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Republicans were never really about states rights. They were only about THEIR rights.

Only applied when it's their rights. Otherwise they'll pull some mental gymnastics like the AI bros pulled for AI deregulation.

It depends on which Republicans, I suppose.

Many seem to argue about states rights in regards to the Civil War, wherein the southern states wanted rights to enter northern states and force them to obey the southern State's laws...

To me, enforcing laws across state lines seems far more Federalist than State isolationist.

And I would argue many claiming "States Rights" today want their states rules to be enacted in other states as well, e.g. the push to federally ban abortions

A union with Oregon and Washington state would be nice too (us west coasters should work together)

It'll never happen, as nice as it sounds.
So I'm Canadian and we have separatists in, now 2 provinces.
Whether the latest is a conservative US psy-op, is up for debate. But that is probably part of it.
The Quebec separatists have been angry for the total of my lifetime and being from BC I've mostly ignored their plight of "different culture" but I never wanted to lose that chunk of the country and to me it's part of the greater Canadian culture.
The Alberta "separatists" are different, they are more like traitors.
Citing stats like, "Alberta (oil and gas province, the "Texas" of Canada) contributes more in equalization payments to other Canadians provinces!", which is true, as a total sum.
But the morons don't understand that equalization payments are taken from federal taxes in a bracketed tax system, so it just means on average, Albertans are richer. The rich they cry that they're not getting fair share...
Epitome of greed.
They believe because they were simply born there, moved there, that all the mineral and oil and gas profits belong to them. They're even more idiotic to believe the producers will share these profits with them.
They're not taking that away from our country, and it's worth going to war over. I think California would end up falling into the same situation of belief, though reversed between conservative and left-of-conservative views.
They'd go to war over it. So bit of a dangerous play.

I get that what's I'm going to say is crazy, but I think it would be a lot easier to just remove trump from office than gain indipendence. Neither would be "easy" but balkanizing the US is just not gonna happen.

I'm still waiting for New California Republic, Americans.

The US divorcing itself is the best thing that could happen right now. It won't be pretty, but neither is staying with a domestic abuser.

Unfortunately, balkanization may be our only option at this point.

We need an East Rome West Rome split but its blue state vs red state. Each get their own President, pool Military powers

China recognized long ago that all states falter after around 250 years, and that renewal is a natural part of human institution.

The biggest mistake of the founding fathers was to assume the permanence of our institutions was okay since checks and balances were instituted. Really all they do is delay the time between cycles of corruption.

Man i would love to see california take their GDP from the USA (and all the other blue states/cities for that matter) and see how MAGA erupts. Stream it live and i'll go get popcorn.

The mayor might

thats the time when the russians have been funneling money through him.

Global Response & Outbreak Information Network has a nice ring to it.

The current administration is dismantling all of the global things the US has been a part of under the guise of the US being "ripped off" and it's actively making shit worse.

Feels intentional to me but I don't know the end goal.

Less funding "woke" organizations, means more money for the billionaires.

rfk jr is quite obsessed with "infections for all"