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16:56 To be fair our system is literally set up to where only 2 parties can actually dominate. The electoral college specifies that a presidental candidate needs 50% +1 electoral votes to be president or else congress picks. With the 2 party system we have, even if no candidate makes it to that majority, whoever has the majority in congress will guarantee that their party will win. The most clear case of this is in the election of 1824. Where Jackson did have the popular and electoral vote plurality, but lost because he didn't get the majority. Congress picked John Q. Adams because his party was in control. I would love a 3rd party to have an actual chance of being president, but it's not going to happen until one of the major parties commits political suicide.
I read descriptions- I usually hate when RUclipsrs get new editors bc they tend to make it cheesy. The editing on this video however really just makes it so much better. I love how it isn't annoying and it zooms in on the current talking points, while still adding funny little "animations" for side points. Anyways second channel don't care 💅
It’s weird that the America as Holy Roman Empire map didn’t have Philadelphia and it surrounding counties as an independent city. They just lumped it under Maryland LOL
I feel like the last map might be based off what Columbus was expecting when he accidentally came upon America (since he was looking for a different route to Asia but he thought the world was smaller than it actually was)
@@geografisica Columbus never knew that was another continent, the name America was given after a man called Americo Vespucio went to the "indies", (at that time Columbus was dead.) So Americo Vespucio, a merchant, saw the indies and noticed that wasn't the indies, but new found territories, and called it America. At first America was going to be called Colombia if Columbus didn't die or noted that that wasn't the indies. So yeah, Columbus never noticed America, he thought that was the indies
People can get pretty defensive of the lesser of two evils. I live in Seattle and was called a fascist when I said I didn’t vote for the incumbent but a different party entirely because my representative and I didn’t see eye to eye on the issues I care about
washington is wild, go to the west and vote for a republican and get called a fascist, go to the east and vote for a democrat and youre called a communist
Florida is the new Rome. Think about it... 1. Naples, FL and Naples in Italy are both located in the southwestern parts of their respective peninsulas. 2. Ron DeSantis is of Italian descent and acts like an absolute ruler 3. Rome has seven famous hills. Tallahassee is known as the City of the Seven Hills 4. Venice, by the Po delta, faced Visigoth aggression, while Jacksonville located in the northern part of its respective peninsula by the mouth of the St Johns River, faced Union aggression 5. Like how the Roman Empire had a long extensive coastline along the Mediterranean, Florida once had even more coastline thanks to a longer panhandle. Also, Fur _reFurs_ to the Fur people of western Sudan who live in Darfur. Darfur in Arabic means "land of the Fur".
I can't believe you IBX2cat. We were promised low quality videos and the quality was never going to improve. And here you are trying to improve the quality.
Toycat you are wrong about the voting thing, it's not a self fulfilling thing, it's baked in. We have a first past the post, winner takes all system. That kind of system inherently leads to this. If we had preference ordered voting, multi parties could be a thing.
That would never work, how would they manipulate the Statian populace into believing in a pseudo-nationalistic duality where everyone believes that they are on the verge of being overrun and exterminated by their neighbors?
12:30 Best map, I want this to be real just for the literal chaos. Al-Abama and the one for aliens are more chaotic too but very close to reality to be true, so they scare me.
At 10:07 why did the replace Fort Meyers with Fort Naplers? There is literally a Naples, Florida that would be in the same exact spot on this map as it is in Italy.
"Why is New York in Delaware?" I'm assuming they confused New York with Newark, DE. Those who travel by train or plane sometimes confuses New York with Newark, NJ across the river...especially Newark Penn Station with New York Penn Station where they accidentally get off at Newark thinking it's New York (doesn't help that Newark Penn is the station before NY Penn). Also a thicc Libya at 2:40 sounds like a Gaddafi wet dream...though I love the fact at 2:48 that NJ has been split between NY and Delaware on top of DE now having eastern PA, MD, and the whole of Delmarva while NY is now just the city and its suburbs...as it should be. A powerhouse.
Not sure if you knew this, but I think they made Libya so THICC because historically Libya was a much larger geographic range. The same is said with Sudan, Guinea, "Abyssinia," and Egypt- they all used to be large geographic or cultural zones until around the 1900s when they became much more commonly associated with much smaller colonies and later countries.
