farraday posted:

Also apparently 45k population Binghamton is a city.

Tiny Brontosaurus posted:

Jesus christ, shut the gently caress up, you lovely loving gimmick. I legitimately don't understand why you haven't just killed yourself already.

You know what would be more useful than spending every day masturbating 'til your dick bleeds? loving working. On anything. Anything the gently caress at all. Do you write your congressman? Do you phonebank for progressive candidates? Volunteer at a soup kitchen? Pass out flyers? loving anything that would make anyone on the surface of this loving earth glad you exist?

We've got life and death issues here and the only thing you're capable of talking about, incessantly, is how good you are at gargling your own cock. If all you've got to say in the midst of one of the most significant political periods in American history is "Appreciate the congrats" then just loving be honest with your worthless self for once and go join the GOP.

farraday posted:

Also apparently 45k population Binghamton is a city.

ImpAtom posted:

How do you offer them education and better opinions if they have no access to it?

Knifegrab posted:

So wait is the CBO report fully out now? I cannot seem to find it...

sugar free jazz posted:

whoa yikes

Rigel posted:

https://twitter.com/aparnapkin/status/867497982027059201

The funny thing is that most countries have this. If they elect an evil senile orange hate golem, they can call for early elections.

glowing-fish posted:

I know they don't directly touch the Atlantic, but they are very close to the East Coast, and there are no mountains or natural barriers.

Its a short drive with no intervening mountains between Grand Rapids and New York City, so its pretty much the East Coast.


If you look at Ohio and New York State, there is no real demographic difference between them. They are both states with no wilderness areas, no mountains, similar population densities, most of their population lives in a few megapolises. Also, states where people are parochial and backwards. If I am talking to someone from either state, I have to remember not to bite my tongue when they talk about mountains, and not to smirk condescendingly when they talk in conspirational whispers about buying marijuana.

glowing-fish posted:

Sorry, Binghamton, New York, Toledo, Ohio, and Grand Rapids, Michigan.

I am not an expert on the East Coast, the only one of those cities I've been to is Toledo.

BlueberryCanary posted:

Captain Monkey posted:

Ok.

This is a weird hill to die on though.

glowing-fish posted:

I know they don't directly touch the Atlantic, but they are very close to the East Coast, and there are no mountains or natural barriers.

Its a short drive with no intervening mountains between Grand Rapids and New York City, so its pretty much the East Coast.


If you look at Ohio and New York State, there is no real demographic difference between them. They are both states with no wilderness areas, no mountains, similar population densities, most of their population lives in a few megapolises. Also, states where people are parochial and backwards. If I am talking to someone from either state, I have to remember not to bite my tongue when they talk about mountains, and not to smirk condescendingly when they talk in conspirational whispers about buying marijuana.

FourLeaf posted:

Um, what?

glowing-fish posted:

I actually told my friends last November that I would die on the hill of Ohio being on the East Coast, I ended my relationship with several of my friends who denied that Ohio is an East Coast state.

The need of people in suburban Ohio to cosplay that they didn't live in another boring Eastern state is what sold our country out, I have no qualms about being angry at East Coast people.


The original comment I was replying to was someone saying that Montanas would be okay with someone donating to white nationalist groups. I think that person was probably an urbanite talking about suburbanites and trying to extrapolate from that.

It wasn't the small percentage of Americans living in rural areas who elected Trump, it was mostly suburbanites in a few Eastern states who did so:

https://medium.com/@mnharris/there-are-two-rural-americas-720b382bf092

Rigel posted:

https://twitter.com/aparnapkin/status/867497982027059201

The funny thing is that most countries have this. If they elect an evil senile orange hate golem, they can call for early elections.

Teriyaki Koinku posted:

loving disgusting. I should have slugged him in the face when I was working in Congress.

glowing-fish posted:

Sorry, Binghamton, New York, Toledo, Ohio, and Grand Rapids, Michigan.

I am not an expert on the East Coast, the only one of those cities I've been to is Toledo.

RandomBlue posted:

Exactly why were they allowed to add all that poo poo when dems didn't need their votes? Stupidity?

Tiny Brontosaurus posted:

Yes? Words mean things, sorry you had to learn this way.

Buca di Bepis posted:

Are you confused about what the definition of a city is? Did you think it was a hamlet?

Google Butt posted:

Read the thread bargefink

evilweasel posted:

east coasters consider the parts of new york outside the new york city metro area just barely on this side of a max max hellscape, except the vacation spots, or (if from outside new york) have never really considered that there's a part of New York besides the city and sort of forget it's there

RandomBlue posted:

At the very least we should have that option for proven election fraud. It's not OK that one side can steal the election and there really is no recourse beyond passing the Presidency down to someone else on that side.

Bhaal posted:

As someone who didn't go east of the mississippi until 18 I can confirm that for most of us out west here, "east coast" starts somewhere around Indianapolis.

