#okay so there arent any huge malls or amusement parks

[radiantretriever]

Just because there's nothing Capitalistic there doesn't mean it's not beautiful. It doesn't mean the people there aren't worth knowing

always blows my mind as a european when people talk about states like “yeah theres nothing in ohio/montana/wyoming/etc” because i look at a map like but. but theyre so big. every state could qualify as its own country what do you mean theres nothing there. and then i ask people from those states and theyre like “yeah theres nothing here” what do you mean theres nothing there!!!

[cherryblossomshadow]

Yeah, I also thought this post would end up talking about federal lands, a la CGP Grey's video:

Dune was a fun twist tho 😂

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Just because there's nothing Capitalistic there doesn't mean it's not beautiful. It doesn't mean the people there aren't worth knowing #agreeing with op #and add on #bc holy shit theyre right #okay so there arent any huge malls or amusement parks #okay??? #there are lakes #and mountains #yall montana is Gorgeous its one of the prettiest states ive ever visited #and the one state on my roadtrip i wasnt bored driving through #have yall ever looked up at a mountain at the base of a Valley #you find god #im going feral im beggin ppl to see the beauty and worth in the “flyover states” #if youve never looked at a sky Bursting with stars below the sky on a place untouched by light pollution then what are you doing (comment and tags courtesy of @radiantrakeem)

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'Nothing there' generally means we're ignoring the Indigenous people who still live in a place, and/or there were a lot more of them. Australians (I'm guilty of this) will say there's nothing in the desert when there are whole nations there. (comment courtesy of @v-as-in-victor)

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Hilarious, but also what people don't know about the Midwest and Western regions of the US is that prior to infrastructure development like dams, canals, water works, electricity, it was mostly very harsh and hardly habitable regions where only the Native people really knew how to properly make use of the resources out there. Early farms just out right failed or were barely scrapping by until the Government stepped in and subsidized improvements all over the place. So anytime some Republican talks about pulling yourself up by the bootstraps like their ancestors remember their ancestors would have died off without the Welfare of the federal government. (comment courtesy of @codex0fgigas)

always blows my mind as a european when people talk about states like “yeah theres nothing in ohio/montana/wyoming/etc” because i look at a map like but. but theyre so big. every state could qualify as its own country what do you mean theres nothing there. and then i ask people from those states and theyre like “yeah theres nothing here” what do you mean theres nothing there!!!