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[–] djsoren19@yiffit.net 6 points 17 minutes ago

Marjorie Taylor Dumbfuck here doesn't realize that her state, and in fact all Republican-led states, are solely dependent on blue state generosity in order to continue to exist. I'm sure the blue states would absolutely love for these freeloading welfare states to leave the union, because it would offer an immediate federal surplus that could be better allocated on themselves. It will never happen, because the smart conservatives love having a never-ending money faucet they can gargle when their economic plans fail due to their own ineptitude.

[–] circuitfarmer@lemmy.sdf.org 13 points 3 hours ago

Oh no, please, don't

[–] Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 6 points 1 hour ago
[–] S_H_K@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 hour ago

I would have imagined you Americans would have liked your country united as it was through your whole lives. Looking at the comments tho... Instead of WW3 we'll see US Civil War 2?

[–] Furbag@lemmy.world 21 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

About the only thing that would make me happier than to have the entire pacific west coast secede and create a sovereign nation would be for Trump to do it for us so we don't have to fight a war over it. You want us gone? Please, show us the exit, we'll be on our way. No takebacksies.

[–] Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works 5 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

Can the Northeast join? No one in MA for example wants to be part of MAGA Land.

[–] SwordInStone@lemmy.world 2 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 1 hour ago) (1 children)

Iirc one of ~~MA~~ ME electoral votes will go to Trump, ao nlt really no-one

Edit: I'm stupid. MA is Massachusetts which is blue af (every county iirc). Maine is ME

[–] frayedpickles@lemmy.cafe 2 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago) (1 children)

You mean Maine? MA doesn't split.

[–] SwordInStone@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago

I am too confidently incorrect sometimes. I'm not from the US, I thought you meant Maine.

[–] Allonzee@lemmy.world 20 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago)

Oh look, a broken clock.

How many times do we need to keep this nation "united" at gunpoint before we acknowledge that the science and reason people are incompatible with the supply side Jesus and racial hatred people? We can't stand one another, and time only deepens that division until bloodshed, over and over.

You can't educate those cultures that refuse to be educated or have their children educated. That kind of change, born of desperation and constant struggle inflicted from your own culture's values needs to come from within. The Red States need their Martin Luther "maybe we shouldn't punch ourselves in the face every day" reformation moment, and it isn't rational for those that see beyond their ignorance and superstition be dragged down with them for generations until they get there. Blue states propping them up only prolong comfort in their ignorance.

You can't force cultural evolution or save the willfully ignorant from their own willlfull ignorance from outside on Alabama any more than you can on Afghanistan, all you do is create a common enemy for them, as we continue to experience.

[–] Goodmorningsunshine@lemmy.world 56 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

Don't threaten me with a good country.

[–] T00l_shed@lemmy.world 21 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

Can Canada take the coastal states?

[–] UnpledgedCatnapTipper@lemmy.blahaj.zone 13 points 7 hours ago (2 children)

Can Minnesota come along too? We're basically in Canada here already.

[–] T00l_shed@lemmy.world 6 points 4 hours ago

Yes. But please make sure to throw away your trash before you come live with us.

[–] nickwitha_k@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

Only if you bring a hot dish.

[–] badelf@lemmy.ml 2 points 3 hours ago (1 children)
[–] nickwitha_k@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 34 minutes ago

I think the Canadians call that "Kraft Dinner".

[–] phoenixz@lemmy.ca 21 points 7 hours ago

Yeah, divorce yourself from all those states that send you money because you're too backward to care for yourself. Sounds like a great idea!

[–] samus12345@lemmy.world 28 points 8 hours ago (2 children)

If it weren't mainly a rural vs. urban split, I'd be all for the fascists getting their own country to ruin. But we're too spread out to make it feasible.

[–] rumba@lemmy.zip 2 points 2 hours ago

If it weren’t mainly a rural vs. urban split, I

Yeah, we'd have to move them somewhere, perhaps down South.... Make the link around say Virginia... Sounds familiar, but I can't lay my finger on it...

[–] Goodmorningsunshine@lemmy.world 9 points 7 hours ago (2 children)

Yeah, we'd essentially become three countries - the West, the East, and the No-Go Zone in the middle. Just get us New Mexicans to somewhere decent before all borders close.

[–] Blackmist@feddit.uk 2 points 2 hours ago

You could all just join Canada if you want to stay connected.

[–] SkyezOpen@lemmy.world 10 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

Brother we don't even like the old Mexicans. You'll probably be in cuffs before someone can find the crayons to explain to trump the difference between Mexico and New Mexico.

[–] Goodmorningsunshine@lemmy.world 3 points 5 hours ago

😂 oh boy true

[–] GiddyGap@lemm.ee 20 points 10 hours ago (2 children)

Greene on Monday described these actions as a threat against Trump's "mandate."

That mandate calls for actions Democratic states must accept, Greene argued, such as the mass deportation of "illegal invaders" and preventing trans children from playing sports.

The funny thing is that MTG is getting less and less of a "mandate" from GA-14 for all of her crap: In 2020 she got 74.6 percent of the vote, in 2022 she got 65.9, and in 2024 she got 64.4. Keep it up Marge.

[–] Tyfud@lemmy.world 26 points 9 hours ago (2 children)

Still way, way, way too high for a white supremacist goblin in human form to get.

[–] Goodmorningsunshine@lemmy.world 5 points 8 hours ago

Yeah, but she mainly represents white supremacist goblins in human forms.

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[–] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 6 points 7 hours ago

They all swore an oath to equal protection under the law. Funny how they can ignore that mandate

[–] friend_of_satan@lemmy.world 27 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

A republican flip flopping on states rights again? I'm shocked.

[–] CileTheSane@lemmy.ca 4 points 4 hours ago

'We have the right to tell you what to do. You cannot tell us what to do."

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