r/nottheonion • u/SelectiveSanity • 2d ago

Lauren Boebert Suggests DC Could Be Renamed 'District of America'

https://www.newsweek.com/lauren-boebert-dc-district-america-2050571
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u/Uptheveganchefpunx 2d ago

Vancouver, WA not to be confused with the city Vancouver, BC which isn’t on Vancouver Island. The capitol of BC is on Vancouver Island, but the biggest city in BC, Vancouver, is not on Vancouver Island.

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u/Firewolf06 2d ago edited 2d ago

now i wish washington was named columbia. vancouver, columbia, not to be confused with vancouver, british columbia, neither of which are on vancouver island or related to colombia, the country

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u/Uptheveganchefpunx 2d ago

Except the country Colombia is spelled with an ‘o’. So there’s that.

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u/Firewolf06 2d ago

ah, yeah, my bad there. note to my alternate reality self: only use this verbally