a single game of Risk could've avoided this
This guy hosts a debate show
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If you don't know about Kamchatka...
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Reading Fallout lore would’ve also prevented this.
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Where was that fool when Palin talked of 'seeing Russia from my porch..?
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Wait until he finds out that planes don’t follow latitudinal lines.
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Pretty much any map not focused on NA and Europe would have done the trick.
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Reading a single textbook or looking a a globe might have helped as well.
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Less than a mile separates the U.S. from Russia between the Diomedes. And prior to 1867 Alaska was even Russian territory. We do a horrible job of teaching both history and geography in this country, and most other things too, I'm afraid.
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A single hipster decor globe would have solved this
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A condom could of prevented this.
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Ain’t nobody got time for that.
I wish they did because it might be my favorite game ever.
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was he asleep during the sarah palin era or what
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The Bering Your Whole Ass Strait
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We need to put a beat-to-shit 1980's globe in every home.
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is he like 12 years old. was he not conscious for any of the mccain/palin run
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I am reaching a point where it seems the only explanation is that we are in a real version of idiocracy.
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I mean it explains the flat earthers.
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Or axis and Allies
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🤦🏻♀️
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Well then. I guess he slept through geography in grade school.
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"I can see Russia from my house." youtu.be/noSw5iZ8fLA?...
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Or, you know, a globe ¯_(ツ)_/¯
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He's going to be shocked at how bright the sun is if and when he ever gets his head out of his ass.
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This is just laying ground work for them to start saying we should be friends.
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Is this a joke???
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"An imaginary line that prevents us from seeing our relatives over there"
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Putin kept reminding us in his speech that we are neighbors 🤮
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And this is why we Alaskans are concerned about those ‘land deals’. And of course History.
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As you can see Russia is very far from USA.
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Tina Fey taught me this geography lesson
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What did these people do with their five years of college?
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Third grade geography class could’ve avoided this.
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Is he aware yet that Alaska doesn’t actually touch any other part of the USA which is over 500 miles away at its closest point. His mind will blow!
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Lot of people in these comments taking the post text at face value and simply believing it. Folks, that guy knew they were close. He claimed not to for a reason. His viewers who didn't realize they were close now believe they can trust him. It was strategic.
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This cunts never seen a globe.
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A condom would have avoided this.
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Or even a quick visit to Sarah Palin's house.
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There is no way he is this stupid. It's gotta be for clicks.
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A second grade education also could have fixed it.
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Or school.
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Flat earthers say that they are as far apart as they could possibly be.
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A single look at a single globe in the 5th grade classroom could've avoided this.
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Classic Sarah Palin could have avoided this.
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I mean, looking at one world map of any kind at any point of his life could’ve avoided it. Watching Animaniacs would’ve done the job.
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But the flat-earthers…
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yeah but on the other hand this chowder head would have absolutely come away with the wrong idea about Australia's strategic value.
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This is like one of the first things I noticed looking at a globe in elementary school
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Dude didn't have a globe in his elementary school classrooms?
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About two and a half miles, at the closest point, between two small islands known as Big Diomede and Little Diomede.
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Yah but then he'd have to make the leap from Yakutsk (Irkutsk? Sorry, it's been a minute since I played Risk) to Russia and the available evidence suggests he's not up to the task.
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homie has never seen a globe
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I’d ask how he could be so ignorant but I already know that answer…
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Or the globe in his 1st grade class
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The surprise is that it's over 1000km to any kind of land transportation infrastructure on either side of the straight. Build a bridge across? The road or rail infrastructure to make it useful might be the expensive part.
https://straight.build
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Gosh loved that game. So many family battles that we were banned from playing it! And we were young adults at the time. Drove my parents nuts.
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Sarah Palin done already told you.
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KAMCHATKA
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Getting a globe for Christmas as child could have as well.
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Dude never saw a globe or got the least bit curious?
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Will Kingston does not have the patience required for a game of risk
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KammmmCHATkaaa!
we would say triumphantly.
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reminds me of this Tory government minister (for Brexit!)
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I think Mark Twain was once quoted “Americans learn geography through wars” or something like that
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There’s a lot wrong with the UK education system but we learned this in junior school
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Folks don’t realize that there used to be a point where you can walk across Alaska to Russia until the 60’s. Erosion I believe hit that but small boat/raft rule applies.
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The problem is Robert, you have to have friends to play risk
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A globe-print beach ball could've avoided this.
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Kamchatka is OP.
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Did we think, when Palin said "You can actually see Russia from land here in Alaska" she was lying? She's a shitty human being, sure. But she wasn't wrong.
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I'll take a lifetime of ignorance over a single game of Risk.
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Sarah Palin said she could see Russian from her house and we all went "No you can't!" and this guy took it the wrong way. We reap what we sew. 😂
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¯_(ツ)_/¯
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Has he never seen a globe?
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Show him a globe and he'll lose his goddamn mind.
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This is how we should decide cabinet positions.
