That road, deadass, goes through five war zones. Hell no.
Sudan, Palestine, Ukraine, ____, and ____?
Syria and Gaza. Plus, it runs up along the Congo for quite a ways. That's a route with some chest hair!
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I really don't understand Americans and their racial stuff. Why white?
Best way I can explain American’s “fixation” on race is that our country’s history is based on the attempt to create a racist white utopia through law (slavery, ethnic cleansing, manifest destiny, segregation, Jim Crow, private prisons etc.).
Many of the historical debates, protests, rebellions, riots, and wars we’ve had were largely surrounding the issue of racial equality. And… it never went away because racist white people have evolved their political tactics. They still want “the South to rise again”, they still want “to Make American Great Again”, they still want segregation, slavery, and woman subordination.
You might be thinking, “it’s not that serious”, but the mere fact that America is becoming the de facto Nazi Regime of the West now says it all. Hitler was deeply inspired by America’s Jim Crow laws and used it as a platform to address “the Jewish Question”. But, White American’s racism didn’t just materialize out of nothing. It’s descendant of Western Imperialism and Colonialism that was being exported across the globe by Europeans who had finally come to a geopolitical status quo on their continent after checks notes thousands of years of fighting over whose nation and religion is better.
TL;DR: American’s being fixated on race is just the next phase of geopolitical infighting that came after thousands of years of Europeans fixating on nationality and religion, both of which are becoming less relevant each day than one’s ethnic and cultural identity.
Americans (especially non white Americans) tend to speak very frankly about race in a way that can make Europeans uncomfortable. In this context "white" is simply meant to conjure an image of someone with disposable income.
(See "black twitter")
We're not uncomfortable, we're baffled at your fixation on race, and on skin colour specifically. In European countries, generally, mostly, there is no this weird racial tribalism. Some people are racist, for sure, and a bunch of institutional racism is still a thing, but it's a bad thing and we understand it in this context.
I think it has to do with the very high number of "van life" vloggers who overwhelmingly seem to be white American couples. Google van life vloggers and take a look at the image results.
Most of which probably park that van in their 5-car garage between shoots. 😂
after living in the US for some time i think i'm starting to get it...
one thing about the life in the US that the hollywood movies don't show you very well is that the country is extremely tribal. the stories of diversity or of outsiders building their american dream are almost pure fantasy - you don't make it in america because of the environment but in spite of it.
the way things work here is that you have to be a part of a group and you habe to stick with that group no matter what. because otherwise you are done. that's why it is so hard for either democrats or republicans to admit when their politicians do even the most insane shit. that's why people would rarher risk their kids lives rather than go against their peer group and vaccinate them. and that's also why it is so important that the couple is "white" and not black, latino or (god forbid) mixed...
racism, xenofobia, nationalism and mysoginy are just side effects of a society that is split into constantly competing groups that reserve all the benefits for their own members... constant positive and negative discrimination that forces everyone to fall in or be left behind and that is stoked by any entity interested in exploiting those fragmented groups more easily.
as if white supremacy and racial strife originated in america
In the very loose meaning of "can walk". This road crosses several dangerous areas for multiple reasons, from war and jungles, to deserts and tundra, not to mention all the visas you'd need.
There's a guy on Youtube who crossed the entire length of Africa on foot. Got kidnapped twice IIRC.
Russ Cook.
Dude even excluding the human factors like politics, war, etc, the terrain would just be insanely rough and dangerous in basically every possible way
This route walks up the Nile and crosses the desert um Sudan. It then walks down remote roads in the DRC. It's just so over the top insane.
This is the farthest distance not the longest road
Case in point
"I live at 0024 Long as Fuck Road."
"OMG, we live on the same street! I live on 999999 Long As Fuck Road."
There is a white couple somewhere ready to tackle this.
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Bruh fuck no, I'm gonna die in South Sudan if I walk this.
That whole middle east area is getting fucked by Israel. They will target you for fun, regardless of skin color.
Fun fact: If you were able to cross the Bering Straight then the only thing that would keep this road from reaching Argentina would be the Darien Gap, a stretch of dense rainforest that separates Panama from Colombia. Unfortunately it's one of the most inhospitable places on Earth!
I got curious. The map/path is real.
BUT
The map begins and ends pretty arbitrarily. Both roads keep going before and beyond those points.
It assumes a ferry ride across the Suez canal (although there is seemingly a new-ish floating bridge that allows pedestrians to cross the canal, but it is only floated out at certain times (and maybe doesn't exist anymore after a boat collision incident?))
This would take over 187 days if you didn't have to stop to sleep.
So I walked the Pacific Crest Trail in 106 days. That's 2650mi/4264km so I walked about 25mi/40km per day.
So if I could maintain that pace (which is debatable because the PCT doesn't go through different countries or warzones) this would take me 557 days, or about 18 months.
legitimately one of the cool things about white people
They say it takes 10,000 hours of practice to become an expert at something. You'd have to walk this road about 2 and a half times just to become an expert at walking.
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