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TehBamski@lemmy.world to Today I Learned@lemmy.worldEnglish · 4 months ago

TIL: In 2004, a meme map was created that satirizes the red/blue states scheme by dividing the United States and Canada into "The United States of Canada" and "Jesusland."

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TIL: In 2004, a meme map was created that satirizes the red/blue states scheme by dividing the United States and Canada into "The United States of Canada" and "Jesusland."

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TehBamski@lemmy.world to Today I Learned@lemmy.worldEnglish · 4 months ago
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  • Snot Flickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    4 months ago

    Now it’s “Trumpland” because they’ve officially tossed Jesus out the window.

    • Boomer Humor Doomergod@lemmy.world
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      4 months ago

      Religious folk loves them a golden calf

      • Etienne_Dahu@jlai.lu
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        4 months ago

        Now in orange!

    • adarza@lemmy.ca
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      4 months ago

      jesus was never in the car 1 ton cummins-powered lifted ram dually with stack exhaust.

      • AreaKode@lemmy.world
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        lol. 1 ton? We’re talking closer to 3 tons. American vehicles are mostly ridiculously oversized.

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          1 ton refers to the cargo capacity in the bed, though that is more of an old naming convention as most of the 1 ton trucks can actually hold closer to 3 tons now.

          • Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world
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            Which is juuuuuust enough to haul 3 average sized Americans!

    • ebolapie@lemmy.world
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      I still think “Dumbfuckistan” has a nice ring to it

  • solsangraal@lemmy.zip
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    4 months ago

    i fucking hate being trapped in jesusland

    • Oyml77@lemmy.today
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      4 months ago

      Same. Don’t leave me here.

  • KingJalopy @lemm.ee
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    4 months ago

    leaving jesusland - nofx

  • Suck_on_my_Presence@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    West Coast Best Coast

    • TehBamski@lemmy.worldOP
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      4 months ago

      Any Coast Is Better Than Most

  • ohellidk@sh.itjust.works
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    This makes me feel kind of bad for CO

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      As a Coloradan, I agree. Also, New Mexico and Virginia. Probably should also leave PA to Jesus Land.

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        If you take the eastern and western blur parts of Pa and give jesusland the pennsultucky center we can call it even

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    • Flames5123@sh.itjust.works
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      4 months ago

      Why? They voted that way in 2004 for Bush.

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    Removed by mod

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    To satisfy my own curiosity:

    Country Population Population (rank) Area (sq m) Area (sq km) Area (rank) GDP (nominal, USD) GDP (rank)
    USC 194,357,245 7th 4,702,746 12,180,058 6th 17,193,047 2nd
    Jesusland 178,557,334 8th 2,949,098 7,638,130 8th 14,247,704 3rd
  • RonnyZittledong@lemmy.world
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    The sad thing is is that I live in Eastern Oregon and they are very very red too. To the point of them constantly jerking off to the fantasy of breaking off and joining Idaho

    • This is fine🔥🐶☕🔥@lemmy.world
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      Tell them, you da hoe.

    • EmptySlime@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      Oh my God those “Greater Idaho” people are insane.

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        Wait…there are people who WANT to be part of Idaho??? I mean, Oregon isn’t greeeeeat, but it’s kind of like asking “Would you rather have a chicken breast, or be brutally assaulted?”

        Sure, the chicken breast isn’t anything to write home about, but the other option is a guy with a crowbar just ready to send you to the hospital.

      • GreenKnight23@lemmy.world
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        well, they got potatoes for brains soooo.

  • Hawke@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    Wisconsin here, when do we join Canada?

    • tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip
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      Depends on the supreme court election results ;)

      https://apnews.com/article/musk-progress-2028-wisconsin-supreme-court-acb3b82275e466909c45fe284aa52dbf

    • Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world
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      I’m in Cleveland, which is technically Ohio. This summer, I’m thinking I just go swimming. Maybe I reach Canada?

      How hard could it POSSIBLY be??? Not like we have alligators or sharks in Lake Erie. We DO have the lake erie monster. We make beers out of them.

      …i think…

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    As a person that has only lived in blue states, I feel like these maps suck. The only left thinking areas in my states are pretty much the populated cities, and the rest is like a Hitler youth camp.

    (Dramatization?)

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      Ohh yeah, I’ve also had that feeling. The Midwest is awfully like that, I’ll vouch for it.

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      I mean, it’s not like it’s any different in a lot of Canada, the polarization has gotten pretty unreal everywhere. Alaska has a lot more in common with the Yukon and Northwest Territories too than they do with southern red states.

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        And Alberta is famously conservative and god -fearing.

    • Voyajer@lemmy.world
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      It’s like that in red states too

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    I thought Alaska was decidedly cool, no?

    • Snot Flickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      The state that brought us Sarah Palin and helped kick off the Trump-style candidacy?

      Yeah, no. It’s been hard conservative for a long time.

      Remember “the internet is a series of tubes” guy? Yeah, he was a Republican senator for Alaska and he said it in 2006. So Alaska has been full of political shit takes for at least twenty years.

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

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        Alaska conservatism is hella different from mainland conservatism. Alaskans are conservartive in the, “Leave me the fuck alone, don’t tell me what to do, don’t want your rules, regulations and laws. We’re doing just fine, fuck off.”

        Which may sound like standard conservative sensibilities, but Alaska takes the idea of American independence to a whole 'nother level. When you live in the boondocks, you have to be self-reliant. When you live in Alaska, you will die if you’re not able to care for yourself.

        Does that make any sense? Worn out from work and spewing thoughts. Anyway, I’ve seen and lived both sides, I get it.

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          You just described the average libertarian, not Alaskan

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  • Godofdirt@lemmy.world
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    As a Coloradan I am not a fan

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    I think Alberta would join Jesusland.

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      I thought that too until seeing their reaction to tariffs and annexation threats

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    The thing is, Jesus would be mighty displeased with what’s going on in Jesusland right now.

    • SplashJackson@lemmy.ca
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      You mean, if he was real?

    • Getmeoffthisride1969@lemm.ee
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      It’s Trumpland now

      • jol@discuss.tchncs.de
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        Same thing. Trump is essentially the second coming.

        • AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world
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          I thought it was the first time for the Antichrist.

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    United Canadian and American States.

    California could be a Free State…

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      And a lot of that Land should be handed over to the natives. We could call them “Native American Nations”… Chummer.

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