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That’s bonkers. But release the Epstein files.

[–] DarkFuture@lemmy.world 42 points 1 day ago (1 children)

God I would love the blue states to pull away so we can watch the red states cannibalize each other.

They need us. We definitely don't need them.

[–] okwhateverdude@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

The ones in the middle are so few and far between, it makes sense for a Fallout: New Vegas military expansion from the east, west, and south. Carve up the middle so each gets a slice of the bread basket.

[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Hoover Dam will be ours! - an NCR citizen

[–] jwt@programming.dev 6 points 1 day ago

If the confederacy gets to keep the military industrial complex in the divorce (which I guess they will because it gives them a hard peepee) they'll be invading the union in no time, because they have no income to speak of.

[–] jerkface@lemmy.ca 48 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

ONE wealthy straight white cis male gets shot. Where the fuck have you been the last 30 year, Greene.

Edit: (Okay, two.)

[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

last i heard she LOST favor with the GOP as a whole, so shes flailing and biting back. i think boeboe might be the same thing.

[–] tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip 4 points 23 hours ago

I think she's still pretty popular with her voters, even if the party is less than thrilled. Bobo is a different story

[–] phoenixz@lemmy.ca 18 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I'd love to see that and laugh my ass off

Red states aren't capable of feeding their own population without cash from the blue states. A split would immediately result in a world power and a theocratic third world country which would make African countries organize a "we are the world" to help and feed the hungry there.

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

Red states sole economy is usually only Tourism, and soybeans/alfalfa and maybe milk/chicken, and this heavily relies on Immigrant labor 100%, and its prone and susceptible to disruption.

[–] 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.

[–] Zombiepirate@lemmy.world 11 points 1 day ago

She should start and GTFO.

[–] Bluefalcon@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 1 day ago

Use the mississippi river, then go straight east to D.C. Anyone that identifies as Republican leaders are anti-American. Everyone else is American. Easy fix

[–] thegr8goldfish@startrek.website 3 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Dibs on the name USA. They can be Donlandia or the Kingdom of Magastan or Dumbass Island.

[–] corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

WSA, ESA, NSA, SSA. No one gets USA.

Yes, NSA for the top half of the middle wasteland. Overload that TLA.

What? No respect for the Social Security Administration?

[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 1 points 1 day ago

SOUTHERN oblast. florida will have to be rename MAR-ALOGO LANDIA.