otherwise unstoppable plan. It’s more like an unedumacashiated rabble fighting with sticks and stones vs. computers with actual nukes. The uprising in Planet of the Apes was the real fantasy, whereas irl they would have zero chance, given today’s technology.
Also note that wherever you are in the world, this is coming for you too, in some form or another. e.g. Brexit happened long before Trump was elected the second time (the first being more or less an accident?). Even Greenland has elements of people within it who for some reason seem to welcome the idea of becoming part of the USA. This is not a uniquely American phenomena: we only thought that WWII won against fascism, but in the end fascism may win out overall, world-wide.
And until we figure out what the real enemy is, why trade off Trump for e.g. Musk to come save us? The idea that this hole that the USA has dug itself into is somehow “fixable” might be the real escapist fantasy, and all the more so when you consider the child-like populace. Edit: but of course if it were fixable, that would require enormous efforts, and not be just a casual endeavor.
It’s bigger than many countries and more populous than many countries. And it’s in WHO.
Unnecessarily pedantic to exclude it.
Yet it isn’t a country. lol
Puerto Rico isn’t a country, yet it is green on this map.
Greenland isn’t a country, yet it is shaded a color.
The purpose of a map is to convey geographic information. What you seem to be looking for is a dictionary.
Greenland is a country. It’s a country that’s part of Denmark.
Countries can in fact be part of other countries. It’s allowed.
It’s not a country. Its government is the government of Denmark.
Firstly no it isn’t, they have an independent prime minister, and secondly that isn’t the definition of the country anyway.
It’s an independent self-governing region which Denmark provides for. It’s like 4 seconds to Google this.
Those are really bad examples for comparison. lmao
Also wow, rude.
PR is a great example. Why is it shaded green on this map?
While we’re on the subject of literal readings of this map; Argentina is in WHO, and is shaded a color not on the legend. Do you have a problem with this part?
Why is Greenland shaded green?
It’s naive to think everything is binary. Parts of the US are in it and parts are not.
True, it’s naïve to know how to read.
I always wondered why they called it United States, but that must be it
With how things are run these days they may be called the Divided States of America. Unless Trump gains total control, then it turns into the FSA.
fuck shit ass