Portland, San Francisco, San Jose, Sacramento, San Diego, Phoenix, Denver, Austin, Houston, Minneapolis, St Paul, Milwaukee, St Louis, Indianapolis, Cleveland, Columbus, Cincinnati, Nashville, Memphis, Jacksonville, Tampa, Washington, Baltimore, Buffalo, Pittsburgh, Philadelphia... They left out quite a few important cities. Some of them have a line drawn through them with no dot, but others got left out entirely.
Because of the spoiler effect a one vote system can not support more than two partys. This can be solved with ranked choice (which suffers from the canter squeeze effect) or approval which has no spoiler effect but does share the strategic not voting for people outside your party to boost your party as ranked choice voting
What the world needs is a service with summaries of Toycat videos so you can see there's a discussion of existentialism 27 minutes into a first channel video about new swamp biome features.
Your new editor is awesome! After your camera died I saw where your green screen was, it seems you aren’t even using it?! I don’t know how this video being done. New editing techniques come out all the time and I don’t really keep up on them or (usually) even notice them, but I’m sure noticing here! Also, you find that best maps! These are always a lot of fun to watch.
Thank you for pointing out the self fulfilling nature of the two party system. It’s so frustrating. Democracy can’t work when people don’t vote for what they want even under a perfect system.
Could you please please credit the original creators of those maps? And the posts they came from?? Making maps is really time consuming and the map creators really really would appreciate a shout out to either the post they upload them or they social media accounts if they have any I’ve neat if you add each on the description of the video
@@willywestsidee Steals maps from subreddits like /r/imaginarymaps and doesn't credits them, and if it he does, is barely. He's actually a farily disliked figured in mapmaking circles such as the imaginarymaps discord server and other associated server. Since people there usually spends weeks to months making maps. I don't personally be that bothered if there was at least a minimal of effort put in to make sure each author gets credited properly.
first time i heard about the losser becoming the vic president in the past, soudend like a cool idea untill 5 seconds of thinking made me realize it creates a huge insentive to assainate the president
It is correct that you can only vote for the two major parties. But if the US would enact a system where you can vote for several people and rank them, it would completely fix this. As soon as your top rank gets eliminated from contention, your vote switches to your second rank and we figure it all out again until only one remains. There’s a name for this system but it eludes me right now.
I LIKE the previous type of toyct videos where he just pans over a map and not so super structured - there is more dynamic converstion in previous type of video. These are definitely a different type and very structured but the other type really captured my imagination
The Principality of Roselawn, located between Illinois and Indiana in the Holy Roman Empire of America, should be interesting since the community of Roselawn, Indiana is most known for having two nudist colonies.
I have super rare namen (5 people only have them) and my dad named me that after some prince that we aren't even sure that he existed. And in my country there's one super similar popular name to my so why I say my name everyone thinks that my name is that popular name.
I wish the multi-party system could work for America but the way it is set up means that one party needs to get the majority or else it goes to the House of Representatives with each state getting one vote. A tied electoral college election for example happened in 1800 with the House tying I believe it was 36 times before choosing Jefferson instead of Burr. Also, I do most of the time read the descriptionS for sources but often they are not cited :(
The system doesn’t work with more than 2 parties because in practice with our voting system, when people vote for who they really want, the other party that the majourity don’t like ends up winning.
What the... Philippines was divided into language S.S.R.s... this Soviet Union map is sooo hilarious (at least for the part of the Philippines anyway).
16:56 No, no. It's the same as in the UK, since elections are majoritarian and run using 'first past the post' (the candidate with the most votes wins, one vote per person) - you can pretty much only get a two party system unless in particularly unique situations. Which is why pretty much every other democracy chooses a proportional system that takes into account that the population as a whole has a spectrum of political persuasions. You can either that by giving people more than one vote (ranked voting lets you number your candidates), or when selecting who wins each seat in Parliament you use the popular vote (12% of votes wins 12% of the seats). If the US allowed its voters to rank their candidates in the presidential races we would have a lot more US political parties and presidents that can appeal to the most US voters.
