• Infamousblt [any]@hexbear.net
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    10 months ago

    I am pro US balkanization. It would help make the US less of a global pest if the states are too busy fighting each other

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      10 months ago

      only problem is, it’s difficult to draw more unhinged borders for this balkanization than the existing state borders.

      so we cant really make funny images like they like to make about a balkanized china or russia

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      10 months ago

      This was the founders’ real original vision, and probably a better idea. A loose collection of individual nations with open borders among themselves and a shared currency. Fed was supposed to administer commerce and settle disputes between the states exclusively, but of course it’s been expanding ever since it was instituted.

      It would, however, be lovely to live at least some small part of my life not in a system purposely tilted toward slaveowners. Like, what if each and every person was allowed exactly one vote in how to do things?

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    10 months ago

    Cool with me, that state is going to be a 140 degree hellhole in a few years and I don’t want to pay for it

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      10 months ago

      It’s honestly more often than once a year.

      I know it’s pointless to point out republican hypocrisy but it’s literally virtue signaling

  • Frank [he/him, he/him]@hexbear.net
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    10 months ago

    Texas delende est. We should invade their country, kill their leaders, and force them to convert to Marxism.

    Texas, like most southern states, has a large minority of people who are not chuds. Some are libs. Some are politically disengaged. But they’re all stuck under the thumb of Christian Fascism with no real way out.

  • came_apart_at_Kmart [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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    10 months ago

    Texas leaving the US would really open up competition for the title of Worst Shithole in the US.

    also, it would be hilarious to see the Tom Segura “you ask me we’re building the wall on the wrong side of Texas” come to life.

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        10 months ago

        Florida and Texas have been battling it out since the beginning, but Texas has always managed to start and end strong by operating with literally the most unreliable and expensive energy distribution infrastructure/grid in these United States while it’s extraction infrastructure is an unsafe Byzantine network of pipelines vying to create another Biggest Spill in History at any moment.

        it’s a dice role of meteorological forecasting, but I am betting the most extreme mass casualty event to kick off the official climate apocalypse (North America edition) is gonna be Texas, because they are not going to be able to keep people warm or cool for a critical period of time during some phenomenon.

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          If we’re not counting that blizzard a year or two ago that killed a bunch of people in Texas, I honestly think that the mass casualty event is a real roll of the dice. Sure, you’ve got a power grid held together by chicken fencing and EU banned chewing gum in Texas, but the higher hurricane chance and much older average age in Florida keeps it very competitive, as far as I can tell

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    10 months ago

    This would it easier for Mexico to liberate their rightful territory that is currently under temporary illegal and unprovoked occupation by the yanqui orcs.

  • axont [she/her, comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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    10 months ago

    lol no one wants this. It’s explicitly a white nationalist project for a state where white people are a minority. It’s also financially unsound. Wealthy Texan capitalists are the least likely to care about this because they already have everything they want.

    I should bring up that Texas is considerably poor compared to other states of comparable population. It doesn’t seem that way on paper but that’s because all the money gets sucked up by literally like 3 families. Construction here takes forever, the education system collapsed years ago, and the only profits are being made in flipping real estate and oil.

    Yeah let’s secede and lose all that federal highway money.

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    10 months ago

    YES PLEASE. Do it. do it do it do it do it. I’m begging you do it. Please do it, balkanize the US.

    Gut reaction aside I hope the many texans stuck with their repressive government receive the aid they need.

  • TheGamingLuddite [none/use name]@hexbear.net
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    Texas independence is one of the most absurd claims of any state if you investigate it. Louisiana has its weird French common law and parish system, California has a big EU-style consumer regulation regime, Texas uses the multistate bar exam and functions identically to fuckass Wyoming except you get to choose from a list of 3 power oligarchs who will all shut your service down the second it gets below freezing.