:sicko-crab:

  • Infamousblt [any]
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    4 years ago

    Balkanization of America is going to be one of the best things to ever happen to the world. The US will split into weird warring factions and rather than spend time trying to destabilize governments globally will instead focus on trying to destabilize the remnants of itself.

    • RNAi [he/him]
      hexagon
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      4 years ago

      It's nice to dream about it, but nah, rich people will never let that happen.

      • Infamousblt [any]
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        4 years ago

        They let Brexit happen. I think if the rich can find a way to make money off of it, they certainly will. It won't be like...Amazon, who actually does benefit from interstate trade. It would be regional industries like steel or big agra that would want something like this, and they definitely have the money to push for it.

        Alternatively even Amazon could benefit from it if they could setup a state without all the pesky labor laws that keep them from TRULY exploiting workers. So I'm not so sure that the rich couldn't find a way to benefit from it in a way they wouldn't be able to with the US as a whole

      • star_wraith [he/him]
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        4 years ago

        I don't know if the rich will or not, but the US military industrial complex definitely won't. Because a state like TX or CA leaving means a lot less revenue but the same imperial interests need to be defended.

      • CarlTheRedditor [he/him]
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        4 years ago

        Worse, the broken off parts will just become unregulated resource extraction bonanzas that benefit all the same people as now.

        • RNAi [he/him]
          hexagon
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          4 years ago

          But the military should be broken up too and that's absolutely good. Y'all are deeply fucked anyways. But that won't haooen because MIC will protect itself at all cost and the Financial Complex is nothing without the army to do terror in the countries that want to rebel.

    • RNAi [he/him]
      hexagon
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      4 years ago

      Dude, I don't give a shit, I'm really really happy for brexit and I hope murica did the same.

      • FnordPrefect [comrade/them, he/him]
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        4 years ago

        On the one hand, of course, death to America

        On the other, losing any hope of regulating their oil extraction seems like it would drastically increase the odds of death to everything else as well

        • RNAi [he/him]
          hexagon
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          edit-2
          4 years ago

          It won't happen anyways, oil regulations I mean

  • Eva [they/them]
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    4 years ago

    On the one hand :party-sicko:

    On the other, I'd fear for the literal millions that would find themselves under the boot of the Texas GOP after they secede. I can only imagine what the Texas-Mexico border would become.

    • bark [none/use name]
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      4 years ago

      Probably war.

      America can fuck with the rest fo the Americas with impunity.

      Texas though? Harder time. They still would, but harder time.

    • kristina [she/her]
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      4 years ago

      full on golden circle shit, invade mexico and turn them into slaves

    • Indifference_Engine [comrade/them, any]
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      4 years ago

      If we align our QPU's properly we should be able to BLJ fast enough to clip through the Whitehouse and skip right to the establishment of the U.S.S.A

  • krothotkin [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    Steinbeck on Texas secession: "We've heard them threaten to secede so often that I formed an enthusiastic organization, the American Friends for Texas Secession. This stops the subject cold. They want to be able to secede, but they don't want anyone to want them to."

  • PorkrollPosadist [he/him, they/them]
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    edit-2
    4 years ago

    Fuck I guess this is why the chud around the block replaced his Trump and Molon Labe flags with a Texas flag. (For the record, this is pretty far from Texas)

    • CarlTheRedditor [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      Lol

      COME AND TAKE IT!

      [crazy lady gets domed at the capitol riots]

      [changing flags, sadly murmuring] 🎶texas, our texas, all hail the hmm hmmmm hmm🎶

  • AlexandairBabeuf [they/them]
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    4 years ago

    if texas gets to be independent they have to give back all mexican land not in the original borders of the texan republic

    • RNAi [he/him]
      hexagon
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      4 years ago

      They also did like a lot of atrocities and shit that will haunt the planet for many centuries more, so maybe it's not the second worst

  • 420sixtynine [any,comrade/them]
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    4 years ago

    lmao (at least to my understanding) Texas didn't even want to be independent they were waiting it out so a free state could join so they could join as a slave state. The state that joined to be that free state was actually only a free state because they didn't allow black people in at all (Oregon) and that didn't change in their constitution until like the 1930s. I hate all the Texas independence stuff bc they are going off a false history

    • RNAi [he/him]
      hexagon
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      4 years ago

      Don't know shit about texas history but o7

  • emizeko [they/them]
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    4 years ago

    this guy's a real whackjob piece of shit but critical support for this