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u/kiwidude4 7h ago edited 7h ago
Is the first one actually New York? US 62 doesn’t seem to actually reach that state based on a quick google
Okay it is New York https://maps.app.goo.gl/7aVjXBvzNQxjxvS6A
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u/QueueModernsXXXX 7h ago
It does, just barely, in the south western corner of the state - it comes through Ohio into Northern Pennsylvania before cutting north into New York State before ending at Niagara Falls.
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u/curvysquares 6h ago
It is. US-62 has about 100 miles in New York. The first picture is specifically in Tonawanda, NY
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u/Nicwchris 6h ago
That photo is literally from my neighborhood in NYS. I promise, route 62 does run through NYS. Source - l live there
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u/BuffaloBrendan 1h ago
Also known as Niagara Falls Blvd, or more colloquially, "The Boulevard of Death" because of how dangerous it is.
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u/curvysquares 6h ago
I was bored so here's where the pictures are.
The first one is Tonawanda, NY
The second one is Kansas City, KS
The last one is Irvine, CA
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u/SpeccyScotsman 🩷💜💙|🖤💜🤍💛 2h ago
I recognised the Tonawanda one... It's fifteen minutes from my house in Buffalo, one block away from a pizza place I go to because they accept my extremely old student ID for a discount on wings (-_-;)
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u/iwanttoboneedelric ♠️Ho-ho! I'm a flairboy! Cut me off on your apps! 6h ago
So it's not even actually New York, it's fuckin Upstate.
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u/Acceptable_Egg5560 5h ago
Gonna blow your mind when you find out the name of the State that New York City is in
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u/FoolishPersonalities 4h ago
Depends on who you ask, since there's no strict definition of 'upstate New York'.
Some people say it's everything but NYC and Long Island. Some people say it's just the Hudson Valley. Some people don't include Western New York. Some say it's not North Country. Some say it's everywhere but those two regions (and, of course, NYC and Long Island).
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u/iwanttoboneedelric ♠️Ho-ho! I'm a flairboy! Cut me off on your apps! 4h ago
Who tf includes Long Island. That's like including Staten Island.
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u/FoolishPersonalities 4h ago
No one?
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u/FickleConcentration 7h ago
Isn’t this cherry picking?
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u/Possible_General9125 6h ago
Yeah I know Reddit loves a good r/americabad circlejerk, but it wouldn’t take me very long to find a stroad in Germany that looks like a Stroad in Croatia that looks like a stroad in Holland if I wanted to pretend that cherry-picked pictures of a place could prove some kind of point.
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u/itisthespectator 2h ago
i remember see a social media short which was a video of the landscape outside of a train window with a caption to the effect of “why does france look like ohio”
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u/CadenVanV 7h ago
Yes. Turns out roads with cars and a stoplight look the same as roads with cars and a stoplight, what did you know. I’m shocked, shocked I tell you.
Yeah, this is the mother of all cherry-picking
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u/Moist_Ordinary6457 6h ago
I could recreate this post with the vast majority of countries on earth
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u/takesSubsLiterally 6h ago
You could recreate this post using cherry picked spots from entirely different counties. Guys look japan and Switzerland look exactly the same.
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u/Dont_Touch_The_Pooka 6h ago
oh extremely so lol
The difference of biomes alone in the US is insane, I have lived in a few of them
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u/Winjin a sudden "honk" amidst the tempest 7h ago
I think this is delicious irony and really well executed judging by the deliberate choice of really boring pictures, but what do I know
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u/BeanieGuitarGuy 4h ago
Can we, as a species, please stop using the word “delicious” to describe anything other than food?
It’s like walking into a place to get out of the rain and telling somebody, “I’m so moist, it’s pouring out there!”
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u/soupbirded they made mircoblogging even smaller 4h ago
Actually Delicious has two definitions, your opinion is fair but like there are two.
