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[–] huppakee@piefed.social 125 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] SatyrSack@quokk.au 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 7 points 1 week ago

And AK, for that matter.

[–] blitzen@lemmy.ca 64 points 1 week ago (2 children)

California should be shaded green.

[–] Warl0k3@lemmy.world 43 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

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

[–] malle_yeno@pawb.social 11 points 1 week ago (19 children)
[–] OpenStars@piefed.social 26 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] azertyfun@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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.

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[–] merc@sh.itjust.works 57 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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."

[–] Successful_Try543@feddit.org 20 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Taiwan isn't member of the UNO, and thus ain't member of the WHO either.

[–] Skua@kbin.earth 22 points 1 week ago

It had observer status until China got it kicked out in 2016

[–] kieron115@startrek.website 50 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 36 points 1 week ago

"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!"

[–] NorthwestThrills@lemmy.world 37 points 1 week ago

Actually, California just rejoined independently

[–] tomiant@piefed.social 36 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Countries using an electoral-college system to elect an executive leader in national popular elections:

USA

Nigeria

[–] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 1 week ago

Man, Nigeria better be careful.

[–] TigerAce@lemmy.dbzer0.com 29 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

New Zealand doesn't exist.

Poor Taiwan, only excluded due to pressure of China.

[–] ICastFist@programming.dev 6 points 1 week ago (3 children)

What is this new Zealand you speak of? Some sort of mythical place?

[–] AWOL_muppet@lemmy.nz 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I can't even see a Zeeland, clearly the whole thing is another Aussie prank and they should be kicked out for Insubordination

[–] TigerAce@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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.

[–] AWOL_muppet@lemmy.nz 3 points 6 days ago

I stand corrected.

We'll, technically I'm sitting on the bog, soo... I shit corrected

[–] ohulancutash@feddit.uk 4 points 1 week ago

Tolkien made it up

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[–] baduhai@sopuli.xyz 21 points 1 week ago

Argentina is going above and beyond to try their hardest to be a US colony.

[–] abbiistabbii@lemmy.blahaj.zone 20 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Ah yeah, Argentina, a country that is known for it's beef production and it's "Libertarian" President known for silencing dissent. I'm sure a new plague won't come out from Argentina in regards to beef or beef products. No siree. Won't happen.

[–] Pazuzu@midwest.social 8 points 1 week ago

Don't worry, they'll name it after the place that discovers it like we did with the Spanish flu that actually came from Kansas

[–] phoenixz@lemmy.ca 20 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Why is Argentina going to leave the WHO?

[–] theuniqueone@lemmy.dbzer0.com 52 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Because Milei is an idiot Trump ally with similar beliefs and he is strongly against covid lockdowns and believes they were "crimes against humanity".

[–] Marthirial@lemmy.world 20 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Milei is a criminal Trump ally

Idiot is lightyears behind these scum.

[–] Susaga@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 week ago

That's just repeating yourself

[–] morto@piefed.social 15 points 1 week ago

To give a bit more context, the usa has been influencing elections in latin america and there has been a trend in the last 10 years of trump-like leaders in the far right around here. Argentina has elected one of them in the last elections, and he's replicating the trump agenda and extending his power to the region, while destroying the internal economy

In case you want to dive into it, this may be a good starting point: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conservative_wave

[–] stelelor@lemmy.ca 18 points 1 week ago (1 children)

When even North Korea has more common sense...

[–] SpiceDealer@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 1 week ago

Don't let the boys over at .ml and hexbear hear you say that.

[–] E_coli42@lemmy.world 18 points 1 week ago

poor taiwan

[–] muusemuuse@sh.itjust.works 16 points 1 week ago

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.

[–] MattR@feddit.org 12 points 1 week ago

US government is prioritizing killing civilians, so it makes sense that they don't care about health.

[–] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 11 points 1 week ago

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.

[–] theuniqueone@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 1 week ago

I hadn't heard but am not surprised Milei is following suit.

[–] melsaskca@lemmy.ca 10 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Argentina. Finally, a country that Trump can buy.

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[–] Aljernon@lemmy.today 8 points 1 week ago

So two countries run by idiots and one country that doesn't officially exist

[–] DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 week ago

What now? I kinda didn't pay too close attention to the news.

Something something orange-krasnov did something stupid again?

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Is there a higher resolution non-cropped version of this map with colours I can actually see?

I'm assuming the "joke" is that the USA is the only No country.

[–] Kazel@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 week ago
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