What an underachieving performance. We are better than these numbers. 3? That’s how many days our lord & savior, JC screwed around and then came to his senses before coming back to let us know that it is absolutely A-OK to hate & attack anyone that doesn’t believe for a minute that our boi Jesus here isn’t the most stickitydickitywickitywhackityfliggityflaggityfloggityflamp Thing in the world. Ever.
Why is Biden such a warmonger?
This is clearly the Dems fault.
What was Obama doing during 9-11?
I heard Obama flew one of the planes.
I don’t think there are any voters besides military contractors and politicians who are in favor of these wars. No one wants to spend our hard earned money blowing up a bunch of starving homeless people on the other side of the ocean.
I’m related to one. They believe everything Fox News says and will twist themselves into logical pretzels to attempt to justify it when presented with evidence countering the narrative Fox says, even if it directly contradicts their own experience.
Right, there’s enough homeless people to blow up at home!
/s
A constant state of war is essential to fascism.
The reality is, there will eventually be a draft. Will Americans stand for it? Probably.
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So… about that Peace Prize…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pax_Romana
The Pax Romana (Latin for ‘Roman peace’) is a roughly 200-year-long period of ancient Rome that is identified as a golden age of increased and sustained Roman imperialism
I mean, Rome had peace. War elsewhere isn’t really an issue for the elites that do the writing of history…
Africa, Asia, and South America
So we are not counting North-America, where the ICE raids continue then?
“Today there are so many places in the world where the U.S. government is conducting military operations — including the war at home on migrants — that each event eclipses the last in terms of media attention,” said Stephanie Savell, the director of Brown University’s Costs of War Project.
America is one continent.
ITT: Lots of angry Americans on copium. Stay strong.
Seems like you enjoyed US education. North America and South America are 2 continenta. They are sometimes referred to as The Americas when talking about them. Same as how europe and asia is called eurasia. Oh and “central america” is a part of north america.
Where exactly did you get this info from?
Here’s that copium you ordered.
This entirely depends on where in the world you are from.
The English-speaking world generally refers to America as two continents.
The Spanish-speaking world generally refers to America as one continent.Neither are correct, both are correct.
North and South America are considered separate continents. They’re not even connected now that the Panama canal was dug.
Probably still connected via plate tectonics.
Continents are a social construct.
Continents are a geological construct, with continents tending to be granitic, and oceanic plates typically being basalt. Dividing continents with geopolitical boundaries is a social construct.
Still it’s perhaps just a human-imposed classification scheme. What about Europe and Asia? Also, India? The boundaries themselves are quite symbolic of how we choose to see the world, even politically. We conceptually compartmentalize continuous systems using all kinds of sneaky criteria. If you’re strictly referring to geological objects, are you still even referring to continents?
At the end of the day everything about how we engage with, understand, and define the universe is based off human systems because that’s just how we do. We’re intelligent enough to recognize beyond ourselves and deduce the nature of why things happen and then use our words to describe it. A granitic continent doesn’t know its granite and a basaltic oceanic plate doesn’t know it’s basalt, it operates as it’s properties demand, like they have for billions of years before humans and will for millions of years after we’re gone.
The products of these natural cycles do lend to how humanity has organized itself for thousands of years. River valleys helped establish agriculture and the birth of “civilization”, and mountain ranges, deserts, great rivers, and oceans made for natural boundaries once populations grew to the size they started defining “them and us”.
So I do agree that continents (and natural features in general) shape how we think of the people who live there, and some places have thousands of years of history where those features were the boundaries of their nation. But the physical structure we call a continent exists with or without humans calling it a continent, nations do not. Continents influence human affairs and cultural/national identity at home and abroad, but again, that’s heaping our humanness on what is otherwise a slab of granite that is doing its thing.
I’d point out too, Earth’s plates are constantly shifting, but for the entire existence of humans they’ve only moved a few to a few dozen kilometers. Their importance to our social organizing is partly due to their seemingly static nature. But in 200-300 million years we’ll possibly be all jammed back together Pangea-style. Though I highly doubt humans will be around to see that.
True but in this society we recognize 7. To recognize only one America with consistency you’re probably looking at 4 though maybe a 5th could be argued
What do you mean “this society”? Different countries have different standards, and they’re all arbitrary.
I was literally taught two different models in school and those are far from the only ones.
Damn I didn’t realize we dug into them tectonic plates.
They are separate tectonic plates, the two continents only crashed together relatively recently, the “columbian exchange” that saw wildlife mix between the continents. South America was near Africa at one point, North America more with Europe as I understand it.
- Scotia plate (bits of Patagonia),
- South American plate,
- Altiplano plate,
- North Andes plate,
- Panama plate,
- Caribbean plate,
- North America plate,
- Pacific plate (Baja California peninsula, southern California).
I find it really cool that the Appalachian mountains used to be connected with what’s now the Scottish Highlands, if memory serves correctly.
When I was on the Appalachian trail they had a placard that explained it and said it’s also the oldest mountain range in the world, and used to be like 4x the size of the himalayans (which is the youngest.) Others have disputed that, but just internet randos with no sources, I trust the NPS placard.
