• Infamousblt [any]
    hexbear
    86
    9 months ago

    I am pro US balkanization. It would help make the US less of a global pest if the states are too busy fighting each other

    • huf [he/him]
      hexbear
      54
      9 months ago

      only problem is, it's difficult to draw more unhinged borders for this balkanization than the existing state borders.

      so we cant really make funny images like they like to make about a balkanized china or russia

      • sooper_dooper_roofer [none/use name]
        hexbear
        29
        9 months ago

        only problem is, it's difficult to draw more unhinged borders

        https://imgur.com/a/z0g8Tj9

        Don't ask what happens in the denazifying zone

        • Adkml [he/him]
          hexbear
          12
          9 months ago

          Aww you chopped the adirondacks in half.

        • Venus [she/her]
          hexbear
          8
          9 months ago

          Only problem is Hawaii under China instead of finally independent

      • Redcat [he/him]
        hexbear
        23
        9 months ago

        it may be difficult, but texan irredentism is always an option

    • Joe Robinette Mama@lemm.ee
      hexbear
      3
      9 months ago

      This was the founders' real original vision, and probably a better idea. A loose collection of individual nations with open borders among themselves and a shared currency. Fed was supposed to administer commerce and settle disputes between the states exclusively, but of course it's been expanding ever since it was instituted.

      It would, however, be lovely to live at least some small part of my life not in a system purposely tilted toward slaveowners. Like, what if each and every person was allowed exactly one vote in how to do things?

  • @Sushi_Desires
    hexbear
    79
    9 months ago

    Post in facebook group Texas Patriots for Secession: "Will we still get our social security cheques if we secede?"

      • Adkml [he/him]
        hexbear
        12
        9 months ago

        Honestly can see the libs still sending them money because "otherwise what if we secede and then they would do the same thing to us"

        • MemesAreTheory [he/him, any]
          hexbear
          11
          edit-2
          9 months ago

          Paying social security benefits to goatee sunglasses car picture guys in open revolt because it's the moral high ground.

          Yeah, it's lib liberalism time

  • CthulhusIntern [he/him]
    hexbear
    72
    9 months ago

    Texas. Texas. Think for a moment. If you secede, you're a foreign country with oil. And what does the United States do to them? Think.

  • emizeko [they/them]
    hexbear
    71
    9 months ago

    if a Chinese province did this it would be headline news for a week like the weather balloon

  • @nutbiggums@lemmy.ml
    hexbear
    60
    9 months ago

    Cool with me, that state is going to be a 140 degree hellhole in a few years and I don't want to pay for it

  • @eatmyass
    hexbear
    56
    edit-2
    8 months ago

    deleted by creator

    • Adkml [he/him]
      hexbear
      11
      9 months ago

      It's honestly more often than once a year.

      I know it's pointless to point out republican hypocrisy but it's literally virtue signaling

  • Ho_Chi_Chungus [she/her]
    hexbear
    55
    9 months ago

    "But history repeats itself, first as a farce, then as something that will totally work this time around, trust me guys"

    marx speech-l

  • SaniFlush [any, any]
    hexbear
    54
    9 months ago

    Odds on a lone Texas trying to fight Mexico and eating shit?

    • axont [she/her, comrade/them]
      hexbear
      30
      9 months ago

      Yeah I made a guess a while ago that an independent Texas would hand over the government to the Sinaloa cartel within a year

  • came_apart_at_Kmart [he/him, comrade/them]
    hexbear
    52
    9 months ago

    Texas leaving the US would really open up competition for the title of Worst Shithole in the US.

    also, it would be hilarious to see the Tom Segura "you ask me we're building the wall on the wrong side of Texas" come to life.

      • came_apart_at_Kmart [he/him, comrade/them]
        hexbear
        16
        9 months ago

        Florida and Texas have been battling it out since the beginning, but Texas has always managed to start and end strong by operating with literally the most unreliable and expensive energy distribution infrastructure/grid in these United States while it's extraction infrastructure is an unsafe Byzantine network of pipelines vying to create another Biggest Spill in History at any moment.

        it's a dice role of meteorological forecasting, but I am betting the most extreme mass casualty event to kick off the official climate apocalypse (North America edition) is gonna be Texas, because they are not going to be able to keep people warm or cool for a critical period of time during some phenomenon.

        • YouKnowIt [he/him]
          hexbear
          3
          9 months ago

          If we're not counting that blizzard a year or two ago that killed a bunch of people in Texas, I honestly think that the mass casualty event is a real roll of the dice. Sure, you've got a power grid held together by chicken fencing and EU banned chewing gum in Texas, but the higher hurricane chance and much older average age in Florida keeps it very competitive, as far as I can tell

  • Frank [he/him, he/him]
    hexbear
    52
    9 months ago

    Texas delende est. We should invade their country, kill their leaders, and force them to convert to Marxism.

    Texas, like most southern states, has a large minority of people who are not chuds. Some are libs. Some are politically disengaged. But they're all stuck under the thumb of Christian Fascism with no real way out.

  • SoyViking [he/him]
    hexbear
    45
    9 months ago

    This would it easier for Mexico to liberate their rightful territory that is currently under temporary illegal and unprovoked occupation by the yanqui orcs.

  • axont [she/her, comrade/them]
    hexbear
    41
    9 months ago

    lol no one wants this. It's explicitly a white nationalist project for a state where white people are a minority. It's also financially unsound. Wealthy Texan capitalists are the least likely to care about this because they already have everything they want.

    I should bring up that Texas is considerably poor compared to other states of comparable population. It doesn't seem that way on paper but that's because all the money gets sucked up by literally like 3 families. Construction here takes forever, the education system collapsed years ago, and the only profits are being made in flipping real estate and oil.

    Yeah let's secede and lose all that federal highway money.

  • Egon [they/them]
    hexbear
    40
    9 months ago

    YES PLEASE. Do it. do it do it do it do it. I'm begging you do it. Please do it, balkanize the US.

    Gut reaction aside I hope the many texans stuck with their repressive government receive the aid they need.

  • TheGamingLuddite [none/use name]
    hexbear
    37
    9 months ago

    Texas independence is one of the most absurd claims of any state if you investigate it. Louisiana has its weird French common law and parish system, California has a big EU-style consumer regulation regime, Texas uses the multistate bar exam and functions identically to fuckass Wyoming except you get to choose from a list of 3 power oligarchs who will all shut your service down the second it gets below freezing.