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they aren't there to 'stop crime'. they're a flex to boost the ever-so-fragile ego of a little whiny baby that sometimes parks his fat ass at 1600 penn ave.
hey, they’re also picking up candy wrappers
Ok DC. Fuck I hate having a state and the capital share a name
DC needs to be The Douglas Commonwealth and Washington State needs to either be Cascadia or some Duwamish name
The people of the town of George would be very upset if you renamed the state.
sucks to be those 809 people
Hell, even if we can't pull off getting the state renamed to Cascadia or something Duwamish it could be renamed to fucking Lincoln, it's an acceptable compromise to fall back to.
And yeah I'd prefer renaming DC away from being named after a slaver (and another slaver), but I see that as way less feasible than renaming the capital of Ohio (Columbus, many of the locals don't like the name).
The naming of WA was one of the most obviously stupid and easily preventable decisions this country has made. It was very close to being named Columbia after the river, which while also part of the name of the capital and close to the name of a country is at least distinct
I say remerge Oregon and Washington together again, there's no real reason why the western portions of the Oregon territory were broken up.
Both need better names tbh, but Washington DC is worse. Terrible name.
I agree it's a terrible name, but honestly I think it's worse to give a state the same name as your existing capital
and how the state got the name is worse yet...
way back when, around the time the northwest was being formally organized, some rep from kentucky proposed 'washington' as an alternative to what it would have been, 'columbia' (for the river), because 'columbia' was part of the name of the nation's capital. the absolute moron had no brain cells left over to process the fact that 'washington' was also a conflicting and confusing name for a state for the same fucking reason.. but congress jumped on board the idea of naming a territory (and what would become a state) after the first president.
Damn, that's beyond stupid. That's like saying I don't want to name my kid John because it's Trump's middle name, so I'll name him Donald.
Or worse, I don't want to name him Donald cause that's Trump's first name, so I'll name him Trump
If they wanted to stop crime they'd arrest the criminals in the government
Their presence is a crime. So how could they stop it? Only by resigning,
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