• Pacattack57@lemmy.world
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    5 days ago

    The Mercator is a propaganda campaign to make Christian countries look big and powerful. Ask yourself why is it only “Christian” countries that are distorted.

    Edit: should have put this /s

    • Maps were used for navigation, which meant angles needed to be preserved. Christian nations colonised a lot, meaning they needed to have maps for navigation a lot too.

      This isn’t some weird propaganda campaign, that makes no sense. Try making an angle-preserving map that doesn’t wildly distort the north and south of the world.

      Besides, not sure how Christian the icy wastes of Greenland and Antarctica are.

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      6 days ago

      I know right! It’s all done to further Antarctica’s hegemony! Just look how huge it seems!

      /uj If you want no distortions, get a globe.

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        5 days ago

        Those are inferior skin colors so they’re excluded.

        I added to the original comment but I’m trolling lol