Ngl the president vice president thing would be pretty baller. Gets around the whole one party being in near total control when they get elected and trying to push the system for even more power through myriad ways. If your opposition is at the table with you when youre writing up legislation it gives you a more grounded mindset. Also multi party gang
As a Venezuelan both the UN and the SSR maps are painful to look at Trust me, you don't want a Maracaibo nation, and we tried the unification with Colombia before, it didn't work
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no
I would rather not do that
I love when you repeat "its super deserty" like desert is the natural habitat of jewish people so they will feel right at home
Everyone knows Jews get +10 strength in a desert environment 🤣
They live in the Middle East so yeah they would
Evil Anakin be like “אני אוהב חול.”
@@champagne.future5248 this made me laugh out loud
Average British person
production quality going up, more dynamic, you look healthier and everything seems to be looking up in general
happy for you!
i'd recommend getting a ring light on yo face so that there's better contrast
HE HAS WASHED HIS HAIR
@@fluffy3953 looks skinnier too
I don't like it. Back to cheap and sad please!
16:56 To be fair our system is literally set up to where only 2 parties can actually dominate. The electoral college specifies that a presidental candidate needs 50% +1 electoral votes to be president or else congress picks. With the 2 party system we have, even if no candidate makes it to that majority, whoever has the majority in congress will guarantee that their party will win.
The most clear case of this is in the election of 1824. Where Jackson did have the popular and electoral vote plurality, but lost because he didn't get the majority. Congress picked John Q. Adams because his party was in control.
I would love a 3rd party to have an actual chance of being president, but it's not going to happen until one of the major parties commits political suicide.
Which the Dems seem hell bent on doing at the moment.
Thanks for taking the time to write out the exact comment that toy cat promised someone would write. He should give you some blinkest money.
Toycat owes you some lobster roles
@@poopkiler2768 I want best kabob. Nothing less.
The First past the post voting system is the larger issue. Proportional representation is better
I read descriptions- I usually hate when RUclipsrs get new editors bc they tend to make it cheesy. The editing on this video however really just makes it so much better. I love how it isn't annoying and it zooms in on the current talking points, while still adding funny little "animations" for side points. Anyways second channel don't care 💅
thanks my dude 👌
I actually went to the description this time to look up the link to the map of what to wear to america, but was disappointed not to find it.
You didn't read the descriptionS
descriptionS
you obviously don’t read descriptionS
It’s weird that the America as Holy Roman Empire map didn’t have Philadelphia and it surrounding counties as an independent city. They just lumped it under Maryland LOL
I feel like the last map might be based off what Columbus was expecting when he accidentally came upon America (since he was looking for a different route to Asia but he thought the world was smaller than it actually was)
plus it has the carribean just at the indies
Columbus never came upon America, he came upon The Americas, big difference.
@@geografisica Columbus never knew that was another continent, the name America was given after a man called Americo Vespucio went to the "indies", (at that time Columbus was dead.) So Americo Vespucio, a merchant, saw the indies and noticed that wasn't the indies, but new found territories, and called it America. At first America was going to be called Colombia if Columbus didn't die or noted that that wasn't the indies. So yeah, Columbus never noticed America, he thought that was the indies
why are you everywhere
People can get pretty defensive of the lesser of two evils.
I live in Seattle and was called a fascist when I said I didn’t vote for the incumbent but a different party entirely because my representative and I didn’t see eye to eye on the issues I care about
washington is wild, go to the west and vote for a republican and get called a fascist, go to the east and vote for a democrat and youre called a communist
Fascist is just someone you disagree with nowadays.
@@jeremias-serus just like Communism.
Fasciitis.
Florida is the new Rome. Think about it...
1. Naples, FL and Naples in Italy are both located in the southwestern parts of their respective peninsulas.
2. Ron DeSantis is of Italian descent and acts like an absolute ruler
3. Rome has seven famous hills. Tallahassee is known as the City of the Seven Hills
4. Venice, by the Po delta, faced Visigoth aggression, while Jacksonville located in the northern part of its respective peninsula by the mouth of the St Johns River, faced Union aggression
5. Like how the Roman Empire had a long extensive coastline along the Mediterranean, Florida once had even more coastline thanks to a longer panhandle.
