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[–] bitjunkie 7 points 2 days ago

Fucking do it already, I'm tired of the roller coaster. Let them have their MAGA utopia of Dumbfuckistan and leave the rest of us be to maybe finally start fixing things that have been broken for half a century.

[–] Goodmorningsunshine 80 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Don't threaten me with a good country.

[–] T00l_shed 28 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Can Canada take the coastal states?

[–] [email protected] 25 points 3 days ago (5 children)

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

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[–] Treczoks 18 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I'm sure the blue states won't have an issue losing the subsidies-dependent red states. I wonder where flyover country wants to get the money from to keep up their lifestyle.

[–] CharlesDarwin 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

They'll get it from Russian and Saudi oligarchs, maybe.

[–] Treczoks 3 points 2 days ago

Good luck with that.

[–] [email protected] 34 points 3 days ago (1 children)

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.

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[–] IzzyJ 7 points 2 days ago

Please. Please leave. That would unironicallly be fucking wonderful

[–] Furbag 43 points 3 days ago (3 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.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 3 days ago (6 children)

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

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[–] jaggedrobotpubes 3 points 2 days ago

This made me feel good to think about. And the downsides about why we could never do it are now equally matched and going to happen anyway.

Only issue would be public health stuff, but that requires cooperation across the board.

[–] [email protected] 37 points 3 days ago

Oh no, please, don't

[–] WaxedWookie 4 points 2 days ago

What's going on with MTG right now? Release the results of the congressional investigations, allowing the crooks and paedophiles to be driven out as the cripplingly stupid welfare queen red states seceed to starve as the blue states enter an era of prosperity... Broken clocks and whatnot, I suppose.

[–] Lost_My_Mind 155 points 4 days ago (26 children)

.......yeah, ok. Sounds good.

moves to California

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[–] Allonzee 34 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

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.

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[–] samus12345 33 points 3 days ago (7 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.

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[–] [email protected] 70 points 4 days ago

that's not… usually what you do win you win. so like… honestly… okay, kick me out, let me be governed by a saner government. also DC is between two blue state so good luck evacuating back to your conservative safe space, dumbass

[–] [email protected] 28 points 3 days 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!

[–] CharlesDarwin 70 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Predictable. The donvict-humpers supposedly "win", and then get even MORE angry. Why so angry?

I suspect it's because for this brief period of time, anyway, it's hard for them to avoid just how HATED they and their precious golden donvict truly are. They thought they'd "win" and all the normal Americans around them would just disappear. And yet, Karens like Green continue to get confronted by normal people.

[–] Sludgehammer 51 points 4 days ago (3 children)

The donvict-humpers supposedly “win”, and then get even MORE angry. Why so angry?

Because we've stolen their martyrdom from them by losing.

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[–] friend_of_satan 34 points 3 days ago (1 children)

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

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[–] NocturnalMorning 55 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (6 children)

Don't threaten me with a good time lady.

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[–] M600 42 points 4 days ago (2 children)

How is it not illegal for her to say these things? Like is that a threat against the United States?

[–] Goodmorningsunshine 30 points 3 days ago

A known traitor threat against the United States was allowed to run for and be elected president. This country doesn't have laws except for the poor and it certainly doesn't have a functioning system of justice or even government at this point.

[–] NeilBru 23 points 4 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (6 children)

Depends.

Protected by the first amendment, one can legally advocate for the dissolution of the Union ~~through bicameral ratification outlined constitutionally~~ by constitutional amendment. To advocate for armed insurrection or violent overthrow of the federal government is sedition and considered quite illegal.

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[–] Semi_Hemi_Demigod 16 points 3 days ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 17 points 3 days ago (2 children)

What did Colorado ever do to deserve this?

[–] A7thStone 9 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] A7thStone 2 points 2 days ago

Don't feel too bad my district gave us Elise Stefanik. She may not be as in your face with her crazy, but she's possibly more dangerous.

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[–] Gammelfisch 9 points 3 days ago

It would be great if Canada could peacefully annex "America" and leave 4th World Dumbfuckistan to themselves.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago

Bye, Felicia

[–] [email protected] 47 points 4 days ago (8 children)

I mean... as long as California takes Colorado and New Mexico with it, I see no real issues with that. We get the economy, the nature, and the nukes.

[–] Snowclone 38 points 4 days ago (4 children)

So they know that Texas doesn't have a GDP high enough to even run all their red catastrophies, right? I'm kidding, I know they don't know. They probably also don't know that CA would be the third largest super power if they ever let us go. Which they won't. At all.

[–] Draces 41 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Californians are in an abusive relationship. Blamed for everything and not allowed to leave

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[–] [email protected] 23 points 3 days ago (3 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 32 points 3 days ago (2 children)

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

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[–] Snapz 3 points 2 days ago

Uh oh... Looks like the nation cheated on its spouse at a cross fit?

[–] Aztechnology 41 points 4 days ago (2 children)

California would do so much better on its own I feel like

[–] just_another_person 46 points 4 days ago (6 children)

5th largest economy on the planet by itself.

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[–] [email protected] 41 points 4 days ago

Blue states pay more in taxes than they receive, and vice versa with red states. We are literally funding them dragging us all backwards.

[–] [email protected] 42 points 4 days ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 30 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Honestly, with what I'm genuinely concerned is going to happen, that would probably be preferable. Give everyone some notice, and we can escape the nutjobs by being homeless in California and New York instead of concentrated in camps in Florida and Georgia. I mean, it'll inevitably make the blue state nation more conservative as they blame southern refugees for all their problems, but it'd still be better more than likely

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[–] Sam_Bass 3 points 2 days ago

Go ahead and ride that doorknob on out woman

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