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I know more about America than most Americans. Ask me anything
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>>219658817
Who is the smartest American alive?
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Is it true Americans must consume at least one family sized XXL McDonalds meal once every week or else they will have their citizenship revoked and expelled from braphogistan (formaly known as the United States)?
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>>219658817
name these men without cheating
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>>219658898
John Doyle
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>>219658885
You have to pick yourself up from the bootstraps and work harder
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>>219659210
Not bad, now...what city is home to our great pyramid
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>>219658817
idk much history of the americas but im learning little by little
we've been there 30000 years and so far it seems to be working
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>>219659533
Have you learned about the ancient white Israelites that moved to Missouri?
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>>219659936
An American holy site
>>219659682
Mormon lore is esoteric Americanism.
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>>219659975
>Mormon lore is esoteric Americanism.
I find Joseph Smith's story and the mormon pilgrimage to Utah very kino. I've spent hours reading wikipedias about it and watching some ex-mormon who made a series about the history of the faith on youtube
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>>219662732
I'm the Drew Pavlou kind of Greek.
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>>219662760
>Who was in paris?
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>>219660095
it's pretty good, visit it.
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>>219658817
>I know more about America than most Americans. Ask me anything
What can we seriously do to prevent blacks from committing violent crimes?
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>>219662471
It was 62.7%, not 49%. And it was largely because people have brown fatigue. If he does absolutely nothing else the entire time that he's in office, if he fucks up the entire world economy while he's there, as long as the Mexicans go home again, it will have all been worth it. Unironically.
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>>219664754
Montana has turned into a bit of a meme because its one of the few states that actually has more food animals than people in it and thus the internet has decided that its the state to ask about for obscure trivia. Nevermind that my family has been native to the States for ten generations and I have no fucking clue what goes on in Indiana other than the town of Gary being a shithole, or what goes on in Wisconsin other than that they make cheese there, people ask about Montana.
I can tell all of you what happens in Montana. Grain growing and tweakers. That's the entire business sector, population, and reason for existence of Montana. That is literally everything relevant that there is to know about Montana. Somebody ask about Indiana or Wisconsin. Or Connecticut. What's happening in Connecticut? What do you even call someone from Connecticut? Connecticut...ian?
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>>219664809
>What can we seriously do to prevent blacks from committing violent crimes?
Send all the black men to Liberia. Keep the qt blackettes but make sure to sterilize them.
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>>219658817
Why did William Henry Harrison die under a month into his presidency?
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>>219665251
I get this with Idaho. I'm from New England, so vast swaths of states beyond maybe Pennsylvania are so unimaginably huge that I can't really comprehend it, especially places way out west that are only known for one or two things (like Idaho and potatoes, or hell even Nevada and Vegas/Comstock Lode).
Also it blew my mind when I realized that Oregon and Nevada share a border that's several hundred miles long
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>>219664754
We got famous from a tv show again, happened before from a River Runs Through It and the lead singer of the Decembrists being from here. We get romanticized a lot.
>>219665251
>forgetting about the reservations, sex trafficking of women from the reservations, ranchers, and rich out of state transplants hiking up all the property values in Bozeman and Missoula.
Truly a beautiful state.
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>>219665365
The funny thing about that is, there really isn't that much going on in Idaho besides potatoes. Oh sure, its got a thriving business sector, mostly involved in collating and transporting all the goods that come in by rail and get shipped out to various states along the West Coast. Major retail chains have a lot of warehouse space there to store and then ship goods. But none of that is unique at all to Idaho, so its mostly the potatoes.
I'm PNW myself, so I've been to Idaho a few times. Like most flyovers, it seems to be very humdrum. People work, eat, sleep and vidya or netflix like people do everywhere else, but there really isn't any state culture like there is in coastal states, other than everyone mentioning the potatoes.
Do you know anything about what goes on in Connecticut? Not trolling, I swear. I am genuinely curious. We hear about Maine a lot, and New York obviously. Pennsylvania was a lot more relevant when US Steel was still a big business concern... I'm not sure anyone has ever mentioned to me anything at all about what goes on in Connecticut. What do they do there, New England fren?
