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[–] f1error@lemmy.world 30 points 15 hours ago

I frankly don’t think this shithole is going to be able to pull out of this idiocy

[–] Witchfire@lemmy.world 42 points 17 hours ago (2 children)

I would also like a peaceful national divorce. Those of us who prefer intellectualism and advancement get one half, and the knuckledragging neanderthals whose only accomplishment in life is being born white get the other half

[–] themadcodger@kbin.earth 14 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

And then our states can finally stop paying for their states to drag us back to the dark ages.

[–] Witchfire@lemmy.world 6 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago)

That money can go towards funding migration for whoever wants to move to the other half

[–] GorGor@startrek.website 5 points 13 hours ago (3 children)

A house divided cannot stand

[–] Witchfire@lemmy.world 5 points 13 hours ago

I wouldn't really call it standing right now

[–] cosmicrookie@lemmy.world 1 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

Maybe that would be the best way out of this for the rest of the world though

[–] GorGor@startrek.website 1 points 12 minutes ago

You really think so? I know 'america bad' and all, but the US did do a lot of good in the world as well. I think it is evidenced by all the harm the Trump administration is doing by illegally decimating congressional approved programs abroad.

Lets face it, if the US falls, the EU is going to be scared shitless, it will be largely ineffective in the global arena. That leaves china and Russia to swing their hammers on anything they want, and they want a lot. They need a lot.

[–] FaceDeer@fedia.io 3 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

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.

[–] GorGor@startrek.website 1 points 1 hour 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.

[–] BoloMKXXVIII@piefed.social 12 points 14 hours ago

MTG has the common sense of a rubber duck, the intelligence of a flea, and the understanding of a brick.

[–] Formfiller@lemmy.world 21 points 16 hours ago (3 children)

Fine. If you’re a right wing nut move south.

[–] tal@lemmy.today 15 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago) (3 children)

Trump actually isn't very popular in the South today.

His strongest remaining support is in the two top coal-mining states


Wyoming and West Virginia


and Idaho. None of those are in the South.

The Economist's net approval map is interactive


you can click on it to get numbers


and I can't put that in this post, but here's a screenshot showing the colors:

https://www.economist.com/interactive/trump-approval-tracker

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[–] JohnnyCanuck@lemmy.ca 9 points 14 hours ago

He would still win if there was an election today. Even though they don't like Trump, they'd still vote party line.

Great.

But the south has a fucking hard-on for absolutely fucking imbecilic, racist, xenophobic Republicans. So, you know, have fun with that.

I would be stoked if the actually productive and cosmopolitan states could shed the dead weight of the fucking confeds (and the handful of “frontier” states that think they could swing it without federal support - spoiler alert, they absolutely cannot), and then just make some sort of agricultural deal with Canada and Mexico to make up for the flyover states being the People’s Republic of Supply Side Jesus, and let them see how that pans out for a few decades. I’m fucking done giving a shit about the parts of the country that are so far up their own asshole that they don’t understand they’re voting against their own best interests.

[–] MumboJumbo@lemmy.world 1 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago)

Unfortunately though, if you toggle the switch to "2024 Voters", the map gets less red (Red indicating underwater in approval rating, grey being positive - for anyone that didn't play with the map.) Those haters need to vote!

[–] QBertReynolds@sh.itjust.works 7 points 15 hours ago (2 children)

I guess fuck everyone in Atlanta, Memphis, Austin, New Orleans, or any other city in the south, right?

[–] f1error@lemmy.world 3 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

Yep. You called it. Good luck.

[–] Formfiller@lemmy.world 1 points 14 hours ago

It was just a starting negotiation. I’m open to suggestions

[–] Formfiller@lemmy.world 2 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago)

Look we’re going to make sure there’s plenty of room for you here because we’re going to persuasively ask the Nazis to leave. I’m sure New Orleans and Atlanta will have strongholds in the cities but again there’s going to be plenty of room in Utah, Southern California, Montana and Idaho when we start encouraging the Nazis to go to their own country.

[–] Maeve@kbin.earth 2 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

Balfour would've been proud.

[–] Formfiller@lemmy.world 1 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

Why because the south would become a white christofacist ethnostate? Isn’t it better than us all having to live under that? To be clear that is what project 2025 is.

[–] Maeve@kbin.earth 2 points 14 hours ago

https://sh.itjust.works/comment/21024165 adding large blue swaths of farm country.

[–] kylie_kraft@lemmy.world 16 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

again? hey everyone look, she said the thing again

[–] GorGor@startrek.website 4 points 13 hours ago

Every. Damn. Time.

How is it news still?

[–] bradorsomething@ttrpg.network 8 points 16 hours ago

Red types move to florida now before all the good land is taken by the oce….. other people seeking freedom!

[–] 0ndead@infosec.pub 11 points 17 hours ago

She doesn’t have enough toes for her opinions to matter

[–] tatterdemalion@programming.dev 2 points 14 hours ago

I mean, it would be an interesting experiment I guess. I suspect it would effectively segregate the states by ideology and race. I assume most non-old-white-christians would prefer to live in blue states.

But one glaring question is how would we divide up existing federal resources? Like the military, bank, etc.