• @kreskin@lemmy.world
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      313 days ago

      Well the south finally will get to leave the union and form florida-man-istan, jesus-wasteland-istan and all-hat-no-cattle-istan. Good luck to them. We should have a going away party before we put up a wall to keep them from trying to get back in.

    • 4grams
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      594 days ago

      been thinking and saying for years that we’re on the path to a soviet style balkanization. just wasn’t sure what would be the spark. this certainly smells like one.

    • @corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca
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      153 days ago

      Will it be California first? Or maybe Alaska? Hawaii? We know one’s gonna try and split, just not which.

      • monarch
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        63 days ago

        Not Hawaii at least in my opinion. The military foothold is too high, California might have a similar problem but the state is so much bigger that I don’t think that it is as much of an issue. I think Alaska is most likely though. Might pull a Texas and succeed and then ask to become a part of Canada.

    • Buelldozer
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      103 days ago

      Sadly it’s a near inevitable outcome of an overly powerful Federal Government attempting to deal with a population this large. The more powerful the Federal Government gets the less able it is to balance the different desires of its citizens and the less popular it becomes.

      The solution was to NOT have such a powerful Federal Government but we tossed that out the window around somewhere between 1900 and 1920. It may not happen now over this but the clock is ticking and it’s going to happen at some point over something.

      It will be terrifying and terrible when it happens.

        • @misteloct@lemmy.world
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          63 days ago

          Agreed the problem was baked in during the Ohio Compromise and at other times, it has nothing to do with population size because we’re talking about a small number of elites, not popular will.

      • @CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world
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        43 days ago

        Unfortunately, we keep giving a small amount of people a lot of power. The cons have way too much representation in relation to their numbers. The other huge problem is that we have a system of legalized bribery, which is just insanity.

    • @doingthestuff@lemy.lol
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      73 days ago

      We’ve been heading there for a long time and much of the rest of the world has been feeding into the two-sides divide. It’s easier to see when you already loathe both sides for different reasons. But the US has been a powerhouse many would love to see taken down. Generations of work towards that are paying off, and the US working class will suffer the most.