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Sudan, Palestine, Ukraine, ____, and ____?

Adventure!

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.

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")

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.

as if white supremacy and racial strife originated in america

Their society is so fixated into that that is haunting. I can't imagine the histeria that a "PoC" has to endure.

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.

If immigrants can do it, then i can too

if you could cross this impassable stretch of inhospitable wilderness then all you would need to do is cross this other impassable stretch of inhospitable wilderness!

I know what you meant but it was funny to me haha

Could always do the old school google walking route and take a kayak with you.

There are paths through.

That's what they meant by "uphill both ways". Probably referring to having to cross the equator twice. This makes so much sense now.

Dude even excluding the human factors like politics, war, etc, the terrain would just be insanely rough and dangerous in basically every possible way

There's a guy on Youtube who crossed the entire length of Africa on foot. Got kidnapped twice IIRC.

Russ Cook.

Fucking impressive to make it that far tbh