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…”
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.
Oh look at that DC is in Russia. Fitting analogy.
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.
It’s kinda cozy there. It’s like a tidy swamp.
If Ohio was being invaded by Canada, 20 million dudes with rifles would come running from all over the country just hoping to bag a Canadian.
walking
These roads aren’t walkable. They’ll definitely be driving.
Not from southern New England they won’t.
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.
“Ohio isn’t in the midwest.”
And Florida is killing people they don’t like
We don’t have to imagine that one.
That’s just an average day in Florida
quite and i think ohio is where a small civil war will happen when the trump regime is collapsing
fuck this part of Finland ig
Åland? What about it?
I’ve only ever met one person from there. I forgot her name but she gave me a hug.
it’s missing from the map- or the map is too low res to make it out
Well, it’s also over-represented on your map. The area is a beautiful archipelago, but it’s mostly water.
If you zoom in you’ll see only light green depicts islands, deep green is the water near them that is not proper sea but archipelago.
Åland is closer to Sweden but it’s still Finnish.
You can see it better on this one
Yes. The previous poster’s map appears to be from Google’s satellite images. They don’t photograph the sea, so the water that is photographed around land looks darker than the sea.
Eaten by the entropy of repeated image compression probably
Thats how I feel about Minnesota while living in PA…
…Ohio is part of the midwest.
I think this is the point
Then it’s poorly made
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
Again, Ohio is part of the Midwest, so there’s no comparison being made. So it’s a poorly made point.
Like I said, poorly made.
Nobody know where those places are. Miami to NYC is a better comparison.
I had to look it up too but it doesn’t take long to find out
Oh, but isn’t everyone from the US? And even if you’re not, at least have decency to learn the relevant¹ geography in school
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…relevant being the US, of course. But learning in school in the US seems to be largely unavailable
/s
Idk, the US is huge, Ohio to Minnesota is a very long distance.
Do you get lost trying to find your way out of rooms with a single door?
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?
Yea we’re done you, you win by being the first to resort to name calling
Man, you were so close to a coherent thought. Maybe a little less time looking up “sophostry” , and a little more time proofreading?
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.
…five hundred miles are just a f*cking six-hour day-trip, man…
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.
Well, your point’s been made. Conversation over, everyone.
Lol someone’s a little touchy today
eh, true midwest isnt till indiana. ohio is closer to west virginia/kenfucky
Ohio is officially counted as the eastern most Midwestern state. It has been for at least a century.
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)
Yeah the transappalachian great lakes region and the great plains. The real question is is west Pennsylvania midwestern
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
I agree, and I meant west of the Appalachians, not necessarily including them. This of course does make ohio weird as regardless the vast majority of it is past the mountains but a tiny bit brushes into the foothills.
We don’t have to imagine it. Across the border, right now the cartels are attacking the cities and setting them on fire. It’s not on the level of Russia attacking Ukraine, but still, a little unsettling.
Isn’t just living in Ohio the same as being in an active warzone?
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.
Hey now there are also Scots-Irish infesting the Appalachian segments, got some distant kin there.
Shots fired
Get down
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…
If we were, the directives would have occurred after all of the shooting.
True, although I intended there to be no pause between the directives and the start of the shooting, so I think we’re basically in agreement, or close to it. heh
As an Ohio resident that had 2 people pull a gun on me and someone firing off in an alley I was working in just last year alone, I’d say it’s getting close.
The Midwest ends somewhere around poland/the northern Baltics in that map, I was under the impression that those areas have been freaked out.
Okay so end the war?
We did that already, but with Minnesota.
