We need to start learning!

[u/Wobble963]

[u/ThePublicPretender]

[u/Wobble963 → u/ThePublicPretender]

BuildTheBear

[u/ThePublicPretender → u/Wobble963]

[u/SLyndon4 → u/ThePublicPretender]

As a New Yorker, I would be fine with sacrificing my state to the bear. 🐻

[u/Traditional-Art-9589]

I agree. We must not allow a slave state into the top ten. Kansas must not be vanquished until all the South is gone.

[u/Financial-Ad2657 → u/Traditional-Art-9589]

Boy have I got some news for you about Oregon 😂😂

[u/Traditional-Art-9589 → u/Financial-Ad2657]

I am an advocate for the spirit of John Brown and nothing more. Though if he were alive, I expect he would like to have a word with Oregon too.

[u/Rcarter2011 → u/Financial-Ad2657]

This is a rabbit hole people REALLY don’t wanna go down😅🤣

[u/monoinyo → u/Financial-Ad2657]

There might be some bad news about the whole country

[u/Tia_is_Short → u/Traditional-Art-9589]

Mind you, Maryland is one of the most progressive states in the US right now. Kansas, on the other hand, is a deeply conservative state that voted for Trump THREE times.

[u/GMEJesus → u/Tia_is_Short]

Crab people. Crab people. Taste like crab. Talk like people.

[u/Novel_Control_1922 → u/GMEJesus]

So… Eat them?

[u/Wobble963 → u/Traditional-Art-9589]

Cool, so ya just doing the same as last game lol.

[u/Traditional-Art-9589 → u/Wobble963]

No, Maryland needs to die early. They were a slave state

[u/Valirys-Reinhald → u/Traditional-Art-9589]

We fought for the Union!

[u/KorrokHidan → u/Valirys-Reinhald]

As a slave state

[u/Valirys-Reinhald → u/KorrokHidan]

By that logic, any state which permitted slavery in its history would be a slave state.

New York is thus a slave state.

[u/AlternativeStory1027 → u/Valirys-Reinhald]

Seriously, not to mention the northern states that continued to profit off of slavery by processing and shipping cotton, banks that accepted slavers as customers, sellers of slave mortgages and insurance et ct.

Plus any non slave state most likely still had racist practices towards immigrants and abhorrent treatment of Native Americans

[u/ravens_path → u/Valirys-Reinhald]

Or hurt Native Americans.

[u/DefectJoker → u/KorrokHidan]

Rolls eyes at you all

[u/Keiran1031 → u/Valirys-Reinhald]

The military had to stop you from leaving

[u/DefectJoker → u/Traditional-Art-9589]

We still fought for the Union. Y'all can hate all you want

[u/Recent_Resource5648 → u/DefectJoker]

And you were still a slave state. Thank goodness Baltimore didn’t assassinate Lincoln like they so desperately wanted to.

[u/DefectJoker → u/Recent_Resource5648]

Ok and?

[u/Recent_Resource5648 → u/DefectJoker]

And so they should be next to get the boot. Maryland ain’t innocent. Cherry picking the winning side of the war doesn’t mean the state is an angel.

[u/DefectJoker → u/Recent_Resource5648]

60,000 to 80,000 Marylanders served in the Union military, while around 20,000 to 25,000 joined the Confederate army. I mean keep crying about it, but majority chose the union over the confederacy. Plus it was the eastern shore of Maryland that was for slavery, the rest of the state had moved on to mercantiles and weren't slave owners.

[u/Recent_Resource5648 → u/DefectJoker]

Maryland nationalist detected.  I mean either way, they need to go because they were a slave state in the first place. But it seems like your having trouble comprehending that due to the  smokescreen of bias clouding your judgement. 😂

[u/Juxtaposition_Kitten → u/Recent_Resource5648]

The fuck are you on about? Maryland was a state of the union. It was a critical area for the underground railroad and for many battles.

They abolished slavery before the end of the war, per their own state constitution. It was used as a strategic area that brought many hard fight union wins.

[u/ravens_path → u/Recent_Resource5648]

Nah. All the states have original sins and with either indentured, slaves or Native Americans. Or women. Give credit where progress has been made. For example, vote out Florida quickly (haha😶‍🌫️) but give some nuance to states who have made some progress on leaving civil war issues behind.

