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[–] [email protected] 78 points 9 months ago (4 children)

We’ve been ignoring the Dakotas for too long, they are spreading at an alarming rate!

[–] [email protected] 12 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Incest often doesn't provide viable offspring though.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Tell that to the British royal line

[–] [email protected] 8 points 9 months ago

Any royal line for that matter

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago

That's what happens when the antidax narrative takes hold.

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[–] [email protected] 64 points 9 months ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 46 points 9 months ago (2 children)

I only looked at this for ten seconds and I forgot how the real map looks.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 9 months ago

The malignant Dak-ancer has spread to your Cancerlina. The illness stems from exposure to fascist gerrymandering. It's a fatal prognosis.

[–] sangriaferret 4 points 9 months ago

I... I can't even figure what's wrong with it even though I know it's so very, very wrong. My brain hurts.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 9 months ago (1 children)

As someone from Europe it looks fine to me.

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[–] [email protected] 33 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

That's an awful lot of Dakotas. Also, Ohio really ought to be renamed Ohno.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 9 months ago

And no Howoming, Whatoming, Wheroming, or Whooming, missed opportunities.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 9 months ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 18 points 9 months ago

What really gets me is how you swapped Alabama and Mississippi just for kicks.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 9 months ago (1 children)

ok but where’s MASHINGTON

[–] admin 7 points 9 months ago

West of Wontanna

[–] [email protected] 14 points 9 months ago (3 children)

Fun fact, there are no US states that start with A.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 9 months ago (1 children)

The closest is Arkansas which starts with an "A". Which is pronounced similar to an "A".

[–] [email protected] 9 points 9 months ago

Some ChatGPT fun facts

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

Likewise there are no states with a B in the name.

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 9 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago (2 children)

This magazine has been cracking me up for weeks now. Had to share:
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Hmm, trying to understand your username, are you both very intelligent/ talented AND have a lift kit on your vehicle?

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 9 months ago

I see Kansas, but where's Kan'tsas?

[–] [email protected] 12 points 9 months ago (3 children)

Kansas, Akansas, Arkansas was clever my guy. How would you pronounce Akansas tho? A-kansahh? Akansahh? A-Kansas? Akansas? Ahkansas? Ah-kansahh?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Ahkansas, just to piss off the French

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Should be Kansas, Arkansas, and Cokansas.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago

Arkansas and yourkansas

[–] southsamurai 8 points 9 months ago

This makes my brain hurt

[–] SuzyQ 8 points 9 months ago (4 children)

I have an inkling that the two Arkansas are pronounced differently. "Are-Kansas" and "Are-Can-Saw".

[–] [email protected] 8 points 9 months ago (2 children)
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[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago (1 children)

But where is Are-Cannot-Saw?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago

Next to Coloradon't

[–] wander1236 4 points 9 months ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 8 points 9 months ago

Looks right to me ╮⁠(•⁠‿• )⁠╭

[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

How would you like them labeled? They already have the names.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

The names are an edit of the original xkcd comic, where the states are blank.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago (1 children)

It took me way too long to realize he added States not just mislabeled them.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago

Is this what having an aneurysm feels like?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago

Central Dakota...

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago

Close enough.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago (8 children)

It just occurred to me that there are no states named East Statename.

[–] agamemnonymous 5 points 9 months ago

Serious answer: we started at the eastern seaboard and expanded west. "East Statename" implies eastern expansion.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago

This is fantastic

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago

America's waistline grew a little it seems after thanksgiving

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