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[–] cosmicrookie@lemmy.world 109 points 1 month ago (3 children)

And Florida is killing people they don't like

[–] FartMaster69@lemmy.dbzer0.com 91 points 1 month ago

We don’t have to imagine that one.

[–] village604@adultswim.fan 24 points 1 month ago

That's just an average day in Florida

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[–] Ledivin@lemmy.world 78 points 1 month ago (7 children)

...Ohio is part of the midwest.

[–] cosmicrookie@lemmy.world 69 points 1 month ago (20 children)
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[–] Gork@sopuli.xyz 51 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Isn't just living in Ohio the same as being in an active warzone?

[–] Zorsith@lemmy.blahaj.zone 14 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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.

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[–] bear@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] TachyonTele@piefed.social 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] daychilde@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago (2 children)

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…

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[–] Alenalda@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago

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.

[–] Pricklesthemagicfish@reddthat.com 29 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (3 children)

Imagine the people running your country are literally fucking and eating kids.

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[–] Atomic@sh.itjust.works 26 points 1 month ago

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.

[–] chunes@lemmy.world 26 points 1 month ago

"Ohio isn't in the midwest."

[–] ThePantser@sh.itjust.works 23 points 1 month ago (3 children)
[–] criticon@lemmy.ca 14 points 1 month ago

The UP is there, the map includes the borders at the great lakes

[–] epicshepich@programming.dev 6 points 1 month ago

They botched the LP too

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[–] RickyRigatoni@piefed.zip 15 points 1 month ago

There is an active war in Ohio.

[–] Hawke@lemmy.world 12 points 1 month ago

I am disturbed by the lack of Great Lakes.

[–] bonsai@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 1 month ago

Oh look at that DC is in Russia. Fitting analogy.

[–] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 10 points 1 month ago

The Midwest ends somewhere around poland/the northern Baltics in that map, I was under the impression that those areas have been freaked out.

[–] SethTaylor@lemmy.world 10 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (5 children)

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.

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[–] SUDO@reddthat.com 10 points 1 month ago (4 children)

Russia can just have Ohio.

Ohio isn't even a real state.

Ever meet anyone from Ohio?

Of course you haven't.

Oh, you have? That was a CIA agent.

[–] Alcoholicorn@mander.xyz 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Ohio isn’t even a real state.

Yes it is, do you know how many zoomers spent the last 5 years in a state of constant Ohio?

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[–] TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 9 points 1 month ago (1 children)
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[–] Vinny_93@lemmy.world 9 points 1 month ago (2 children)

The one thing that this overlay is making me realise is that there are actually some parallels here. The North and Midwest kind of seem the same type of people, same with the UK being the northwest, Iberia basically being California/Nevada and Italy being a spaghetti western country with far right tendencies.

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[–] aesthelete@lemmy.world 9 points 1 month ago

We did that already, but with Minnesota.

[–] Hadriscus@jlai.lu 8 points 1 month ago (4 children)

is this an accurate representation of the US landmass ? I was under the impression they were much biger than that..., but they're roughly the size of Europe ?

[–] GreenBeanMachine@lemmy.world 13 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

The whole continent of Europe is slightly bigger than the USA. The EU (union) is smaller than the USA.

[–] mrmule@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)
[–] callyral@pawb.social 9 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (12 children)

Screenshot of a map of the continental United States on top of a map of Europe, accounting for the map projection. The US stretches from just west of Ireland all the way to TΓΌrkiye and interior parts of Russia.

It looks just slightly bigger than in the OP's screenshot

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[–] captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Alaska and Hawaii aren't pictured.

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[–] deadbeef79000@lemmy.nz 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Something makes me think that the US should be flipped horizontally here. So that Florida is over Spain.

[–] The_Picard_Maneuver@piefed.world 5 points 1 month ago (3 children)

And New England would be sort of over Old England.

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[–] TigerAce@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 1 month ago

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..."

[–] GraniteM@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago

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.

[–] Kellenved@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 month ago

Prior to 1945, this kind of thing happened every 30 years somewhere in Europe. It’s kind of the usual

You still need to eat, drink, have shelter while there's a war or a fascist take over. The point of modern society though is to make that band of ability to do that so narrow you cannot afford to take a day off. Because fuck being part of the masses I guess.

[–] lastlybutfirstly@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago

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.

[–] grimpy@lemmy.myserv.one 5 points 1 month ago

the Great Lakes not so great again??

[–] GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago (2 children)

this outline of the US looks like it was drawn by a European. it's wrong in many places.

[–] SARGE@startrek.website 4 points 1 month ago

It's a legal border map, not a landmass map, which is weird to me.

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[–] razzazzika@lemmy.zip 5 points 1 month ago

Thats how I feel about Minnesota while living in PA...

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