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The Picard Maneuver@lemmy.worldM to Lemmy Shitpost@lemmy.world · 5 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 · 5 months ago
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  • defunct_punk@lemmy.world
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    Is it too late to get a refund for the Louisiana Purchase?

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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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          5 months ago

          Illinois et Arquensas

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

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      5 months ago

      Sacrebleu!

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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.

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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

      • Grandwolf319@sh.itjust.works
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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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      • OpenStars@discuss.online
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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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      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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    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

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      Fjords

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        Narf

    • macniel@feddit.org
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      Stalin: our nation should span from coast to coast

      Putin: I won’t be satisfied with just the Crimea peninsula

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        Iberian Peninsula is so hot right now

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      If you want more coastline, all you have to do is measure with more accuracy.

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      But I just started reading it… There’s plant zombies and bison headed centaurs… It’s good man don’t make me stop now

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    Left: Mental Illness

    Right: Mental Illinois

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      Mental Illinois sounds like a sick band name

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

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      I wish!

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    Colorado: Real US

    Rest of the states: Mental illness

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      True. Also how is Florida not mental illness? SMH my head.

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        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

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          Florida will be part of the sea in the near future. You don’t have to worry about them for much longer.

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          As a Californian I can say thats probably the least we give since we have a shit tonne of different industries within the state. Reminder we are the fourth largest economy in the world.

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            Wow are we really that high now? Last I knew we were like the eighth. Either way that’s still wild to me how high were are.

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          The moon landing launched from there., and that’s about all I’m willing to give them.

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            Miami Vice was pretty good though.

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        What’s a Fllorida

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          You left the panhandle, which is the worst part of florida

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        shaking my head my head?

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          🎶my head my back …🎶

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            👯‍♀️ my neck my back …👯‍♀️

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          Smh my head yes

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        Bc it’s so far past that it has become its own thing. Like there’s “mental illness”, and then there’s “Florida”!:-P

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      It’s sooooo dry, CO kinda sucks even though I really want to like it 😓

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        Pro Tip: Pour water on yourself to become wet

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          California gave me a machine to automatically do that when I reach for non-vegetarian products in the store.

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        I visited Denver earlier this year and needed a bottle of water just to walk from my hotel to the bus stop

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    So THAT’S what the psychs meant when they said I was living in a state of mental illness…

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    Sooner or later Florida won’t be a state anymore.

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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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    Tiny alaska tiny alaska

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      Texas can’t be upstaged

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

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    A yes, the eternal september of 1806

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    The line is so…vertical. Incorrect but funny.

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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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    I always knew California was a bedrock of metal illness

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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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