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I'm amused because my first thought in looking at the image was that Paris is a bit east of there — Paris, Texas is near the Red River — basically due east of France's on the map - around where the French border meets the Texas border (NE of DFW)
Freeasabird2015
StillScreamingIntoTheVoid
They didn't say better...
LateNightBunnyParty
Both are true!
catsonsaturn
I was going to make a snide joke about how at-least Americans don’t fuck children.
Oh…
Durl
A lot of size with a lot of nothing. I know. I’ve lived in Texas.
neuronicle
FiftyShadesOfArugula
And the Sahara desert is even bigger, almost the size of the entire US. I know where I'd rather live. Which is France.
chufly
And the summer too
FisheswithDynamite
I look at this and am reminded of why it's so difficult politically in this country.
pt2016
Fun fact: Russia is almost twice as big as USA. Who cares? Answer: nobody
ByteSlack
That comeback shut the whole conversation down faster than an overloaded power grid.
miklkit
France has the guillotine too.
alu21
We occasionally lend it to good friends with a huge management issue.
imyourrealdad
And their southern borders keeps out millions of Spanish speaking people.
daychilde
er.... it doesn't, though
Frobizzle
The initial post didnt sound political at all but of course someone had to change that.
cousteau
Neither the initial post, the reply, OP's title, nor the description are political though.
salmo77
I've been to many countries , US, Latin America, Asia, Australia, NZ, many Islands here and there... believe me, Europe(*) is the promised land ! Everything works, your rights are protected, life's easy and you have great places for vacation. (And no, I'm not French)
salmo77
(*) with the exception of some eastern Europe countries, unfortunately
PrayToCrom
redtruck
Howdy
bekkayya
can i just say; what a weak fucking flex. if you're gonna do this your map needs to entirely subsume the map of the country you're flexing on. Not this like 5% weaksauce shit where I need to cut out and weigh the non-overlapping bits to check whose on top
TofuGolem
The Texas power grid also goes down in hot weather, because Texas cannot work out what the rest of the world learned in the 1800s. Technology from the 19th century is simply beyond them.
thisislwiay
texas is like 90% sand and cactus
daychilde
lol, it's not. West Texas is dry, but *most* of the state is farmland or forest, with swamp in some of the southeast.
technofiend
In case you're not sure what OP is talking about. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2021_Texas_power_crisis#:~:text=Data%20showed%20that%20failure%20to,than%20that%20from%20wind%20turbines.
Cutwail
Tbh, Everyone know about it because of Cancun Ted.
technofiend
You say that, but...
or0b0ur0s
France also has more than twice the population of Texas. But its winters are much milder (as are all of Europe's). The important thing is that its government is less corrupt and ideologically hateful.
mercyPandaRunner
That statement sounded off, so I looked up some climate diagrams and weather data and it doesn't hold up to scrutiny to say winters in all of europe are milder than in the Texas.
or0b0ur0s
Okay, "milder for their latitude" thanks to the Gulf Stream. Better? Point is, even if their weather was COLDER, they're still not letting people freeze to death in order to enrich their electric utility holding company.
mercyPandaRunner
Well, that's something very different. That's how a society is prepared for the climate. In Texas, people die when the temperature dips below zero. Here in Germany, people die when the the temperature rises over 30° C.
mercyPandaRunner
PS: You can die of hypothermia at 15° C. Most of us aren't sleeping nearly naked outside in the rain. though.
thepicklebucket
But how high do they stack shit in France?
LordFriteuse
cent soixante quinze centimètres.
cousteau
Can't believe the metric system was invented in a country with THIS numbering system.
ThailandExpress
Leaps
Comparisons based on city limits are pointless because the limits are arbitrarily defined. Better to look at metro areas.
ThailandExpress
greater metro area it still way smaller than Houston https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grea">uston">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greater_Houston vs https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Paris
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sakasiru
Technically true, if you ignore that the whole metropolitan area of Paris is much larger.
ThailandExpress
yes but that is a direct city to city comparison. if you want the greater metro area it still way smaller than Houston https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grea">uston">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greater_Houston vs https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Paris
16KTS
Texas we are the biggest State.
Alaska laughs in size. California laughs in Population.
daychilde
I hat that Texas has so loudly gone red, because as with many states, it's really rather purple in nature. There's a lot to love about the land and the people. But fascists ruin everything they touch.
cousteau
Looks smaller to me. /s
16KTS
Not the actual Size of Alaska. Alaska is the largest state by size it can fit a whole Texas in it.
cousteau
Next you'll tell me it's also not south from California.
16KTS
It’s more West than south.
