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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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  • JoeByeThen [he/him, they/them]@hexbear.net
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    2 years ago

    The right side of your abs.

  • DivineChaos100 [none/use name]@hexbear.net
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    2 years ago

    It’s the garage where all those emo bands practice in.

    • Ram_The_Manparts [he/him]@hexbear.net
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      2 years ago

      miyazaki-laugh

  • Pili [any, any]@hexbear.net
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    2 years ago

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

    • AcidSmiley [she/her]@hexbear.net
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      2 years ago

      Does that make Belgium part of the Midwest?

      • SoyViking [he/him]@hexbear.net
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        2 years ago

        They did invent the French fries there.

  • Moss [they/them]@hexbear.net
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    2 years ago

    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

    • robot_dog_with_gun [they/them]@hexbear.net
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      2 years ago

      “the former confederacy”

    • crime [she/her, any]@hexbear.net
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      2 years ago

      “bible belt” also works

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    deleted by creator

  • 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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      2 years ago

      certainly miserable.

      • FactuallyUnscrupulou [he/him]@hexbear.net
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        2 years ago

        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.

  • trompete [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    I’m not American but even I know that the midwest is The Real America™.

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    • 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

  • SuperNovaCouchGuy2 [any]@hexbear.net
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    2 years ago

    what is the “midwest”

    A region within one of the most evil hegemonic empires to have ever existed that needs total liberation from capitalism and the establishment of a communist regime.

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  • Biggay [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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    2 years ago

    Northern part of the Mississippi watershed thats not west of Minnesota.

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    Kanye’s nickname since 2013

  • MolotovHalfEmpty [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    2 years ago

    Manchester.

    • Dolores [love/loves]@hexbear.net
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      sources are telling me that Manchester is not in fact in the West Midlands gulag

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        Not by the standards of the agreed UK map, but in the heart of this (much further) Northerner it’s getting further south all the time.

  • AOCapitulator [they/them, she/her]@hexbear.net
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    If I can’t remember where a state is, or what its called, or forget to name it when naming all 50 states, thats a midwest state

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      or forget to name it when naming all 50 states

      You didn’t learn the song?

      • AOCapitulator [they/them, she/her]@hexbear.net
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        No I said “fuck you who cares give me an F I don’t care” and just did well on all the other tests so that it averaged out

        Fuck crackaland

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    • Nakoichi [they/them]@hexbear.netOPM
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      interesting, that makes sense in a way but also implies anything east of California/Oregon/Washington is midwest till you get over to the original colonies.

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        Except when you go souther or norther of the west, tho, because we have the southwest (Nevada, New Mexico, Texas, Oklahoma), and the northwest (a couple Dakotas, Idaho - which sounds like it should be Midwest, Montana, others?).

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          idk oaklahoma is stretching it a bit don’t you think? At least in terms of “west”.

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            I mean it’s west of the Mississippi.

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            So is it the “plains” or something?

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      Is it true a state can be partially Midwest? And what is upper Minnesota, Wisconsin, and Michigan? Technically Canada…?

      Oh yeah, that makes sense actually.

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        The UP in Michigan is definitely basically Canada

    • Starlet [she/her, it/its]@hexbear.net
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      Duluth is midwest you chode

    • JohnBrownsBussy2 [she/her, they/them]@hexbear.net
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      Dafuq is Kansas and Nodak being midwest but not the Yupper?

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        The UP is basically Canada

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          It’s like Wisconsin and Ontario had a baby and left it in the woods to grow up weird.

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            You’ve convinced me

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