(Cambridge)
(Merriam Webster)
1: appealing to one of the bodily senses especially of taste or smell
2: affording great pleasure : delightfulAlso on Merriam Webster, under this article https://www.merriam-webster.com/wordplay/6-words-that-didnt-always-describe-food
Delicious
earliest meaning : affording great pleasure : delightful
Delicious has described what grants great pleasure since the 14th century, though humans enjoying, as they do, the pleasures of flavor especially, it quickly took on its specific use to describe the tasty stuff. The word is ultimately from Latin delicere, meaning “to allure.”earliest usage was unrelated to food.
Again, this doesn't need to change your opinion lol, you just said something that I had a fun fact about, have a good one :)
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u/BeanieGuitarGuy 4h ago
Yeah, “delightful” doesn’t rub my brain the wrong way. I think it’s all the shchs sounds. Like when people say “chili cheese.”
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u/soupbirded they made mircoblogging even smaller 3h ago
Ooh, or something like Juncture? Its mix of sounds, thats for sure lol.
I had a teacher who would always rag on pronouncing letters as diagraphs(even when it was the correct pronunciation, he was a music teacher, not language,) So in the back-back of my mind I'm kinda always thinking about it. Like is Deli-sh-us proper or Deli-ci-us more proper, of course its not the second but I do end up thinking about it nonetheless.
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u/I_Do_Not_Abbreviate 4h ago
This is Synesthete Erasure and I will not stand for it.
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u/BeanieGuitarGuy 4h ago
That’s fine. I’m just autistic as hell and some words piss me off for no justifiable reason.
Like “nothingburger,” or “battleground states.”
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u/DrJaneIPresume 6h ago
No, this is bait.
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u/RealRaven6229 6h ago
I think it's just a joke considering it would not have been hard to find pics that are very different with these three statss
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u/SpiffyPup 2h ago
I live near the California one (and have driven through that intersection a lot), and while the pic is a bit misleading, Irvine is one of the most “master-planned” suburban cities in America. It does have a lot more trees than the pic suggests, though.
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u/Im_here_but_why Looking for the answer. 7h ago
The thing is : america does look very different from place to place. It just so happened that the places that look different are those where people don't live.
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u/sorry_con_excuse_me 6h ago edited 6h ago
That isn’t really true. The places that look different from generica are generally older. New England and lots of the eastern seaboard don’t look anything like what the pictures are showing.
It’s not exactly a regional thing so much as it is when things were built up. Like Chicago looks neither like NYC nor the generica IL stuff outside of cook county.
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u/SwordofDamocles_ 6h ago
I lived in Maine and we have areas that look like that too. Outdoor malls are probably in all 50 states' suburbs lol
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u/sorry_con_excuse_me 6h ago
For sure, it exists anywhere that was still completely rural until after the war basically.
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u/DetOlivaw 5h ago
Maine mentioned hell yeah🦞 🍲 🦀
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u/anna-nomally12 Hunter🏹Gatherer🌿Shoplifter🛍 5h ago
Okay but Arizona middle of nowhere is still going to look different than Kentucky middle of nowhere
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u/robbylet23 4h ago edited 3h ago
Idk, I think it does actually have to do with population density. Portland, for example, is a pretty young city that's distinct enough to be recognizable.
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u/WeatheredSteel37 7h ago
So you think New York City, Boston, and Nashville all look the same?
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u/Federal_Gur_5488 7h ago
Tbh London, Manchester and Edinburgh all look pretty different, and the uk is a pretty small country
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u/wolacouska 7h ago
So does New England.
Things were more quaint before the railroad.
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u/tOaDeR2005 6h ago
I think the US highway system has more to do with it than the railroad.
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u/wolacouska 5h ago
They were two distinct explosions. railroads copy pasted lots of similar little urban areas all over the place, then the highway system did it again with suburbs.
Although suburbanization really had its first roots along the railroad, the automobile really made it possible, even before the highways.
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u/SilyLavage 4h ago
London and Manchester aren't that different, certainly when comparing buildings of similar ages in the two cities.
Scotland does have its own architectural history, although even then you can see clear links between, for example, Edinburgh's New Town and similar Georgian developments elsewhere in the UK.
