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[-] such_lettuce7970@kbin.social 95 points 1 year ago

Damn, America's really fucking dumb.

[-] JDubbleu@programming.dev 50 points 1 year ago

Florida* I'm from California and I'll be damned if I'm lumped in with most of the rest of the US (Oregon and Washington are great though).

[-] CeleryFC@beehaw.org 34 points 1 year ago

Eh, the populated areas of Oregon and Washington are chill. The rural areas are scary.

[-] Gormadt@beehaw.org 27 points 1 year ago

As someone who grew up in rural Washington on the threshold of populated Washington, yeah shit gets pretty fucked really quick in those rural areas.

It was a really religious area as well so that really didn't help. The local religious people have a strong belief in having as many children as possible as soon as possible. The running non-joke (because it's common) about it is the first kid to turn 16 drives the 3rd van.

[-] JDubbleu@programming.dev 8 points 1 year ago

California is like that too, we're not special unfortunately

[-] CeleryFC@beehaw.org 2 points 1 year ago
[-] InLikeClint@kbin.social 13 points 1 year ago

Yeah it gets pretty embarrassing the more east, southeast ya go. SMH

[-] sparkl_motion@beehaw.org 8 points 1 year ago

From your PNW neighbor, thanks!

We’re a great coalition of states, even with the red areas we have to drag kicking and screaming into this century.

[-] JDubbleu@programming.dev 6 points 1 year ago

I truly believe if the US went to shit California, Oregon and Washington would end up as one of the resulting territories. It makes a lot of geopolitical sense.

[-] gornar@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 year ago

BC joins and we become Cascadia!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cascadia_movement

(except I could have sworn it included California originally. It does for me!)

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