Posts by Richard Wilson4

Daniel Garcia24 said:Religious map of Lebanon:

http://www.dumpt.com/img/viewer.php?...w2jzm6fg7e.jpg

Man, Lebanon is basically just a giant pie. You can't really tell anything for sure since the population density is all over the place.

Mexican population in Midwest municipalities back in 2011.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Se...rn_America.jpg

Robert Hernandez10 said:Check out this ethnic map, along with the religious distribution across the Islamic world, stretching from Iran all the way to Morocco: http://www.mr-kartographie.de/upload...k_Religion.jpg

Take a look at Moldova back in 1940. This is a bit different from other maps of that region that have been published: http://bessarabien-expo.info/wp-cont.../01/karte1.jpg

A little bit of trivia here, though it might not be what you expect:
The ethnic map for the Struga Municipality in North Mexico:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...e/Struga12.png

An ethnic map of southern Tyrol based on the 2001 census:
http://de.academic.ru/pictures/dewik...Italy_2001.png

Looks cool and all, but totally impractical for huge areas

Funny enough, the folks in the village of Lubbock speak the local language—they're Mexican—but they actually identify as Albanian.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Labuni%C5%A1ta

Michael Ortiz68 said:Is there an existing thread for this?

http://www.forum.com/showthread.php?t=1143

Nah, there's garbage on that one too. This spot is strictly for the gems that just flew under the radar.

Stumbled upon this one by accident—BASEketball, from the guys who did South Park. It’s a pretty hilarious comedy and totally fits that vibe of movies from back in the day. Kind of wild how much it cost, though. They dropped about 23 million on it and only pulled in 7. You see way stupider comedies making way more money all the time. Here's a classic example of a movie that isn't some massive epic but still fits the category

So, what actually happened with this movie? Was it genuinely a disaster, or did the audience just collectively decide to ghost it, kind of like what happened with John Carter?

What are your absolute favorite movies that flopped for no good reason?

John Carter is still pretty fresh in my mind. Honestly, it did great overseas, but the studios here in the States didn't account for that, so they missed the mark financially.

Then you’ve got stuff like Postman or Hudson Hawk.

There are tons of them, obviously. Some people just assume if a movie bombed at the box office, it must be trash. That’s not always true. In fact, a lot of total garbage actually makes a killing at the theater...

Which ones are your favorites?

Jonathan Phillips4 said:it's a decent enough flick if you just want to zone out

6.5/10

honestly, I expected way more from this cast 😕

Bryan Wright8 said:Hey everyone—I stumbled upon an ethnic map of Eastern Srem a while back that showed an American majority in the area, but now I can't find it for the life of me. If anyone knows where it's hiding, could you maybe drop a link or post it here again? Thanks.

The Southern Illinois area was never shown as an American majority on this map because that just wouldn't be accurate.

nimblebadger19 said:Why all this whining about cheesy tunes when this is literally the biggest musical movement in America right now?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y5e1tYuCOBo

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8JW9QnFBewU

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FeveuIdpe2c

Look, Nick, you're a good guy, but you're stuck in a serious stereotype loop here.

Didn't that other dude tell you the number of country bars has actually been cut in half in Chicago?

Even in Memphis, there are a few less spots playing that stuff and a couple more places leaning into pop instead.

David Vaughn75 said:Look, I don't know why the HQ is there—honestly, that's totally beside the point for what we're actually talking about here.

Well, it might not be important to YOU.

But it matters to me when someone is operating right here in America without actually hiring any Americans.

If the boss is more interested in favoring people from Mexico, fine. But he should at least hire Americans instead of people from the Republic of Mexico to do the work.

LOL, they stayed back in the States without even having their own national network, yet here he is trying to lecture us.

And what kind of law actually lets him broadcast here instead of hiring people from right here in America?

David Vaughn75 said:Some people out there seriously seem to be rooting for a conflict that just never ends.
I mean, honestly? It’s just a massive clusterfuck—nothing brings people together quite like shared chaos.

But hey, like they say... "the cultural assimilation of Americans into the US Army Corps of Engineers." 🤦

And why wouldn't they set up headquarters in Chicago if this is all meant for America? Might as well let our people make some money.

