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Trump Told Spain To Build A Wall Across The Sahara: That Border Can’t Be Bigger Than Ours With Mexico

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Sounds like another day in Stupid...
 
Loren Pechtel said:
whollygoats said:
Um...The Strait of Gibraltar needs a wall?
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It would be one hell of a hydroelectric dam.
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A dam would be about 90 degrees off the appropriate orientation to be a barrier to African migrants, and would make it easier to cross, rather than harder.

It would probably be an excellent tidal power source, but would be something of an impediment to shipping. And with a mean depth of over 350m, a maximum depth of about 900m, and a span of at least 14km, it would be one hell of a big construction project - the finished dam would be three times the height of any current dam.

Still, it was seriously mooted in the interwar period, as part of the Atlantropa project, which would have significantly lowered and salinated the Mediterranean, creating large amounts of usable and potentially very valuable coastal land. Of course, one major drawback then was that the (mostly German) proposers of the plan didn't feel the need to discuss it with any of the countries directly affected, and it seems that at least a part of the idea rested on the assumed domination of Europe and Africa by the Axis powers, which was an idea that, we now know with hindsight, had a number of critical flaws.
 
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This is possibly what happens when you have a tiny, mushroom-shaped penis.

Whoops am I mentioning that too much?
 
phands said:
What an embarrassment - the orange turd clearly doesn't know where Spain and the Sahara are, and that they don't share a border...
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Yabut it's a great model. All we have to do is dig a bigass canal a couple of miles wide along the border, from the Gulf of Mexico to the Pacific Ocean. We can recoup the cost with hydroelectric installations that will tap the tidal differential. So it will be 100% free. [/trumponomics]
 
phands said:
What an embarrassment - the orange turd clearly doesn't know where Spain and the Sahara are, and that they don't share a border...
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Actually, part of Spain is in Africa. and they even have fence between each other and it is often breached by migrants.
Do you feel embarrassed? :)
 
barbos said:
phands said:
What an embarrassment - the orange turd clearly doesn't know where Spain and the Sahara are, and that they don't share a border...
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Actually, part of Spain is in Africa. and they even have fence between each other and it is often breached by migrants.
Do you feel embarrassed? :)
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Which part would that be?[Curious/]
 
barbos said:
phands said:
What an embarrassment - the orange turd clearly doesn't know where Spain and the Sahara are, and that they don't share a border...
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Actually, part of Spain is in Africa. and they even have fence between each other and it is often breached by migrants.
Do you feel embarrassed? :)
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Not even slightly. I know of Ceuta and Melilla, and have windsurfed in the Canaries. Ceuta is near Tangier at the inner end of the Gibraltar Strait, and Melilla is on the north coast of Morocco too, but further east. Both are heavily fortified at their border with Morocco, and there isn't a migrant crisis with them. Neither have anything to do with the Sahara, and aren't even close to it. The canaries are islands in the Atlantic, way further south, almost to Western Sahara. The orange nazi's wall would have zero effect on any of them.
 
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Walls are symbols. They've never actually been great at keeping determined enemies out, as aggressive technology tends to have the lead on defensive in any given generation. Their purpose is to send a symbolic message of enmity and distrust, and generally, to represent the power of the state.

So I imagine if Spain found somewhere to build a giant wall, it would "work" in the sense of upsetting Spain's enemies and as a show of wealth, as long as they were careful to announce that they were doing it and why.
 
phands said:
barbos said:
phands said:
What an embarrassment - the orange turd clearly doesn't know where Spain and the Sahara are, and that they don't share a border...
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Actually, part of Spain is in Africa. and they even have fence between each other and it is often breached by migrants.
Do you feel embarrassed? :)
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Not even slightly. I know of Ceuta and Melilla,
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Yes, you NOW know about it, and you're welcome :)
 
bilby said:
Loren Pechtel said:
whollygoats said:
Um...The Strait of Gibraltar needs a wall?
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It would be one hell of a hydroelectric dam.
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A dam would be about 90 degrees off the appropriate orientation to be a barrier to African migrants, and would make it easier to cross, rather than harder.

It would probably be an excellent tidal power source, but would be something of an impediment to shipping. And with a mean depth of over 350m, a maximum depth of about 900m, and a span of at least 14km, it would be one hell of a big construction project - the finished dam would be three times the height of any current dam.
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1) I didn't say it was practical.

2) Note what I was replying to--what does Gibralter need with a wall. Nothing in that says what direction it points.
 
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