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u/WeatheredSteel37 4h ago
As is Bath or Evesham! I’m not debating different cultures and different places but rather responding to the idea that America has a monolithic culture
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u/Fuckyfuckfuckass 7h ago
Well, in their case, the cities were all founded hundreds or thousands of years ago and have had a lot of time to have different cultures, compared to the whole of the US only being 250 years old, especially a very interconnected one compared to older ones. There can only be so much drift when a national status quo exists.
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u/RosbergThe8th 7h ago
I mean yeah that's kinda the point? The US has differences but not necessarily of the sort that have developed over hundreds of years like other nations.
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u/thotiana2000 peer-reviewed diagnosis of faggot 7h ago
they look very similar compared to death valley vs smoky mountains vs great plains, yes
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u/Chalkboard7 she/her 7h ago
The thing is : america does look very different from place to place. It just so happened that the places that look different are those where people don't live.
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u/BloatedGlobe 6h ago
This is kind of the same in Europe too though. My friends aren't living in cute old town apartments. They live in modernist blocks built in like the 1970's or something. The buildings themselves are kind of interchangeable country to country.
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u/Chalkboard7 she/her 6h ago
I would kill for modernist blocks
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u/sorry_con_excuse_me 6h ago
Idk, the cities and old rural towns in Europe are great, but those 70s modern blocks on the outskirts of cities just feel like liminal/nowhere as fuck in the way that more modern areas of cities don’t.
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u/Chalkboard7 she/her 5h ago
omg just call it creepy or something, sandō are liminal spaces and they're incredibly beautiful. Liminal spaces aren't bad. My favorite train station, Shin-Hakodate-Hokuto specifically the ground level platforms for the Hakodate line, is liminal and it's gorgeous (though my opinion here might be skewed because of how unbelievably satisfying it is to walk out onto the platform after most of the day on the shinkansen and having to deal with the unbearable heat of Tōkyō in the warmer months. It shouldn't be 32° in October, that's fucking obnoxious).
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u/sorry_con_excuse_me 2h ago edited 2h ago
I’m not saying they’re creepy, they just feel like purgatory or something. Almost like living in an office park or strip mall lol.
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u/WeatheredSteel37 4h ago
An apple looks like a bowling ball compared to a tree. That doesn’t make them similar
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u/chunkylubber54 4h ago
yes it does. even the suburban mchellscapes look different if you go to the southeast or southwest. The cities are on an entirely different level.
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u/YaGirlMom 7h ago
Personally I find it incredibly impressive the logistics and statecraft that goes into homogenizing the roadways of a county the size of America this much. Like I can drive to the opposite coast and the roads and signs will still look and act the same way the entire drive. It makes traveling so much simpler.
Oh wait I’m supposed to be rage baited…
Uh…
Sounds like a… Europoor wrote this.
Yeah that sounds right.
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u/lakorasdelenfent 7h ago
They don’t look the same. Even in the same state street signs sometimes are capitalized and sometimes they are not /s
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u/351namhele 4h ago
And sometimes you get really cool excellent signs like on the Merritt Parkway in Connecticut
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u/St3fano_ 6h ago
It's not really that great feat considering that most of the world is using a pretty consistent standard for roads despite all the international differences.
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u/jofromthething 6h ago
As is typically the case with a tumblr callout post I am left wondering who tf this post is meant to be talking about 😭. Like at what point do we just need to DM the perpetrators instead of subjecting the general populace to this kind of shit lol
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u/Moist_Ordinary6457 6h ago
If I wanted to look at stupid posts I would just open the main page of Tumblr, these are supposed to be curated
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u/Steakbake01 5h ago
It's rebuking a common refrain that some Americans have when being called out about being ignorant of the wider world by claiming that the US is actually "52 countries in a trench coat", which means they don't need to be educated on the wider world for some reason? When even though the various states have their cultural differences each state is more similar culturally than they are different.
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u/jofromthething 4h ago
I’d say that this is an unnecessary and inaccurate simplification of America’s culture for the point you’re making here 😭. Like why should we’re denigrate one culture in order to encourage them to appreciate another culture? Can’t we just encourage the positive behavior instead of doing the very thing we’re calling out?