Velorex
About one-third of Texas is considered "The Big Empty," which is an underpopulated area that covers a significant portion of the state's total area.
nspriest233
Wait you dont count the deranged brain robots as people. You robotiscist. :)
I know entirely different bigmt
IWasGoingToMakeEspresso
The people in far west Texas are actually pretty crazy though. That level of isolation can’t be healthy.
nspriest233
Ha same as the scientist in new vegas' old world blues dlc.
PwnageHobo
If Texas were an Australian State, it would be one of the smaller ones (while also having 3x the population of the rest of Australia combined. But again, Australia has a functional power grid (or grids, if you want to get technical)
viva93
While the power grid doesn't exactly fail, Australia has power delivery problems and reliability issues, resulting in brown outs and service loss. They have rapidly.improved their situations since around 2016 but it's all still fairly new. and ironically, mostly got to their revolution by Tesla at first and largely only corrected reliability issues with massive battery bank projects, most of which are still recent construction and still run into emergency backup supply problems here and there.
Magjee
Alaska is over double the size of Texas
BeardedBlueEyes
Alaska and Texas can both fit inside Western Australia together
BeerBanana
Oh we’re comparing continents now? North America could fit 3 Australia’s inside it
BeardedBlueEyes
Western Australia is a state. Always one seppo that gets mad and wrong lol
Magjee
Australia is just a big ole chonkey boy. Kinda reminds me of Canada, we have huge provinces, larger then most countries and then a few tiny ones
IamIntoleranceIntolerant
How did you come to that conclusion about population? The current population of Australia is about 27M.
getadogupya
Sounds like they removed the largest states population, and compared Texas to the rest, combined.
PwnageHobo
Shit. In my head, the population of Australia is still like 22M, and I think I misread the other comment and took France's population as Texas' population.
I'm not proud of it, but that's how I came to that conclusion.
IamIntoleranceIntolerant
RobErtE87
Etherealvalentine
Now throw all of that into Alaska
stardraigh
The Heart of Texas will always be bigger than 'Real' Texas.... The brain of texas is smaller than a real brain.
SalmonMax
Texception
keyblader1985
One of my favorite memes
gablestout
If noone had posted this, I would have been very disappointed!
Cranbananarama
Texas is so small you can fit it inside Texas. Get bigger Texases!
Illinifan88
The Texas education system would have kids thinking this is accurate.
If they weren't dying from measles first.
Angyliqueone
Wow. Some of us are working really hard in this fucked up state to help out. You diminish caring hard-working teachers and health professionals (yes I said professionals) with this kind of bullshit. But you need your fake internet points I guess.
KaptainObveeus
Its so big you could fit like 12 texases in it. 12 texi?
Sticklebrickk
Please. No more.
Jyx123
No silly, there's only 2 Texi in that Texas there.
Didn't you notice that all of the Earth, Europe, and Canada amount to less than one full Texas together?
Woogyface
so what? oranges are bigger then grapes. why does this exists?
Clayman8
Americans needing to prove theyre better than everyone else, and failing.
timbazi
that's all they have
CyberHexx
You got any grapes?
sethb1978
Plums are also bigger than grapes and some grapes are as small as peas
jetact12
So ppl can fuck with TX. Because its fun.
cousteau
I don't understand why people would get so aggro towards one specific US state when they have Florida RIGHT THERE!
Targe0
It's to help show perspective of the world.
Because people can struggle to really comprehend just how large some places are in comparison to others.
getadogupya
Yeah... Texans don't have that problem. And they never shut up about it.
Targe0
Actually, they need it more than most.
After all, they think they are the larges state in the US, when Alaska exists.
getadogupya
Michelle Shocked taught me this.
daychilde
The lack of curiousity about the world as exhibited in your reply is not the flex you think it is. :shrug:
Woogyface
it's not the lack about curiousity. it's about "why though?" why that graph? what was the intention? if i post a graph about "that dog is larger than this cat" doesn't make it better because of curiosity
matthiasfactor
I can answer that. I play on a Minecraft server with a bunch of younger folk, anywhere from 16 to 25. Many are European. I’m a Texan, and these players cannot fathom that it takes a third of a day to get from one side of the state to the other.
Rayplays
Skuggen
It's a pretty standard sterotype that Americans are obsessed with size.
Skyff
It would have been even bigger if they'd been willing to give up their slaves earlier!
cousteau
Me when I was young: "That panhandle Oklahoma has sure looks weird. I bet there's a funny story behind it!"
Shasra
And yet they have no clue how to handle it.
cousteau
In hindsight, they shouldn't have asked Quentin Tarantino to come up with a measuring system.
