• BigAssBlueBug [they/them]
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    3 years ago

    Screaming "balkanize" over and over again until I'm banned from yet another wal-mart

  • HarryLime [any]
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    3 years ago

    No offense to OP, but this article is fucking stupid.

    • EthicalHumanMeat [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      It's lib shit, but seeing libs argue for secession is pretty wild. I remember seeing a poll a few months ago that had something like 30-40% of self-identified liberals saying they supported breaking up the US. Not that the powers that be would ever actually support that, but it's oddly promising as a reflection of growing disillusionment with the US. A thoroughly warped and delusional kind, but still interesting.

      • spectre [he/him]
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        3 years ago

        This was me for quite some time. I remember seeing it discussed online here and there, and farther right liberals would jump in and point out that open borders and a united federal government basically are what allow the treats to flow, and how quality of life in any seceding region would decline rapidly of such an attempt were to be successful. They weren't wrong or anything, it's just funny how poor of an instinct educated-working-class left-liberals (including my former self) usually have for ecenomics.

      • TeethOrCoat [none/use name]
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        3 years ago

        oddly promising as a reflection of growing disillusionment with the US

        To add on to this, I don't think I've seen anything like this happen before.

    • Melon [she/her,they/them]
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      3 years ago

      "well there are different cultures, and America is bad at being multicultural, so therefore it should all be broken apart, no I will not elaborate"

  • Cummunism [they/them, he/him]
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    3 years ago

    it probably is the only chance for progress in any large region of america, but i would be concerned about some of the new countries and the people stuck in them Can you imagine all the conservative states in the middle Balkanizing and consolidating power entirely and forever? It'd just be a Christian oligarchy even more than america is now. or what if they get to create a new constitution today and all the batshit stuff they would put in it.

    • LoudMuffin [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      It’d just be a Christian oligarchy even more than america is now

      free of the liiiibtaaaard menace their Hyperborean faculties would unshackled and the greatest White minds would literally be colonizing the stars with flying busts of Jesus Christ with the Sonnenrad™ gravity stabilized warp drive. following both the Evolian dialectical method and Rothbards tenets their economy would be the jewel of the world!

      New California/Cascadia would have a brief civil war in which the libtaaaards/c*mmies emerge victorious and they would rapidly descend into failed states with succdem policies such as universal healthcare, some minority rights and rent control, and actually drinkable non-privatized water

      • Nagarjuna [he/him]
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        3 years ago

        libtaaaards/c*mmies

        You can write "cummies," the slur filter wont stop you

    • jabrd [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      It would be unironically fascist, but ya know with American characteristics so with apple pie and the Klan instead of iron eagles and big greek pillars with torchlit rallies

  • shiteyes2 [any]
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    3 years ago

    Oh yeah I'm totally down for a warring states period, pile on the shit. If there is something this country is lacking it is warlordism