I thought until very very very recently that said football team was for Washington state, not DC. Partially because it seemed much more like Washington, especially the eastern part of the state, to be okay with that name than DC.
DC stop calling yourself Washington challenge, no one else calls you that because it’s confusing.
I believe the original idea for the state of Washington was actually to call it Columbia, but people thought it would be too confusing what with Washington DC being the District of Columbia. Good thing they ironed that out, so much less confusing now.
Did anyone bother to inform them that they could’ve simply named it anything else and not picked between two names already taken by the nation’s capital?
The statehood bill calls it the "state of Washington, Douglass Commonwealth" and it's so fuckin dumb.
It should just be Douglass Commonwealth. The capital/only/coterminous city could still be called Washington, making the "City, State Abbr" form come out to Washington, DC.
And since we don't refer to states by their capital, we'd called it DC 90% of the time.
Edit: also "state of" and "Commonwealth" shouldn't go together. It's one or the other.
What statehood bill are you talking about? D.C. is for District of Columbia. Or is this bill an attempt to make it a state and rename it Douglas Commonwealth after Frederick Douglass?
And yeah, it's renaming it after Frederick Douglass because even libs can't deny Columbus was a horrible human being. I think Douglass Commonwealth is about the best option if you want to keep the DC abbreviation that it's widely known as.
no, the washington state football team is the seahawks. who i think also have a kind of weird relationship with the local indigenous tribes, but not nearly as bad as the team formerly named a slur
I thought until very very very recently that said football team was for Washington state, not DC. Partially because it seemed much more like Washington, especially the eastern part of the state, to be okay with that name than DC.
DC stop calling yourself Washington challenge, no one else calls you that because it’s confusing.
Their soccer team did it right at least, DC United
I believe the original idea for the state of Washington was actually to call it Columbia, but people thought it would be too confusing what with Washington DC being the District of Columbia. Good thing they ironed that out, so much less confusing now.
Did anyone bother to inform them that they could’ve simply named it anything else and not picked between two names already taken by the nation’s capital?
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lmao I thought that until right now. Now the old name makes even less sense somehow.
The statehood bill calls it the "state of Washington, Douglass Commonwealth" and it's so fuckin dumb.
It should just be Douglass Commonwealth. The capital/only/coterminous city could still be called Washington, making the "City, State Abbr" form come out to Washington, DC.
And since we don't refer to states by their capital, we'd called it DC 90% of the time.
Edit: also "state of" and "Commonwealth" shouldn't go together. It's one or the other.
What statehood bill are you talking about? D.C. is for District of Columbia. Or is this bill an attempt to make it a state and rename it Douglas Commonwealth after Frederick Douglass?
HR 51
And yeah, it's renaming it after Frederick Douglass because even libs can't deny Columbus was a horrible human being. I think Douglass Commonwealth is about the best option if you want to keep the DC abbreviation that it's widely known as.
Huh. That’s actually a really great idea.
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North Koreans are said to have a personality cult around their first president. But their capital city isn't named after Kim Il-Sung...
no, the washington state football team is the seahawks. who i think also have a kind of weird relationship with the local indigenous tribes, but not nearly as bad as the team formerly named a slur