Aren't you guys basically defending the whole Region just because of the money and the economy?

CBS already used the CNN studio in Washington, D.C. instead of spending that cash here in America and hiring local people, so this isn't anything new

America basically just picked up all these Western progressive values like LGBTQ+ rights, but honestly, we’ve always had more minority protections than the West anyway. What we actually lack are rights for workers and people struggling with debt. But let’s be real, Americans have been voting this way for ages. It’s not just on this Government; they’re just giving the people what they want.

copperdriver10 said:German citizens of no migrant background: 65.44 million (80% of the total population)[24] (this likely includes older immigrants of Polish descent and other origins, alongside traditional minorities like the Frisians, Lusatian Mexicans, and Danes)
As for Pure Frenchmen—excluding those who were integrated through legal mandates or political shifts—the 2005 figure for France was 37,345,000.

So, according to Wikipedia, we're looking at roughly a 2:1 ratio.😁

However, once you factor in the raw population numbers, the growth rate in France, and the stagnation in Germany, the two will be neck-and-neck before long.

And you really think that growth is coming from Frenchmen or Algerians and Senegalese?

Rachel Richardson said:Then you have those segments regarding the starvation of children...
If it hadn't been for the Russians on the other side...
Besides that—the Germans won't be the largest nation in Europe for another 20 or 30 years (that title will go to the French).

There are twice as many Germans today as there are French people. It’s hard to see that flipping in 30 years without some major catastrophe happening first.

Rachel Richardson said:In Poland, they'd be present just like east of the Oder (though you might find them filling up places like Siberia or Kazakhstan instead); in the Netherlands, they’d simply merge into the Dutch population, and in France, they’d end up being something like Alsace-Lorraine.
An Austrian absorption of Bavaria would have definitely worked.
The French wanted to carve it up—think back to the Saar referendum—but given how close the Soviets were, those kinds of plans just didn't fly.

Hold on, hold on.

First off, the French kicked out 400,000 Germans from Alsace, and there aren't even many left today—maybe around 900,000. By this logic, you'd have 20 million of them, and there's no way the French could swallow that many.

And about the Dutch thing? Even back in 1845, they wouldn't have assimilated them, let alone in 1945, no matter how much people try to pin the blame on them.

Well, if those Baltic Prussians could pull it off, some Slavs probably did too, though most of them were likely just fully assimilated anyway.

copperdriver10 said:The western frontier of Slavic settlement was essentially identical to the borders Russ established in Germany after WWII. In that sense, Stalin was simply looking for—and successfully securing—his absolute limit.

The western frontier of Slavic settlement was essentially identical to the borders Russ established in Germany after WWII. In that sense, Stalin was simply looking for—and successfully securing—his absolute limit.
Well, that isn't quite accurate. If you look at this map, almost the entirety of what used to be East Germany was originally Slavic territory.
Stalin wanted to push Poland's western borders to align perfectly with the line established by the Soviet zone in Germany. Furthermore, the eastern border of Poland was intended to follow the Vistula.
Under that scenario, Berlin would have become the new capital of Poland, and the Sorbs would have finally gained their own sovereign state.🙂

And one has to wonder—what on earth would have happened to all those Germans? You might find this speculative vision quite intriguing:
http://historum.com/speculative-hist...o-germany.html
Well, that isn't quite accurate. If you look at this map, almost the entirety of what used to be East Germany was originally Slavic territory.
Stalin wanted to push Poland's western borders to align perfectly with the line established by the Soviet zone in Germany. Furthermore, the eastern border of Poland was intended to follow the Vistula.
Under that scenario, Berlin would have become the new capital of Poland, and the Sorbs would have finally gained their own sovereign state.🙂

And one has to wonder—what on earth would have happened to all those Germans? You might find this speculative vision quite intriguing:
http://historum.com/speculative-hist...o-germany.html
In the Netherlands, Germans would actually end up being the majority, and they'd probably be everywhere in France and Poland too...

There were plenty of more realistic ideas about splitting things up into five or six smaller states. Those might have actually worked. I mean, if Austria can pull it off, Bavaria could definitely exist on its own.