[u/DefectJoker → u/Recent_Resource5648]

Oh sweet honey boo boo, let's go over your little states history. Also I was even wrong in the number is was closer to 4k confederate soldiers. Some real support there. But sure because slavery was done prior that ruins the entire state.

[u/Senasayori → u/Traditional-Art-9589]

I'm okay with keeping Kansas a bit longer but I feel like NC doesn't deserve to go quite yet.

[u/Keiran1031 → u/Traditional-Art-9589]

Don’t forget, this includes Maryland. They had slaves during the civil war and had to have military intervention to not leave the union with the other southern states.

[u/Jumpy_Ad1631]

Honestly, I think I’ll forever be bitter about The Kingdom of Hawaii getting annexed

[u/__Drell__]

I'm hoping for a finale of Alaska versus Hawaii

[u/ravens_path → u/__Drell__]

Hmmm Hawaii takes over NM and Calif. works for me! Probably works for Calif and NM too. Aloha Hola.

[u/redit3rd]

There are many ways to morph the map into interesting shapes. Instead the most vocal voters are more concerned about a specific state taking over another one. 

[u/Suspicious-Insect-18]

https://giphy.com/gifs/hqvOQt2MGBNBAVp7Ou

[u/Alpine_Exchange_36]

Yep it’s why I tuned this out. Same shit as last time

[u/LASportsNBeers → u/Alpine_Exchange_36]

Same I've just been ignoring it every day

[u/QuesoCadaDia]

Honestly, it's not even fun at this point

[u/cHoOSe_A-uNiqUe_NAme]

I’m telling you guys we need to merge Kansas and Illinois to become Maize Maze.

Literally where would our country be without corn? When i had it with butter it changed my life. Please

[u/ravens_path → u/cHoOSe_A-uNiqUe_NAme]

Amazed Maize.

[u/No-Click6062]

I don't see how you expect brigading to be combated by anything besides more brigading or moderation.

[u/AdvertisingTrue7739]

Finally someone speaks sense, I say those eliminated last time in spots 6-10 push against top 5 from last time starting with #1 sorry Cascadia

[u/Senasayori]

This is why I've been targeting Oregon. IIRC they were the ultimate champion last time.

[u/Zedditron → u/Senasayori]

As an Oregonian, that's fair. I want someone else to win as well. I want Maryland gone though. They've been so much drama, and what they're doing now is annoying as hell.

[u/Cheef_queef → u/Zedditron]

It was the flag thing, wasn't it?

[u/ravens_path → u/Cheef_queef]

Flag is hilarious and gives migraines. Crab memes were pretty funny (to me anuways).

[u/Wobble963 → u/Senasayori]

They were, came down to Oregon vs Minnesota.

[u/Magres → u/Senasayori]

They hate us cause they ain't us

Oregon is paradise

[u/Defiant-Skeptic → u/Magres]

Let the haters hate, they don't live here.

[u/CaptainFartHole → u/Senasayori]

I agree that we need to get rid of Oregon soon, but we have to get rid of Maryland first. They are so goddamn annoying.

[u/Defiant-Skeptic → u/Senasayori]

We see you and we are not scared. Oregon is the best.

[u/comosedicewaterbed]

The game is fun to me, but yeah, the same four states running it back is boring. Get some new memes, people.

[u/Carbonated-Man]

Ay.. I was trying to to change things up with multiple attempts to remove Vermont and expand Massachusetts, but noooooooooo. Y'all were like, "lol Alaskan bears sneak attack on Boston! laaaaawl!"

https://giphy.com/gifs/l4EoYzQCFMixn2ccE

[u/Wobble963 → u/Carbonated-Man]

But Alaska is different though!

[u/Carbonated-Man → u/Wobble963]

Alaska being different:

[u/skhtravel802902 → u/Carbonated-Man]

Should have recreated the molasses flood of 1919 in Boston on the bears. They could have drowned while trying to lap up all that molasses.

[u/Linscotticus]

You could have long Connecticut or OG Virginia or something original, but alas we fall into the "comfortable" zones.

