Altered Maps VII: Making the World a Better Place

[Karalysia]

Nahhh Sudan, Zimbabwe and Somalia aren't acceptable targets. They're in Africa, it automatically disqualifies them.

 

[Yared]

"Acceptable targets"? For what?

 

[Tee Kay]

For open seasons villification.

 

[Mathalamus]

For open seasons villification.

open seasons of what?

 

[Yared]

Vilification = Talk crap about

And who makes these vilifications?

 

[Tee Kay]

And who makes these vilifications?

Western media, politicians and Western people in general.

Inspired by the Israel threads, although the map doesn't show the attitude towards Israel as I only include authoritarian states.

 

[Joecoolyo]

The Russkie's are oppressive?

 

[Tee Kay]

The Russkie's are oppressive?

There are people who seem to think they are.

 

[Yared]

I think it's more corruption that limits the decisions the democratically elected can make.

I think.

 

[gangleri2001]

A map of Category A (Irish spoken by more than the 67% of the population) Gaeltacht areas in 2007:

 

[Tani Coyote]

A map of Category A (Irish spoken by more than the 67% of the population) Gaeltacht areas in 2007:

Imperialism has never been so successful.

We thank the British for pioneering monolingualism for the modern era.

 

[Masada]

They did a poor job overall.

 

[gangleri2001]

I like this map very much. Here's a relation of secessionist (blue) vs. unionists (red) in Catalonia in 2001 (orange means that both movements have almost the same strength and yellow (Barcelona only) that unionists win by a sligth margin)

SOURCE: Centro de Investigaciones Sociológicas (Spanish government's statistical institute)
NOTE: Please, note that this picture shows the situation in 2001. According to all statistical approximations, the current situation seems to be much "bluer".

 

[Masada]

I formally endorse Catalonian separatism.

 

[Tani Coyote]

I like this map very much. Here's a relation of secessionist (blue) vs. unionists (red) in Catalonia in 2001 (orange means that both movements have almost the same strength and yellow (Barcelona only) that unionists win by a sligth margin)

SOURCE: Centro de Investigaciones Sociológicas (Spanish government's statistical institute)
NOTE: Please, note that this picture shows the situation in 2001. According to all statistical approximations, the current situation seems to be much "bluer".

I formally endorse Catalonian separatism.

And I formally hope Spain crushes any possible separation bloodily.

I support Catalonia as an sovereign state within a federal EU, but not as an independent state in Europe. So, get cracking on the EU so Catalonia can finally break off!

 

[gangleri2001]

And I formally hope Spain crushes any possible separation bloodily.

I support Catalonia as an sovereign state within a federal EU, but not as an independent state in Europe. So, get cracking on the EU so Catalonia can finally break off!

You seem to ignore that Catalan secessionism has always wanted to be create a state within the EU.

 

[Mathalamus]

They did a poor job overall.

poor job? it loos like more than half the country does not speak Irish.

 

[Masada]

poor job? it loos like more than half the country does not speak Irish.

They had one partial success in disseminating English over one comparatively small underpopulated island over a period of a couple of hundred years which they subsequently lost. Most parts of the world do not count that as a success. The French did a far better job after the Revolution in insuring that French was the dominant tongue of the Republic. They supplanted the various regional dialects of Oïl dialects and the langue d'oc with standardised French. They haven't ended up rebelling despite the fact that the actual French seem to like acting like a pack of asses on issue of using say Breton in public schools.

 

[Huayna Capac357]

A map of the Gulf oil spill superimposed over a map of the UK, for a sense of scale.

 

[bestrfcplayer]

Wow!

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