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…or watching Deadliest Catch 🦀
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These dipshits are really making Australia look bad
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Officially dumber than Sarah Palin
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Always attack in the rear!
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Yakutsk!
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uh, how are maps 'normally drawn' that dipshit wouldn't know this.....?
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Risk is the single, only reason I know where Kamchatka is. Felt pretty sophisticated and knowledgeable when that 8.8 earthquake struck, i tell ya.
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Or purchasing EU4...
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oh, come on. Palin said she could see Russia from her house
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Good lord, did he not pass 7th grade geography class? This is basic level geography knowledge. Source: I was previously a middle school English Lit and Social Studies teacher.
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I can see Russia from my house ahh energy
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Repositioning the Prime Meridian would've avoided this
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Sigh.
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Jail whomever signed his high school diploma.
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I guess globes hadn't been invented yet when he was in school?
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Or contraception
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I had to explain this to my mom the other day.
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All those map trivia facts like Maine being the closest state to Africa are a waste. You could blow this guy's mind telling him Hawaii and Alaska aren't very close to each other.
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…one time ago: Russia belonged to America.
…or so Putin says.
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A game of Risk, or five bored seconds as a child staring at the globe in an elementary school classroom.
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Okay, I think I have a solution.
Step one: We remove a bunch of globes from their...mountings, I guess?
Step two: Pelt him with the globes until it sinks in to that lump of concrete he calls a brain that the Earth is round.
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Or just .. a globe
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What did he think the word “strait” meant?
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Ffs. Greenland is American in Risk though? Been a while
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At 19, I worked at a copy center. An older guy came in with a published paper he needed copied and bound. He started explaining which way the map pages went. I looked at him baffled while he kept going, in what seemed a condesending way.
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Didn't he even listen to Sarah Palin?
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If you've never clicked around foreign places in Google Maps, WHY EVEN HAVE INTERNET?
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www.google.com/search?q=jap...
Google Search
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...as would a basic education anywhere in the world outside of United States.
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Tantalizingly close and yet never quite touching. Geographic edging.
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William Seward should have bought Kamchatka too.
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Imagine announcing how dumb you are to the whole world
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Or just looking at a globe
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Man I used to love fucking around with globes in school I guess that wasn’t cool
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Learning about the Bering Land Bridge could have, too.
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U.S. and Russia mainlands 55 miles apart. The U.S. and Russian segments of the The Diomede Islands about 2.5 miles not as obvious on most maps. But yeah I learned these by middle school.
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my light up globe is so old Russia is still in the USSR, Mayanmar is Burma, etc. but a single glance shows how close Alaska/Aleutians are to "USSR". maybe i'll live long enough to see USSR redrawn on maps. i fucking hope not but the way things are headed...
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He could have also learned about the land bridge from Japan to Kamchatka.
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Flat-earthers getting migraines now
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When he hears about land bridges to Asia I expect his fucking brain will explode
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“Because of the way maps are normally drawn”.
Did this motherfucker think the world was like Westeros?!
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Did he not have any geography classes in elementary school!! I learned this in 4th grade(?). Each student was given a large world map to take home to study. My older brothers would call out a country and I had to find it on the map.
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OTOH, Risk is why no one can invade New Zealand.
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Before anyone gets all 'hur dur Americans dumb', this dude is a British political commentator.
I highly doubt Seward's Folly was part of his history curriculum. Still stupid, but slightly more understandably stupid.
It's still 100% posting an L.
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Republicans discovering common knowledge is a tried and true genre but “the world is round” a thing they literally everyone has known for three thousand years is an incredible new frontier.
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I’m happy I don’t know who this dumb dork is.
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When Sarah Palin said she could see Russia from her house, east coast media mocked her and west coast liberals laughed. For different reasons.
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Do NOT let her play any version of Street Fighter 2 before Super. It'll undo all that progress.
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this mf is not prepared for the armies i am amassing in kamchatka
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Rolling the dice for my incursion into Kamchatka
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Kamchatka to Alaska is one of only three ways into North America.
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Omgosh... 😆
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It's not a question of how maps are drawn. It's because you know maps exist but you've never actually looked at one and understood what a map does and how it works.
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The fucking Mercator Projection
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This is why globes should be mandatory in every classroom...
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How did this guy get through elementary school without learning about the land bridge across the Bering Strait?
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Watching more than 3 seconds of an episode of Deadliest Crab.
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Wait till he learns who the US bought Alaska from.
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Now they're gonna start asking why we can't just build a bridge like there haven't already been numerous studies and attempts that all came to the same conclusion that it's literally not feasible in any way.
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or a dip into the good ol' Fallout wiki
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Or about half of Paradox's map games
Which will also probably give him the wrong idea about that part of Siberia: that you actually can indeed march land forces across it and into Alaska
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I get that maps are bad but do these people just never look at globes
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If there is anything I remember fron Grade 3 geography is that when the water freezes between Alaska as Russia you can walk on it and they call it the Bering Strait
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No coincidence that Kamchatka has been in the news so much recently.