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>>219665476
>there really isn't that much going on in Idaho besides potatoes
If you only knew
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>>219665476
Yes! Connecticut doesn't have much culture, a friend and I joked in high school that you could cleanly partition the state between RI, MA, and NY based on cultural spheres. The southeast has the maritime pull that southern RI has, the central/north part has the same peaceful feeling as the <10,000 Massachusetts farming towns plus the occasional post-industrial meth mill city, and the west (especially southwest) just feels like either NYC prestige commuter town or NYC-adjacent Hispanic/black hood town
For context I'm on the RI side of the RI-MA border
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Huh. I genuinely learned something about my own country today from one of these threads. Thanks, Anon.
Sometimes, I do wonder a bit about the way New England is drawn up. By my eye it seems equivalent to being, say, Luxembourg, or Belgium, trapped in larger Europe between competing powers that are much larger than yourself. I wonder if eventually they'll band together into one larger state for purposes of economic cooperation or something of that nature. It made a lot more sense to have smaller states when the most efficient engine of logistics we had on land was the horse-drawn cart and there were hostile natives everywhere, but as the nation grew further and further West I can't help but notice we started drawing up larger and larger states, probably to consolidate more lands, resources and wealth under a single polity. I bet New England would be quite a powerhouse if they banded everyone together north of New York, but I guess then Maine would start dabbing on everyone with its Lobster industry.
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Are Americans safe? ;_;
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>>219665772
Nobody from a First World nation should be visiting any of the countries on that list as a general rule, let alone right now. Its the Middle East, its been a shithole since the Bronze Age Collapse and its going to stay that way long after humanity has crumbled into dust.
But yes, Americans are fine. Its Iran, we don't think about them at all. Over here, its an event that people watch on TV and bitch about over coffee, nothing more, like a game of Football or a viral Youtube video.
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>>219665865
They gonna launch revenge attacks on your soil. 9/11 was Sunni. You ain't seen anything yet when Shia's get involved. Pucker up. It's gonna be a wild ride. No, jannies, I'm not making a threat. Just a prediction that anyone with two digit IQ can make.
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>Sometimes, I do wonder a bit about the way New England is drawn up
It's all ancient land deeds. We're talking like 18th century, sometimes even 17th century land deeds. There were a few border disputes as recent as the mid 19th century, mostly between RI and MA
>I wonder if eventually they'll band together into one larger state for purposes of economic cooperation or something of that nature
Absolutely not. All states in New England either hate each other or feel an inferiority/superiority complex towards each other (usually CT and RI feeling inferior to MA). The only thing we hate more than each other is any non-New England state, but especially NY and NJ
>It made a lot more sense to have smaller states when the most efficient engine of logistics we had on land was the horse-drawn cart and there were hostile natives everywhere, but as the nation grew further and further West I can't help but notice we started drawing up larger and larger states
A lot has to do with density of early settlements. A lot of towns had easily several hundred people, several here and there even had thousands of people before 1776. When westward expansion started, a lot of the earliest settlers of the earliest frontier lands (e.g western Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana) were from New England, where they simply abandoned their farms and moved west in maybe between the 1830s and the Civil War, during which time US Military presence past the "civilized" east started expanding westward and more and more settlers felt safe from the natives who lived over there.
>I bet New England would be quite a powerhouse if they banded everyone together north of New York
The economy here is literally all Massachusetts. There's a reason everyone in New England (except a lot of the angry New Hampshire people) love Mass. RI's economy has been dead since Reagan nuked US manufacturing, CT's economy is kept alive by rich NYC commuters, and the three northern states never had an economy to begin with
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This but unironically. Never mind that the worst they could do was kill a few American servicemen 5,000 miles away on another continent and across an ocean, and that's the logical extend of what they're likely to accomplish in resistance, but there's absolutely no scenario possible in which brave Iranian soldiers fight their way to the coast, board a scrap metal junk fleet, sail all the way across the Pacific, land in California, fight their way all the way across America to the Capitol and then force a capitulation, which means functionally, there's no scenario in which Iran wins this fight.
