196 @lemmy.blahaj.zone paperemail @links.rocks 11 mo. ago

Using a ruler is optional

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- Didn't know saddam hussein was a colossal giant
  
  The US was wrong about Iraq having nukes, but they were close to the truth. In reality, they were pumping Saddam full of enriched uranium so that he'd mutate and grow to a titanic size.
  
  You'd think he wouldn't have been able to hide in that hole.
  
  Who do you think the sphinx was modeled after?
- Should pass this on to anyone who has an "opinion" about the current situation.
- Call that a loss of the right to self-determination
- I love the way this cake is cut
- No, Gross.
  
  just in case the meaning is lost on you, that's loss
I'm going to color the whole thing red and blue to reflect who should be the rightful owner of the Middle East- Liechtenstein!
- Fuck Liechtenstein, Fuck Hilti, Fuck monarchy.
  
  You better watch what you say or Liechtenstein will send all three members of its Army after you.
It wasn't with no regard. They were deliberately giving minorities power over majorities and splitting ethnic groups with borders to fuel conflicts.
- Yeah, I think folks here are not giving them enough credit. It wasn't just some random dude drawing lines for no reason.
  
  The purpose of a lot of what Britain was doing was to prevent unification into a new Ottoman Empire successor. They intended the internal conflict in the region.
  
  And it worked at keeping the Middle East busy and Europe safe for the most part (if you don't count the incalculable death toll having them fighting amongst themselves has caused, and random terrorist attacks).
It's done. That's it. Just the whole thing. Let's run with it.
- One country called country and one language called language.
- The whole US is now just Wyoming, social experiment.
  
  Why?
  
  First state I could think of that didn't bring anything to my mind.
Don't miss your chance to embed pieces of countries into one another. Go wild, let's have nested enclaves several layers deep!
- You mean like the Dutch-Belgian border
  
  You should have seen India-Bangladesh border pre 2015.
  
  Make it worse by enveloping the country that envelopes you that you are enveloping, a bit like this 🎯
I remember learning that there was a joke (but quite possibly legit) notion that the reason there's that huge, sharp indent in the Jordanian border is because Winston Churchill was drunk while he was splitting up the map and hiccuped, and that's how that weird part of the border came to be.
Let's use a spirograph
Pretty sure this was from the America book by Jon Stewart, yeah? That book was a trip.
Reminded me of this robot chicken skit

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ibDRcBV4x3c
- Here is an alternative Piped link(s):
  
  https://www.piped.video/watch?v=ibDRcBV4x3c
  
  Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.
  
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There's 300million people and 7 million km². I'd give everyone 20m² and an AK (making sure to split up families as much as possible). Surely nothing will go wrong with this wholely equitable division of land!
- I'm calling dibs on the peak of mount Ararat.
I want to create a Greater Persian Empire that includes Iran, Pakistan and Afghanistan. This piece of paper limits my creative freedom.
Is this Arthur Balfour's colouring book?

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