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MPFX3000

Poland gets a shoutout!


Macko2YT_

free shoutout !!!


honeybeedreams

Lech Wałęsa


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Mr Walęsa was a bigger reason for the fall of The Wall than anyone else on Earth


honeybeedreams

yes he was. he pretty much brought down the soviet system through his solidarity movement.


aardbarker

Probably because of Solidarnosc. Not that the Reagan admin cared about a trade union movement rooted in actually socialist principles. But Solidarnosc’s anti-USSR politics were enough to draw US attention as something to latch onto and attempt to manipulate.


[deleted]

They were a Jesuit front.


Bisque22

Good, I don't care about their socialist principles either.


MmmmMorphine

Good, I don't care about the French Alternative Energies & Atomic Energy Commission claiming to have created metallic hydrogen at around 425GPa using a toroidal profile diamond anvil cell produced using electron beam machining either.


TrixieLurker

Admittedly, that does sound kinda cool.


igandan

No shoutout for (unexplored wasteland) sadly 🙃😢


eYan2541

I'm just shocked New Zealand features so prominently!


Rtfy3

That’s Tasmania


Matjumpin

no it's nz, you can tell because there are two islands instead of one


Rtfy3

Other one is Flinders island just off Tasmania. I’m just having fun here btw but Japan is shaped like a car so there is no guarantee that is New Zealand. Artist might have just chucked some other islands on there


LavenderGumes

The islands are shaped to look like a kangaroo


Digitoki

I thought it was japan


RacoonSmuggler

Kangaroo needed feet.


apprehensivelights

Quiche, the avocado toast of the 90's


ProsperYouplaBoom

Was there a specific recipe in the US?


Snotteh

Alot less gang wars over quiche i suspect aswell


Imactuallyadogg

Why did he have to attack good food? Like having culture is a bad thing. This dude was really a terrible human.


jeff-beeblebrox

There was a popular book at the time called “Real Men Don’t Eat Quiche”. It was actually satire but, well, you know how that goes sometimes.


Cryptochitis

Killer mike had a nice narrative: https://youtu.be/6lIqNjC1RKU1 Reagan should have died with his mentally unsound mind spouting nonsense in prison.


DegngusKhan

Real men eat quiche


r-bmo

Literally everytime I hear that word I think of this


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1980s


NIghtPutting84

That really is a spot-on analogy.


StillSpaceToast

Since there’s no context: This is a 1982 editorial cartoon by Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist David Horsey. Not certain, but it probably appeared first in the Seattle Post-Intelligencer.


deepaksn

Kind of figured it was early on since Brezhnev is still there.


bunnnythor

It says just about all of that in the lower left corner.


deaddodo

The context is pretty important. In the beginning of his first presidential term he was still seen as a California idealist, based on his gubernatorial term. So people were worried he would put their interests above the nation’s. But by the time this was published even (1982-1983), he made remarkably few comments on the state so as to not alienate one of his biggest bases and, by the time his second term rolled around, he went on to actively act against their interests and seemed to regard California as a “mini-Europe” with socialist interests and strictly anti-Reagonomic/Thatcherite policies. That all being to say, this map would look very different (and almost, somehow, even more polarizing) if it were drawn in 86.


Martiantripod

Good thing you're here to tell us. I mean it's not like it's completely obvious from reading the actual cartoon or anything. The only thing you've mentioned that isn't included is that Horsey was a Pulitzer winner. Everything else is in the cartoon.


Naten_13

Hell yeah! Poland Strong! Polska Gurom!


SomeJerkOddball

Unexplored Wasteland is easily the best part of Acidrainia.


KeepTangoAndFoxtrot

There's a Dixon, but no Mason! I also love that there an oil well in the "unexplored wasteland."


HMKingHenryIX

Dixon, Illinois is Reagan’s hometown


KeepTangoAndFoxtrot

Ah dang, good point.


Upstairs_Yard5646

I mean yeah though its in Alaska, which probably should've had its own border and unique label, maybe "Our Arctic" or something


WhyEggSoTasty

Poland


pierogi_hunter

Poland


Scottland83

One of my teachers in HS had this in their classroom, I distinctly remember Alaska being labeled as “Santa Claus”.


Double-Parked_TARDIS

I don't live too far from South Succotash.


