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[–] [email protected] 194 points 2 days ago (8 children)

Here we go, dissolution of the U.S. is starting. It's a slow roll, but i think that's where we are headed

[–] [email protected] 58 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I would love to visit the country of California.

[–] [email protected] 59 points 2 days ago

been thinking and saying for years that we’re on the path to a soviet style balkanization. just wasn’t sure what would be the spark. this certainly smells like one.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Well the south finally will get to leave the union and form florida-man-istan, jesus-wasteland-istan and all-hat-no-cattle-istan. Good luck to them. We should have a going away party before we put up a wall to keep them from trying to get back in.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago (4 children)

Why not let them back in? There's some good people in the red states; it's a shame we can't easily relocate all of them.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

Nothing says a wall can't have a door in it. If you want to come here, and aren't a total douchebag, we can let you in. Maybe even let you stay if you want to. 🤣

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago

...we'll have to check their voting history first.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

I escaped the south, they need to as well.

The amount of absolute evil down there is unimaginable.

We need to build a wall.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

I say we take off and nuke the entire site from orbit.

[–] [email protected] 38 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 days ago

I guess history really does rhyme.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Will it be California first? Or maybe Alaska? Hawaii? We know one's gonna try and split, just not which.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 days ago

Cheeto will 'gift' Russia Alaska for its help with Greenland

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 days ago

Not Hawaii at least in my opinion. The military foothold is too high, California might have a similar problem but the state is so much bigger that I don't think that it is as much of an issue. I think Alaska is most likely though. Might pull a Texas and succeed and then ask to become a part of Canada.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Sadly it's a near inevitable outcome of an overly powerful Federal Government attempting to deal with a population this large. The more powerful the Federal Government gets the less able it is to balance the different desires of its citizens and the less popular it becomes.

The solution was to NOT have such a powerful Federal Government but we tossed that out the window around somewhere between 1900 and 1920. It may not happen now over this but the clock is ticking and it's going to happen at some point over something.

It will be terrifying and terrible when it happens.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 days ago (1 children)

A lot of this could be fixed by reforming the senate which is a big part of why that will never happen.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 days ago

Agreed the problem was baked in during the Ohio Compromise and at other times, it has nothing to do with population size because we're talking about a small number of elites, not popular will.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago

Unfortunately, we keep giving a small amount of people a lot of power. The cons have way too much representation in relation to their numbers. The other huge problem is that we have a system of legalized bribery, which is just insanity.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 days ago (2 children)

If Texas somehow joins California, were fucked

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

I think that's a reference to the Civil War movie a while back.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 days ago (2 children)

I think it would be much more likely for the west coast as a whole to split. WA, OR, CA

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

I could also see Nevada, Arizona, and maybe even Idaho joining. Though Idaho would probably need to have it pointed out that they're fucked without the other western states.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 days ago

We've been heading there for a long time and much of the rest of the world has been feeding into the two-sides divide. It's easier to see when you already loathe both sides for different reasons. But the US has been a powerhouse many would love to see taken down. Generations of work towards that are paying off, and the US working class will suffer the most.