This is a phenomenal meme. Much better than the calorie stealing one. Not the best I've seen ofc but it's some clever observational humour. 8/10

What are you, hydrophobic?

Cuckssouri

Nobody in NYC wants to get into NJ!? Isn't it just a necessary evil sometimes?

Wait, so Kansas City's brilliant idea is to join fucking KANSAS!? Like...from the Dorothy tornado? Careful what you wish for, Kansas Citites.

That's not a river though

Got halfway out of Kansas into Missouri and realized it wasn’t any better. Resigned themselves to being stuck.

„Disappear” in a (somewhat) good way or in a “mutilated body found three years later” way?

What's a from Kansas? And why would they be forgetting it?

Other way around. Kansas City, MO existed before Kansas City, KS.

Watched a fascinating video on why everyone in Nebraska live on the east side of the state.

And not straight

Also North Dakota with Fargo on the border with Minnesota.

Mostly just the second half

except, bodies never leave the Ozarks. at least, not whole.

It's a shame too, beautiful state, people ruin it

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They have a publicly funded zoo? I hope they treat the animals better. I've always wanted to visit. Thinking of taking my son next year to the TransWorld convention next year, his special interest is animatronics and Halloween, he really wants to go.

When your largest city is called the neighbouring state and your name is literally misery

As a Missourian, yeah I can't blame them. I want out too

We made it illegal to be homeless here btw. Not many people know that.

St Louis is pretty underrated for BBQ. Stellar Hog is pretty great. Some others too but that’s my goto.

The Zoo, Art Museum , Science Center, and History Museum are all free and publicly funded. Those are all in Forest Park which is a great place on its own. There are some exhibits you have to pay for but most things are free.

I thought Missouri loves company.

Sounds lovely, I'll definitely check it out and donate if we visit, I think my son would love it.

Because major cities sprung up along rivers. And they split states up along rivers.

maybe they were started on the other side of the line/river/whatever and expanded into missourah because land is so cheap. because no one wants to exist there. i don't know if this is true or not but i have decided that regardless of history it is.

Beautiful mountains and plains, gorgeous unspoiled rivers, four varied and enjoyable seasons, and some of the dumbest motherfuckers you'll ever meet.

the main driver of economic change and expansion has been improvements in transportation technology (note: my focus has been on 19th century history so maybe that changed in the 20th. idk, i don't study this shit anymore)

It's clearly a moral failure to not own property.

That is like the entire United States honestly. The land is perfect. Geography is amazing. But the people are just horrible.

There's good ones, but current events seem to be revealing that there are far fewer of them than I had thought.

How about Springfield?

My parents retired to the Ozarks 30ish years ago. Beautiful area, had a house built on the side off a mountain in the middle of nowhere (Cape Fair technically, but same difference.) I just remember Springfield being the closest city if you needed anything better than what the Walmart in Branson West could provide.

Yeah but the potential company doesn't like it back.

The city itself wants to escape to be with it's other city brethren: Hoboken and Jersey City.

I won't let your grumpiness get in the way of my info dumping. Move along you sour blob of text.

TBF, Kansas city was named first by 4 years. Also, for the most part, Kansas isn’t really any better than Missouri

I want room service.

I mean, we have lots of tornadoes in Missouri as well

A shithole with absolutely terrible traffic issues

Shhhh 🤫 dont let missouri feel any better, it deserves the hate. Also im not american but isnt missouri literally the flattest place ever? It doesnt even have mountains even tho its quite large.

1. Kansas and Missouri are equally shit.

2. we have the Ozark mountains, but they’ve eroded to large hills.

As a missourian(unfortunately) let me have at least a bit of feel good time.

There are a few very lucky small towns which are pockets of leftists in the middle of gorgeous American nature. You just have to really look for them.

Didn’t the Missouri side of Kansas City spring up because whoring and drinking and whatnot weren’t allowed in Kansas because of puritans, so the Kansans would cross into Missouri for that?

No

During this time, other settlements were developing across the river on the Kansas side in Wyandotte County. Some of these small towns incorporated as Kansas City, Kansas, in 1872. By naming this town after the growing city on the Missouri side of the state line, city leaders in Kansas were able to capitalize on the success of Kansas City, Missouri. It’s also possible that the people in Wyandotte County felt that they had more right to the name “Kansas City” than the people of Missouri had.

I visited St Louis for the first time recently, and oof. Yeah.

As a former Kansan, Missouri is way way better for any urbanist. Their state government allows cities a significantly higher degree of autonomy than on the Kansas side. And they have Branson which even single-handedly would make Missouri better than Kansas.

And they have Branson

Branson has Yakov Smirnoff, I think that negates anything good about Missouri.

They should declare an armed war of secession...not from the United States...but from Missouri! Let them become the free cities of the prairies, the free cities of Kansas City and St. Louis...two new city-states on the planes!

For legal purposes, this is not an endorsement of acts of literal treason.

Next they'll make it illegal to know that.