Also, Fur _reFurs_ to the Fur people of western Sudan who live in Darfur. Darfur in Arabic means "land of the Fur".
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I'm loving the implication that the Visigoths were the Roman equivalent of unions
Also, as an ex-floridian, I approve this message.
I can't believe you IBX2cat. We were promised low quality videos and the quality was never going to improve. And here you are trying to improve the quality.
Toycat you are wrong about the voting thing, it's not a self fulfilling thing, it's baked in. We have a first past the post, winner takes all system. That kind of system inherently leads to this. If we had preference ordered voting, multi parties could be a thing.
That would never work, how would they manipulate the Statian populace into believing in a pseudo-nationalistic duality where everyone believes that they are on the verge of being overrun and exterminated by their neighbors?
He has lived and breathed the same voting system his whole life but brits don’t want to see the inevitable endgame of double FPTP.
Just get away with the electoral college and get a runoff system
(13:20) "I'm only going to put sponsorships in the description and no useful links"
"Why isn't anyone reading the description?"
Someone should make a map about all the people that own 19 dollah glocks
I paid 500 a few years ago in Ohio. Have never heard of $19 Glocks I gotta look that up, thanks.
@@dominicdeluca6378 it’s a joke I made based on the 19 dollar Vbucks card
19 dollar glocks would be dope, they 500.
12:30 Best map, I want this to be real just for the literal chaos. Al-Abama and the one for aliens are more chaotic too but very close to reality to be true, so they scare me.
why did you call it Al-Abama instead of Alabama
Nah, Caliph-ornia (literally land of the Caliphate) makes more sense.
@@blackjacktrial you can not spell
He smiles here but deep down he is angry at humanity.
My dad must be missing in one of these imaginary worlds because I haven't seen him for years.
13:57 - And Houston has been renamed "Hustan". Maybe it's "Hu-stan" because it changed its official language to Persian.
At 10:07 why did the replace Fort Meyers with Fort Naplers? There is literally a Naples, Florida that would be in the same exact spot on this map as it is in Italy.
I was wondering the same thing
"Why is New York in Delaware?" I'm assuming they confused New York with Newark, DE. Those who travel by train or plane sometimes confuses New York with Newark, NJ across the river...especially Newark Penn Station with New York Penn Station where they accidentally get off at Newark thinking it's New York (doesn't help that Newark Penn is the station before NY Penn).
Also a thicc Libya at 2:40 sounds like a Gaddafi wet dream...though I love the fact at 2:48 that NJ has been split between NY and Delaware on top of DE now having eastern PA, MD, and the whole of Delmarva while NY is now just the city and its suburbs...as it should be. A powerhouse.
Not sure if you knew this, but I think they made Libya so THICC because historically Libya was a much larger geographic range. The same is said with Sudan, Guinea, "Abyssinia," and Egypt- they all used to be large geographic or cultural zones until around the 1900s when they became much more commonly associated with much smaller colonies and later countries.
Portland, San Francisco, San Jose, Sacramento, San Diego, Phoenix, Denver, Austin, Houston, Minneapolis, St Paul, Milwaukee, St Louis, Indianapolis, Cleveland, Columbus, Cincinnati, Nashville, Memphis, Jacksonville, Tampa, Washington, Baltimore, Buffalo, Pittsburgh, Philadelphia... They left out quite a few important cities. Some of them have a line drawn through them with no dot, but others got left out entirely.
I love all your videos! Thank you for the happy bright spot on you tube!
Now I want a movie about humans trying to figure out alien culture.
Because of the spoiler effect a one vote system can not support more than two partys. This can be solved with ranked choice (which suffers from the canter squeeze effect) or approval which has no spoiler effect but does share the strategic not voting for people outside your party to boost your party as ranked choice voting
why is the editing really nice all of a sudden
maybe, just maybe, he cares
Be got a new editor, I think
@@j.davies1596 wonder who it could be...
In Florida, there's a city named Naples and Venice. And also St. Petersburg.
Woah, highest quality toy cat video to date. It can only go down from here
What the world needs is a service with summaries of Toycat videos so you can see there's a discussion of existentialism 27 minutes into a first channel video about new swamp biome features.
That blue flimmering background is the equivalent to elevator-music.
did you like this or not, and why?
