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The Picard Maneuver@lemmy.worldM to Lemmy Shitpost@lemmy.world · 7 months ago

Stop making up states

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Stop making up states

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The Picard Maneuver@lemmy.worldM to Lemmy Shitpost@lemmy.world · 7 months ago
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  • wabafee@lemmy.world
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    Sooner or later Florida won’t be a state anymore.

    • Eyelessoozeguy@lemmy.world
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      The great Florida reef?

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        That’s clever those buildings could potentially become home for the future fishes for sure. https://www.newsweek.com/map-shows-cities-that-could-go-underwater-sea-level-rise-1996760

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          Ah but obviously tourism would spike to see to see the lost city of Atlantis Florida

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    I’ll be deep in the cold cold ground before I recognize Missourah.

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    I always knew California was a bedrock of metal illness

    • LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.world
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      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.

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    The line is so…vertical. Incorrect but funny.

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    There seems to be a mistake with this map, Minnesota is a Canadian province

    • UnpledgedCatnapTipper@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      I wish!

  • db2@lemmy.world
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    Mentall

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    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.

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      Because it’s either that, or they pay taxes. They made their own bed.

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        Taxes are SO high in Pennsylvania it’s crazy. I just need sidewalks, honestly.

  • bennypr0fane@discuss.tchncs.de
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    Anyone care to explain to European noob what this means?

    • The Picard Maneuver@lemmy.worldOPM
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      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.

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      Originally the US expanded quite slowly, due to difficulties in travel and surveying. States were small and communities were close together, about as far apart as a person could walk in a day. At the end of the 1700s, it was only about as big as the blue area in the post above. 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 they could name them. The government began giving away land for cheap or sometimes free for anyone who could develop it. Native Americans were forced off their land and onto reservations. State borders became straight lines encompassing vast areas.

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        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 😂

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          The original thirteen colonies worked exactly like that. From then on, it went something like “Hey, federal government, we want to be a state. We’ll follow all your rules, pinky promise.” “Aight.”

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    Alternative States of Dumbfuckistan

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    NY, Florida, Texas, California are the only states, the rest is Ohio

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      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

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        And to think Africans complain about their rectangle borders, Americans are just fine!

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          typical yank, africans don’t complain about rectangle borders, they complain about straight lines.

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            your face is a straight line

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        I’m Canadian, this makes so much sense and why you guys have 50

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          I’m not murcan

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      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.

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        New Jersey isn’t real, it’s just a suburb of NYC and Philly.

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        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

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    How cute. The mental patients are playing a game, where they pretend half of them are normal <3

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    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.

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      Northeast + West Coast and Everywhere Else.

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    states in the northeast

    “we are the Midwest! :D”

    “whelp, it’s retarded. honey, look away.” loads shotgun

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    Is it too late to get a refund for the Louisiana Purchase?

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      Sacrebleu!

    • halfeatenpotato@lonestarlemmy.mooo.com
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      I second the motion of making the Louisiana Refund real.

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      We bought it for pennies. Imagine the ROI.

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      What I wouldn’t give for my state to be part of France rather than this US bullshit.

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        Teuxaseé

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          Illinois et Arquensas

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    Tiny alaska tiny alaska

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      Texas can’t be upstaged

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