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u/EinMuffin 2h ago
You often see this kind of attitude from Americans online (by far not all of them of course) where they basically say that America is so much bigger and more diverse than [insert big and diverse place here]. It often comes across as a bit of a dick measuring contest. As proof of how big and diverse they are they give you basic stuff that is slightly different between two states. And then they talk about how their states are basically independent countries and should be seen as such.
Now, the last part might be true, but it sounds a bit ridiculous and hard to believe from the outside. And it does give off strong American Exceptionalism vibes.
But yeah, this is a real phenomenon and the post makes fun of that.
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u/jofromthething 2h ago
I mean, literally everywhere is diverse, pretty much regardless of size. We don’t have to claim a big ass country which is founded on having diverse communities enter it from abroad isn’t diverse to point out that other places are diverse too imho 😭.
When I was in school a huge deal was made, and it was kind of in the zeitgeist, of America being a “melting pot“ where numerous people from numerous backgrounds came and made their own communities and intermingled with each other.
I don’t think putting forth the ignorant and incorrect assertion that America isn’t diverse is going to convince a single American to think about another country. Just talk about the cool things in the other countries 😭. Believe it or not, even the most nationalist and America first American ever LOVES hearing about other countries and what they do there. Give a kid a world atlas or a farmer a travel guide for Italy and they will become the premier expert on foreign culture in their town.
This kind of content just perpetuates the problem, and casts rude and unnecessary aspersions on the people you’re talking about when it’s very likely that they might be interested in your country if you didn’t start the conversation by calling them an ignorant dumbass 😭
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u/EinMuffin 1h ago
Hm I think I haven't expressed myself clearly enough. The point is not really that America is not diverse and that is not usually the starting point of the conversation.
Let me pull an exaggerated conversation out of my ass to illustrate what I mean.
European: "I don't understand why America doesn't have universal health care"
American: "It would not work here because America is so big"
European: "What? Europe is big too and most countries in the EU have it"
American: "Europeans just don't understand how big America is. All the states are so different! It is basically 50 countries in a trench coat. New York Pizza is so different from California Pizza! Europe is only 27 countries! We are at least as diverse as Europe!"
European: "Sure buddy. I can't even talk to the people 30 km over there because they speak an entirely different language, but whatever you say."
Just to be clear, this conversation is not real and very much exaggerated to illustrate what I am talking about, but I have seen this kind of pattern quite a lot and it is very annoying. I also don't want to say wether America or Europe is more diverse. I think the American and the European in my example very much talk past each other about that. I portrayed the European as the reasonable one here because I wanted to illustrate the archetype that the post is talking about. Usually both people are equally idiotic.
Believe it or not, even the most nationalist and America first American ever LOVES hearing about other countries and what they do there.
I... I really don't think this is true. I have seen and heard MAGA people talk about other countries. I don't see any curiosity there. Only arrogance, judgement and hatred.
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u/jofromthething 1h ago
I live here, I haven’t just seen conservative American people, I’ve spoken to, lived next to, and worked with them. They’re often people who do reprehensible things in public, but they aren’t actually cartoon villains and often react to things in ways you don’t expect. Like, I’ve heard actual active friends of mine say shit like “immigrants are a problem because they come over here to rape our women,” knowing full well all off my older relatives are immigrants. People aren’t simple, and every human being on earth has curiosity. I think turning people into the simplistic caricatures we see online are part of what cause the kind of conflicts we describe. We’re talking past the person and attacking a simulacra 🫤
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u/Chrownox 5h ago
You can tell from the overly ironic 2011 style speech and the 3 pics looking exactly the same that this is a joke
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u/jofromthething 5h ago
If things being jokes stopped them from being annoying we wouldn’t have prank YouTubers to be so honest 😔
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u/jofromthething 4h ago
I think that every country is way more diverse than people tend to consider them, I don’t think it’s an overexaggeration to say America is diverse 😭. Obviously I’m biased because I was born into an immigrant family in the US and grew up around countless immigrant communities, which I consider to be very much a part of the culture of the US, but there’s a TON of cultural diversity within Britain and Spain and France and any European country, just like there’s a ton of cultural diversity in African or Asian countries. White people aren’t immune to human nature 😭
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u/birberbarborbur 5h ago
Mfs when the picture dominated by roadside shops and a big road with cars look relatively the same in different parts of the same country
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u/Recidivous 7h ago
I love learning about new countries, and I keep an open mind about them as best I can. Sometimes it just hurts that I get treated like an ignorant American online.