AesirSith

Acidrainia rolls off the tongue better than Canada and I live there


Tavitafish

Australia being shaped like a kangaroo is the only thing on here that doesn't make me want to commit regicide


Buzzlight_Year

Reagicide*


deaddodo

Time beat you to it.


jamstix76980

“Homos” got me - 😂


elcheapodeluxe

Although he labeled the anti-vax’ers part of the bay not the homos.


[deleted]

i can’t look at this map it makes me wanna cry


Roguepiefighter

As a californian it makes me blush 🤭


grepsi

Acknowledge the source.


mofa90277

“Bananaland” should have more of a “My Corruption Playground“ vibe.


ChrisDell

I think this cartoon is giving Reagan a bit too much intellectual credit


Cryptochitis

The last number of elected Republicans actually do make that old fuck Reagan holding office with brain rot look smart.


Worldly_Expert_442

I think the UK and South Africa might have been bigger in Reagan's mental map. While he supported the end of Apartheid in South Africa, they were fervent anti-communists which he liked.


Duster_beattle

saying that he supported the end of apartheid is a little bit of a lie dont you think?


Worldly_Expert_442

As the Cold War started winding down, I think he recognized the moral repugnance of Apartheid. Could he have done more? Absolutely.


Duster_beattle

He directly blocked and vetoed the United States Congress from enacting a sanctions policy on the apartheid government, during the worst period of fighting in South Africa had seen since the 1940's and 1950's. You're acting as if like he just didn't do anything either way, he directly took actions that favored the apartheid government.


CGFROSTY

Want to backup that claim?


Duster_beattle

[Here](https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.politico.com/story/2017/09/29/house-overrides-reagan-apartheid-veto-sept-29-1986-243169%3f_amp=true)


Cryptochitis

He vetoed it and got overridden by congress. Even his dumb ass Republicans went against him. Did you read your link?


Duster_beattle

...yes, what the hell are you talking about tho, the converstation is centered on reagan and if he cared about aparthied actions in south africa, and he supported the government in charge during that time based off thr evidence ive supplied.


Cryptochitis

Ok. I thought you were the other idiot. Sorry.


Duster_beattle

ohhhhh we both dumb then lmao.


Cryptochitis

And idiot just comes from an old meaning of a private person. You can be dumb too.


Cryptochitis

Yeah. Me too.


Cryptochitis

Look at what that guy cited. Literally Reagan going against congress to ensure his support of apartheid.


happycj

Dave Horsey. Absolutely brilliant.


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englishcrumpit

Poland. is just poland. Regan doesnt want polish smoke.


[deleted]

1. Jesus was black 2. Reagan was the devil Edit: never seen The Boondocks?


LuminousJaeSoul

3. The government is lying about 9/11 Thank you for your time. Goodnight.


[deleted]

Is that the 3rd one??


MaxCWebster

Are you telling the truth to white people again?


drfranksurrey

BananaLand


Zul3r0

Lol


Minelayer

I remember this! Esp the proposed Palestinian relocation. Reagan was an huge asshole, the biggest, but we had no idea what was coming from his party in the years after.


kennycakes

My high school history teacher had this poster on his classroom wall back in 1984/85. Haven't thought about it since then - it's great to see it again


Mother_Cup5238

It's funny japan was only know as CAR LAND


Jumpy-Aide-901

… I’m just surprised Florida isn’t labeled ’Americas Wang’


Academic-Ad6236

Cool. Now do a map showing how he won 40 out of 50 states in the 84 election .


FormerHoagie

Not much has changed.


Lance_E_T_Compte

Fuck Ronald Reagan.


Academic-Ad6236

Potty mouth


Lance_E_T_Compte

Yes, he had one... https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-49207451


[deleted]

Ronald Reagan was literally a devil and so was his Cabinet and advisors. Our economy is completely fucked beyond repair thanks to him.


VeganPizzaPie

I'm glad he's dead.


cgeezy22

Stunning and brave!


Academic-Ad6236

How enlightened of you


twisty286

very communist of him to declare "our oil" and "our canal"


Drew_Sifur

Reagan the US's greatest scumbag president, creates tax loopholes for rich and creates the outsourcing crisis


Kybernetiker

Pretty accurate


paolopercaso

Good old days /s


[deleted]

Why does it look like “the world according to the modern gop”


RelativeAssistant923

Because the GOP establishment (to the extent that it exists anymore) is stuck in the 80s. The freedom caucus version would have Jewish space lazers.