SquashDemon
Because a lot of European folks think the US -as a whole- is comparable in size to their own countries. It's not. At all. One example: I've seen more than a few Europeans argue that Americans across the country should all converge on the capitol for weeks or months in protest, going home in shifts to maintain a presence at all times. This is unreasonable in a lot of ways, but the size of the landmass is a much bigger obstacle than Europeans seem to think. This meme illustrates that nicely.
lozeldatkm
Yeah... LA to DC is basically the distance from Madrid to Moscow
bearstrap
EXACTLY
I did the maths on it a few months ago... the aggregate National Forest area in my state is larger than about 50% of European countries. We have one National Forest that's the size of the 64th biggest country in Europe.
The whole of Great Britain could get squished inside Oregon and still leave room around the edges
pt2016
There isn’t 64 countries in Europe
bearstrap
Yeah, my bad... It'd be 36th biggest, just before Cyprus. Adding all our national forests in this state up gives us just shy of 68,000km^2, which would be #28 in the list if my math serves. Oregon itself would be the 13th largest.
INeverReadTheTOS
Texans are weirdly obsessed with how big they think Texas is. Probably because most US states are so small.
mercyPandaRunner
Most US states aren't small at all. They're just incredibly empty.
Leaps
empty of *people*. There are plenty of other things there.
Superchief86
It's very funny, because it's not even the largest state in the USA!
figuringeights
Which is? Alaska?
Superchief86
Yup.
figuringeights
Yea
beaubrent
Yeah but Texas is fkn stupid.
ChadMaxxington
I was searching for something like that to write but you did it thanks
theedragonlady
I am from Texas and agree, I feel like I am an alien who was abandoned on a foreign planet. I hope Canada will save me.
WhiskyBravo
not all of us, but yeah a shockingly high amount
HardcoreMango
Their most popular breakfast cereal is lead paint chips (a Nestlé™ product) with unpasteurized milk.
PoopComesOutMyButt
Yeah, but France is french
Lichelf
It's the lesser of two evils, by far
SquashDemon
I've been to Texas, but not France, and let me tell you I'd be very surprised if anyone can top the shit I've seen there.
smhippy
In the 2022 French presidential election 41,5% of voters voted for Marine Le Pen, a far-right populist who also almost won in 2017, so it isn't that much better over there.
ThrowAwayAcct0000
Compared to what percent that voted for Trump in Texas?
chansuke
~52% in 2016 and 2020, and ~56% in 2024. The shift in 2024 was due partially to a majority of Asian and Hispanic voters voting for Trump. If I were the GOP I wouldnt count on winning over those voters again...Voter turnout was also lower than the 2020 election.
causality
56% of Texas is stupid.
daychilde
This is the way I can get behind it. I've long hated the "red state blue state" nonsense. The real problem is that we're two nations (peoples) in one country, and sorting that out is nigh unto impossible. Partition of India? Fuck, that would be a walk in the park compared to the US trying to do similar. :(
BeerBanana
That’s a conservative estimate
causality
That's the percentage that voted for Trump.
Neuronyx
It's not fair, because the bigger population centers are progressive. Held hostage by uneducated fucknuggets.
MipMop
Yep, according to the Independent Voter Project, the number of registered Democrats is 46.52% vs 37.75% registered Republicans. Source: https://independentvoterproject.org/voter-stats/tx
Neuronyx
THAT'S FUCKING HORSE SHIT, I didn't even know the disparity was THAT big. The gerrymandering is in broad fucking daylight.
MipMop
Yep, someone posted this ages ago but it's still relevant today.
agentcutielocks
Don't mess with Texas! It's not nice to pick on the mentally disabled.
zylokun
Hey!!! That's insulting to the disabled!
agentcutielocks
The mentally...deceased??
lozeldatkm
The intellectually bankrupt
zylokun
There you go c:
agentcutielocks
^_^
Skyff
In numbers: France is 632,702.3 sq km (244,287.7 sq mi) to Texas' 268,597 sq mi (695,662 sq km). The number for France includes overseas territories. There's also a big population difference 69.7M in France to 31.3M in Texas. The GDP is $4.5 trillion in France compared to $2.77 trillion in Texas, so per capita higher in Texas. Also, France has 5.5% of the population below the poverty line, while Texas has 14% below the poverty line. Source is various wikipedia pages.
zHurk777
Um, your per capita, no. France has more than double the population but less than double the GDP. So... do the math.
Skyff
Your reading comprehension failed you today, my friend.
RetiredLaserMan
And in France their average IQ is at least triple what it is in Texas.
thatwoodguy
Friends also has a power grid that works year-round as opposed to texas. And socialized medicine
Velorex
About one-third of Texas is considered "The Big Empty," which is an underpopulated area that covers a significant portion of the state's total area.
Superchief86
Then along comes Western Australia, swinging its 2.646 million sq km hog.
