• FaceDeer@fedia.io
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    16 hours ago

    Two separate united houses can stand, though.

    Well, one of them can. Based on how their economies seem to do, the other one’s going to be in trouble pretty quickly.

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      4 hours ago

      how quickly will BRICS snuggle up to the greater Texas petro state? What is their next move? Mutual defense pact? Plus with aligned states cutting the two coasts apart up through Idaho, there are really two seperate ‘liberal’ nations, not one. Oh, and California has the largest population of republicans outside of Texas so, not a lot of support. The US would be carved up and devoured in 2-3 years. It would no longer be a world player. That is already clearly the goal and it is working. I dont know why people want to accelerate this rather than attempt to reverse it.

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        Well, I’m Canadian, and America has been threatening my country’s sovereignty lately. I’d rather they just go back to being relatively sane again but if that’s not in the cards then splitting America up into more manageable pieces is an adequate fallback I suppose.

        Those pieces wouldn’t be superpowers. They’d just be regular countries like everyone else. Is that so terrible?

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          2 hours ago

          I think you would be surprised how bad the neighborhood would get with the US broken up into waring factions.

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            I’m surprised how bad the neighborhood is with America being one big piece. I think chunking it up would make things better for us in the long run, especially considering that the relatively “saner” chunks would act as somewhat of a buffer between us and the total froot-loops down south.

            As I said, there are other solutions I’d rather see happen. But if the US is going to stay as it is now then by all means break it up, that’s better than having it be one giant hostile nation.