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While the states is busy overtaking Turkmenistan as Worlds Weirdest Dictatorship
But how many variations of “peace” prize did Turkmenistan’s “dear leader” solicit? What’s his ratio of “peace” prizes to wars started?
What is so weird about Turkmenistan? Is it where they have a huge shiny statue of their previous "leader"? Not too weird...
A wonderful series of photo-heavy blog posts about Ashgabat, Turkmenistan can go some way to answering this question.
Wow, thanks so much for sharing this. I value this small glimpse into a part of the world I know next to nothing of. I loved how the low amount of text in these posts enhanced the surreal feeling of the images, e.g. an image captioned by "[place] empty at noon", followed by an image captioned "[place] empty at night"
you forgot "[place] empty in the evening" between these two :-)
Most countries have that, no? Mount Rushmore comes to mind
That's just America's fascism peeking out to remind you it was always there.
They just ran out of large populations of local brown people to oppress so they go over seas to do it now.
I think it's the guy obsessed with horses.
To be fair, those are some very fuckable horses. For people into stuff like that, I mean,
It's like that movie based on real life, "the death of Dick Long"