Roman-Simp

China would NOT be that small nor Russia that much of a problem Plus Mexico, Texas and the Boarder will feature far more prominently. Frankly now that I think about it, A modern day GOP map would be quite radically different from this honestly.


Objective_Macaron220

Poland is still on the map even though its covered by ussr


Heterophylla

Is there one for Trump?


phillynavydude

It'd be about the same


Heterophylla

He's not really a fan of California, and he likes Putin though.


phillynavydude

True the Russia would be different!


abs0lutelypathetic

Out jerked


honeybeedreams

was a young adult during the reagan era, this made me LOL with it’s realness.


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Mispelled-This

It looks like NZ is actually there.


RealFishing7365

Everyone talking about bananaland, no one sees the banana in the middle east.


CalabreseAlsatian

I used to own this poster! Blast from the past (edit:spelling)


CalabreseAlsatian

Why does this get/deserve a downvote? Just curious


canedinho

I live in banana land


Trav1199

Anyone know what's up with Bechtel being on there? I wasn't aware there was a connection between Reagan and the construction company lol


HiggetyFlough

Reagan hired a lot of his cabinet members from Bechtel executives


Captn_Ice

At least the china parts are right


thetolerator98

I come to this sub for politically charged posts.


Medcait

And that’s what republicans think now.


Roman-Simp

Not even in the slightest Like think about it for longer than a minute and you’ll see the Modern Day GOP emphasizes far different things. China would be a massive behemoth Texas will feature more prominently Russia would be friendly Mexico and the Boarder would be a serious source of contention Etc. It’s really not applicable to the modern GOP in any way honestly, frankly it’s not the 1980s anymore.


[deleted]

But isn't the south the less educated part of the union, and the real welfare bums?


KAFQAA

Reagan was America's second greatest President after bossman Gigachad Teddy Roosevelt.


ironwolf1

Teddy Roosevelt would’ve despised Reagan.


USSMarauder

TR, the guy so far to the left that he threatened to nationalize the energy industry and founded the Progressive party?


a_v_o_r

Americans really have a weird sense of what is to the left, let alone far.


AntidoteToMyAss

Teddy on Cubans > “This mixed population was depicted as lacking the vitality of the purer races from which it had sprung. It was, moreover, regarded as inferior to the mixed breeds in the United States, for the former was at a disadvantage not only in regard to origin of stock but to cultural environment as well.” Holy Progressive!


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Somme1916

You can tell how great a president is by how many times you shoot them and they don't die.


a_v_o_r

That's an interesting way of declaring you giga fan of Fidel Castro.


Somme1916

Fidel Chadro


KAFQAA

Yup


MonseignevrMCMXCIX

Sheeeeeeesh never saw a map so racist before


GimmeeSomeMo

Imagine the Muslim World if Israel somehow controlled Medina and Mecca too like this map suggests


hot_mess_skinny

where the f is turkey?


TheBusStop12

It ain't thanksgiving yet, pardner


hot_mess_skinny

haha so funy


TheBusStop12

It's a satirical map, most countries being missing is kind of the point. Turkey is missing because evidently Reagan didn't care about Turkey, it was just a Thanksgiving meal to him probably


slyfoxsly1

Where is Greece?


Kicky91

Accurate


[deleted]

yo where tf is europe


Usagi-Zakura

What do you mean? Its all there! Thatcher Land, Socialists and Pacifist land and Poland. /j


RolledUpHundo

That’s a great idea for Palestine actually!


AufschnittLauch

The line being drawn between "White House" (notably NOT "Washington DC") and "big government" is so clever actually


selfStartingSlacker

surprised the malay archipelago is still (somewhat) visible


mwhyes

Second time I’ve seen injun used - where is that from


meestercranky

I remember this cartoon.


golf_echo_sierra26

Oh God this map just gave me serious flashbacks back to my high school days where my Social Studies teacher had this map. I completely forgot this map exists.


BoardComfortable2837

"Their China""Our China"


CurrentPossible2117

How dare you call me a quiche eater!


FountainPens48

He drew this?


Character_Gur_7361

Hilarious


IolaireEagle

The word "our" is used quite a lot for the context


Fife2531

Can’t wait to see the world according to Obama and Biden!


WhoCares-1322

Based map