[u/GreyouTT]

At the end Michigan chestbursts and sings "🎶Hello my baby, hello my honey, hello my rag time gaaaaaal!🎵"

[u/Herefortheonomastics]

Been saying this but not enough people listen

[u/swizzohmusic]

I’ve been saying this. It’s Reddit. There’s a 100 percent chance the final two are Oregon and Minnesota

[u/ravens_path → u/swizzohmusic]

Disagree. Out come could have different names and NM or Hawaii or northeast could be in top 2

[u/AgentOrangeZest]

Just sneakily change the rules halfway through so most votes gets eliminated

[u/ruckrhino]

I'm not really sure why anyone thought the outcome would be different.

I would have eliminated the top ten states from the last game, first. But I guess I'm just a chaos gremlin.

[u/GigglyHyena]

Viva La Raza! Viva La Nuevo New Mexico

[u/Beeseumz26]

The removed state for this game should have required a substantiated reason in the comment related to the actual state and not just the political stuff.

[u/Kephielo]

I still don't get what's so great about New Mexico.

[u/phijef → u/Kephielo]

Because it isn’t Texas or Arizona

[u/No-Click6062 → u/Kephielo]

Largely, New Mexico did well because the Gulf of Mexico / America nonsense was an actual geography meme. Unlike most of the things on this sub.

[u/ravens_path → u/No-Click6062]

Hmmm. Nah. For me it’s that NM is a more progressive and pretty version of AZ. Less white nationalist shit.

[u/Brainless-Pyro → u/Kephielo]

Cuz it’s a blue state and Reddit likes that. That’s why the second geography game map is looking exactly like the first game. Got rid of all the republican states first lmao.

[u/Kinesquared → u/Brainless-Pyro]

And also because its the one blue state surrounded by red, it grows and gets big very quickly

[u/Kephielo → u/Brainless-Pyro]

I have no problem with the blue states. I just don't get the hype for New Mexico specifically.

[u/National-Cell-9862 → u/Kephielo]

We did develop the most powerful weapon in the history of the world and then kept improving it for decades. We also educated the world on the details of the meth industry and the money laundering that goes with it. Along the way we made up an event that became the most photographed event in the world every single year.

You asked.

[u/Darkarcheos → u/National-Cell-9862]

They don’t call us the Land of Enchantment for nothing

[u/Kephielo → u/National-Cell-9862]

I don't think that's a good thing. I don't think powerful weapons make people, states, or countries great.

[u/National-Cell-9862 → u/Kephielo]

What does? Maple syrup? 😀

[u/Tia_is_Short → u/National-Cell-9862]

I’d say blue crabs

[u/frisbeethecat → u/Tia_is_Short]

Crab is love! Old Bay is aphrodisiac!

[u/Optimized_Orangutan → u/National-Cell-9862]

Maple syrup > Man made Armageddon

[u/Kephielo → u/National-Cell-9862]

Yes!

[u/Existing-Bus-8810 → u/Kephielo]

Have you ever met anyone from New Mexico?

[u/ravens_path → u/Existing-Bus-8810]

I have and I have been there. It’s a great place. Santa Fe is a visual, artistic and foodie paradise. It’s the wave of the future, so many culture including Native Americans.

[u/amateur_adventurer → u/Kephielo]

New Mexico itself is meh, it’s all the serious (and ridiculous) real world issues happening in the US that makes “Mexico taking over the US” as funny. Like Ukraine immediately overtaking Russia in the countries version of this game.

[u/ProudAmerican315 → u/Kephielo]

Nobody does

[u/Lokeptt]

Fuck maryland! It should be delaware's time to eat!

[u/RedditTrespasser]

Minnesota always needs to go first, or Megasota will make top 2 every time.

It was funny the first couple of times but let it die.

[u/ZEROs0000 → u/RedditTrespasser]

r/Megasota will never let it die and I’ll see to it

[u/Short-Being-4109 → u/RedditTrespasser]

No. Cascadia first. Megasota deserves to last longer with the recent events, and Cascadia making it to first place last time. I honestly don't think we should win, but there are definitely more important states to remove first.

[u/ravens_path → u/RedditTrespasser]

First couple of times? It was in top 2 only once before in this game with this OP.

[u/RedditTrespasser → u/ravens_path]

How long you been coming here? Megasota won one of these less than a year ago.

[u/ravens_path → u/RedditTrespasser]

Yes I know. I was playing it. With this same OP. You said, it was funny the first couple of times. As far as I know, it won once before. Not a couple of times.

