Meanwhile Florida has started to form toddler death Voltron by announcing they’re removing all vaccination requirements from schools.
I fully expect there to be a southern collation of iron lungs soon.
The worst thing about Toddler Death Voltron is: it is sentient and wants to no longer exist but they refuse to let it die because it hasn’t been born yet.
Good luck writing THAT into your next screenplay MAGA Universe Doctor Strange
New band name
Iron Lung Collator is taken.
I thought they meant Southern Coalition of Iron Lungs at first, but Toddler Death Voltron is better still.
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i love that the health guy looks like the most illnesses possible in one person
He’s just 16 preventable illnesses in a trenchcoat
Has anyone seen RFK Jr. and one of Nurgle’s Great Unclean Ones in the same room together? I don’t think so…
This is gold. I could see John Oliver or Jon Stewart using this.
Republican Health Minister and sixteen-preventable-illnesses-in-a-trenchcoat, promising he’s a real boy, RFK Jr. said this week…
“So, what your saying is…I’m indestructible!”
"Oh, no no, in fact even a slight breeze could-”
“In-de-structable!”
Many people are saying there is something wrong with his mitochondria.
Well that can’t be good. That’s the power house of the cell!
The deep dent in the side of his temple is the icing on the cake.
hella stoked for the Pacific States of America.
If those 3 leave the union, I think the country’s more or less done for.
I’m sure Canada could find a use for a few more provinces…
No thanks. Make your own country and we’ll be allies.
Probably make us territories to start with full province status later. Joining Canada as provinces would be much more like Canada becoming the outer Pacific states. California alone has nearly the same population as the entirety of Canada.
The agreed-upon future name is Cascadia.
cascalifornian republic
Illinois would like to join your federation.
Oh cool. Canadas future provinces helping each other out.
If only!
Just creating this division is proof RFK should resign. We knew he was an activaxxer and against science, but enforcing his personal opinion on the entire country is unforgivable. At-risk children, elderly, and others will die because of his bias…
Another good day to live on the West Coast of the US I see.
Damn am I happy to live over here.
Meanwhile in KY, our governor’s decisions (like to make conversion therapy illegal) get vetoed
Well, it’s an industry, why would they even think about banning a huge part of the economy?
Looks like the future country of Cascadia is finally starting to make some moves.
Cascadia babeee!
Be a shame if they didn’t call it COW. Vaccinated so it doesn’t get Mad.
Vaca vacunada :)
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I’m planning on not paying shit.
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Good first step. We can and should do more.
Why is it the westernmost states that are the most progressive?
“Progressive” being relative
Very high concentrations of educated citizens among the populace, a functional tax system that actually reinvests into its people compared to many other states in the union (especially below the Mason-Dixon line), and key cities center to high-tech development and critical US industries, military or otherwise (Seattle, LA, San Jose, San Francisco).
Additionally, because these states were some of the last to be incorporated into the United States, they largely were able to develop in less rigid ways in the 20th and 21st centuries compared to other states in the union (Cheaper land also allowed developing industries like computing to invest heavily in the region).
Though not a perfect summation, here’s a video from Vox about why Silicon Valley is located in California: https://youtu.be/6xvrKW2H_hA
I can try to explain any other questions about our politics and social norms as a Californian (though I’m less familiar with Oregon and Washington State, sadly).
You hit on the core reason. Less rigidity. The east and south are much more traditional. They are slow to change tradition. That also makes them slow to adapt. It’s a mindset. And the people who left those areas to go west did so with a more open mindset. And once it started that way, it was more or less established. If you like peer pressure from dead people, go east and south. If not, go west.
…the fuck are you on about? Don’t lump the Northeast in with the South. Massachusetts is easily the most liberal state in the country, and it’s not even really close and second place is Hawaii so still not West Coast.
If you want peer pressure from GOP funding Silicon Valley NIMBYs and weirdly conservative cannabis farmers go West. If you want a culture that prides itself on cutting you off in traffic while sipping a large extra extra around the Newport eternally stuck to your lower lip but at the same militantly defending your civil rights and social systems, come to New England. Or don’t, we barely have snow anymore. I’ll give that to the American West, better ski mountains.
(this is mostly a joke, everyone’s fucked anyway)
Ya’know, it is odd now that you mention it. Out here in oregon we have a lot more “gray” days then out east. Yet I don’t see as many people drinking coffee in the care compared to out east. You would think we would need it more.
Also odd, there is a clear difference in how traditional east coast companies are (and are allowed to be). Tech is my area, and it is very noticeable. Management hierarchies are much more rigid. Clothing/appearance expectations. Still a lot of golf played on company time. Diversity… I think the people are often liberal, but they don’t seem to take much of that to the office. Oh, and more religion in the east than the west. Y’all still have blue laws in many states.
furthest away from the white house
But Washington is right there
wrong washington
Common misconception for people outside of the US, Washington State =/= Washington, D.C. They’re on opposite ends of the country, and don’t have much in common in terms of how they are ran.
Needs to get Hawaii on board
I think Hawaii is pretty much sorted when it comes boards… you probably want to get on their board.
They were founded as “utopian” states. Oregon as the white only utopia, California as the utopia of gold and glamour and Washington as the utopia of…lumber or something.
Historically the rockies and great plains states were the most left-leaning parts of the country. Wyoming was the first to allow women to vote.
Because they aren’t
That guy always looks like he’s mid dump.
Yeah but the worms in his head are
Worms be poopin’, yo
I love how many of us are so down for Cascadia. How do we get this in a vote?
Huge shout out to Brian Tyler Cohen for his on the ball reporting of all the Trump bullshit
Daily Zeitgeist podcast also doing some solid reportage.
