• assembly@lemmy.world
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      11 hours ago

      LOL. I saw that one country voted against it and kept saying, “please not the US, please not the US”…but alas…here we are.

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        tbf

        “Resolutions like this and the ideological agenda they promote, are barnacles on our work here, and the reason this institution is losing its credibility,” the statement read.

        He’s not wrong

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            Accuracy isn’t the problem, if they’d come out and said we’re changing the map to be more accurate I would have been like, great!

            But this whole, Africa needs justice for appearing smaller on a map, I cried tears of joy etcetc this is about social justice etc what a load of wank

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    The width looks good; the height looks really stretched near the equator.

    I like the tear apart ones better myself, with the cutouts at top and bottom, for a whole earth perspective.

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    Supporters of the Correct the Map campaign say a different projection could help provide a fairer visual representation of the world and challenge longstanding misconceptions about Africa’s size and importance.

    I don’t think it’s the size of Africa on a map that is weighing down it’s importance… I don’t recall anyone saying wow africa is so small… 😳

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      It’s not ‘Africa Small’

      It’s the European nations put undue important on themselves considering their absolutely tiny size. The Northern hemisphere as a whole needs to STFU for a while.

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        america and china are the 2 world superpowers right now, europe was the world superpower before them

        africa right now has islamic jihadi’s at the top, ebola in the middle and corruption at the bottom

        it’s not about the map