• Ocean@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    2 hours ago

    Listen, you just want to annex lake Michigan and take Chicago as a part of the bundle, I won’t argue. Because at this point I’m begging

  • hapablap@lemmy.sdf.org
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    2 hours ago

    Canada would then be more US than Canadian at that point. US + Canada should keep United States of America name. The question is then what to call the other country. Kingdom of Christ? The 1950s?

  • Triasha@lemmy.world
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    3 hours ago

    Feel real bad for Illinois, Virginia, Colorado and New Mexico citizens.

    And all the Democrats in the red states of course.

  • Omega@discuss.online
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    6 hours ago

    Reminds me of the people saying ‘china please liberate occupied California, send 200 dong Feng missiles and build intercontinental high speed rail long live ccp’

  • Uriel238 [all pronouns]@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    7 hours ago

    Some of us have had Cascadia dreams. The problem is that Canada has its own issues and is on the same oozing, shambling drift towards fascist autocracy.

    But yeah, the problem is that the US is a big pastiche of purple, and we can’t even tell how much of the red side is pressured by peer pressure and the colossal far-right-wing propaganda machine that features the most popular media offerings in the nation. Huge swaths of people are literally being mind controlled, and no-one is addressing this. (On a related note, we keep allowing more loopholes to allow gambling outside Nevada and Georgia, not to mention have failed to criminalize lootboxes)

    The US isn’t even trying to be democratic and hasn’t for decades, which is how seventy seven million people, many of them low-information voters, voted for the guy who campaigned on a fascist autocratic coup d’etat.

    That is to say once we finally unseat President Donald J. Trump, we should get ready for a Pete Townshend scream:

    Meet the new boss!
    Same as the old boss!

  • ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca
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    8 hours ago

    I want less Americans in my country, not more

    The only reason Maine gets a pass is because it was ours to begin with

  • Basic Glitch@lemm.ee
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    8 hours ago

    Except this is also how the “democracy” that is modern day Russia was created. Everything that’s happened in the U.S. since ~2012 that has been driving us to the brink of collapse by furthering the divide between left and right has been eerily similar.

    Psychological Inoculation and Astroturfing: Preparing for exploitation of U.S. secession movements

    A lot of people don’t know this, bc it’s not exactly clear what they were doing there, but coincidentally the Heritage Foundation also seemed to play a role in the creation of the first free market in the earliest days of post-soviet Russia.

    • The Heritage Foundation is a society of monarchists. It’s supported by oligarchs who want to be king to push the world towards that agenda, and such oligarchs routinely infuse it with capital.

    • jwmgregory@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      8 hours ago

      thank you for not giving in to their rhetoric and letting this point die.

      i get endless downvotes on all social media anytime i say a civil war is the absolute fucking worst outcome of any of the current trends.

      guess people are just out for blood rn. i wouldn’t make it sound so innocent, tho. why are people out for blood? lots of answers, none satisfying enough.

      • Triasha@lemmy.world
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        2 hours ago

        Take an up vote from me. Civil wars nearly always end in tragedy beyond the imaginations of those who start them.

      • Basic Glitch@lemm.ee
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        8 hours ago

        I believe the most obvious is they benefit (or at least believe they will benefit) from that outcome.