It's not that we're dumb (well, it's not the reason we're dumb), we just don't care about useless trivia. It's east. Oh it's not directly on the water? okay

evilweasel posted:

east coasters consider the parts of new york outside the new york city metro area just barely on this side of a max max hellscape, except the vacation spots, or (if from outside new york) have never really considered that there's a part of New York besides the city and sort of forget it's there

Tiny Brontosaurus posted:

Jesus christ, shut the gently caress up, you lovely loving gimmick. I legitimately don't understand why you haven't just killed yourself already.

You know what would be more useful than spending every day masturbating 'til your dick bleeds? loving working. On anything. Anything the gently caress at all. Do you write your congressman? Do you phonebank for progressive candidates? Volunteer at a soup kitchen? Pass out flyers? loving anything that would make anyone on the surface of this loving earth glad you exist?

We've got life and death issues here and the only thing you're capable of talking about, incessantly, is how good you are at gargling your own cock. If all you've got to say in the midst of one of the most significant political periods in American history is "Appreciate the congrats" then just loving be honest with your worthless self for once and go join the GOP.

Supremezero posted:

Uh, actually, by strict definition, they're right.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Settlement_hierarchy

A "city" is 100k to 300k. Binghamton is a "Large Town".

(Not like this means anything, most likely.)

quote:

The Census Bureau defines "urban" for the 1990 census as
comprising all territory, population, and housing units in
urbanized areas and in places of 2,500 or more persons outside
urbanized areas. More specifically, "urban" consists of
territory, persons, and housing units in:

1. Places of 2,500 or more persons incorporated as cities,
villages, boroughs (except in Alaska and New York), and
towns (except in the six New England States, New York,
and Wisconsin), but excluding the rural portions of
"extended cities."

2. Census designated places of 2,500 or more persons.

3. Other territory, incorporated or unincorporated,
included in urbanized areas.

RaspberryCommie posted:

I think the constitution did originally plan for that as the Vice President use to be the runner up in the election, rather than the added to the ticket when they ran for the office, but this was changed with the 12th amendment.

Koyaanisgoatse posted:

i'm the guy who's never heard of cuyahoga national park or the allegheny mountains

Rigel posted:

Maybe I'm naive, but I assume most conservative parties in other countries are nowhere near as evil as the GOP, and are basically in favor of being a little less generous but still wanting people to be cared for at some level.

Our conservative party is run by a cartoonishly evil brotherhood of supervillains. I imagine people in other countries are confused and horrified for our sake.

glowing-fish posted:

I know they don't directly touch the Atlantic, but they are very close to the East Coast, and there are no mountains or natural barriers.

Its a short drive with no intervening mountains between Grand Rapids and New York City, so its pretty much the East Coast.


If you look at Ohio and New York State, there is no real demographic difference between them. They are both states with no wilderness areas, no mountains, similar population densities, most of their population lives in a few megapolises. Also, states where people are parochial and backwards. If I am talking to someone from either state, I have to remember not to bite my tongue when they talk about mountains, and not to smirk condescendingly when they talk in conspirational whispers about buying marijuana.

glowing-fish posted:

Cuyahoga National Park is not a wilderness area.

I know that if you are from the East Coast, you don't have any idea of something more rural than "3 Miles from the freeway", but yes, such areas exist.
I was originally going to mock East Coasters by saying "This park is so wild you can barely hear the freeway", but wow, it really is like within earshot of the freeway?

That is adorable.

Ornedan posted:

Oh haha no, they're just as evil the world over. For example in Finland, our current conservative government is trying to pass a massive healthcare reform that's basically major privatisation. We'll still be better off than the US afterwards, but that's merely a result of better starting point pre-wrecking.

The UK's conservative party just laid out their manifesto for the upcoming elections. Highlights include re-legalising fox hunting (as in, a party of poshos chasing down a fox on horseback with hounds, and killing the fox by having the hounds rip it apart).

glowing-fish posted:

New York State [has] no wilderness areas, no mountains

evilweasel posted:

lol

https://twitter.com/JohnJHarwood/status/867500914332053505

paul ryan has to come hat in hand to nancy pelosi and beg her for the votes to prevent economic meltdown

again

Tatsuta Age posted:

OK so you grasp the first word of ''east coast', it seems to be the second word throwing you for a loop

Tiny Brontosaurus posted:

Jesus christ, shut the gently caress up, you lovely loving gimmick. I legitimately don't understand why you haven't just killed yourself already.

You know what would be more useful than spending every day masturbating 'til your dick bleeds? loving working. On anything. Anything the gently caress at all. Do you write your congressman? Do you phonebank for progressive candidates? Volunteer at a soup kitchen? Pass out flyers? loving anything that would make anyone on the surface of this loving earth glad you exist?

We've got life and death issues here and the only thing you're capable of talking about, incessantly, is how good you are at gargling your own cock. If all you've got to say in the midst of one of the most significant political periods in American history is "Appreciate the congrats" then just loving be honest with your worthless self for once and go join the GOP.

glowing-fish posted:

Cuyahoga National Park is not a wilderness area.

I know that if you are from the East Coast, you don't have any idea of something more rural than "3 Miles from the freeway", but yes, such areas exist.
I was originally going to mock East Coasters by saying "This park is so wild you can barely hear the freeway", but wow, it really is like within earshot of the freeway?

That is adorable.

Buca di Bepis posted:

what on earth