Stop making up states

As someone who just moved from the west into "the REAL US" ... this shit is old and broken and slow as fuck and everyone just accepts it like it's supposed to be that way.
- Because it’s either that, or they pay taxes. They made their own bed.
  
  Taxes are SO high in Pennsylvania it's crazy. I just need sidewalks, honestly.

Left: Mental Illness
Right: Mental Illinois
- Mental Illinois sounds like a sick band name

So THAT'S what the psychs meant when they said I was living in a state of mental illness..

Florida just shouldn't exist and I'd probably move California over to the other side. But on the whole I think this pic is passable.
- Northeast + West Coast and Everywhere Else.

I always knew California was a bedrock of metal illness
- From the information above and knowledge of how we populated most of this country, I think there is a strong possibility that whether you forged the river or caulked the wagon, the Mississippi river must have been tainted.

states in the northeast
"we are the Midwest! :D"
"whelp, it's retarded. honey, look away." loads shotgun

Anyone care to explain to European noob what this means?
- Originally the US expanded quite slowly, due to difficulties in travel and surveying. States were small and communities were close together, about as far apart as a person could walk in a day. At the end of the 1700s, it was only about as big as the blue area in the post above. But in the 1800s, after the Louisiana Purchase, we began to very aggressively expand westward. The construction of the Intercontinental Railroad helped immensely, and towns were being built almost faster than they could name them. The government began giving away land for cheap or sometimes free for anyone who could develop it. Native Americans were forced off their land and onto reservations. State borders became straight lines encompassing vast areas.
  
  That's also very interesting in light of the US superficially appearing to be strongly federal in nature (with the individual states enjoying a great deal of autonomy) - a structure which would historically be known to develop in a bottom-up manner, where preexisting smaller entities would federate to form a larger state. This history is telling very different story, where those entities were not actually preexisting, but invented by the central authority 😂
- It's mostly a shitpost, but the US was originally only the East coast. Over time, the states spread more and more west, so it's saying that all these "new" states are basically a delusion.

How cute. The mental patients are playing a game, where they pretend half of them are normal <3