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[–] 11111one11111@lemmy.world 5 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago) (2 children)

Its crazy to think if I weren't a US citizen and was reading this, I'd think "man that's 50 individual locations for everyone to be able to participate if they want."

When the reality is, if I wanted to attend my New York Stare protest in Albany, id be looking at a 5-6ish one way trip, 10-12hrs round trip just driving. I'm totally guessing tho. Ive never gone from my house to Albany before. Only ever went there from either the adks or NYC coming back to Buffalo with other stops on the way home. I've always used 7 1/2hrs as the time it takes to get to NYC so that's where I'm getting 5-6hrs Buffalo to Albany.

Tldr: Yo, America's big as fuck.

[–] PhilipTheBucket@ponder.cat 3 points 48 minutes ago* (last edited 22 minutes ago)

America's not a country. It is a continent.

America's government is not a government. It is the largest, most varied, most complex single human organization that has ever existed. Also the most powerful. But very little of it is organized. And almost all of it, to almost everyone, is invisible.

America's culture is not a culture. It has cultures within in, and some are quite good. Once you've met with the beating heart, it's hard to forget. But like the onion it has no center. Once you reach the center of the dream, you realize it is nothing but marketing, it never existed.

America is sleeping fitfully. America died long ago. America has yet to be born. America was always a lie.

[–] sin_free_for_00_days@sopuli.xyz 3 points 3 hours ago

I just plugged in my state capital into my driving app. It says it will take 6 hours and 51 minutes one-way. Yeah, I can't even afford the gas for that. So I checked public transportation and it said 12 hours one-way and one of the three tickets I'd have to buy was $100. Your tldr is spot on.