Can we just dissolve the states?
this post was submitted on 17 Dec 2024
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Anyone care to explain to European noob what this means?
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.
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 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.”
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.
Is it too late to get a refund for the Louisiana Purchase?
We bought it for pennies. Imagine the ROI.
What I wouldn't give for my state to be part of France rather than this US bullshit.
I second the motion of making the Louisiana Refund real.
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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.
Because it’s either that, or they pay taxes. They made their own bed.
Taxes are SO high in Pennsylvania it's crazy. I just need sidewalks, honestly.
NY, Florida, Texas, California are the only states, the rest is Ohio
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
And to think Africans complain about their rectangle borders, Americans are just fine!
typical yank, africans don't complain about rectangle borders, they complain about straight lines.
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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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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
If you want more coastline, all you have to do is measure with more accuracy.
But I just started reading it... There's plant zombies and bison headed centaurs... It's good man don't make me stop now
Stalin: our nation should span from coast to coast
Putin: I won't be satisfied with just the Crimea peninsula
Iberian Peninsula is so hot right now
Left: Mental Illness
Right: Mental Illinois
Mental Illinois sounds like a sick band name
There seems to be a mistake with this map, Minnesota is a Canadian province
I wish!
Colorado: Real US
Rest of the states: Mental illness
True. Also how is Florida not mental illness? SMH my head.
Bc it's so far past that it has become its own thing. Like there's "mental illness", and then there's "Florida"!:-P
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
Florida will be part of the sea in the near future. You don't have to worry about them for much longer.
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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The moon landing launched from there., and that's about all I'm willing to give them.
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So THAT'S what the psychs meant when they said I was living in a state of mental illness..
Sooner or later Florida won't be a state anymore.
I'll be deep in the cold cold ground before I recognize Missourah.
A yes, the eternal september of 1806
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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The line is so....vertical. Incorrect but funny.
I always knew California was a bedrock of metal illness
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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