The Picard ManeuverI'm sure there's a compelling story to it, but it sure looks like Wisconsin is getting buillied.
JeeBaiChowMaybe it was a special military operation?
TedrowThis is funny and all but for actual context very few people live there.
All for the better. While we wait for cannabis stores to open in MN, it’s closer for most folks to drive to the UP rather than to Red Lake. Plus there’s more variety in the ironwood stores
Is it super commercial? Or is the climate there just not ideal?
frustratedphagocytosisIt snows there from October to May, and there's super bad black flies and mosquitos once it thaws. Only 3% of the Michigan population live there, and they'd prefer you not interfere with that.
Californians have noticed a rural area
Have you seen how cheap the land is?
pezmaker It’s a difficult place, short summers, long hard winters.
UPers (you._purs) are an interesting lot. I’m not sure Wisconsin wants them, and they wouldn’t have it anyway if Wisconsin did.
Canada used to fight over it when I was a kid.
We only ever went up near there for the Pasties though, and to say we got in Superior.
It’s mostly forest.
Fun fact, they almost actually went to war with each other over the peninsula. This resulted in the decision by the federal government that states can’t go to war with each other
Michigan and Ohio had a war, michigan agreed to give up its claim on Ohio if it got statehood and the upper peninsula was a consolation prize. Wisconsin became a state later and never had the upper peninsula volumeone.org/…/252990-how-wisconsin-lost-the-upp…
Which makes it funnier because they faught over Toledo.
NeatoHoly Toledo!
In the 21st century, there will be wars to give Toledo to other states.
Hey now, I’ll have you know that Toledo is
It’s pretty amazing that Klinger is still Toledo’s primary claim to fame.
caseyweedermanIt sure is.
owenfromcanadaAs someone who lives in the lower peninsula, I can tell you that Wisconsin hasn’t conquered the U.P. for the same reason no one conquers Russia. They can just retreat into the snow and let the wolves eat you.
I thought it’s because there is nothing there that anyone wants. I always thought Wisconsin was paying them to keep it. I can think of entire US states I’d be willing to pay France to take over.
It depends. If you’re into hiking, fishing, hunting, and snow, it’s a paradise. Lots of folks from the lower peninsula go there for vacations in the summer and fall.
Dizzy Devil DuckyIs there even enough people in Wisconsin to pull of an invasion if the upper Michigan peninsula? How could they when there is only like 5 actual Wisconsinites there? Especially when they’re all trying to invent new cheese recipes?
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Yooper here. Your example is on the money, but perhaps moreso than you know: The UP is also heavily populated by Finnish-Americans, which helps explain the cultural resilience and independence as well. The same dimensions that have kept Finland independent from Russia, keep the UP independent from others - and, holy wah, if I had a nickel every time we talked about breaking away from the trolls South of the bridge while at deer camp…
bob_wileyIt’s funny hearing someone use the term “heavily populated” and “UP” in the same sentence.
Well, you know, relatively speaking.
bobboHoly wah, another Yooper on Lemmy.
“This is getting out of hand! Now there are two of them!”
neuracnuIt would be a crime against humanity to dilute the stunning natural beauty and magnificence of Yooper culture.
Grandpa Farted And Da Dog Died
Is there even enough people in Wisconsin to pull of an invasion if the upper Michigan peninsula? How could they when there is only like 5 actual Wisconsinites there? Especially when they’re all trying to invent new cheese recipes?
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You wouldn’t want to be cut off from the cheese
NeilAhhh, now it makes sense.
I’ve always seen the upper peninsula as a rabbit so that took my brain extra long to process, but I’ll now try to view it as a monster eating Wisconsin
If I were Wisconsin I’d just slowly but steadily build a line of photon cannons and pylons for an unstoppable wall of firepower to absorb the peninsula.
You’re going to require many additional minerals for that plan.
We require more Vespine Gas
IgnisnexNone of the buildings mentioned need gas though!
You require more minerals.
Precisely! That’s the sound of a good photon wall!
FancyLad And the cannons can detect if they’re native to Wisconsin or not and dish out death accordingly. Really helpful against burrowed units too.
Look! Right there!
There’s William S! Blast him!
It’s because we are still in the preperation phase along the boarder. Soon your land will be our land. We will launch cheese and brats across the boarder striking critical barbecue pits the likes of which the world has never seen while simultaneously blocking the boarder of all you PBR supply lines. You’ve been warned.
Please make sure somebody makes movie about it when this happens.
Canada didn’t want it. Why would Wisconsin want it?
It will be a hard fought war because everyone is wearing camo by default. Large scale battles would turn into sharing recipes on the best way to smoke a trout, this years corn harvest, last years deer season and by the end of the night, everyone will have plans together for the following weekend. They would be borrowing each other’s power tools within the first thirty minutes.
🤣🤣🤣
I totally saw it unfold as I read this.
What a cheesy post
the upper peninsula is a haunted place. it’s best left alone
No one wants that nasty tumor on that nice native man’s head…