• Leon_Grotsky [comrade/them]
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          6 months ago

          The Midwest they are referring to is a region of the land-locked interior of the united states. Generally refers to the states in the region comprising of: Nebraska to the West, Minnesota to the North, Ohio to the East, Missouri to the South, and those that lie between.

    • ped_xing [he/him]
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      6 months ago

      Is the gag that Iceland's in the middle of "the West"?

    • CoolerOpposide [none/use name]
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      6 months ago

      I see where you are coming from and that’s my bad, I’ll make the term more specific.

      I was using a colloquialism common to the United States which refers to a group of landlocked areas hundreds/thousands of miles away from the ocean

    • PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmygrad.ml
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      6 months ago

      They had 3 wars against UK for fishing rights. Won all three too, since they threatened to quit NATO and USA immediately reprimended Brits.

      • TheWolfOfSouthEnd@lemmygrad.ml
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        6 months ago

        We’ve fucked ourselves over with fishing rights, there was no point.

        When we were doing Brexit, the pro Brexit politicians got the fishermen on their side. But they’d sold fishing rights to Europe.

        • PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmygrad.ml
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          6 months ago

          As i see this Brexit was one hell of a hoax. Sure, fuck EU but from the outside of UK it clearly looked as because EU was not neoliberal and imperialist enough for them.