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Comment by sph

8 days ago

Aren't those countries thousands of miles away from El Paso, Texas?

Please understand, Geography is only taught for optional extra credit in American schools.

(I wish this were a joke.)

  • What? I had to take Geography.

    • They taught us that Geography is old fashioned so the geography classes and history were all replaced with "Social Studies" at some time in the 80s. Most of that class was just about reading holocaust books, I think we had a week or two where they taught us what islands and fjords are, but the only time putting names to countries and capitals on a map came up was an optional extra credit quiz in 8th grade. Most people skipped it.

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Well you take this sharpie and draw a line and bam direct line of attack - if it works for hurricanes it will work for war plans

Cuba could be one. While Florida is closer, it's possible due to El Paso being considered highly isolated.