All the Hebrew in the Baja California-Israel map is reversed by the way
I was so confused for a minute - I thought they were actual cities in Baja California written in Hebrew before I realized they were written backwards
I like how on the Soviet map Tokyo was renamed "Akakyo" - Red Capital.
I love the new editing ^ ^
Amble alt? lol
@@MeiraV- nooooo lol
Your new editor is awesome! After your camera died I saw where your green screen was, it seems you aren’t even using it?! I don’t know how this video being done. New editing techniques come out all the time and I don’t really keep up on them or (usually) even notice them, but I’m sure noticing here!
Also, you find that best maps! These are always a lot of fun to watch.
the green screen is directly behind him though?
Editor here, there is a green screen 😂
@@Amble_ I saw it, but it wasn’t lined up, it was only like 2/3 of the background.
Thank you for pointing out the self fulfilling nature of the two party system. It’s so frustrating. Democracy can’t work when people don’t vote for what they want even under a perfect system.
‘The Duchy of the Two Dakotas’ makes me chuckle
13:37 you missed that Prussia is back, but independent.
Also Romania and Moldavia are merged again.
And Gibraltar was given back to Spain.
quebec actaully tried to become its country a cpuple of decades ago so it kinda makes sence that they are their own inion 6:11
The World in 2070 is a fun map, with, unfortunately, many spelling mistakes.
Idk man, telling Israel to relocate to the Baja California peninsula might just be genius.
As an American I can confirm that there are a lot of Jefferson counties. I live in one.
18:08 New England can have to Syracuse, but not south past NJ to Chesapeake Bay area.
why dies it feel like you hired an editor and told him, "Second channel, dont care."
The World in 2070 should have had Colorado breakup into two states. It already almost happened in 2013 with the proposed state of Northern Colorado.
Could you please please credit the original creators of those maps? And the posts they came from?? Making maps is really time consuming and the map creators really really would appreciate a shout out to either the post they upload them or they social media accounts if they have any
I’ve neat if you add each on the description of the video
god I hope toycat doesn't become the Drew Durnil of the Imaginary Maps community
@@Donut-Eater What does he do?
@@willywestsidee exactly what the op said
@@willywestsidee Steals maps from subreddits like /r/imaginarymaps and doesn't credits them, and if it he does, is barely. He's actually a farily disliked figured in mapmaking circles such as the imaginarymaps discord server and other associated server. Since people there usually spends weeks to months making maps.
I don't personally be that bothered if there was at least a minimal of effort put in to make sure each author gets credited properly.
@@xlicer Yeah that is true but I have seen in some videos, him crediting them but mostly not
As a south Idahoan I don’t know anyone from northern ID but would not be in the least bit shocked to see revived plans to make Lincoln as state
hey Toy Cat what's your favorite part about history and maps
I mean, if you gerrymander of the America into one state Hilary would win 437:0
I love the new editing style. Keep up the work, very interesting
I was NOT expecting the part at 4:25 at all
i read descriptions... also i have never watched your first channel but it got recommended to me because i am interested in stuff like this
to think that this guy was my funny minecraft updates guy
now he's still my funny minecraft updates guy, but also my funny maps guy
first time i heard about the losser becoming the vic president in the past, soudend like a cool idea untill 5 seconds of thinking made me realize it creates a huge insentive to assainate the president
4:20 There are plenty of Jefferson counties all over the USA. And plenty of Lafayettes and Fayettes and Fayettevilles too.
Honestly wish the alien America map was in the description :(
Edit: somehow i spelt this sentice like I was typing with a lisp
The "thank God for Mississippi" joke roflmao
It is correct that you can only vote for the two major parties. But if the US would enact a system where you can vote for several people and rank them, it would completely fix this. As soon as your top rank gets eliminated from contention, your vote switches to your second rank and we figure it all out again until only one remains. There’s a name for this system but it eludes me right now.
Usually called single transferable vote, but instant runoff makes more sense to me.
Ranked-choice voting :)
That Alien map was hilarious
5:12 holy god i was not ready for "LeninDerry"
7:32 Clump is a combination of both so they win either way
The US system is set up in such a way to encourage only having 2 options (occasionally 3) we need massive voting reform to change it.
