They’re not entirely wrong… Quite a bit of the division comes from pre-modern events and decisions.
In terms of geography, My secret weakness is how often I confuse Slovenia and Slovakia, solely because they share most of the letters in their name.
(I also have a similar problem with Armenia and Albania. Within the US, Mississippi and Missouri used to give me a lot of trouble when I was younger, too.)
congratulations, you might be dyslexic 👍
I also have trouble crossing wires with the Balkans and the Baltics.
having grown up between slovenia and slovakia, i cant imagine mixing them up. they have such different vibes… :D
but yeah, i used to mix up liechtenstein and luxembourg…
still hurts after all these years
Capitalism thrives on divide and conquer especially socialist states. Same playbook as forever.
Bosnia: “Ooh, can we go to the beach?”
Croatia: “Haha, fuck no!”
They can have Neum, as a treat.
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You think that’s bad, check out Chile.
Pain.
I’m sure they had no idea what they were doing when they randomly circled the Balkans and presupposed that there was no problem with their proposal.
Yea, prime c/thatsthejoke material.
Tell him it’s a great idea! 👍
It WAS a great idea…
Almost all of the US states that have more cows than people share borders.
They should all be merged into one state.
This would solve many problems.
See, that’s a nice idea… and it did work… for a while… without religion and nationalists in the mix… once you mix those 2, guess what happens…
The moral of the story is, it is doable… but you’d have to either get rid of the 2 things mentioned above, or historically you’d have to be a clean slate, which is pretty easy for the continents discovered in the last 5 centuries or so.
Dear Mr. President, there are too many states nowadays. Please eliminate three. I am not a crackpot.
As an older Millennial, I keep thinking Yugoslavia still exists. And the US 9/11 attacks happened last year.
In my eyes, Jurassic Park from the 90s is still so realistic looking. A lot of these films today look like shit.
It’s because of the crappy colour grading they do to merge shot footage with cgi effects. Jurassic Park holds up because it’s from an era of cinema where they didn’t do that grungy Blue-grey shit.
I’m reminded I had a classmate who was Yugoslavian.
At the time I had no idea what was going on in the world at the time.
I recently watched ‘robot dreams’ good animation movie from 2023, setting is 90’s new york. It was so strage seeing the twin towers in the background during the entire movie. But then i realized the new generation has no first hand 9/11 experience and would probably dont even notice.
That just hit me in the olds. Kids today are grown ups that can drink in America and it was after 9/11
Yugoslavia 2 isn’t on my 2024 bingo card, but if they make the flag look cool…
How did Tito keep the peace? He wasn’t magical. You would think he successors could have done the same.
Bread, circus, jobs for everyone, cheap housing, cheap food. And suicide the loud critics and trouble makers in the back of course.
He imprisioned the nationalists on Goli Otok. No nationalists, no religion, no problems.
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