Do non-americans realize that the United States is literally just a bunch of countries in a trench coat that agreed to be semi-nice to each other in order to sneak into the Big Boy Club? Because letās be honest thatās just what the USA is
The rest of the world: Soā¦ youāre a big country?
The states, standing on each otherās shoulders: Y- yes,,,
I love how everyone whoās reblogged this hasnāt added anything on or tagged anything on it. Theyāre all just likeĀ āYeah. Thatās it. Thatās the entire United States summed up in one post-ā
#oh my god is THAT why you guys are so weird
Yeah 100%
Donāt let these tags die omfg
10/10 can confirm
absolutely bonkers that my own tags have crossed my dash like this more than fifteen reblogs after i wrote them
I moved to another state. 30 minutes away. My family acts like I betrayed them and canāt understand my life choices. Itās completely different way of life, especially during covid. Completely different country.
every single fucking time one of those articles of āthings europeans find weird about americaā complains that sales tax isnāt included
states set the sales tax!!! itās literally different across state lines!!! american retailers canāt add it bc theyād have to account for 50 different prices!!!!!!!
It gets even more insane! Californiaās clean air standards for cars and other such things are so much higher than everyone elseās! So if a car manufacturer in Detroit wants to sell their damn cars in California, they need to build their cars to California clean air standards. But retooling an assembly line and car design to have some cars meet California clean air standards, while building others to other clean air standards is a lot of work, so car manufacturers all over the country have to build all their cars to California clean air standards.
Which is why California went into an uproar earlier this year when the Federal Government tried to argue that states canāt set their own environmental guidelines!Ā āFuck you!ā says California,Ā āwe remember Los Angeles in the 80s, how bad the smog gets, go pollute your own damn air over in your own damn state where there isnāt a thermal inversion layer to trap all the smog down near ground level!ā
āBut youāre making it soooo haaaaaard to sell our cars everywhere else!ā they whine.
āFuck you!ā California shouts.Ā āAnd while weāre at it, we donāt give a shit what you say, Mister President, weāre gonna open our damn states when weāre good and ready, and our friends Nevada, Oregon, Colorado, and Washington State agree! Also, weāve decided to legalize weed!ā
āBut the Federal Government says itās illegal!ā shouts the other states.
āFuck you, we make the drug laws in our state, and we say toke up!ā
āNow, hang on!ā shouts the Federal government.Ā āYou can legalize weed in your state, but all banks are federal agencies, so if your weed dispensaries set up bank accounts, those accounts have money from illegal practices in it and are subject to seizure by the federal government!ā
āFINE!ā shouts California.Ā āHey, weed guys, you can keep selling weed, but you can only deal in cash!ā
āHow the fuck is that supposed to work!?ā
āI DONāT FUCKING KNOW, TAKE IT UP WITH DC!ā
āBy the way, if youāre gay married elsewhere, we wonāt recognize it,ā mutters Texas.
āOH FUCK YOUUUUUUU!āĀ
And so it goes and so it goesā¦
The west coast gets along alright and we all have similar ideas about things, but are proud of our own states individually. NorCal and SoCal are held together by spit and glue and thatās how we like it.
Honestly I disagree with the ā50 countries at leastā statement because the way it would really go down is like
Florida has to be alone because no one else would claim it. Hawaii would be included in the California, nevada, Oregon, Washington country. Iām not going to speak for Alaska they can do whatever they want bc theyāre all insane up there.
Ummmā¦Hawaii most certainly would not lol. A lot of people in the islands view it as an US vs The Mainland sort of thing. Hawaii doesnt even feel like part of the US. Except for Las Vegas tho. Las Vegas is the 9th island.
Also I feel like most people forget how large Alaska really is. Here it is superimposed over the states:
And here it is superimposed partly over Western Europe:
Ah, and I just discovered this, but itās about half the size of India as well?Ā
Pff, state-set sales taxes is for beginners. The sales tax in my town is different from the sales tax the next county over.
And Alaska is physically big, but the entire state has a population less than San Francisco, a particularly small urban city.
Hi that map is wrong because I grew up in New England and everyone hates Mass, and now I live in Virginia and we barely tolerate the other half of our own state, let alone West ViginiaĀ
