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 4 months ago by The_Picard_Maneuver@lemmy.world to [deleted]
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uberdroog@lemmy.world 4 months ago
EleventhHour@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Because it’s either that, or they pay taxes. They made their own bed.
uberdroog@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Taxes are SO high in Pennsylvania it’s crazy. I just need sidewalks, honestly.
alcoholicorn@lemmy.ml 4 months ago
NY, Florida, Texas, California are the only states, the rest is Ohio
Skullgrid@lemmy.world 4 months 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 4 months ago
And to think Africans complain about their rectangle borders, Americans are just fine!
Grandwolf319@sh.itjust.works 4 months ago
I’m Canadian, this makes so much sense and why you guys have 50
PlainSimpleGarak@lemmings.world 4 months ago
OpenStars@discuss.online 4 months 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 4 months 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 4 months ago
New Jersey isn’t real, it’s just a suburb of NYC and Philly.
ColonelThirtyTwo@pawb.social 4 months 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 4 months ago
Stalin: our nation should span from coast to coast
Putin: I won’t be satisfied with just the Crimea peninsula
ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 4 months ago
Iberian Peninsula is so hot right now
TehWorld@lemmy.world 4 months ago
If you want more coastline, all you have to do is measure with more accuracy.
Wogi@lemmy.world 4 months 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 4 months ago
Left: Mental Illness Right: Mental Illinois
Johnmannesca@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Mental Illinois sounds like a sick band name
rockSlayer@lemmy.world 4 months ago
There seems to be a mistake with this map, Minnesota is a Canadian province
UnpledgedCatnapTipper@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 months ago
I wish!
HEXN3T@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 months ago
Colorado: Real US
Rest of the states: Mental illness
Sneezydinosaur@lemmy.world 4 months ago
True. Also he is Florida not mental illness? SMH my head.
Pika@sh.itjust.works 4 months 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 4 months 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 4 months ago
It’s sooooo dry, CO kinda sucks even though I really want to like it 😓
HEXN3T@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 months ago
Pro Tip: Pour water on yourself to become wet
the_crotch@sh.itjust.works 4 months 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 4 months ago
So THAT’S what the psychs meant when they said I was living in a state of mental illness…
sit@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 months ago
Tiny alaska tiny alaska
altima_neo@lemmy.zip 4 months ago
Texas can’t be upstaged
wabafee@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Sooner or later Florida won’t be a state anymore.
Eyelessoozeguy@lemmy.world 4 months ago
The great Florida reef?
wabafee@lemmy.world 4 months 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 4 months ago
I’ll be deep in the cold cold ground before I recognize Missourah.
Holyginz@lemmy.world 4 months 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 4 months ago
Northeast + West Coast and Everywhere Else.
wreckedcarzz@lemmy.world 4 months ago
states in the northeast
“we are the Midwest! :D”
“whelp, it’s retarded. honey, look away.” loads shotgun
Freefall@lemmy.world 4 months ago
The line is so…vertical. Incorrect but funny.
abbadon420@lemm.ee 4 months ago
A yes, the eternal september of 1806
Shardikprime@lemmy.world 4 months ago
I always knew California was a bedrock of metal illness
LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.world 4 months 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 4 months ago
Mentall
bennypr0fane@discuss.tchncs.de 4 months ago
Anyone care to explain to European noob what this means?
CommissarVulpin@lemmy.world 4 months 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 4 months 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 4 months 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 4 months ago
How cute. The mental patients are playing a game, where they pretend half of them are normal <3
teije9@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 months ago
Nevada exists but only for Fallout new vegas
sharkfucker420@lemmy.ml 4 months ago
It’s all turtle island as far as I am concerned
random_character_a@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Alternative States of Dumbfuckistan
4oreman@lemy.lol 4 months ago
Can we just dissolve the states?
PP_BOY_@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Is it too late to get a refund for the Louisiana Purchase?
joyjoy@lemm.ee 4 months ago
We bought it for pennies. Imagine the ROI.
peregrin5@lemm.ee 4 months ago
What I wouldn’t give for my state to be part of France rather than this US bullshit.
_stranger_@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Teuxaseé
EleventhHour@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Sacrebleu!