I trust the NPS placard.
If it was placed before 2025, sure.
Nowadays, though, they’re being systematically torn out and replaced with MAGA christofascist propaganda. Think “war of northern aggression” and destruction of anything about black history, for example.
I wouldn’t put it past them to replace info about plate tectonics with creationist bullshit eventually.
So crazy to think about because they’re so worn down at this point. Neat!
(That’s the joke)
They’re also not on the same tectonic plate
(That’s the joke)
We did! The canal is tens of meters deep, while bedrock is typically not more than a few meters below the surface anywhere on earth (except where cover naturally collects in places like valleys).
The Panama Canal doesn’t even go all the way down to sea level; it definitely does not make a difference.
Considered by whom?
People.
If America is one continent, then Afro-Eurasia is also one continent.
Yes, this is true: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continent#Number
Are we opening the how many continents are there can of worms? Because it makes me incontinent.
I say 9. India is its own continent(al plate so it totally counts) and I like Oceanía being a continent
Most earthworms are not native to the Americas.
well how long they been invasive for? when do we define native because horses went extinct and then came back. are they native or not because they fit the environment damn well.
Well, earthworms are a significant threat to the boreal forests of Canada. So, I think we can still consider them an invasive species for the continent overall.
You can use Google by yourself. You don’t need me to educate you.
Obligatory mapmen
Third grade was a tricky year for all of us
Depends on which third grade. Some countries learn about America as one continent in e.g. a six-continent model. Which I think is silly given the obvious first continental divide to go would be the Eurasian one that only exists for historical reasons.
This is the correct model. America developed very similarly, unlike parts of Eurasia which is why Europe and Asia are definitely culturally distinct, but America isn‘t. At least not for a lot of us.
Sorry „north“ Americans, but you‘re not that different from Argentinians to us.
Developed very similarly? On what time scale? Inuit, Salish, Cherokee, Aztec, Inca, and Rapa Nui are all pretty distinct. Post-colonialism there’s lots of differences between French, English, Spanish, and Portugese influence. And topographically the North Andes are a pretty solid border (though in many ways it makes more sense to extend out to the coast).
Which I think is silly given the obvious first continental divide to go would be the Eurasian one that only exists for historical reasons.
America makes sense for historical reasons as well. After all it is a massive settlers colony of different European nations. The Spanish influence very much connects both continents, if you want to do that.
I mean, at this point everyone knows Trump lies out of his ass, right?
Going by Trump’s actions in first term, the “no wars” thing was the rare promise that was actually pretty believable.
Trump first term didn’t start new big wars, and withdrew from e.g. Afghanistan (in a bullshit way, but still). Based on past actions, and yes because Trump promised it, I believed that Trump would be isolationist in his second term.
huh, somehow I missed that we left Afghanistan because of Trump:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020–2021_U.S._troop_withdrawal_from_Afghanistan
Because the troop withdrawal happened under Biden, I thought it was Biden that withdrew from Afghanistan.
It’s so ironic then that Biden was so criticized for the consequences of Trump’s agreements with the Taliban 💀
It’s so ironic then that Biden was so criticized for the consequences of Trump’s agreements with the Taliban 💀
Trump was responsible for the vast majority of bad outcomes, yup. And the media did not reflect that.
Actually, if you tune into just right wing news they make Trump look like a 4D chess genius.
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At this point I’m convinced Trump raped, tortured, killed and ate the babies in the Trump-Epstein files… distractions are wild… and working
But the oil price shock is going to hurt Trump electorally, and normal people’s wallets, way worse than the Epstein files. So in a sense it is silly to say that the distraction is “working”.
DoJ stopped releasing Epstein files indefinitely, because or Iran… so yeah, I think it’s working. MAGA is a cult, it’s not rational. What you think it might hurt him, it might as well make him stronger in the eyes of his followers… After everything that has happened, most of his base still follows him and will vote for him.
Yeah, right? It must be things he’s deeply ashamed of. I’ve never seen him work so consistantly hard on a single topic before.
He feels no shame, the man is incapable of it. He just knows that it’ll look really bad to come out as a child raping cannibal is all.
Ecuador? Why?
Ecuador? Why?
They voted against a constitutional change that would reallow US bases.
following four questions:
Whether to lift the ban on foreign military bases on Ecuadorian territory;
They just elected a right wing guy playing off the fear of crime, they used to be one of the safest but have had a crime wave. Columbia’s president just said they found a score or so of charred bodies on the Columbian side of the border that were bombed too. The US violated their sovereignty just the other day.
Colombia.
Remove him from office now
Remember “terrorist” is an ill defined term trump can apply to anyone who thumbs their nose at him and use as justification for sending our sons overseas to kill them.
Ecuador is in the same continent as the US…
There are a number of ways to count continents, none of them super great for all usages. Some separate North and South America.
How do you define continent?
“The involuntary leakage of urine or stool.”
When the Ford lands on Crete it’ll be Europe too. Y’all prepared? I’m not.
