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[–] TrickDacy@lemmy.world 24 points 1 day ago (5 children)

What's up with her saying things I agree with lately?

We need at least to be split into two countries if not more. There is no reconciliation possible at this point.

[–] Drusas@fedia.io 10 points 1 day ago

Long live Cascadia!

[–] jerkface@lemmy.ca 20 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

Or how about 50-odd countries? Perhaps you could form some kind of union.

[–] abir_v@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago

Well as long as we're saying the federal government has too much power, yes, it obviously does.

[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

balkanization. blue states form a coalition with the other blue states, and red can ally with themselves, and ask russia for assistance. and the first step of legislation is expelling the GOP from the blue states.

[–] jerkface@lemmy.ca 2 points 17 hours ago

As a non-American, speaking on behalf of quite a number of other non-Americans, we're fine with balkanization. Fuck with each other for a few decades, for a change.

[–] SanctimoniousApe@piefed.social 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

I'll need a new family, then. sigh

EDIT: Okay, I need one now, but it'll be official post-split.

[–] Kacarott@aussie.zone 2 points 1 day ago

It's a new country, not a new planet. Families can live across borders

[–] fadingembers@lemmy.blahaj.zone 0 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Isn't almost every state basically a 50/50 split only slightly leaning one way or the other with the majority of each faction separated by urban and rural/suburban living? Hell, Texas has the second largest LGBT population in the country.

[–] jerkface@lemmy.ca 1 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago)

Gay people don't decide where to get born!! Gay population is almost a direct function of population, and Texas is the second most populous state, so of course they have the second most number of gay people.

[–] TrickDacy@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

No, there are plenty of states that are very much blue or very much red.

[–] glimse@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Yeah? What's the split you have in mind?

[–] TrickDacy@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Basically middle america and the south could be a country and then the eastern seaboard and the west coast could be their own countries as well.

[–] abir_v@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

Please don't lump me in with the South, thanks

~ Coloradan

[–] tyler@programming.dev 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I think when they said “middle America” they meant the straight line of states directly east of us, fellow Coloradan.

[–] abir_v@lemmy.world 1 points 7 hours ago

My hypothetical worry lies with Utah, then. How do they work in what I'm calling the Craft Beer Union?

[–] TrickDacy@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

Haha. I think Colorado would be a part of the western country.