Comment on If the US was partitioned, what new states would you want to appear?

dhork@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

• Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I’m glad we made it into the USC, but for the record, Pennsylvania is PA not PN.

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  • adespoton@lemmy.ca ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    It’s currently PA; the abbreviation will be one of the first changes.

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    • Slatlun@lemmy.ml ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Would upvote twice if I could.

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  • dhork@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I didn’t make the graphic, I just stole/hotlinked it. I am very familiar with PA, although it’s main redeeming quality is that it’s not New Jersey.

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  • edgemaster72@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    They also screwed up Maryland (should be MD not MY)

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• cerebralhawks@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I don’t think you could call it Jesusland, taking the LORD’s name in vain and all that.

  Christchurch though? Totally acceptable. Pretty sure that’s a city in Texas. Or, take the Aramaic (language Christ spoke) word(s) for “promised land” and Anglify it.

  Anyway, which would your capitols be? I’m thinking maybe Dallas for “Jesusland” — it’s in Texas, and it’s far enough inland to miss a lot of hurricane damage that gets Houston right on the coast — and maybe keep Ottawa for USC. Except it’s not very centrally located… still might be their best bet since it exists. I sure wouldn’t put it in California (too many wildfires/earthquakes). I was kinda thinking British Columbia though (north of Washington State, bordering the Pacific). Like Vancouver maybe. Lovely area.

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  • SippyCup@lemmy.ml ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    So fun thing about vanity, that historically refers to asking God for petty things that God would not care about.

    Like winning a basketball game, or the lottery. It’s “vanity” to assume God would give a bother about things so unimportant just because YOU asked. Because whether or not you win is (theoretically) more about practice and application than divine intervention.

    Though, obviously modern Americans don’t give a shit about what the words in the book actually fucking mean. They’re still likely to call it Jesusland, as likely as anything else, because even with the modern definition, they’re not likely to actually care. THEY are God’s chosen, and therefore THEY have special rules to go along with their special connection to Christ.

    You may not blaspheme, though. You may not exist in their presence so long as you are not pious, upstanding, and white cis Christian. Though they wouldn’t call you cis, that’s for some reason a slur in Jesusland.

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  • cecilkorik@piefed.ca ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Move the USC capitol to Milwaukee or Minneapolis/St. Paul. Both nice and central. Despite seeming landlocked, both have ocean access, Milwaukee through the Great Lakes and Minneapolis through the Mississippi. Plenty of industrial capacity and open land in the area if they need to expand. Midwestern culture is pretty resilient and underappreciated frankly. Minnesotans are basically honorary defacto Canadians already. Milwaukee featured prominently in Wayne’s World, starring Canadian Mike Myers (who started the recent Canadian “Elbows Up” movement) so we’ve already got that significant cultural connection there too. They’d be good choices I think.

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• SlartyBartFast@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  “United States” of Canada? Why not just “Canada”?

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  • sbeak@sopuli.xyz ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Well you are uniting multiple states, it’s in the name.

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• itisileclerk@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Fun fact, Jesus never been in that land.

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• FordBeeblebrox@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Fuck yeah I can watch hockey night in Canada, in Boston. Let’s do it.

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