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I literally forgot that the country existed and somehow got it into my head that Columbia and Bolivia and Ecuador were all that existed on that part of the continent. Hence my guesses being so close to the right answer.
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#Tradle #928 6/6
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https://oec.world/en/games/tradle
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Compeltely forgot that the answer country existed, and tried to not use a map for this one. Apparently I’m not nearly as smart
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This one stumped me for a while, for no other reason than me being stupid and forgetting how Central Asia looks. Litterally couldn’t think of an industrialized country in Central Asia with plenty of oil and wheat. Then I had an epiphani while on the toilet and remembered that I had somehow forgetten about the biggest country in the region, that famously has a shitload of oil and space for growing food.
10·4 days agoSpecifically he told then Prime Minister Begin that it looked like a holocaust, which offended Begin as he had spent time in a concentration camp as a child during WWII. However the Israeli campaigns stopped something like an hour after the call, so clearly it worked.
Also supposedly Biden was extremely unhappy about the President telling Israel to stop, so Biden has literally never been good on that issue, ever.
Which is so fucking odd, because those people have been democrats since 2017 and gleefully told everyone about their “conversions” every chance they’ve had.
23·5 days agoI remember feeling kind of bad hearing that a guy died from Trumps first assasination attempt and then someone found the guys twitter and obviously the guy was a massive nazi, so my sympathy just vanished immediately. Not sure why i expected the guy to be normal, but somehow I did.
Or just fucking use your own credit card like a grown up. Such a weird thing to lose an entire parliamentary career over, especially because he was one of the SocDems who seemed perfectly happy just being a toadie to the PM.
Edit: LMAO, he got convicted in 30 minutes. Admitted to the whole thing and just started talking about being “vewwy sowwy”
6·12 days agoWas it Chicago or Detroit that sold the rights to their parking meters for 75 years to a group of investors from Abu Dhabi, and after like 4 years they had already made back their money and just started jacking up the price of parking because they could. Also supposedly there is a clause in the agreement that makes it so the city has to pay excessively anytime they want to take away a parking space that the investors own. It’s literally insane that a city that size doesn’t just tell the investors to fuck off and sic the national guard on them.
#Tradle #918 3/6
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Went with Honduras at first, because my coffee was from there this morning. Then guessed Nicaragua before looking at a map in my office and realizing that I had to go further south.
5·15 days agoDidn’t Ukraine deliberately draft a lot of people from their eastern oblasts specifically for the reason that they were more expendable and also not-really ukrainians anyway?
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Guessed that this would be either central asian or caucasus, since the country was mostly extraction, but still with sizeable agriculture and a small amount of industry. The clues are notoriously wonky with some of the bigger central asian countries (particularly Kazakhstan) so it took me an extra try just to point me westward.
They’re not saying that white women are worshipped, only that people with power take them more seriously, particularly if they’re yelling at other people. When a black person (specifically often black men) are confronting white people for being shitty, cops / enforcers are WAAAAAAAY more likely to escalate the situation and make everything worse.
Hell hath no fury like a petty reactionary scorned
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Thought this was Belarus at first, then the geoclue pointed to the middle east, so I tried to be smart and guessed Cyprus. The complete lack of oil made me certain it wasn’t in the middle east, and then I pulled a map out and remembered that Jordan exists and got sad for a moment.
Our SocDems are among the most vile in the world. Putting a “red” flag on the far right’s policies and rhetoric, drowning our unions in bureaucracy, spearheading millitarism in Eastern Europe, and probably many other horrible policies that I can’t remember at this point.
Denmark doesn’t even have ships with guns that can actually fire, so somehow I doubt that the southern european countries that we have looted for the past 10 years have had a chance to rearm themselves.
14·17 days agoRussia is sort of in a war economy, but the bigger reason they’re doing well is because the sanctions have forced Russia to abandon the dumbest parts of neoliberalism and instead to rely on import substitution. The sanctions also prevents the ruling class in Russia from taking their money and putting them elsewhere, which means that Europe kind of introduced capital controls on Russia, which is really funny considering Europes fierce opposition to them in any other context.
#Tradle #913 2/6
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kind of proud for getting this one. Immediately guessed West Africa, and was then confused by the geo-clue, before i remembered that there are small countries in East Africa as well.
Also, the fascist loser who is spokesperson for “foreigners and integration” (read: official racism recommender) is a 28 year old Groyper guy, who somehow managed to get elected before all the really weird online shit began infecting the far right. He used to have an instagram account where he would just post screed after screed next to pictures of women in niqabs and burkas. Also lots of pictures of old danish people looking scared at groups of muslim teenagers with captions about people being too afraid to speak their mind, presumably because the old people are afraid of being called racist (the worst thing you can call someone in Denmark apparently).
Somehow this fucking freak got himself maneuvered into a high position in an admittedly fringe party because he was willing to bend the knee to Morten Messerschmidt, the fancy-lad who considers himself an oldschool gentleman and carries himself like a 19th century failchild of a noble family.
I feel like we say that about Elon Musk about once every 2 weeks, and somehow he keeps getting worse.