The cat lies, he doesn't invest, he just buys lobster rolls.
true, I'm a slave
Really weird that the high speed rail map doesn't include Minneapolis.
I don’t think he meant for it to be a joke, but saying “it blows my mine.” Right after talking about someone named Kennedy.
I LIKE the previous type of toyct videos where he just pans over a map and not so super structured - there is more dynamic converstion in previous type of video. These are definitely a different type and very structured but the other type really captured my imagination
The Principality of Roselawn, located between Illinois and Indiana in the Holy Roman Empire of America, should be interesting since the community of Roselawn, Indiana is most known for having two nudist colonies.
18:30 - You do know that divorce is legal in Utah.... right?
I like the production quality when you compare back a few years ago.
15:13 what’s the name of the map
2:48 We gained Toledo and lost the Upper Peninsula... Oh how the tables have turned.
Mega Missouri gonna rock some boats!
There was a Libertarian House seat for a long time in Michigan
I don't not never read descriptions
Where can I find the “what should I wear to America” map
Love the production value increase! I would recommend getting a ring light to improve the look of the face cam.
Anybody have a link to the world ussr map?
I have super rare namen (5 people only have them) and my dad named me that after some prince that we aren't even sure that he existed. And in my country there's one super similar popular name to my so why I say my name everyone thinks that my name is that popular name.
Imaginary maps is my favorite subreddit, so much community creativity and ideas
But the maps aren't imaginary, the world's they chart are I guess?
I wish the multi-party system could work for America but the way it is set up means that one party needs to get the majority or else it goes to the House of Representatives with each state getting one vote. A tied electoral college election for example happened in 1800 with the House tying I believe it was 36 times before choosing Jefferson instead of Burr.
Also, I do most of the time read the descriptionS for sources but often they are not cited :(
"I met a woman named Kennedy, *it blows my mind*.."
That what to wear in America map is amazing, where's it from?
The system doesn’t work with more than 2 parties because in practice with our voting system, when people vote for who they really want, the other party that the majourity don’t like ends up winning.
I've been subbed to this channel since the days your videos used to get 100 views
There's no Jerusalem on the Baja California peninsula, but you know, minor details. Who would notice? What could go wrong?
Damn, it took you a while to find that subreddit
Let's hope he buys cow paintings with that money
What the... Philippines was divided into language S.S.R.s... this Soviet Union map is sooo hilarious (at least for the part of the Philippines anyway).
13:30 - The United Kingdom would go back to being named the Kingdom of Great Britain, and have the old Union Flag.
5:03
This is the most terrifying thing I've ever seen
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I'll have to check out your probably main YT channel, but I don't read descriptions so I don't know the link 😉
Love the honesty at the end lol
16:56 No, no. It's the same as in the UK, since elections are majoritarian and run using 'first past the post' (the candidate with the most votes wins, one vote per person) - you can pretty much only get a two party system unless in particularly unique situations. Which is why pretty much every other democracy chooses a proportional system that takes into account that the population as a whole has a spectrum of political persuasions.
You can either that by giving people more than one vote (ranked voting lets you number your candidates), or when selecting who wins each seat in Parliament you use the popular vote (12% of votes wins 12% of the seats).
If the US allowed its voters to rank their candidates in the presidential races we would have a lot more US political parties and presidents that can appeal to the most US voters.
Link to your sources please, I can never find these maps
weird how it says "18 minute read" for a bit at 1:32 with the correct font and style.. hmmm
And when it fades out that 16 minute read sign stays for an extra few frames...
Ngl the president vice president thing would be pretty baller. Gets around the whole one party being in near total control when they get elected and trying to push the system for even more power through myriad ways. If your opposition is at the table with you when youre writing up legislation it gives you a more grounded mindset.
Also multi party gang
DeScriptions is far more elegant
R.I.P I will miss you...you were my favorite youtuber
As a Venezuelan both the UN and the SSR maps are painful to look at
Trust me, you don't want a Maracaibo nation, and we tried the unification with Colombia before, it didn't work
2:59 on this map would alot of Civil Wars happen.
Darwin is just called Stalin Stalin
12:24 New London inside of the county of Appleton. Sounds super-British to me!