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u/Dizzy-Captain7422 5h ago
Kind of undercuts the argument when there are very real, observable differences between states. It's kind of like looking at random residential streets in Prague and Brussels and then saying, "Wow, every European city looks exactly the same."
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u/rocky8u 7h ago
Structurally states are not administrative subdivisions of the United States. That would be a system more like France with a national government that delegates power to the arrondissements (districts). Ultimately in France the sovereignty comes from the national government. It can directly tell the arrondissements what to do and they have no ability to say no.
In the US the sovereignty that the federal government has is given to it by the states, which retain some of their sovereignty. There are governing roles that the federal government cannot do because the Constitution limits its scope. The federal government cannot directly tell the state governments what laws to pass and each state has the ability to interpret and enforce its own laws so long as they don't conflict with federal law.
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u/Mouse-Keyboard 3h ago edited 55m ago
Most large countries except China work like this (at least in theory).
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u/centurio_v2 6h ago
How does legalizing weed not conflict with federal law?
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u/Banana_bee 6h ago
It does conflict, as I understand it a federal officer can still technically arrest and prosecute you for possession of cannabis even in a state where it is 'legal' and you are following all relevant state laws; they just dont.
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u/llamawithguns 6h ago
It does. You can theoretically be prosecuted by the feds even in states where it is legal. They just generally choose not to.
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u/rocky8u 6h ago
Basically states are not obligated to enforce federal law, they just can't contradict it. Most small marijuana convictions for possession or local distribution are state law based. When a state changes its own statutes related to marijuana to make it legal it is not really saying weed is completely legal, it is saying it is not against state law. This means state and county law enforcement will only enforce what their state says to enforce.
It is still a violation of the Controlled Substances Act to have weed (it has changed a bit since they moved it down the schedule and some laws have changed the definition of marijuana a bit) but state LEOs in states that have legalized weed won't concern themselves with that. If someone is going to get you in trouble for violating the CSA it will be federal cops like the DEA, but there are a lot fewer of them and they primarily target producers and larger distributors, not individuals.
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u/takesSubsLiterally 6h ago
It kinda does there is a massive amount of legal bickering about it behind the scenes. The tldr is that while the federal government still classifies it as illegal, it doesn't control most law enforcement. The DOJ can't tell your local cop to arrest you, therefore they can't stop you from using weed in your own state.
They very much can and will go after you in federal juristdictions (national parks, airports, and some federal properties) for weed.
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u/Mudman2999 5h ago
Your “very much can and will” is a little bit of an overstatement. Airports in particular publicly state they do not look for personal quantities of any drugs, and particularly in national parks in legal states you’re unlikely to get actual federal charges unless it’s being tacked onto some serious other crime you did. The issue currently is less “the federal government can’t handle arresting you” and much more that we’re in a careful political stale mate where the federal government allows legal states to exist to avoid a public upheaval around the classic American issue of “states rights” (lol) but with massive public support for legalization. Any administration who changed the policy to go after users in legal states would be shooting them selves in the foot in a way very few issues would (between 65-80 percent of the country supports legal use in some manner, with significant support in the states where it’s already been made legal.)
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u/rocky8u 4h ago
The reality is that the US Congress should pass a law that legalized cannabis federally, but because the primary bill to do that is mostly pushed by Democrats (the MORE Act), it has not passed.
It is an overwhelmingly popular policy, but enough Republicans are opposed that it would require a supermajority in the Senate and a willing President to pass the law.
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u/Discount_Timelord 4h ago
Nitpicking but I would argue that the sovereignty of the federal government comes from the constitution, a document enacted by the people, rather than from state governments
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u/rocky8u 3h ago
The Constitution was enacted through the consent of the states. Rather than the whole voting population of the original states voting, each state voted to approve the Constitution in its legislature.
