As someone who just moved from the west into “the REAL US” … this shit is old and broken and slow as fuck and everyone just accepts it like it’s supposed to be that way.
Stop making up states
Submitted 1 year ago by The_Picard_Maneuver@lemmy.world to [deleted]
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uberdroog@lemmy.world 1 year ago
EleventhHour@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Because it’s either that, or they pay taxes. They made their own bed.
uberdroog@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Taxes are SO high in Pennsylvania it’s crazy. I just need sidewalks, honestly.
alcoholicorn@lemmy.ml 1 year ago
NY, Florida, Texas, California are the only states, the rest is Ohio
Skullgrid@lemmy.world 1 year ago
if your state has a natural border, it’s real. otherwise it’s a prank. Which square state are you from, the one shaped like a square or the one shaped like a rectangle. get real motherfuckers
Draghetta@lemmy.world 1 year ago
And to think Africans complain about their rectangle borders, Americans are just fine!
Grandwolf319@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
I’m Canadian, this makes so much sense and why you guys have 50
PlainSimpleGarak@lemmings.world 1 year ago
OpenStars@discuss.online 1 year ago
I would say that this is perfection, if it weren’t for the simple fact that most states are in far more danger of Ohio than this shows… :-D
Dozzi92@lemmy.world 1 year ago
99% of the State of New York is nothing. NYC and Philadelphia belong in NJ, they each have a lot more in common with Jersey than they do their respective states.
alcoholicorn@lemmy.ml 1 year ago
New Jersey isn’t real, it’s just a suburb of NYC and Philly.
ColonelThirtyTwo@pawb.social 1 year ago
STOP doing manifest destiny
Nations were never supposed to span from coast to coast
Want to have more coastline anyway? We have a solution for that: it’s called a PENINSULA
DmMacniel@feddit.org 1 year ago
Stalin: our nation should span from coast to coast
Putin: I won’t be satisfied with just the Crimea peninsula
ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
Iberian Peninsula is so hot right now
TehWorld@lemmy.world 1 year ago
If you want more coastline, all you have to do is measure with more accuracy.
Wogi@lemmy.world 1 year ago
But I just started reading it… There’s plant zombies and bison headed centaurs… It’s good man don’t make me stop now
Spezi@feddit.org 1 year ago
Left: Mental Illness Right: Mental Illinois
Johnmannesca@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Mental Illinois sounds like a sick band name
rockSlayer@lemmy.world 1 year ago
There seems to be a mistake with this map, Minnesota is a Canadian province
UnpledgedCatnapTipper@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 year ago
I wish!
HEXN3T@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 year ago
[deleted]Sneezydinosaur@lemmy.world 1 year ago
True. Also he is Florida not mental illness? SMH my head.
Pika@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
Despite the fact that I have family in florida, I would definitely swap florida and California status, least Cali does something good for the country with their tech innovation and privacy laws. I can’t recall the last time Florida did something good
OpenStars@discuss.online 1 year ago
Bc it’s so far past that it has become its own thing. Like there’s “mental illness”, and then there’s “Florida”!:-P
RubberElectrons@lemmy.world 1 year ago
It’s sooooo dry, CO kinda sucks even though I really want to like it 😓
HEXN3T@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 year ago
Pro Tip: Pour water on yourself to become wet
the_crotch@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
I visited Denver earlier this year and needed a bottle of water just to walk from my hotel to the bus stop
mydoomlessaccount@infosec.pub 1 year ago
So THAT’S what the psychs meant when they said I was living in a state of mental illness…
sit@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 year ago
Tiny alaska tiny alaska
altima_neo@lemmy.zip 1 year ago
Texas can’t be upstaged
wabafee@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Sooner or later Florida won’t be a state anymore.
Eyelessoozeguy@lemmy.world 1 year ago
The great Florida reef?
wabafee@lemmy.world 1 year ago
That’s clever those buildings could potentially become home for the future fishes for sure. newsweek.com/map-shows-cities-that-could-go-under…
kurtrude@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I’ll be deep in the cold cold ground before I recognize Missourah.
Holyginz@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Florida just shouldn’t exist and I’d probably move California over to the other side. But on the whole I think this pic is passable.
Dozzi92@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Northeast + West Coast and Everywhere Else.
wreckedcarzz@lemmy.world 1 year ago
states in the northeast
“we are the Midwest! :D”
“whelp, it’s retarded. honey, look away.” loads shotgun
Freefall@lemmy.world 1 year ago
The line is so…vertical. Incorrect but funny.
abbadon420@lemm.ee 1 year ago
A yes, the eternal september of 1806
Shardikprime@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I always knew California was a bedrock of metal illness
LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.world 1 year ago
From the information above and knowledge of how we populated most of this country, I think there is a strong possibility that whether you forged the river or caulked the wagon, the Mississippi river must have been tainted.
db2@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Mentall
bennypr0fane@discuss.tchncs.de 1 year ago
Anyone care to explain to European noob what this means?
CommissarVulpin@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Originally the US expanded quite slowly, due to difficulties in travel and surveying. But in the 1800s, after the Louisiana Purchase, we began to very aggressively expand westward. The construction of the Intercontinental Railroad helped immensely, and towns were being built almost faster than we could name them. The government began giving away land for cheap or sometimes free for anyone who could develop it. State borders became straight lines encompassing vast areas. Native Americans were forced off their land and onto reservations.
bennypr0fane@discuss.tchncs.de 1 year ago
That’s also very interesting in light of the US superficially appearing to be strongly federal in nature (with the individual states enjoying a great deal of autonomy) - a structure which would historically be known to develop in a bottom-up manner, where preexisting smaller entities would federate to form a larger state. This history is telling very different story, where those entities were not actually preexisting, but invented by the central authority 😂
The_Picard_Maneuver@lemmy.world 1 year ago
It’s mostly a shitpost, but the US was originally only the East coast. Over time, the states spread more and more west, so it’s saying that all these “new” states are basically a delusion.
DreamlandLividity@lemmy.world 1 year ago
How cute. The mental patients are playing a game, where they pretend half of them are normal <3
teije9@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 year ago
Nevada exists but only for Fallout new vegas
sharkfucker420@lemmy.ml 1 year ago
It’s all turtle island as far as I am concerned
random_character_a@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Alternative States of Dumbfuckistan
4oreman@lemy.lol 1 year ago
Can we just dissolve the states?
PP_BOY_@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Is it too late to get a refund for the Louisiana Purchase?
joyjoy@lemm.ee 1 year ago
We bought it for pennies. Imagine the ROI.
peregrin5@lemm.ee 1 year ago
What I wouldn’t give for my state to be part of France rather than this US bullshit.
_stranger_@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Teuxaseé
EleventhHour@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Sacrebleu!