The Missouri-Illinois border is the Mississippi river. Hard to accidentally cross it.
Edit: I take that back. I wasn't accounting for the crazy interchanges in St. Louis right before and after the three bridges that cross near downtown. So you have all the local traffic and exits for downtown piled up with local and interatate traffic crossing the bridges.
People love it.
I could post a rebuttal espousing the virtues of KC and STL, the aquarium in Springfield, the natural beauty, the cave systems, rivers, forests and lakes... But you're also not wrong.
We don't have to deal with them harshly. Ok, in the immediate sense, yes we do need to set an example with harsh consequences for those whoe enabled and are perpetuating the current and future atrocities of this regime.
When we rebuild, though, we don't need to be harsh. We just need strong guardrails against allowing psychopathy to be the dominantly rewarded trait in our societies, aka scrap capitalism as the exploitative cancer it is and build circular and reciprocal economies.
Oh these chucklefucks have a habit of overriding voter initiatives where we gather enough signatures to put an item on the ballot. Popular vote will pass the legislation, and then the republican majority state legislature will invariably introduce legislation to reverse whatever progress we're trying to make despite them.
When did their music get so political?
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It is something I've seen asked.