I heard (don’t remember where, could be true, could be right out of someone’s ass) that the reason the show ended is many of them started feeling bad about doing a light-hearted fun show about cops. Basically the actors all started feeling like Rosa.
I think the point of this one is to have the poles centered in their respective halves. Southern hemisphere on the bottom with the pole in roughly the center of the bottom half, and the same with the North.
Then going for the least distortion with the land masses. This way has West Africa and East South America a little screwy but if you were to take the equator and slide it right to fix Africa, south America gets worse. So it’s a balance.
I’m not sure what the point is to giving the southern hemisphere more room though.
Edit: The longer I look at this the weirder it gets, lots of strange choices. It’s almost as bad as worse than the Mercator without it’s one redeeming quality, straight lat/long lines with right angles. It doesn’t even put China at the center and makes it disproportionately small.
So a North-South pseudocylindrical compromise (not even equal area) map, which makes longitude lines curve back and forth, where the northern hemisphere, where most of the land is, is disproportionately small. Dafuq?
Yes, those tankies are twisted, bring unable to support communism without making excuses for a brutal dictator.
So surely you must appreciate someone capable of criticizing that brutal dictator without smearing communism in the process, right?
Why would you see a conversation about a brutal dictator and jump in to talk about how he was a communist? Don’t you think it might be people like you that encourage tankies to reflexively disagree with any criticism of Stalin?
If you can’t have a conversation about Stalin’s crimes without someone erroneously bringing communism into it maybe that’s why frustrated communists often defend the indefensible.
Well, have a nice day then. I genuinely hope you find something you do care about today.
And yet, here this person is, not incorrectly using Stalin to say communism is bad. He is criticizing Stalin on his merits, or lack thereof, and not using one person to disparage communism.
You are one tying Stalin’s crimes to communism.
Then why bring communism into a critique of a dictator concerning his methods of control?
Just because you didn’t do the persuading doesn’t mean that no one did. Somehow they got together and decided to kick the fuckers out.
If you think I’m creating a false dichotomy, please enlighten me how.
I’m saying either everyone gets an equal say or…
No matter what you put after the “or”, you’re creating a hierarchy with a class that gets to impose their will until stopped with force. As an anarchist, you should understand that.
No one is asking you to trust it, just to choose it.
Strip away all the labels and theory and you’re left with two basic choices. One where the method of change is persuasion, and one where the method of change is bloody revolution, over and over and over without end.
As much as it might rankle you, and me, to accept having to convince a majority to allow us to live our lives as we damn well please, if I was given the opportunity to appoint a dictator, or dictatorial class, that would remake society exactly as I wanted, I wouldn’t do it. Because who would succeed them, and once you have given that power to a class of people, deposing them is a lot harder, and bloodier, than persuading a few percent of your neighbors.
It sounds like you would reject a system where one unelected, unaccountable person or class of people ruling through force could decide on a whim to take away the rights of LGBT+ people, or any other minority, and instead prefer a system where all people have an equal voice and a method for that voice to be heard and counted.
How would you determine what the individuals collectively decide?
But he wasn’t criticizing communism, or advocating for capitalism. He was criticizing a dictator and saying he prefers democracy.
Unless you think communism can’t exist outside of a brutal dictatorship.
It’s real. If I remember correctly, there was a problem with the sound and he filled the time pretending to suck a dick with the microphone. Why? Who the fuck knows.
Please tell me you know where to watch this.
Are you fucking with us? I am eating the onion? When I read that I thought you were doing a bit like that greentext with all the goofy fake British names for things.
It’s almost two entire sections, with just a little of North America, Asia, and Antarctica. And then some on four others. It’s obvious from a glance, no other body of water or land mass comes anywhere near that.
And if you still don’t think that’s vast enough, maybe a lifetime of bad projections have given you a distorted view of the Pacific’s size. Mercator and Mercator like projections definitely make the Pacific look much too large near the poles.
It seems like it was just yesterday some would bring up some millennial kids bullshit and someone else would respond; “you know they’re all adults now, right?”
Now it’s starting to happen with zoomers?
I don’t know where I was going with this. I’m going to go take my Geritol now.
I didn’t realize French territory is so widespread.
So if the U.K. ever complies with the UN and the ICJ and relinquishes control of the Chagos Islands to Mauritius, the sun will set on the British empire, but not on France.
That’ll be funny as fuck and I hope France never misses an opportunity to point it out.
Just make sure you finish on the Bach. Never finish on Debussy.
One of the characters in the show. I think she quit to become a P.I. because she didn’t want to be a part of a bigoted system anymore.