Everything is fine, its a thirdie nation in the sandbox. Everything was fine with the last dozen thirdie sandbox nations we overthrew, be it by proxy or direct conflict. There is literally no reason for anyone to give a shit other than perhaps boredom. Just carry on.
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>>219666063
>They gonna launch revenge attacks on your soil. 9/11 was Sunni.
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wrong one
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>>219666063
>Our shitskin is better than your shitskin
Okay? Even if you nuked a city center it would only make America stronger. Go for broke, give the DoD a permanent blank check forever to hunt Iranians. It'll be Pearl Harbor but Yuuuge.
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That's pretty crazy. Honestly, its kind of the same over on this coast. Everyone hates California, WA and OR have some inter-state disputes that span back quite a ways and so can never agree on a straighter state border that would make a little more sense. The entire economy is basically out of two places, the California Bay Area and the Puget Sound Area. Everything else is people trying to live in (slightly) cheaper suburbs and towns so they can commute to one of those places. Its nuts.
Clearly, we need a revival for some state cultures and business sectors. If you guys agree to help us relocate some of the Hipsters from Oregon we'll set Vermont up with a Hard Cider industry and build RI one of those factories that makes giant foam fingers. What do you say?
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...Yes? And how are the Taliban doing these days? Barely relevant, choking to death living off rocks and dust in one of the most inhospitable parts of the world?
Meanwhile America is still America, the objective World Protagonists of the planet. We can't even hear the Taliban over the sound of all this winning. Entire countries in South America base large portions of their economy on growing, roasting and shipping coffee beans all the way up here so that I can have coffee in the middle of winter even though we can't even grow the fucking things anywhere north of Florida. How is that not total dominance?
>But they exist! Stanmanigan and Earache weren't made into US Colonies!
What on Earth ever made you think that anyone wanted to eradicate an international terrorist group out of the goodness of their hearts, or that anyone wanted to own/colonize/be responsible for a shithole in the sandbox? We wanted the Iraqi and Afghani governments to stop playing with the idea of undercutting the US Oil Market by building pipelines for Russia to export with or China to import with. Since those pipelines are no longer a thing and the US has gone home with a resounding victory for our strategic goal, we come back around to not thinking about you at all.
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>>219666184
I'm the guy talking about New England but man the war in Iran has really given kara bogas a lot of audacity. I snooped on r/islam yesterday because they love to engage in the classic Muslim "we LOVE Jesus and Mary! Become Muslim today!" and they're in full "nooooooooo da CHRISTKIKES did this not our hecking dictatorino who the vast majority of us disagree with anyway due to them following a minority sect ummah STRONG"
>If you guys agree to help us relocate some of the Hipsters from Oregon we'll set Vermont up with a Hard Cider industry and build RI one of those factories that makes giant foam fingers. What do you say?
Kind of related to this, sometimes I wonder if Vermont is gonna have an informal civil war. The population is so low over there that there weren't many original inhabitants, and then waves and waves came started with 60s commune culture, through the Grateful Dead era (just look at Ben & Jerry's), and up to the modern vintage/indie hipster era and the alt kids that came after. The old stock Vermont people are all super WASP and farmers who have been there like 8+ generations, but they tend to be a lot more naive than the New Hampshire people, which is why they tolerate so many hipsters. If even a fraction of the hipsters Vermont had moved to NH, they'd be intimidated (in some sort of legal loophole way) to leave within the year they moved there
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>>219666277
The fact that you couldn’t beat som goatfuckers and they’re in the exact same position they were when you invaded Afghanistan pretty much says all you need to know tbqh. Everything was pointless and you accomplished nothing except destruction and death. Bin Laden wasn’t even in Afghanistan he was hiding in Pakistan a literal allied country lol.
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>flag looks like america
>knower of america
Makes you think.
