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[–] [email protected] 47 points 2 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.

[–] [email protected] 40 points 2 days ago (6 children)
[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA 18 points 2 days ago (1 children)

We'll bring along Oregon and Washington, at least the west halves, and call the country the Collective of American States.

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[–] Snowclone 38 points 2 days ago (5 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.

[–] Restaldt 12 points 2 days ago (1 children)

California should secede and kick off the great (terrible) balkanization of the formerly united states

NCR & The North East republic

Vs

Yeehawistan

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[–] [email protected] 30 points 2 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

[–] captainlezbian 6 points 1 day ago

The notice is now. I’m getting out of Ohio for that reason.

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

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

[–] just_another_person 46 points 2 days ago (1 children)

5th largest economy on the planet by itself.

[–] GladiusB 22 points 2 days ago (5 children)

Russia has a smaller economy. Go ahead. Make it without us. Dumb fucks.

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[–] [email protected] 41 points 2 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 2 days ago (1 children)
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[–] ATDA 25 points 2 days ago

I'm literally moving to a blue state. The one good idea she had I beat her to it. Peace idiots.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 2 days ago (1 children)

There should be a bot that searches out MarjorieTG posts and auto-comments ”What a fucking idiot.”

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[–] [email protected] 27 points 2 days ago

[Wearing the US flag as a t-shirt and a pair of pajamas]: "I believe in the UNITED States of America!!!! ..... but I want a divorce"

[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

The rest of the US doesn't deserve California's economy

[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (5 children)

Canada has given the world some of the worst extremists, racists, etc. (Proud Boys being one of the more recent horrible things we've exported)

There's a group that popped up during the convoy called diagolon. They posted this way back which seems like how things would work (a path from Russia to Florida)

They claim it's a joke, but isn't it always just a joke.

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

Pretty sure BC, VA, and CO are not going along with that.

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[–] Clent 19 points 2 days ago (6 children)

What's the split on ports in blue states vs red states?

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