R100GSPD
Somehow, bigger and more desolate than Alaska
SirButcher
Yeah, but there are like, 1000 people, ten million sheeps, and about ten billion of murderous critters ready to bite your face off.
Superchief86
Yeah I saw about half the population at a party on saturday. There would have been more of us, but you know. The critters.
HeadJamistan
GDP means fuck and all when it's all companies that moved there to take advantage of low taxes. It all goes to shareholders and means dick
Skyff
Which is why I included the sentence about poverty rates, to show even if Texas has the lead on GDP per capita they suck.
HeadJamistan
My bad. Guillotine all the Texan leaders.
Alurkerforcedtologin
They also don't have those massive, stupid highway bridges everywhere in France like they do in Texas.
Schoonbot
You mean efficient interchanges?
Sonicschilidogs
I honestly thought "massive, stupid" was going to be followed by "hats"
mastertmo
"trucks"
rocinanteismyhorse
Well there is that one engineering marvel at Milau...
pt2016
Millau
rocinanteismyhorse
Yeah that, too haha
pt2016
Well I’ve driven across that bridge several times, hence the correction. It’s pretty amazing
Nonada
While I appreciate that you put both units of measurement, you're a monster for how you presented them lol
Skyff
This is fair criticism. I was lazy and copied off wikipedia, which presents them in this inverted manner on the respective pages.
PerrinAybara564
Monster they may be, but aesthetically on my phone, the km lined up and reading the mi to mi in my head felt right.
Skyff
This was totally the plan. Absolutely.
BillHubbard
And approx 10% of Texas is just wasteland.
DarthVaderDidNothingWrong
You got Texans at bigger, the rest ist lost on them
Schoonbot
GDP per capita is a win for Texas... Unless you expect a win meaning every Texan is producing twice as much production than a French person
DarthVaderDidNothingWrong
Who apart from you talks about a 'win'?
azimir
Many of them also can't tell that water in a taller container with the same volume as a shorter container means they still have the same amount of water.
DemSumBigAssRidges
Hell yeah!
Sasurau
The only thing Texas really has is its size. So it all checks out.
BHPaperstacks
They also have BBQ.
Unclescam
And tech companies as their leaders become rich enough to convert to naziism
HelikaformerNubisKnight9
Not to forget: Public healthcare in France and all kids 3+ have free childcare (they even MUST go to the École Maternelle, French Preschool) etc.
BlueSheep
In France they MUST go to school untill they are 16. That's it. The only way you can have your child not in school bellow 16 is if you have school at home, but the states need proof and in the end the kid will have to do the national exam with the others. After 16 you can continue or stop. Everything is mostly free of course, excepted the home teacher.
HelikaformerNubisKnight9
Here in Germany your kid has to have 12* years of school and you're NOT allowed to preschool. Background is that the government tries to prevent fascist indoctrination and having all kids forced to be in public school at least give them the chance to learn other views. There are still some fascists (and religious) groups protesting against this... or they seek asylum in the US!
GordonFreeman59
Ecole maternelle is not compulsory. It's just so ingrained into the culture that most people will send their kids at school at 3y/o. You don't have to, it's just convenient. The State is a nanny, basically.
HelikaformerNubisKnight9
I checked before posting and it said it's compulsory since 2019?
HunglikeaHamster
Homeschooling is allowed in France, therefore preschooling at home is too. It's just that the obigatory nature means the government has the right to check on your kid.
GordonFreeman59
Oh wow that's a new one. You are right then. Today I learned ^^
Skyff
People on the internet admitting they were wrong in the face of new information!
InTangier
I mean, who the fuck would live in Texas over living in France? The simple fact that you get to see those protests live is reason enough to live there. Paris isn't really at its best right now, but even so, it's still such a cool city to live in. Or Lyon too, the food is awesome!
InTangier
Plus, you start with a language that isn't english. You still get to learn it, but you don't get stuck in US Defaultism.
HelikaformerNubisKnight9
It's so sad, in US you could have so many opportunities to learn other languages (not "just" Spanish, but German, Italian - even the Natives Languages, thar'd be so cool to learn!) yet still the most seem to be stuck on English!
Here in Germany you have of course to learn English, but at Gymnasium you have to learn a third language (mostly French, Italian or Latin, but s.t. you can get exots like Russian or Chinese) and are offered to learn even a fourth (I had English, French and Italian).
InTangier
Pretty much. And English is an easy language to learn compared to Latin-group languages, thry can be so irregular. Spanish is handy, but even when they learn it, it seems to be kinda on a superficial level and they don't get much of a chance to immerse themselves in it, or practice it too much. They got a little too used to folks speaking English everywhere.
It's kinda weird to have folks only speak a single language and stick to it. I wish I had the time to learn Romanian too :(