>>219660206
It’s a very based kind of insanity compared to the rotting retards around here obsessing and fighting over the same 2000 year old schizo ruins again and again.
>>219662574
We used to follow a guy in the turk threads who unironically converted and went to Utah. If my parents die early or something I might end up doing something crazy like that to cope.
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>>219666312
>The fact that you couldn't beat some goatfuckers
They lost, what, almost a million terrorists and unaffiliated put together, plus 110,000 'Local Allies' (Read: Other shitskins)? We lost.. something like 2,900 servicemen over the course of 20 years in the sandbox. We didn't just beat them, we incinerated them, disemboweled them and then raped their corpse.
>Everything was pointless
Except killing the locals, which was the whole point
>Except destruction and death
So... we accomplished the whole point, then.
>Bin Laden wasn't even in afghanistan
So what? We were there for Bin Laden, he was an excuse to beat the hell out of those governments to get them to stop building pipelines, and they have. Once again, can't hear you over the sound of all this winning.
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>Vermont, Civil War, et al
That's actually really interesting. My family is from WASP stock but ended up going Maine ---> Oklahoma ---> Texas ----> PNW so our roots are pretty far removed from the people still living up that way. I wonder if we'd even recognize each other or get along. I know we don't really get along with the local politics (Read: Olympia/Seattle) but that they pretty much do what they want without consulting anyone outside of the city centers there. If we visited Vermont, would we have anything in common? Perhaps this is the way all states eventually dwindle into obscurity. Sounds like Mass will survive though.
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>>219666641
>If we visited Vermont, would we have anything in common?
I wouldn't think so. I think the Yankee New England culture dies within 50-100 years max of them moving several hundred miles away. Especially the guys who moved to Oklahoma, that's really unusual and I thought it was mostly southerners who moved there. The waves of New England westward migration rarely moved south of southern Indiana/Illinois/Ohio and practically none moved south of Kentucky unless it was a post-Civil War carpetbagger
Tbf though I won't act like I'm an insider to WASP/old Yankee culture, I'm half Ellis Island and half I91 border crossing (Quebecois migration to New England). I just like local history/anthropology a lot
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>>219658817
Name each Southwestern state...then name that states official food dish
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I think in a strange way, one problem caused an exodus that begat another problem. One of the odd things about the East Coast is how packed in everybody is, and how much of it is 'owned' and 'built'. They say you can drive from Maine to Florida through a concrete jungle and don't have to ever see any nature if you choose certain routes. People fleeing from that kind of environment might choose a state like Oklahoma because of people fleeing farms for city centers, but because they're fleeing city centers looking for farms. I guess the Dust Bowl and then the Stock Market Collapse kinda put a more permanent end to the issue down the road anyway, but it might just be a case of 'Grass is always greener'. Just wanted what they couldn't have, I figure. All the cheap land was being developed more towards the West, but Colorado, Wyoming, Montana and California territories were still having issues with the natives all the way up until Geronimo's surrender in the 1880s, so with people being very risk-averse and looking for cheap land, Oklahoma might have seemed a reasonable alternative to potentially being scalped or shot. Unfortunately without my ancestors on hand, I can't really ask them what they were thinking at the time. But we did eventually all end up tradesmen in city centers like the most of folks, I suppose.
>Quebecois migration to New England
Really? Now there's a part of US History they definitely don't talk about in school. Wouldn't the language barrier be a grating thing? I thought Quebec's whole jam from the rest of Canada was that they're predominantly French-speaking?
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>>219658817
why are they always mad?
why do they worship jews and die for them?
why don't they lose weight?
why are they always talking about themselves?
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>>219666861
I'll field this one, Brazil fren.
>Why are they always mad?
Well, we do have to coexist with 300 or so other countries who all think they're hot shit and can't stop endlessly seething and bitching about everything we do, or even don't do. Don't you get tired of Argentina seething about Brazil?
>Why do they worship jews
The 'they' you refer to is a tiny minority of people that make up our political class, raised by the rich to be the next generation of rich. We haven't had a genuine working American in the presidency, or anyone without an Ivy League education, since Truman just after WW2.
