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Philip Bump
@pbump.com

Traveling from Texas to Cali is revelatory just because the contrast is so obvious. You know what California doesn’t do? Put big ol’ California flags all over because it doesn’t need to insist on itself.

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Okie
@okiefrommuskogee.bsky.social

Sort of like MAGA and Trump flags. I want a Dem to come out and say we will never sell you a blue hat with bumper sticker slogans or put our faces on the American flag 🇺🇸.

Walker
@walkerhilton.bsky.social

I love getting my neighbors/coworkers mad by telling them that they seems like crazy exes being so obsessed with California because Californians don’t think of them at all.

David Watson
@sharkman1963.bsky.social

Well I've made that trip six times in the last six months and what California doesn't do either is give you unbelievable huge expenses of mostly untouched wilderness to look at for hours on end

M, the other white meat
@lotusprime.bsky.social

My man, we have Yosemite and Joshua Tree and the Mojave desert and Mount Shasta and The Sierra Nevada and the Redwoods and the PACIFIC OCEAN, believe me we’re spoiled for huge expanses of untouched wilderness.

esouthard
@esouthard.bsky.social

They, uh, do like to talk about how much they like California and how they just couldn’t ever imagine living anywhere else, the quality of life just doesn’t compare, and then they look at you and realize what they said to you, a non-Californian, and then you find something else to talk about.

Pronounced “Tim”
@timmycherman.bsky.social

Raised a rural Coloradan, I always find the psychology of enthusiastic Texans curious (I work with many). My favorite was a coworker who insisted that the shape of Texas was the best shape for a cookie. It was both a thing I never thought of before as well as a rationale that was…debatable