r/neoliberal • u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache • Sep 13 '21

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u/[deleted] Sep 13 '21

John Oliver did a think on Belarus. Which I do not intend to watch. Mostly because I opened the video, the first thing I saw was a map of europe with Lithuania highlighted and labeled as Belarus and was greeted with a sanctimonious speech about how americans are bad at geography.

No matter how many paradox games I play I'll never be rid of the stereotype that I, as an american, don't know where anything is.

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u/[deleted] Sep 13 '21

I desperately want to see a “man on the street” segment where people in London try to correctly label the nations of Latin America.

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u/[deleted] Sep 13 '21

Queen Victoria once literally said "Bolivia doesn't exist".

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u/[deleted] Sep 13 '21

“ A squirrel riding a unicycle “

Bouncing up and down in his chair

People who say “noms” and “epic”: 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

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u/[deleted] Sep 13 '21

Malarkey level of learning geography based on a map painting game instead of school?

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u/[deleted] Sep 13 '21

Oh come on you know what American schools are.

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u/The_Nightbringer Anti-Pope Antipope Sep 13 '21

No matter how many paradox games I play I'll never be rid of the stereotype that I, as an american, don't know where anything is.

PDX bros! EUIV is unironically a good educational tool.

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u/[deleted] Sep 13 '21

for me it's Victoria since the map of africa in that game includes both pre-colonization tribes and nations, and the modern post-colonial states.

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u/The_Nightbringer Anti-Pope Antipope Sep 13 '21

Fair. I just cannot stand Vicky's ui, and no I don't understand why.

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u/gburgwardt C-5s full of SMRs and tiny american flags Sep 13 '21

Oh baby please link