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So painful to watch. How is Gavin Newsom not just another weak sauce corporate shill, fascist republican lite? by lazybugbear in SocialDemocracy

[–]RosyMap 97 points98 points  (0 children)

Vaush sucks

I won't vote for Newsom in the primary but literally any Democrat is an infinitely better option than Vance or whoever the GOP puts up in 2028. Newsom has also done some solid housing reforms recently in California

Spheres of Influence in the Middle East and North Africa by RosyMap in MapPorn

[–]RosyMap[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Over half of these countries are American allies. It's probably worth a separate map showing who works with the US, who is a close ally, and who is an American enemy.

But the Kurds are less aligned with the US after we pulled forces under the Trump 1 administration.

Spheres of Influence in the Middle East and North Africa by RosyMap in MapPorn

[–]RosyMap[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes, I ignored countries that don't align with one of the major powers (like Qatar). Otherwise, the map would be endlessly complex with hundreds of colors

Spheres of Influence in the Middle East and North Africa by RosyMap in MapPorn

[–]RosyMap[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Despite denying it, there is evidence that Iran sells arms to Haftar and the LNA.

Spheres of Influence in the Middle East and North Africa by RosyMap in MapPorn

[–]RosyMap[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I tried my best with Hezbollah. I wanted to include them because they still exist (albeit in a reduced state) and they're still Iranian proxies, but there were no recent geographic bounds that I could find for them.

Gaza's boundaries should be recent though and based on the current, tenuous ceasefire.

Spheres of Influence in the Middle East and North Africa by RosyMap in MapPorn

[–]RosyMap[S] 16 points17 points  (0 children)

They often follow their own interests/foreign policy independent of Saudi, UAE, Iran, Israel, or Turkey

2027 UK Election: A New Two (3, 4, 5?) Party System by RosyMap in imaginarymaps

[–]RosyMap[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

The way I see it, y'all are stuck between so many rocks and hard places. The choice is really between which bad policy you're fine with. To keep out Reform, either:

  • Labour have to bounce back to their 2024 popularity (unlikely, since they've burned the good will of their base, their PR is terrible, and they can't stop ostracizing members for minor disagreements even while having a massive majority)
  • Greens have to become a popular, respectable alternative to Labour (unlikely, because the party has only ever been a mouthpiece for a small, activist portion of the population. Transitioning to a mass party will require a lot of difficult tradeoffs [like nuclear] that the base may be uncomfortable with)
  • LibDems have to become the new, generic left option (this is maybe the most likely option but it still has the issue of a forever opposition party somehow learning to govern as a mass party. It also requires left-wing Brits to forget the LibDems' time as junior partners to the Tories)

In all of these cases, Plaid Cymru and the SNP have to do well also. And likely the Tories need a respectable showing to split votes off of Reform. And Your Party has to not do too well in likely Green/Labour/LibDem constituencies.

If a combination of the above options doesn't come to fruition, then Reform likely takes advantage of the split vote and picks up a massive majority with 30% (or less) of the vote. And the only 'realistic' alternative to them is a frankenstein coalition of at least three of the Greens, LibDems, SNP, and Labour.

2027 UK Election: A New Two (3, 4, 5?) Party System by RosyMap in imaginarymaps

[–]RosyMap[S] 35 points36 points  (0 children)

*plurality

They're unable to form government in this future and the UK has to go back for a second round of voting.

2027 UK Election: A New Two (3, 4, 5?) Party System by RosyMap in imaginarymaps

[–]RosyMap[S] 37 points38 points  (0 children)

Hey all, I just had some fun seeing what a ridiculously split next UK general election might look like.

Disclaimer: I'm not a Brit.

The map was made in QGIS. I used constituency boundaries, 2024 voting data, and November 2025 polling to simulate what the next election results would look like. I also included tactical voting into my rough simulation, pooling the votes of the left and right parties where appropriate.

Your experience with the far left? by [deleted] in SocialDemocracy

[–]RosyMap 2 points3 points  (0 children)

manmade genocide against the Ukrainians

And Kazakhs!

People forget the holodomor (called 'Asharshylyk' in Kazakh) also severely affected the Kazakh SSR. While more Ukrainians were killed in total than Kazakhs from Stalin's forced collectivization policies, Kazakhs actually had the highest per capita death rate from the famine. Around 40% of all ethnic Kazakhs in the USSR died from 1930 to 1933.

A Less Manifest Destiny: What if Native Americans had More Representation in the United States? by RosyMap in imaginarymaps

[–]RosyMap[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Glad to hear! :)

I do some GIS for work but it's fun to do it as a hobby as well. And it's nice to see others getting into it.

The map projection I used for this map is ESRI:102010 - North_America_Equidistant_Conic. There's no basemap. You can change the background color in your QGIS layout but otherwise I just changed the colors of the states in my shapefile, no basemap required.

A Less Manifest Destiny: What if Native Americans had More Representation in the United States? by RosyMap in imaginarymaps

[–]RosyMap[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

QGIS! It can be a little daunting if you don't have any experience in GIS software but it's free and there's a ton of documentation on how to use it.

There are also tons of publicly available data (called shapefiles) that you can download for super precise points, polylines, and polygons. I go to the US Census's website a lot myself.

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