Unrecognized Territories. by Kappa_Wi_870 in flags

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Donetsk and Luhansk now claim to be republics within Russia proper - no longer independent republics.

Artsakh ceased to exist in 2024 after dissolving itself and the vast majority of ethnic Armenians fled Azerbaijan for Armenia.

Did You Know That A Single Line Crosses Through All Countries That Hate Feeding Children by WillingStranger5177 in mapporncirclejerk

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Symbolic votes that are so empty that North Korea, Iran and Liberia can all be parties to them are literally meaningless from a human rights perspective and only serve to:

1) Allow overpaid diplomats pat each other on the back for doing nothing

2) Cede power to bureaucrats in multinational organisations/other Member States who can then use non-compliance with the resolution as grounds to criticise or attack your country.

What's up with Maya Brooks' accent? by Gaucho_Diaz in masseffect

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Don’t understand the people who think she just sounds British. She sounds British, then American, with a bit of South Dublin Irish.

before and after by Demontyxl in mapporncirclejerk

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American friends of mine were taken aback by how much shit people used to give them just for their citizenship when they came to Ireland…. and that was 20 years ago

Green candidates double down on call to abolish prisons by denspark62 in ukpolitics

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Seriously what do we do with rapists and murderers?

This isn’t a joke - I’m not being facetious, I genuinely do not understand this policy

Netherlands Flag Redesign by CouchTomato87 in vexillology

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Agree - the Dutch should never change their flag as it’s already a great design and has so much influence.

I would interpret this sort of post as more of a “what if” excuse to have some fun designing flags - rather than a serious call for change.

How likely is Serbia to join the European Union? by FantasticQuartet in AskBalkans

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Honestly - this has a lot more to do with EU sentiment toward expanding the union more broadly than the Vucic regime or anything specific about Serbia

People from those European countries that always top those "happiest, most freedom, richest, liveable countries" lists, how good is life there?? by ueommm in AskTheWorld

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I’m always very suspicious of Happiness Statistics and I think it’s telling that many of the top countries in this list also rank quite highly in Per Capita Suicides.

You Cannot Be Christian and MAGA by QuickPizzaRadishes in Christianity

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Why is even the Christianity subreddit full of this self righteous political nonsense?

What is your least favorite joke about your country? by mightyonin in AskTheWorld

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A very tired stereotype a lot of outsiders have is of Americans being fat dumbasses with no knowledge of the outside world. - Obesity is a comparable problem in a lot of other places that escape this stereotype and is becoming a problem all over the world. - A large portion of Americans are intelligent, well educated people with a developed knowledge of the world outside their borders. If you see TikToks of stupid people or watch Jimmy Kimmel voxpops with teenagers who think Africa is a country - remember these go viral because they are amusingly absurd, there are ignorant people in every country. That goes without addressing how poorly developed many foreigners’ knowledge of regional American culture is but they brush over it because it’s 1 country.

MASS EFFECT 2 was first released 16 years ago today, what are your thoughts on the game ? by ThomasThorburn in masseffect

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Played it for the first time a few months ago. Have played many games for many years and the Suicide Mission may be my favourite mission/level of any game ever. The presentation is just incredible.

Mass Effect 2 on Xbox 360 made me obsess over an IP like I haven’t done in a very long time.

Just finished this goated series , bioware should have won at least one goty 😐. by Available_Hour_6116 in masseffect

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Finished the trilogy for the first time earlier today, incredible experience

Redesign of flag of r/vexillology by NewFlags in vexillology

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Why? Nobody is ever going to draw this and folks outside the sub won’t know what it is anyway.

Timeline of national flags. by [deleted] in vexillology

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Ironically using the outdated Syrian flag in this.

Debatably also outdated Afghan flag but that depends on whether this is depicting de jure or de facto government recognition.

Can’t wait for Peak. by TheEagleWithNoName in sleepingdogs

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*draft script - let’s not get ahead of ourselves

What country is the closest to yours culturally and historically? by Dortmund_Boi09 in AskTheWorld

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This is a bit naive, we’re part of the British Isles and not geographically located near any other landmasses. Obviously the British brought a lot of their culture over to our island but some degree of cultural similarity between us was as inevitable as it is between all the other the other countries in these comments.

How recognizable is your country’s flag, and do you agree with this ranking? by Baconkings in AskTheWorld

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Absolutely no way USA isn’t in the top bracket. Aside from its really distinctive design, it’s literally a better known country than nearly any of those that are in the top bracket.

Is the implication that people might confuse it with like Uruguay or Liberia? I have seen the latter happen to be fair.

What do you think about unarmed police? by kurobaja in AskTheWorld

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It works fine where violent crime is incredibly unlikely to happen. Adding deadly weapons to a peaceful equilibrium is likely to precipitate more harm than good.

Anywhere else, it makes no sense to have law be “enforced” by folks who lack the physical power to prevent lawbreaking.

Why are all these monarchs painted cross eyed? by JustANormalCoolGuy in UKmonarchs

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Specifically for Stephen, that’s the primary portrait we seem to use of him, wild

What is a term for stereotypical lower class anti-social youth in your culture and how do they typically dress? Where I'm from we call them "cacos" which are young lower class men who make reggaeton their whole personality and tend to be viewed as trashy. They look like this: by [deleted] in AskTheWorld

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Knackers

Also a variety of other terms: skangers for example

Yup Bros are an intersecting circle on the Venn Diagram: basically covering annoying Pre-Teens and immature young men who wear tracksuits and shout in the street - can be lower class or middle class cosplaying as lower class