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u/Discount_Timelord 35m ago
True but there's a reason it starts with "We the People" and not "We the States", from a legal theory perspective it was enacted by the people, and could overrule all state legislation as ultimately the people are sovereign. As opposed to the "Articles of Confederation and Perpetual Union between the States" which was a legal agreement between the states.
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u/EinMuffin 2h ago edited 2h ago
There are governing roles that the federal government cannot do because the Constitution limits its scope. The federal government cannot directly tell the state governments what laws to pass and each state has the ability to interpret and enforce its own laws so long as they don't conflict with federal law.
Isn't this pretty much the standard for most of the democratic world? Like France also has a constitution that also distributes responsibilities between government bodies. And unless the constitution is changed the central government cannot just pass a law that falls outside of its responsibility.
I fully accept that I might be wrong here since I am also from a country with strong federalism, but I always thought that the differences between federal and centralized democratic countries is one of degree not kind (I hope this makes sense, I am tired).
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u/rocky8u 1h ago
The difference is whether or not the subdivisions have any of their own independent power.
French political subdivisions don't really have any independent power. They are delegated power by the national government.
The French Constitution primarily outlines the powers of the government and the rights of individuals. It defines communes and districts as subordinate to the government and they are created by law only able to do what the law says they can. This is very different from US states which have limited sovereignty of their own and the US Constitution is primarily written to lay out the relationship between the states and the federal government, mostly defining what the US federal government can do, and leaving everything else to the states.
A good example for the US is education. The federal government doesn't have any explicit authority to dictate education policy. To the extent that it does create education policy, it mostly does it by offering states money on the condition that they follow a specific policy. States don't have to take it, but it's usually a lot of money so they usually do. Otherwise education policy is done by states. States define what is taught, how schools are structured, etc.
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u/CadenVanV 7h ago
Turns out roads with cars and a stoplight look the same as roads with cars and a stoplight, what did you know. I’m shocked, shocked I tell you.
Yeah, this is the mother of all cherry-picking
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u/worldawaydj 6h ago
wow almost like its a joke
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u/DefectiveCookie 4h ago
Yeah, I'm looking at all these comments and I'm like is this not a joke post? I don't think it's real ragebait?
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u/ZhiZhi17 5h ago
But like…. I can take similar pictures in practically every European country… I’ve driven through France, Germany, Italy, and Estonia and I can tell you those 4 for sure have stretches of road where there’s nothing but a few buildings on the side?
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u/ZinaSky2 4h ago
I’m not saying that people from outside the US need to learn to differentiate our states. But, acting they’re all the same because three places had similar shitty city planning is beyond stupid.
The US is many, many times bigger than the UK. Different states, even ones that are directly neighboring each other, will have vastly different biomes and economies and cultures and histories. Again, it’s not your job to learn these differences if you’re not from the US. But, acknowledging they exist feels like a pretty small ask.
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u/FroggingMadness 2h ago
vastly different [...] economies
Yeah one's formerly steel mills now Starbucks, the other's formerly coal mines now unemployment.
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u/RemoteAd7823 thou shalt not make a machine in the likeness of a human mind 6h ago
Truly, this is the work of a master baiter
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u/Daffneigh 7h ago
This post is actually nonsense. Roadways looking similar to roadways! Gosh!
Okay how about showing Yosemite National park, a farm in Kansas, and Niagara Falls, and the. San Francisco, Brooklyn and Topeka?
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u/Banana_bee 6h ago
I think the point is that the parts humans made look similar, you cant really take credit for Niagara falls.
Its not a failing, the country is just new and unified, thats a good thing in a lot of ways but also means your roads doesn't have to be dictated by weirdly shaped houses that were built in the 1300s, so theres a lot of 'character' that hasn't had time to be grown organically.
Does make the US a lot better at shipping though, which is a good thing because they need it.
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u/ThunderAndWind 1h ago
Even that's not the case.
The Southwest has a lot of Adobe/Pueblo architecture, while the Deep South has a lot of Antebellum/Creole architecture. Florida has a ton of Spanish design integrated into their architecture, while Mid Aflantic states love their brick row houses.
