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Nakoichi [they/them]@hexbear.netM to chapotraphouse@hexbear.netEnglish · 2 years ago

So some folks wanted a new silly struggle session that can demonstrate for all new arrivals and visitors the sort of silly shit we debate. So I ask you Hexbears: What is the "midwest"?

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So some folks wanted a new silly struggle session that can demonstrate for all new arrivals and visitors the sort of silly shit we debate. So I ask you Hexbears: What is the "midwest"?

Nakoichi [they/them]@hexbear.netM to chapotraphouse@hexbear.netEnglish · 2 years ago
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  • Tastysnack [she/her]@hexbear.net
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    What is the “midwest”?

    ISN’T THAT WHERE AMERICA EXPORTS ALL IT’S EMO AND POP-PUNK FROM?

    • SpookyGenderCommunist [they/them, she/her]@hexbear.net
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      Oh yes it is

      • Tastysnack [she/her]@hexbear.net
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        I loved that song where it sang about how everyone’s shit, the towns rubbish, everyone’s two faced, none of these consistently occurring problems are relative to my behaviour in anyway, gotta get out of this town.

        Truly a banger 🙌

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          That’s what it’s like to live here

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    Ontologically, the Mid West is the polar opposite of the Middle East.

    No further questions.

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    The Old Nothwest became known as the Midwest as the US expanded further westward. The heart of the Midwest is therefore Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin, and Minnesota. This is objective fact. meow-tableflip

    Iowa gets in on a corn and casserole-based technicality, but the Dakotas, Nebraska, and Kansas are wheat-growing plains states. Missouri is the south.

    • zifnab25 [he/him, any]@hexbear.netBanned
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      Missouri is the south.

      Damn you Henry Clay. Damn you straight to hell.

    • Tripbin [none/use name]@hexbear.net
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      Finally someone that gets it.

      • TillieNeuen [she/her]@hexbear.net
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        Thank you! How is this even up for debate? meow-cactus

  • DivineChaos100 [none/use name]@hexbear.net
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    It’s the garage where all those emo bands practice in.

    • Ram_The_Manparts [he/him]@hexbear.net
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      miyazaki-laugh

  • Moss [they/them]@hexbear.net
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    Slightly related: it annoys me that “the south” is a region in the USA. I’m fine with everything else, east coast, west coast, midwest whatever. But if I want to talk about the south, I can’t say “southern America” because people will think I’m talking about the continent of South America. If i talk about a “southern American” then I have to clarify that I mean someone from Alabama.

    Really the problem was calling a country the same thing as a continent. Shit just gets confusing. Call the south of the USA Dixie or something idc

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      “the former confederacy”

    • crime [she/her, any]@hexbear.net
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      “bible belt” also works

  • FederateMeHardDaddy [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    A miserable pile of secrets

    • robot_dog_with_gun [they/them]@hexbear.net
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      certainly miserable.

      • FactuallyUnscrupulou [he/him]@hexbear.net
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        I feel strange since moving out of the Midwest. I do not miss the simpering attitudes whatsoever, but I do miss some of the terrible bland foodstuffs I left behind. I just want good brats and dill pickle chips, why is that so hard to find.

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    I’m not American but even I know that the midwest is The Real America™.

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      deleted by creator

    • trompete [he/him]@hexbear.net
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      I always suspected America was fake, but turns out some parts are real.

      • silent_water [she/her]@hexbear.net
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        it’s not, it’s just a plot by big corn to infect us all with 5g

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    Radical take:From the Eastern Rockies to the Western Applachians/Catskills/Adirondacks

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    deleted by creator

  • flees [comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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    My thoughts, which is 100% right:

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      I’ve never seen a more disgusting picture in my life

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      Calling Rocky Mountain states the Midwest will not stand! shoe

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      This is mostly correct, but you forgot to include some of the states and territories. If the easternmost part of the US is the Virgin Islands, and the westernmost part is Guam, then the geographical Midwest of the US is the Eastern Pacific Ocean. This is an inarguable truth. The capital of the Midwest is Honolulu.

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      pigpoop

    • ilyenkov [she/her, they/them]@hexbear.net
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      Banned

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        Dang, that’s very Almost East thing to do.

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    When I was going to highschool in New Hampshire my girlfriend said that New York counted as part of New England and i flipped the fuck out lmao.

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    France. france-cool

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    The border between France and Germany is pretty much exactly between Westerm Europe and Central Europe. That’s the midwest.

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      Does that make Belgium part of the Midwest?

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        They did invent the French fries there.

  • TotalBrownout [none/use name]@hexbear.net
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    Where “inland northern English” is dominant… no southern drawl allowed.

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    Everything to the east of the western mountains and west of the eastern mountains. The great plains = midwest. all of it.

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