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America is America's own worst enemy, and I'm all for that, except that part where I'm here and so are my loved ones
Probably the least harmful (but still chaotic thing) would be just full American balkanization.
I’ll see you libs in the people’s republic of cascadia after we kick out the hogs in the forest. Let the chuds ruin their own communities through their pig-headedness.
The only thing that makes me nervous about an organic rather than an enforced balkanization of the US is that we'd have a handful of nuclear states as rabid as Israel with a ready made cuban missile crisis times 10
Info: How bad would things be for the rest of the planet if the Balkanized remnants of the US used the nukes on each other?
quite. removing US food production directly and unpredictable ash/winter conditions everywhere else
Plus there's bound to be one of the kookier states having a Samson option or straight up thinking the scientists are fucking morons and the bombs should be dropped on the ground instead of in the air and boom, nuclear fallout (🫵🏾😧) for decades at the least.
The evangelists of the Heavenly Kingdom of the ArkLaTex would definitely nuke the world to bring Jesus back
ArkLaTex sounds like the second worst way to write equations to pdf
I like LaTeX
Akktually Nordhaus proved that agricultural collapse caused by climate change would only reduce global GDP by 1-2%.
Far from "economic collapse" you looney leftists keep crying about. What are you, a farmer?
And the ash will help cool the Earth anyway.
(/s just in case the insanity isn't glaringly obvious to all)
Yeah I'm for revolution first (even though that happening in hellhole America feels like a fantasy at times) but if balkanization gets the boot off the rest of the world's neck then bring it. Whatever I may suffer, the rest of the has a million times over at the hands of this demonic entity I find myself in.
But, like Grapho said, there are those nukes.
But also, its not like I trust the rabid dying empire with them either.
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