Comment on Anon shares their highschool mascot

PP_BOY_@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• hemko@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  As an European, I can confirm that all Americans (south and north) are Yankee rednecks

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  • thefartographer@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    As a Texan, I can’t read goddamn thing between my wild diabetes eyes and rampant illiteracy

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    • Gullible@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      How can you afford wild diabetes in 2024? Even pasture raised costs an arm and a leg.

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  • Duamerthrax@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Eastern European = Southern America.

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  • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Hey, Yanks live in real America, those fake Americans to the north and south of us don’t qualify. They can be rednecks, but not Yanks.

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• Hideakikarate@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  As someone from the east side of the state, it definitely fits. Friends joke that I live in West Idaho.

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• Crack0n7uesday@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Outside of Seattle/Tacoma, very redneck. Get up to the mountains and cattle farms.

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  • Numenor@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Stripper coffee is where ladies strip? And there’s hot beverages?

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    • Crack0n7uesday@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Pretty much hit the nail on the head right there. That’s exactly what they are.

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      • ICastFist@programming.dev ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        This is the first time I’ve heard about these stripper coffee shacks. I want reviews (since I doubt I’ll have enough money to ever visit one)

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      • JoShmoe@ani.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        So are we talking Christina Ricci in chains or more like Kim Basinger riding Michael Shannon?

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  • Default_Defect@midwest.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    You don’t even have to go that far, I used to live in a coastal Navy town that had a meth problem. I bought my car from a dealership that got busted 6 months later. KFC is where they sold the meth that was cooked in the Ford dealership across the street. I almost miss Oak Harbor…

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  • PP_BOY_@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Oh yeah, I’ve been around the country enough to know that anywhere outside of the city is Red, no matter what state you’re in, but “Redneck” just has a very specific southern connotation to me.

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    • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I lived near Federal Way, and by driving just 15 min, I could go see people riding horses, idiots rolling coal, and trailer trash communities and everything. Just a block or two over from my house, I’d see the stereotypical furniture and appliances littering front lawns. A block or two the other direction was typical was typical PNW neighborhoods with cedar shake roofs nestled into the evergreens. And a few blocks beyond that would be someone with a couple cows on a massive field.

      WA is an odd place. I’m in Utah now in a similar community, and there seems to be far fewer “rednecks” in my area. There are some farms, but I guess there just isn’t as much “liberal” culture to visibly resist or something. Our actual rednecks live a bit further out, and they’re probably more extreme (have some DezNat nonsense here in the sticks). We have more lifted trucks, whereas in WA they’d be older work trucks (they actually have hay to move).

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• DragonTypeWyvern@literature.cafe ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Does it though? Like saying the Germantown school mascot should be the Krauts.

  Other Options:

  Viziers

  Janissaries

  Genies

  Bombards

  Footstools

  Instan-Bulls

  Harem Girls

  Mhmm

  Wait, what were we talking about again?

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  • Zagorath@aussie.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I was about to comment how cool the name Bombards would be, but then I read the Istan-Bulls and sorry but you should be legally obligated to go with that name when it’s an option, it’s that good.

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    • thefartographer@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Better than their previous name: the Constanti-No-Bulls

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      • Poiar@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Why they changed it I can’t say

        People just liked it better that way

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      • exocrinous@startrek.website ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Constant Nobles.

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    • andrew_bidlaw@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      And their fans are bull-stans then?

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  • db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Janissaries

    When you want to make it even worse…

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• FilthyShrooms@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  People always expect Oregon and Washington to be super liberal but once you leave the city it’s a bunch of hicks in the woods (respectfully)

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  • Duamerthrax@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I don’t even expect Portland to be super liberal. That city has a long history with the KKK.

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    • chatokun@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      They tried to make Oregon a whites only state a long while back. Not even wanting slaves, during 1857 when they applied for Statehood they both banned slavery and any free black people from existing in the state. It was more of a “We don’t even want to see them” kind of hatred.

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      • DragonTypeWyvern@literature.cafe ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        That’s some of why East Tennessee and West Virginia sided with the Union in the Civil War, too.

        It wasn’t uncommon at the time.

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      • Duamerthrax@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Pretty sure I also heard about how the clan and the Catholic Church formed an alliance to keep the Chinese immigrants out. It worked, then they turned on each other. Because of course that’s what would happen.

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  • rickyrigatoni@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Pretty much the story of every blue state.

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    • PP_BOY_@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Red Country, Blue City is pretty much the case with every state. The most liberal people I’ve ever met were in Asheville, North Carolina, and I’ve never been surrounded by more MAGA-loving chuds than when I spent a summer in Redding, California.

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      • careful@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Former Asheville punk, turned loose in the hick side of southwest Nova Scotia. I’ve seen a disturbing amount of MAGA here, enough to rivel my time in North Carolina… But In Canada.

        Shit is wild. Everyone here is xenophobic and racist as it gets.

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    • FozzyOsbourne@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Isn’t this the story of every rural area in every country? Communities that are out in the middle of nowhere won’t have had much cultural exchange and tend to become insular.

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• Jackcooper@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Yes, if you’re more than an hour from Seattle/ half an hour from Spokane you’re probably in redneck territory

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  • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Can confirm. I grew up about 30 min from Seattle and was on the border of redneck territory. I played high school sports with schools out “in the country” and was able a 15 min drive from some ranches and whatnot.

    WA is a very weird place.

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• bobs_monkey@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I believe it. Even here in California small mountain towns tend to lean heavily conservative

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• ZombiFrancis@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Five minutes out the cities or cross the mountains to the east or go on the peninsula or drive south or north…

  Puget Sound has population high density and mostly dominates the politics of the state.

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• Paradachshund@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  My aunt lives in Sultan and all I can say is: yep.

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