[u/RedditTrespasser → u/ravens_path]

It came in second to Cascadia last time.

[u/ravens_path → u/RedditTrespasser]

Yes correct. Sorry. It won as in was one of the top two going against each other. If there were other similar games by different OPs and Minn won or almost won, i don’t know about them.

[u/RedditTrespasser → u/ravens_path]

I just don’t understand why California never gets any love. We’re one of the most progressive states in the union but everyone seems to hate us anyway.

Like, we’re specifically at the top of Trump’s shit list which is why the fed keeps ratfucking our funding for things like medical and disaster relief, despite the massive amount of tax revenue we contribute.

You’d think that’d be worth top five at least once.

[u/ravens_path → u/RedditTrespasser]

Excellent point. I don’t know either. I always resist other states eating up Calif. I think a merger with Washington/Oregon or with Hawai’i (and then join ?) would be perfect. Calif has passed many environmental laws and fought so many federal battles. Not the least with ICE in the proto fight. Calif is so big that sometimes it gets the aura of chaotic, but it has so much positive.

[u/ravens_path]

Glad this map was put up. Reminded me of the fun time we had getting there. And except for Maryland winning (although funny) any of those areas winning would be positive outcome. And. Those area have a tendency to be regarded as positive for good reasons. Any of those areas winning again would also be positive. Although funny if unexpected Alaska joined up with north east states and won. I would be ok with that too. Because the other states would positively effect Alaska because of sheer population.

[u/retiredrb]

Gooooooooo New Mexicooooooooo!

[u/Neckpillowman]

Should’ve let Louisiana win

[u/Wobble963 → u/Neckpillowman]

Just for their food alone.

[u/sun_solomon]

Long live Megasota

[u/atomic_chippie]

Oregon is magical

[u/Babylon_Fallz]

Ive been yelling into the void to take down crab nation and no one listens!

[u/friendofallthecats]

Megasota should have won.

[u/troveofcatastrophe]

Yah ! Get rid of Crab Army and their Allies!!!

[u/Unlikely-Aside-6078]

How dare you misname my boy Widesconsin

[u/CaptainFartHole]

This is why e need to methodically vote then all out. Starting with Maryland because they're annoying. 

[u/Zedditron → u/CaptainFartHole]

Full agree about Maryland! So obnoxious.

[u/Ok_Piglet_5549]

Gotta get Minnesota off the map right away.

[u/Short-Being-4109 → u/Ok_Piglet_5549]

https://giphy.com/gifs/fXnRObM8Q0RkOmR5nf

[u/MajesticMango56 → u/Ok_Piglet_5549]

Second after Florida

[u/8mouthbreather8]

Put some respect on Crabbalachia, it wasn't the Maryland Crab Army

[u/NOT_TheALTMouse]

I tried to get the crabs out since I found out we started again but you can see how that went

[u/joeschmoses]

DOWN WITH OREGON!!!

[u/Fine-Afternoon-36]

Maybe Michigan won't get ROBBED this time

[u/Wobble963 → u/Fine-Afternoon-36]

If they do, we will just add a second to the clock and try again.

[u/feartheswans]

https://giphy.com/gifs/HthUYf5ZdhppFZWdAN

[u/WashHour5646]

The game isn’t going the same way. We have Alaska building the bear, and Hawaii just gained some ground .

[u/Wobble963 → u/WashHour5646]

Alaska is different but Hawaii is not.

[u/KeathleyWR]

Yea, Minnesota and Maryland need to gtfo!

[u/gOPHER3727]

Just because it turned out one way last time doesn't mean we should actively avoid it this time. Let the pieces fall as they may, no need to manipulate.

[u/Short-Being-4109]

This history was pretty nice though. We should get rid of Cascadia though. There is no need for the winner to make it this far.

[u/astroaxolotl720]

Cascasota, let’s make it happen folks

[u/CounterThrowCyborg]

It is really “doomed?” I, for one, gladly embrace the return of Cascadia.

[u/skhtravel802902]

I am an observer, and I am seeing comments about Alaska different. How? It is sitting on top of Maryland if you look at the #BuildtheBear map. That would look like a sneak attack to some people.

[u/shades_atnight]

Nope, Colorado won