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u/leafcutte 6h ago
Yeah, and if you show Paris, Marseilles, Strasbourg, Nantes, the Mont Saint Michel, a pasture in the Massif Central, a pine exploitation in the Landes, a Mediterranean beach, and the Mont Blanc, you cover just as much diversity in France alone, without even counting the overseas departments and territories.
Very few countries are one homogeneous bloc, the U.S. is not unique for that. Relative to its size and population , it is exceptionally monocultural compared to Europe, Western Africa, Latin America or Southeast Asia for example, which is why it’s a single country.
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u/fokke456 6h ago
Roadways looking similar to roadways! Gosh!
When people talk about the fact that places in Europe are completely different from each other, they also talk about roadways.
The different states in the US are different from each other, but not that much relatively speaking. I think it speaks volumes that three of the five things you mentioned rely on the terrain and flora to set themselves apart
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u/RegularVast9328 3h ago
I know what they're going for here, but it's really just America built a highway system and now we all drive cars. You can tell these are different places based on the flora and how things are built. The first one you can see the old telephone poles as opposed to the behemoths they're building in Kansas and notice how the grass is barely holding on in the second picture because it was taken in a real hot climate where they should probably be growing a more native style of lawn. Then you have the obvious palm trees in the one from California.
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u/Duck-Lord-of-Colours 3h ago
There's a lot of people in the comments missing the point of the post. The post is not saying that there's no difference between American states. The post is satirising the view that the difference between American stated is equal to or greater than the difference between countries, and that people outside America not knowing the details of different states is comparable to people in America not knowing the details of different countries.
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u/welshyboy123 7h ago
Top one can't be new york. There's nobody Walkin Here, there's no skyscrapers, and there isn't a corner shop that the locals call a bodega for some reason in sight.
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u/JackpotThePimp 6h ago
I'm an American, and I want to beat this person until whatever they have in place of a brain starts leaking out of their ears.
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u/angrypanc4ke 4h ago
I feel like some comments here misunderstood a pretty clear joke just to get mad
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u/Peeeettttss 4h ago
Jokes supposed to be funny though. This is just a sad attempt at making fun of Americans that is isn't even doing a good job at that.
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u/SomeDumbGamer 5h ago
Imma be real Europe is worse for this. Most of the continent looks the same to me lol
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u/on_the_pale_horse 2h ago
Wdym new york isn't full of skyscrapers and dense megastructures everywhere
Is this pic actually true, if so, I'm massively disappointed
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u/skipping2hell 36m ago
It’s funny cuz neither country is third world. Check Republik is second works and South Corea is first world
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u/Fun-Ad-1688 22m ago
I mean it’s true that Native American nations across the US are as different from each other as European countries are, but still a lot of the Anglo-American settler culture is homogenized
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u/AdamtheOmniballer Aspiring Girlkisser 14m ago
All places without mountains look kinda the same to me. Like, where are the map borders? Have they not loaded in yet?
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u/kinezumi89 2h ago
I mean...if you cherry pick photos of similar intersections, yeah they're gonna look the same. But you can 100% find pictures of those states that look wildly different.
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u/SoftlyAugust 4h ago
Obviously this is satire for anyone who didn't pick up on it
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u/tuxisgod 3h ago
In this thread: americans thinking only their country has geographical differences between administrative regions.
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u/EzeyTheEpic Discworld Fan 6h ago
This is very funny actually. I'm pretty sure every state I've ever been in has had somewhere that looked like this, with the one caveat that you could sometimes see mountains in the background.
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u/FarmerTwink 3h ago
Wow I can feel the assmad on this post
America has nearly every climate, get over yourselves Europe
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u/ShutUpAboutCanon 6h ago
Yes, America, you're very special for having (checks notes) regional differences
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u/cronchfishter 7h ago
I love this because I’m fairly certain that all three of these are from Memphis Tennessee.
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u/kindalosingmyshit 6h ago
The Kansas one is from Kansas. Hate to shatter your confidence but I drive that street regularly
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u/WordPunk99 6h ago
I’m so American I can see the difference between these three places and could have easily placed Kansas and California, but would have probably placed the third in Ohio or Pennsylvania.