>And die for them?
I mean, this one should be obvious. Our economy is based on control of the world's oil markets and the Middle East is one of the largest oil markets. I don't like the way these politics have gone for us but it does make sense for us to dick around in the sandbox and make sure they know who owns them.
>Why don't they lose weight?
Have an American cook for you sometime, if you meet one. Not fast food, but genuinely cook with some solid high-grade beefsteak or some nice, fatty pork ribs. You'll understand why we're all fat then, the food here is like crack.
>Why are they always talking about themselves?
World Protagonists, duh. Beyond that it definitely doesn't help the situation that everyone else is constantly talking about us. Sometimes I think most foreigners know more about our politics than their own.
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>They say you can drive from Maine to Florida through a concrete jungle and don't have to ever see any nature if you choose certain routes
I think that's a little exaggerated. The Northeast Megalopolis is definitely real, but you have to imagine that there are megalopolis-sized "Central Parks" that even heavily developed corridors like I95 go through which aren't very urbanized and the wannabe country boys roam free. Hell, even Rhode Island, the second most densely populated state, has one between maybe Mile 2 and Mile 20 of I95. Here's a random cursor drop, it goes on like this for a couple dozen miles, albeit with exits, but the exits are pretty much to villages.
>People fleeing from that kind of environment might choose a state like Oklahoma because of people fleeing farms for city centers, but because they're fleeing city centers looking for farms
From what I understand, a lot of the appeal of Oklahoma was the sheer freedom. Before the "Wild West" opened in a big way past Texas (so we're talking whites settling in big numbers in NM/AZ/NV alongside the natives and Mexicans), a lot people went down to Oklahoma, especially the parts which weren't allotted to post-Trail Of Tears native nations. The panhandle was even governed separately from the proto-Oklahoma government of Indian Territory and it was called Neutral Strip where was effectively only sparse Federal authority and no local government so some real crazy shit happened down there with gambling, bootlegging, prostitution, etc. I skimmed the article again and even today the entire panhandle has under 30,000, which that population alone is standard for a mid sized New England town
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oklahoma_panhandle
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>Really? Now there's a part of US History they definitely don't talk about in school. Wouldn't the language barrier be a grating thing? I thought Quebec's whole jam from the rest of Canada was that they're predominantly French-speaking?
Quebec had an interesting governance. After being forcibly added to British North America (a massive meta-colony that became the US in 1776 and Canada in 1867), something that was called the Quebec Act was passed which allowed the French there to live exactly how they had under France as long as they paid a bit of tax to Great Britain instead, so they kept their language, their culture, their ways of life, etc. Of course the British did that more out of concern that the French would rise up and kill the fledgling British settlements in eastern Canada rather than benevolence towards French Canada. Once there were sufficient British people living Ontario/the Maritimes, the UK finally gave Canada self-governance. Now the Quebec Act had some serious shortcomings as it preserved not only the culture but some of the governance styles which France had practiced in North America, notably the Catholic Church wielding borderline theocratic pressure in some domains, and the feudalism of old clashing with land ownership among the vast lower classes, plus the British being in Canada in large numbers who often exploited the Quebecois population as expendable farm laborers. This didn't resolve in Quebec till the 60's (!!!), so a lot of families, from the mid 19th century on, as soon as they could rub two pennies together, moved south to New England where even if they were poor as shit and working in 14 hour factory shifts, they had a future that wasn't dirt farming till kingdom come
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>>219666812
The language was like any other migrant ethnic group, it persisted in Canadien-American hubs like the northernmost counties of New England and in a few industrial centers like Woonsocket RI or Fall River MA for several decades, till they all assimilated further and now they nearly all speak English except in the lush paradise of Berlin NH apparently according to my NH friend
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Stop learning about the tyrannical failed state called the Un*ted Piss Stains of America
Start learning about the greatest state to have ever existed - the Confederate States of America (peace be upon them)
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Yessir
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