I keep asking this as information develops and the year goes on. What do you guys think?

  • @Munrock
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    102 years ago

    if we balkanize the US, what stops Nevada from getting rid of a minimum wage or all taxation above a certain income? What stops Texas from fulfilling its dream of being a patriarchal white supremacist EcoFascist state? What will happen to California? The place that will inevitably take the place of Neoliberal “progressive” culture with backwards class analysis?

    As long as they don’t have nukes (so they can’t wage war with impunity in a multipolar or BRICS/China-led world), let them. They’ll collapse in their own time. Yeah it’ll suck for people there, but they’ll be able to do something about it, unlike the people on the other side of the world that the US fucks with.

    • ButtigiegMineralMap
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      72 years ago

      That’s a pretty good point, the nukes are the main issue. Anything that stops the US from participating in foreign policy of any kind is worth it but not at the expense of nukes flying

      • @peeonyou@lemmy.ml
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        42 years ago

        This is why I figure the people here will never be able to gain control over the state. There are just too goddamn many life-exterminating weapons of every sort and the chance that some random shithead from Alabama or Glassgow could snag one during the struggle is unacceptable to the rest of the world either.

        • @asdfghjkl
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          22 years ago

          Let them nuke themselves in peace

          • @peeonyou@lemmy.ml
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            22 years ago

            It’s not just nukes, not to mention blowing up a nuke or two has ramifications for the rest of the world as well considering fallout and whatnot.